How dare you exclude Malik El-Tamer.
[quote=āTRLeader, post:40, topic:29978ā][quote=āhootie, post:37, topic:29978ā][quote=āTRLeader, post:36, topic:29978ā][quote=āOldrowniner, post:35, topic:29978ā]Speaking of road games
Rodney White and Demon Brown first game together at ncsu, we pounded them by 25.
What a drive home.
Thatās the kinda kids we gotta have.[/quote]
Yep. Easily the best and deepest Niner team Iāve ever had the pleasure of watching.[/quote]
You think? I liked the Withers/Basden bunch a lot too[/quote]
Withers/Basden was solidā¦but in my opinion, there is no way to match our top 4 scoring options of Rodney White, Jobey Thomas, Demon Brown and Diego. We have NEVER had a team with 4 better scorers. Each one of those guys would have been option #1 on any other Niner team. Plus, you had Cam Stephens in the middleā¦a rebounding machine. James Zimmerman, one of my favorite glue guy/6th man type player. Thatās a stout top 6.
Then the bench was not stellar but very solid: Kenkay Jones (rebounding and defense), Dee Tolliver (another shooter), Butter (before he became a head case), Jermaine Williams (good size/rebounding)and Tory Reedā¦and MATAS!!!
Gotta admitā¦most of those bench guys were contributors too.
I just think itās the most all around talented and deepest team Iāve seen in person.[/quote] I assume you mean option #1 on the teams youāve seen. Thereās some players Iād have be the #1 scoring option before some of those guys, but theyāre all Niner greats (Maxwell, Massey, Demarco, Dinkins, Henry Williams, Kinch, not sure about others). But I think this supports your point that that was an awesome collection of offensive talent. The 77 team had a better top 3, not sure about a 4th, perhaps one of the long-time fans can chime in.
clt nods in approval.
[quote=ā9erken, post:42, topic:29978ā][quote=āTRLeader, post:40, topic:29978ā][quote=āhootie, post:37, topic:29978ā][quote=āTRLeader, post:36, topic:29978ā][quote=āOldrowniner, post:35, topic:29978ā]Speaking of road games
Rodney White and Demon Brown first game together at ncsu, we pounded them by 25.
What a drive home.
Thatās the kinda kids we gotta have.[/quote]
Yep. Easily the best and deepest Niner team Iāve ever had the pleasure of watching.[/quote]
You think? I liked the Withers/Basden bunch a lot too[/quote]
Withers/Basden was solidā¦but in my opinion, there is no way to match our top 4 scoring options of Rodney White, Jobey Thomas, Demon Brown and Diego. We have NEVER had a team with 4 better scorers. Each one of those guys would have been option #1 on any other Niner team. Plus, you had Cam Stephens in the middleā¦a rebounding machine. James Zimmerman, one of my favorite glue guy/6th man type player. Thatās a stout top 6.
Then the bench was not stellar but very solid: Kenkay Jones (rebounding and defense), Dee Tolliver (another shooter), Butter (before he became a head case), Jermaine Williams (good size/rebounding)and Tory Reedā¦and MATAS!!!
Gotta admitā¦most of those bench guys were contributors too.
I just think itās the most all around talented and deepest team Iāve seen in person.[/quote] I assume you mean option #1 on the teams youāve seen. Thereās some players Iād have be the #1 scoring option before some of those guys, but theyāre all Niner greats (Maxwell, Massey, Demarco, Dinkins, Henry Williams, Kinch, not sure about others). But I think this supports your point that that was an awesome collection of offensive talent. The 77 team had a better top 3, not sure about a 4th, perhaps one of the long-time fans can chime in.[/quote]
You are correct. Out of teams Iāve seen. The only other top scoring options Iāve seen in person on different Niner teams in that same class would be Henry, Jarvis and Demarco. I honestly should have included the word āmostā too in order to be more accurate with my assessment. I will try againā¦
Any of those 4 would be the #1 scoring option on MOST any Niner team Iāve seen in person.
But I still think that particular team was the all around best and deepest Niner team Iāve seen. That was the year where within the first 5 games of the season we absolutely manhandled NC State at NC State by nearly 20ptsā¦then beat Miami at home by 30ā¦then South Carolina at home by 20!!! That was also the year we went to Louisville and got Denny Crum fired after whipping them by 30 in Louisville!!
We had 7 wins that year of 17pts or greaterā¦against good competition (CUSA 1.0)!!
We have been nothing close to that dominant since. Not sure we have ever been. I know we havenāt since I began following in 1990.