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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2905879, member: 837"] Anybody can have their personal favorites but I think there's actually a correct answer here, as completely subjective and ridiculous as that notion is (I like to give myself credit for being smarter than I am). But honestly, we have had the privilege in the dome era of watching five of the greats to play this game (apologies to BillSU for not including Bing, but I never saw him and he didn't play in the dome, so hard for me to rank him though I would certainly not argue with anyone who thinks he's one of or THE best player in cuse history). I'm not saying top 50 or top 100 all-time or whatever, but if you're writing the story of college hoops the last 40 years, I really think all five deserve a mention for their individual brilliance (production AND entertainment) and the fact that they stood out, IMO, from nearly every single one of their peers in their time in college ball. Anyway, my five are: [B]Sherm[/B] -- all-time NCAA leader in assists when he moved on, very good nba career too, and oh, he could score a little bit [B]DC[/B] -- the most skilled and most physically gifted player we've had since I"ve been a fan (mid-80s), IMO. [B]Billy O[/B] -- Not sure about conditioning and off-the-court stuff, but dude was unbelievably talented and productive. 23 and 11.5 as a junior is impressive, but the dude never averaged less than 3 assists a game (only frank is averaging that much on this team) and had 4.6/game as a soph. Could do it all. [B]Pearl[/B] -- Really the guy who puts us on the map (Bing was probably better but Pearl had the dome and ESPN to help out). Such an absurd playmaker and scorer. A few TOs, but he was a nightmare to defend. [B]Melo[/B] -- He's really the only guy, IMO, who was a true one-and-done who won a title. Kentucky had some but those are a bunch of guys playing together. Durant never got the title. guys like Marvin Williams or others were complimentary pieces. Melo owned that team from Day 1, they went from NIT to national champs and he went for 22 and 10 and actually played well in the zone here, not only holding his own defensively on a good defensive team, but also clearing the weak side of the glass better than anyone we've had since we started playing exclusively zone in 95-96. I loved watching Stevie Thompson and I could see an argument for GMac in the sense that I"m not sure anybody hit more big shots in a career than he did. Moten, of course, has incredible counting stats. But really I"m not sure we have anyone who can really touch the brilliance of those five guys. [/QUOTE]

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