SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Jul 16, 2008 23:45:29 GMT -5
Yes, but not a highly overrated or underrated one. Did someone keep track of those back then? I'm young for that one. Not nearly like we do today, but there were guys like Merlin WIlson and Jonathan Smith in JT's first recruiting class who were thought of more highly. So again, he wasn't hyped, just an average, expected to be decent, recruit. |
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Jul 16, 2008 23:47:03 GMT -5
Wow, a Bobby Winston reference. Solid player. Could hit the side of a barn with a beach ball, but a glue type cat.
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Post by prhoya on Jul 16, 2008 23:55:29 GMT -5
Did someone keep track of those back then? I'm young for that one. So again, he wasn't hyped, just an average, expected to be decent, recruit. I meant as a coach, but whatever... |
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Jul 17, 2008 0:03:23 GMT -5
Brotha... is there a book somewhere called the "1000 'Greatest' Questions of all Time" Or are you trying out material to write one?!?!?! I will say this for you, you are stirring up the pot and getting some volume posting happening on the board in mid-July! |
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Post by idhoya on Jul 17, 2008 0:05:41 GMT -5
Just tryin to get thru the summer. No book. Was Winston on top 100?
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Jul 17, 2008 0:17:51 GMT -5
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Boz
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Post by Boz on Jul 17, 2008 7:48:31 GMT -5
I think there is an option in very recent Hoya history for the overrated category.
Hey, I love him and wanted him to do well. I still do, I suppose. And there is definitely talent there. But the span of his career certainly didn't match up to the hype with which it began. (at least in this forum)
Underrated? How about Michael Jackson.
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Post by blueandgray on Jul 17, 2008 7:56:08 GMT -5
overrated...greg monroe;). jk. overrated... othella harrington.
I agree with the first poster who went with charles smith. shenard long was also pretty darn good and got little cred.
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Post by strummer8526 on Jul 17, 2008 8:00:51 GMT -5
I think there is an option in very recent Hoya history for the overrated category. Hey, I love him and wanted him to do well. I still do, I suppose. And there is definitely talent there. But the span of his career certainly didn't match up to the hype with which it began. (at least in this forum) Underrated? How about Michael Jackson. Yeah Tay never lived up to the hype. |
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Jul 17, 2008 8:07:49 GMT -5
Nor did Cornelio (paging PushyGuyFC....)
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Post by blueandgray on Jul 17, 2008 8:13:19 GMT -5
In my mind MJ is in the top 4 point guards in Hoya History.... ahead of Jwall. good call. outside of AI and Floyd, g'town PG's don't get a lot of love.
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Post by Hoya TMF on Jul 17, 2008 8:54:29 GMT -5
what about Anthony Perry for overrated? I know he was injured and everything else, but when I started at Georgetown, he was supposed to be THE GUY. He was never even close to that.
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Jul 17, 2008 9:25:42 GMT -5
I concur on MJ.
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Post by JohnJacquesLayup on Jul 17, 2008 10:08:51 GMT -5
Underrated: Omari Faulkner.
Overrated: Trenton Hillier.
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Post by tgo on Jul 17, 2008 10:25:25 GMT -5
George Butler ... Single handedly carried team against Illinois in '94 NCAA's to a victory after 2 year absence from tournament. just to clarify: we missed the tournament in 93 (nit finals loss by 1 to minnesota on a last second miss by Kevin "shorty" Millen) so only a one year absence. Butler was awesome and remains underated i agree, incredibly hard worker on his game and on the court, too bad he couldnt devote any of that energy to the classrom. duane "the goat" spencer was a mcd AA and aside from getting ejected from the aforementioned NIT finals game for throwing a punch he did nothing before transfering for family issues (to be closer to his newborn child as i remember) he was hugely overated and would have gotten less and less time if he had stayed, it was a blessing he left, who knows if we would have had a scholarship left for jerome williams if we still had spencer, someone would have been missing from the 95 & 96 squads as a result. |
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Post by hoyalawyer on Jul 17, 2008 11:03:23 GMT -5
Over: Macklin
Under: Nikita and Omar
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Post by tarkman on Jul 17, 2008 11:07:57 GMT -5
My 2 cents - which is an overinflated value for any of my basketball opinions:
Over: Anthony Perry
Under: Charles Smith
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Post by kchoya on Jul 17, 2008 12:01:41 GMT -5
overrated...greg monroe;). jk. overrated... othella harrington. I agree with the first poster who went with charles smith. shenard long was also pretty darn good and got little cred. I think O could be both under and overrated. He was the #1 recruit in the country, and played like it his first two years, but Iverson changed everything. Still, he was a pretty good player all four years - not the stiff some people think of him as (Slothella?). |
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Post by idhoya on Jul 17, 2008 13:24:51 GMT -5
I think DFW said it best. Really O was what he was.
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Post by Elvado on Jul 17, 2008 13:24:53 GMT -5
Othella's issue was that he was a tremendous basketball player but only average athletically, playing at a school that had become legendary for athletic big men.
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