Hugley's true height

[9nationalchampionships]

What is his real shoe size?

 

[thebadby2]

Favorite list is different than best , but not by much
1) Billy Knight
2)Brian Shorter
3)DeJuan Blair
4)Charles Smith
5)Melvin Bennett
6)Sam Clancy
7)Sam Young
8)Jerry McCullough
9)D Gore
T10)Jerome Lane
T10 A Gibbs

Forgot about little Jerry. Great little PG.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

What is his real shoe size?

Very big!

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

You must be under 40 if you don't have Jerome Lane on that list. I know it's all subjective, but man those mid-late 80s teams had some players on them, and Lane provided the all-time greatest college basketball highlight ever. I'm proud to say I was sitting in the common room of my dorm as a college freshman in Michigan watching that game with a few buddies. I was working on converting them into Pitt fans when that moment occurred. We all jumped out of our chairs. Send it in Jerome! I'll never forget it. he deserves top billing just for that IMO, but watching him grab 15-18 rebounds night after night while adding some good looking offense brought me a lot of joy at the time.

1. Lane
2. Shorter
3. C. Smith
4. Blair
5. D. Gore
6. Vonteego Cummings
7. Rod Brookin
8. B. Knight/Sam Young tie
9. R. Greer
10. J. Page

Kudos for listing Julius Page. Maybe one of the most underrated Panthers of all time.

 

[thebadby2]

I dunno. I was at Pitt when Lane was here and my admiration for him has waned somewhat over the years. It was the second semester of my senior year of undergrad when Jerome smashed the backboard. Of course, I still have my handful of glass from that great moment.

But now, I can't help but think of Smith and Lane knowing that group just wasn't nearly as good as they should have been.

Anyway, my top 10 changes from time to time.

At the moment, he's where it stands ... (I had to cheat to get everyone I wanted on here)

1. Sam Young
2. DeJuan Blair
3. Brandin Knight
4. (tie) Sam Clancy/Clyde Vaughan
5. Lamar Patterson
6. Chevy Troutman
7. Jaron Brown
8. Brian Shorter
(tie) 9. Jerome Lane/Charles Smith
(tie) 10 . Brad Wanamaker/Levance Fields

Honorable Mention: (in no order) Donatas Zavackas, Dwyane Wallace, Rod Brookin, Carl Krauser, Tray Woodall, Ricky Greer, Ontario Lett

Agree about the underachieving--that's on the coaching. it was bad and it looks even worse with 30 years of hindsight and Howland and Big East era-Dixon showing us what good coaching and a style of play designed to allow lesser-talented teams to beat far more talented ones looks like. But those loaded teams of the mid-late 80s sure were a lot of fun to watch. Back then I really looked forward to seeing the recruiting class every year, because we were getting big time players in every class. The 1987 class was considered the best in the country. It took a really poor coach to not make an Elite 8 or better or two with that group, but win or lose those teams were exciting and fun to watch. Defense was optional which was hard to fathom. We are a long, long way from those days now.

Blair is the one player from the "modern era" of Pitt hoops that I enjoyed watching as much as the Lane/Smith/Shorter/Gore/Brookin teams. He was a force of nature, tons of talent and played with so much energy, enthusiasm, and explosiveness for a big dude. I would say he's the most impactful player Pitt has had in my lifetime, and his impact was obvious from his first game on. If only those knees had been 100%.....

I'll always love Julius Page for his dunks as well. Not the most skilled 2 guard around but man could he get off the floor, and his defense was next level.

 

[thebadby2]

Kudos for listing Julius Page. Maybe one of the most underrated Panthers of all time.

I've always been partial to players with 40 inch verticals and a rim-attacking mentality.

 

[DT_PITT]

Agree about the underachieving--that's on the coaching. it was bad and it looks even worse with 30 years of hindsight and Howland and Big East era-Dixon showing us what good coaching and a style of play designed to allow lesser-talented teams to beat far more talented ones looks like. But those loaded teams of the mid-late 80s sure were a lot of fun to watch. Back then I really looked forward to seeing the recruiting class every year, because we were getting big time players in every class. The 1987 class was considered the best in the country. It took a really poor coach to not make an Elite 8 or better or two with that group, but win or lose those teams were exciting and fun to watch. Defense was optional which was hard to fathom. We are a long, long way from those days now.

Blair is the one player from the "modern era" of Pitt hoops that I enjoyed watching as much as the Lane/Smith/Shorter/Gore/Brookin teams. He was a force of nature, tons of talent and played with so much energy, enthusiasm, and explosiveness for a big dude. I would say he's the most impactful player Pitt has had in my lifetime, and his impact was obvious from his first game on. If only those knees had been 100%.....

I'll always love Julius Page for his dunks as well. Not the most skilled 2 guard around but man could he get off the floor, and his defense was next level.

It was certainly on the coaching. Not long ago, I re-watched the Jerome "Send it In" game and other than the backboard smashing, it was so difficult to watch the Panthers play. Lax defense, turnovers, etc.

 

[thebadby2]

It was certainly on the coaching. Not long ago, I re-watched the Jerome "Send it In" game and other than the backboard smashing, it was so difficult to watch the Panthers play. Lax defense, turnovers, etc.

Those teams certainly had the athletes to be elite defensively and the ballhandlers to keep the AST/TO ratio in a good place. Despite having highly skilled big men, multiple good shooters and a former guard turned power forward in Jerome Lane I don't remember us running much half court high-low stuff or using the 4 and 5 much in the inside out passing game.

Evans just rolled out the basketballs. The one thing those teams did do very effectively was run the hell out of the floor off defensive rebounds etc. The fast break was a huge part of their offense.

 

[Fsgolfdr]

It was certainly on the coaching. Not long ago, I re-watched the Jerome "Send it In" game and other than the backboard smashing, it was so difficult to watch the Panthers play. Lax defense, turnovers, etc.

The talent was there , the coaching wasn’t . Not only was he a poor coach none of his players ever had anything positive to say about him .

I’ve said this many times , had Shorter been eligible his freshman yr even Evans couldn’t have prevented Pitt from winning the national championship.

Kind of ironic that Pitt had elite recruits in both bb and Fb when the Golden Panthers were active !

Say what you want about KS , but his players had his back .