Most athletic Boeheim players

[Eric15]

If we're basing it on three criteria:
1. running baseline to baseline extremely fast
2. being very strong and no one is ripping the ball away from you once you have it
3. very agile with strong leaping ability

I think very, very few players in SU history exhibit all three more than Roberson. A lot of the players mentioned in the thread have 1 or 2 of them but not all 3.

 

[DBCooper]

I don't recall his overall athleticism, but Red Bruin could jump out of the gym.

 

[CaptainJ]

Dave Siock

 

[Cheriehoop]

Derrick Coleman

 

[Eric15]

Dave Siock

I said most athletic not most devastatingly handsome.

 

[tbonezone]

(mcnabb)

 

[CaptainJ]

How about coaches? JB, Red, Hop, and GMac may have had some athleticism, but I've heard rumors Bernie was fine. They are unconfirmed, of course.

 

[GooseMutt]

I said most athletic not most devastatingly handsome.

Now if you want to talk dominance. Maybe Derrick

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

Carmelo Anthony, Billy Owens and Derrick Coleman. Big, strong, fast, exceptional hand-eye coordination, agility, body control …. Waiters gets an honorable mention. If he wanted to get to the rack, nobody was stopping him.

Athleticism is more than just being a human pogo stick (otherwise we'd have to include Jeremy McNeil).

 

[Cuse'91]

Big: Terrence Roberts
Guard: Wesley Johnson

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

If we're basing it on three criteria:
1. running baseline to baseline extremely fast
2. being very strong and no one is ripping the ball away from you once you have it
3. very agile with strong leaping ability

I think very, very few players in SU history exhibit all three more than Roberson. A lot of the players mentioned in the thread have 1 or 2 of them but not all 3.

I don't think Roberson can get up the way guys like Warrick, Stevie, Wes and Jerami Grant can/could. But i don't recall anyone being a better "second leaper" than him.

 

[CaptainJ]

If you want to go with nicknames, The Helicopter is hard to argue with. McNasty is there too.

 

[CaptainJ]

I don't think Roberson can get up the way guys like Warrick, Stevie, Wes and Jerami Grant can/could. But i don't recall anyone being a better "second leaper" than him.

Tenacious Leaps. Come on OttoInGrotto, give it up!

 

[br801]

Rosie

 

[Toga]

Seikaly

 

[OrangeDW]

Michael Lloyd has to be up there too. He was a specimen. Could jump, strong, quick, and coordinated.

 

[OrangeAl]

Most definitely Reggie Powell from the early days, though he wasn't too successful.

 

[Toga]

Bug Williams
Erich Santifer (for me - the first SU classic type athletic player in the Boeheim era)

 

[OburgOrange]

Donovan McNabb

Basketball and football

 

[HoustonCuse]

Devin Brennan McBride!

Didn't he score off the charts on some athleticism test?

 

[tbonezone]

how about charlie lockwood ? college lacrosse hall of fame . took on #22 after gary gait.
(not associated with the lockwood civic center in ogdensburg ny home of the lovely jackie v. )

 

[SoBeCuse]

S Thompson
D Johnson
Flynn
Jerami Grant
Warrick
Wes J
Harris
Roberson
Southerland

 

[CuseNickens]

CJ Fair not in the conversation?? He holds 2 out of the 3 best dunks in the last 15 years.

 

[AZOrange]

Dave Johnson hands down. Boeheim ended practice once because of s dunk he threw down.

 

[Guinness]

If we're basing it on three criteria:
1. running baseline to baseline extremely fast
2. being very strong and no one is ripping the ball away from you once you have it
3. very agile with strong leaping ability

I think very, very few players in SU history exhibit all three more than Roberson. A lot of the players mentioned in the thread have 1 or 2 of them but not all 3.

We have had a lot of guys who could really jump but none of them were (for lack of a better term) "quick" jumpers the way Roberson is. The only other guy have seen with the sort of bounce he has is Dennis Rodman.