32 years ago….

[Jake]

We rolled out a starting 5 of Stevie, Dave Johnson, DC, Billy and Leron Ellis to open the 89-90 season.

I say that because I was struck by how physically thin we looked last night. This isn’t about height or color. We just looked thin.

I thought today’s athletes had better access to weights, nutrition ETC. I thought we looked like we could be easily bullied.

 

[Briancuse]

How much weight lifting do these guys do in.season?

 

[orangefog]

We rolled out a starting 5 of Stevie, Dave Johnson, DC, Billy and Leron Ellis to open the 89-90 season.

I say that because I was struck by how physically thin we looked last night. This isn’t about height or color. We just looked thin.

I thought today’s athletes had better access to weights, nutrition ETC. I thought we looked like we could be easily bullied.

Did you see Trevor Keels on Duke? The kid is a bull.

 

[Sherman20]

We rolled out a starting 5 of Stevie, Dave Johnson, DC, Billy and Leron Ellis to open the 89-90 season.

I say that because I was struck by how physically thin we looked last night. This isn’t about height or color. We just looked thin.

I thought today’s athletes had better access to weights, nutrition ETC. I thought we looked like we could be easily bullied.

I mean, no one is Quincy. But Cole, Jimmy, Torrence, JG3 and Buddy all very look strong to me. Even Benny, who’s a freshman, has some muscle.

 

[djorange1989]

We rolled out a starting 5 of Stevie, Dave Johnson, DC, Billy and Leron Ellis to open the 89-90 season.

I say that because I was struck by how physically thin we looked last night. This isn’t about height or color. We just looked thin.

I thought today’s athletes had better access to weights, nutrition ETC. I thought we looked like we could be easily bullied.

eh, that 89-90 team was a classic pre-probation(first probation) JB underachiever. Ellis may have been big but he had about 1/100 the passion for the game as the kids we have now. DC checked out half the time and Stevie couldn't shoot from outside of 2 feet. See, don't you feel better about this current thin team already??

 

[RF2044]

eh, that 89-90 team was a classic pre-probation(first probation) JB underachiever. Ellis may have been big but he had about 1/100 the passion for the game as the kids we have now. DC checked out half the time and Stevie couldn't shoot from outside of 2 feet. See, don't you feel better about this current thin team already??

They didn't underachieve -- they lacked a PG. And that fatal flaw undermined the potential of what was an otherwise loaded team in most other respects.

 

[721Comstock]

They didn't underachieve -- they lacked a PG. And that fatal flaw undermined the potential of what was an otherwise loaded team in most other respects.

Their PG was playing for GaTech, because Bobby Cremins gave Kenny A a bag at the last minute.

 

[UpstateSM]

I actually thought we looked solid 1-5 in person and watching some of the game back just now. Nobody like Keels on Dook but nobody rail-thin like Doley.

 

[HOFCeluck]

That 1990 team doesnt have a fraction of the grit or basketball IQ this one does.

 

[Col. Bleep]

With nothing on which to base this judgment besides last night's Duke-Kentucky game, those teams would murder the Orange inside, on the glass and with bodying on defense.

 

[thebigeast44]

They didn't underachieve -- they lacked a PG. And that fatal flaw undermined the potential of what was an otherwise loaded team in most other respects.

If only Sherman had redshirted his freshman year while the Pearl ruled the court. If he had been on that 89-90 team, we would have been the favorites to win the National Championship - oh what a team that would have been! Even with Michael Edwards we started the year at 10-0. With the General, maybe we finish that year undefeated - a guy can dream...

 

[721Comstock]

If only Sherman had redshirted his freshman year while the Pearl ruled the court. If he had been on that 89-90 team, we would have been the favorites to win the National Championship - oh what a team that would have been! Even with Michael Edwards we started the year at 10-0. With the General, maybe we finish that year undefeated - a guy can dream...

Yeah, but - then we'd have RS Frosh Sherm (with ZERO in-game experience) at the helm of the '87 squad.

I've gotta imagine that season doesn't go quite as well with him running the show, having had no game experience from the prior season.

But yeah - he'd also likely still be the NCAA career assists leader, with 4 FULL years of running the show, rather than his second fiddle 15 mins/game as a true Frosh playing with Pearl.

 

[two3zone]

That 1990 team doesnt have a fraction of the grit or basketball IQ this one does.

I doubt they even had lunch pals.

 

[HOFCeluck]

I doubt they even had lunch pals.

They were all actually athletic as opposed to just “sneaky” athletic and I think people forget that.

 

[UnknownOrange]

yeah but we played

Joe G
John BA
Jackson B
Jimmy B

at once. 4 Js! Cool stuff!

Idk why my brain is this way but I thought it was cool and don't know we've ever had that many same first letters

 

[two3zone]

yeah but we played

Joe G
John BA
Jackson B
Jimmy B

at once. 4 Js! Cool stuff!

Idk why my brain is this way but I thought it was cool and don't know we've ever had that many same first letters

Jesse and we have all 5.

 

[RF2044]

If only Sherman had redshirted his freshman year while the Pearl ruled the court. If he had been on that 89-90 team, we would have been the favorites to win the National Championship - oh what a team that would have been! Even with Michael Edwards we started the year at 10-0. With the General, maybe we finish that year undefeated - a guy can dream...

To go from three years of all-American caliber play from the Pearl followed by three years of all-American caliber play from the General, to Michael Edwards was one of the biggest dropoffs imaginable.

Edwards remains one of my least favorite players in program history.

 

[two3zone]

To go from three years of all-American caliber play from the Pearl followed by three years of all-American caliber play from the General, to Michael Edwards was one of the biggest dropoffs imaginable.

Edwards remains one of my least favorite players in program history.

Patterson seemed like a nice guy but god he stunk. He’s on my list of least favorites.

 

[UnknownOrange]

Jesse and we have all 5.

 

[orangemass]

That 1990 team doesnt have a fraction of the grit or basketball IQ this one does.

It's all about girth...

 

[asj410]

Jesse and we have all 5.

And in '09-10, there was at least one time early in the season where we ran a lineup of Jardine, Jones, Joseph, Johnson, and Jackson.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Anyone see Gonzaga’s star center freshman Chet Holmgren? Needs a good meal.

 

[two3zone]

Anyone see Gonzaga’s star center freshman Chet Holmgren? Needs a good meal.

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More thin than Marek lol

 

[rrlbees]

Anyone see Gonzaga’s star center freshman Chet Holmgren? Needs a good meal.

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He had 14pts, 13rebs, 7blks and 6asts last night.

 

[Newhouser]

I think we always look skinny. Our guards -Triche, Cooney- seem to get thick, our bigs...rarely