Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on May 13, 2021 12:27:33 GMT -5
Even I am not old enough to remember Red Kerr as an active player. I'd have lost a bet as to whether Mark Jackson or Mike Newlin had more career points. Thank you for keeping this running account up to date, HoyaChris! It brings on lots of nostalgia. I also was surprised that Joe Barely Cares was as high up on the list as he is. Well, I am old enough to remember Red Kerr. Sigh! Played in the era of Paul Arizin, whose granddaughter is on the Hoya track team and is a Big East 800m champ.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on May 13, 2021 18:42:53 GMT -5
Paul Arizin was fantastic at Villanova. Had a fade-back jump shot that was almost impossible to block. Did not know his granddaughter ran for the Hoyas.
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 13, 2021 19:16:10 GMT -5
Paul Arizin was fantastic at Villanova. Had a fade-back jump shot that was almost impossible to block. Did not know his granddaughter ran for the Hoyas. Arizin is still the greatest basketball player to ever play at Villanova. The 1950 National Player of The Year, he averaged 25.3 per game. Had a career high of 85 points (35-63 FG, 15 FT), versus Naval Air Center in 1949. Once scored 100 in a game against a Philadelphia junior college, but the game did not count in the stats. A 10 time NBA All-star, he played his entire high school, college and NBA career in Philadelphia, playing 12 years for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors. Amazingly, Arizin did not play basketball in high school. He was discovered on Villanova's intramural teams.
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Post by SSHoya on May 13, 2021 19:28:53 GMT -5
Paul Arizin was fantastic at Villanova. Had a fade-back jump shot that was almost impossible to block. Did not know his granddaughter ran for the Hoyas. Arizin is still the greatest basketball player to ever play at Villanova. The 1950 National Player of The Year, he averaged 25.3 per game. Had a career high of 85 points (35-63 FG, 15 FT), versus Naval Air Center in 1949. Once scored 100 in a game against a Philadelphia junior college, but the game did not count in the stats. A 10 time NBA All-star, he played his entire high school, college and NBA career in Philadelphia, playing 12 years for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors. Amazingly, Arizin did not play basketball in high school. He was discovered on Villanova's intramural teams. Even more remarkable is that he declined to move to SF when the Warriors relocated in 1962 and finished his basketball career in the Eastern Basketball League playing basketball on the weekends for the Camden Bullets for $300 a game, reportedly the highest paid player in the league. He worked for IBM in Philly during the week. If you are interested in Eastern League Basketball, I recommend the book below - it's a good read co-authored by two Hoyas. Sylvan Sobel and Jay Rosenstein, "Boxed Out of the NBA, Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League," (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). The foreword is by Bob Ryan.
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on May 14, 2021 10:31:25 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on May 14, 2021 15:09:48 GMT -5
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Post by professorhoya on May 14, 2021 15:41:00 GMT -5
Georgetown Connections! Listen up Mac and Scott Vermillion. Never burn bridges.
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Post by RusskyHoya on May 14, 2021 19:30:43 GMT -5
Didn't this use to be called the 'Double Yurtseven' thread? Well here we are:
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Post by Nevada Hoya on May 15, 2021 17:02:15 GMT -5
Jeff with 19 points in 17 minutes. His 2nd successive game in which he only missed one shot. This time 7-8 and 5-6 from 3. Durant in 30 minutes scored 12 on 4-17. Good thing the Nets have Jeff. Passes Newlin
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Post by HoyaChris on May 15, 2021 23:22:40 GMT -5
Jeff up to #233 with his 19 against the Bulls. He now sits at 12,510 points, one point behind still active Marc Gasol. Both play tomorrow.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 16, 2021 9:31:15 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on May 16, 2021 10:03:48 GMT -5
Back on topic
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Post by BeantownHoya on May 16, 2021 10:03:49 GMT -5
Agreed. Other than the whole basketball thing, Greg was right there. hm Just admit you didn’t watch both of them play while they were here 🤷🏽♂️ I was in the stands watching them both warm up for their first Kenner league game. Just watching Otto shoot from the elbow (with his broke form) I said right there and then he felt like Jeff 2.0 for us. With some players you can just tell. My favorite Greg moment was when he absolutely shut DJO down in the second half of a 17 point comeback fueled by Jason Clark at home. DJO was on a hot streak and we put Greg on him in the second half and he smothered him everytime he caught the ball at the top of the key trying to go downhill. Never seen someone his size with such good lateral movement at the time, it was and still is elite. People feel some type of way about him because he didn’t come through in the classroom, and they let it taint their perception of who he was on the court. That’s fine, it happens. He was super raw still at GU and was still a very important piece for us. As someone else mentioned previously, Shabazz Muhammad was no match for either of them....(did UCLA also have Jordan Adams then?). Speaking of, does anyone know where I can find that game replay?! Would love to watch it today. Trying to figure out what any of this has to do w/Yurt and I cannot... Back on track... Heat played 13 guys last night in a blow out minus even Butler and he did not see the floor...
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Post by DanMcQ on May 16, 2021 11:53:11 GMT -5
Scintillating Greg Whittington talk and subsequent inter-poster sniping excised from this thread and moved to his thread: hoyatalk2.proboards.com/thread/28962/greg-whittington-nba...that was fairly easily found using the search term "greg whittington" Now, back to Omer Yurtseven discussion.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 16, 2021 21:48:45 GMT -5
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HoyaChris
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Post by HoyaChris on May 16, 2021 23:04:38 GMT -5
Jeff finishes plus 10 vs Gasol and ends the regular season in 232nd place in career scoring.
He has been ridiculously efficient in the past three games, going 18 of 22 from the field including 9 of 12 from 3.
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Post by DudeSlade on May 17, 2021 16:02:15 GMT -5
So do we now have 3 in the NBA? Jeff, Otto, and Omer? Am I missing anyone?
Who's the next closest to making it? Presumably someone in the G-League, right? Or maybe Aminu (I know that sounds crazy, but...)?
Anyone know the most we had in the league at any one time?
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 17, 2021 17:08:46 GMT -5
So do we now have 3 in the NBA? Jeff, Otto, and Omer? Am I missing anyone? Who's the next closest to making it? Presumably someone in the G-League, right? Or maybe Aminu (I know that sounds crazy, but...)? Anyone know the most we had in the league at any one time? Yurtseven's deal is as much for developmental time as anything else. The Heat may not go very deep on the roster in the playoffs and could be out early. As to most at one time, I think it would be ten players in the 1998-99 season (Patrick Ewing, David Wingate, Jaren Jackson, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, Don Reid, Othella Harrington, Jerome Williams, Allen Iverson, Jahidi White).
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Post by blueandgray on May 17, 2021 22:45:46 GMT -5
So do we now have 3 in the NBA? Jeff, Otto, and Omer? Am I missing anyone? Who's the next closest to making it? Presumably someone in the G-League, right? Or maybe Aminu (I know that sounds crazy, but...)? Anyone know the most we had in the league at any one time? Yurtseven's deal is as much for developmental time as anything else. The Heat may not go very deep on the roster in the playoffs and could be out early. As to most at one time, I think it would be ten players in the 1998-99 season (Patrick Ewing, David Wingate, Jaren Jackson, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning, Don Reid, Othella Harrington, Jerome Williams, Allen Iverson, Jahidi White). Was John Turner also in the league at that time?
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Post by hoyainindia on May 22, 2021 19:38:40 GMT -5
Nice stat on Jeff Green they just broadcast during the game - appearing in the playoffs with his 7th team, which ties an NBA record.
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