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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 1769875, member: 767"]
Dale Brown I think is generally considered a pretty big underachiever?  Shaq's freshmen year they had him, Chris  Jackson (Mahmoud abdul Rauf), and Stanley Roberts.  They couldn't even win their league!  they were tied for second, and Kentucky was down because of the sanctions.  They lost in the second round to the Ga Tech team with Anderson/Scott/Oliver, which i guess is at least somewhat acceptable, but I don't know how you lead those 3 players to a 5 seed.  I also remember looking at Shaq's stats a few months ago, as a soph dude went for 28-15-5(blocks) per game and came back to school for another year!!  Madness.  LSU never won the SEC regular season once with Shaq, and this was in a period where like I said, UK was generally down a little.

To me, Duncan is a little more understandable.  Duncan wasn't really Duncan until later in his Soph year, they did have Randolph Childress who was a senior that year, and they tied for the conference title that year.  The ACC was generally loaded in that period, even with Duke down a little (UNC and Maryland were pretty stacked, plus Marbury was at Ga Tech for a year, UVA was pretty good, etc)  They were an elite team for Duncan's final 3 years (1, 2, and 3 seed) but the tournament is single elimination and anything can happen.

I'm rambling here, but the Wake Forest supporting cast after Childress graduated was brutal.  Tony Rutland, Ricky Peral, Rusty Larue???
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