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ESPN auctioning LU/Notre Dame tickets
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 8:06 am
by olldflame
Just saw on Mike and Mike that tickets to our game at Notre Dame are part of a Notre Dame basketball "experience" being auctioned off for the V foundation.
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 8:19 am
by HenryGale
I saw it as well...pretty sure it will be the most money ever spent to see a LU game!
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 8:21 am
by olldflame
OK, actually it's a Football/basketball package, with the football game against UConn. Got a spare 10 grand or so for a worthy cause LUConn?
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 9:17 am
by LUconn
That's pocket change for me. However, although I am against cancer in general, Jimmy V always annoyed me. Think about it. The crowning achievement of his professional career was an airball.
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 8:39 pm
by TIMSCAR20
An air ball that was caught and put through the hoop by my 2nd cousin.

Posted: July 15th, 2009, 8:51 pm
by g-webb1994
SCAR wrote:An air ball that was caught and put through the hoop by my 2nd cousin.

The thing I always loved about that play was the vastly overrated Olajuwon dottering around the foul line, nowhere near in position to do a fundamental boxout. Phi Slamma Jamma.....about as overrated as the Fab Five at Michigan.
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 9:16 pm
by olldflame
g-webb1994 wrote:SCAR wrote:An air ball that was caught and put through the hoop by my 2nd cousin.

The thing I always loved about that play was the vastly overrated Olajuwon dottering around the foul line, nowhere near in position to do a fundamental boxout. Phi Slamma Jamma.....about as overrated as the Fab Five at Michigan.
Oh no, he didn't!
Sly's response in 3...................2.....................1.............................
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 10:03 pm
by pbow
Hakeem is a beast, if anything I would say he was underrated.
Posted: July 15th, 2009, 10:24 pm
by flamesbball84
hakeem olajuwon was one of the leading stealers in the nba during his career, a little known fact that goes to show how good he was.
Posted: July 18th, 2009, 9:06 pm
by Sly Fox
1994 - You just lost all credibility. Anyone who could possibly refer to Dream as overrated has to be inhaling some fumes.
Incidentally, Clyde the Glide sat a few seats in front of me last night on my flight home from Orlando. His BBQ joint went bust and he's not exactly a stellar color analyst. But he was a baller back in the day.
Posted: July 18th, 2009, 9:20 pm
by flamesbball84
I don't feel like doing the research, but I'm fairly confident you can count on both hands, maybe just one hand, the amount of players who average 22 points, 11 boards, 3.1 blocks, and 1.75 steals for their career - and that includes 3 years where Hakeem wasn't even half the player he was at his prime.
EDIT: he is the only one ever (looking up blocks made it easy...). Hakeem, Mark Eaton, David Robinson, and Manute Bol are the only players in the top 100 for all-time total blocks to average at least three blocks a game for their career. Hakeem is the only player in the combined history of the NBA and ABA to rank in the top 12 for blocks (he is tops all time), steals, rebounds, and points. If it weren't for being robbed by injury in 97-98 and having to go through the lockout shortened season the following year, he would be top ten in every category - he is in points, steals, and blocks, but 493 short in rebounds, which is pretty close to what he got in about half of an nba season in each of those two shortened seasons he had.
You call that overrated?? To me that indicates he was one of the most well rounded and dominant players in the history of the game - unstoppable on offense and a lockdown defender.