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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 4286956, member: 6809"] Just a refreshing reminder to everyone in this somewhat boring part of the basketball year about what I thought was some of the best basketball I have ever seen us play from 1985 – 89. Hope the link works because maybe some of you have never seen “The General,” play, especially his trademark alley – oop pass to Stevie Thompson or Derrick Coleman which they would catch and dunk. An amazing four years. The Point Guard who learned some things from “THE PEARL” Douglas was special. The fast break was fast then and we were highly ranked starting in 85: 85 – 86 – 26 – 6 NCAA 2nd Round 86 – 87 - 31- 7 NCAA FINAL FOUR, NATIONAL CHAMPION RUNNER UP, BE CH 87 – 88 - 26 – 9 NCAA 2nd Round 88 – 89 - 30 - 8 NCAA 2nd Round, BE CHAMPION [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfaQlW-A1U'](498) Syracuse University Basketball - Derrick Coleman, Sherman Douglas and Stevie Thompson Highlights - YouTube[/URL] Douglas showed himself to be able to run the fast break as well as any player in the country. His trademark was the alley-oop pass, lobbing the ball up near the hoop as sky-walker [URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/SThompson.htm']Stevie Thompson[/URL] or big men [URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/DColeman.htm']Derrick Coleman[/URL] and [URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/RSeikaly.htm']Rony Seikaly[/URL] would slam it home. Douglas would often focus on passing the ball early in the games, and then would revert to becoming a scorer during the crunch moments of the game. He was gifted at helping his teammates get the easy basket, and very good at minimizing turnovers. Full court presses against Syracuse were foolish because Douglas always seemed to break them. [URL='http://www.orangehoops.org/SDouglas.htm']Sherman Douglas (orangehoops.org)[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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