Brookin staying eligible would've been nice , but a front line of Smith ,Lane and Shorter would've been unbeatable with Miller and Mathews outside .
The future is looking brighter for Pitt bb . Just need too beef those twins up !,
For what it’s worth, it was Chris Gatling. And he was indeed very good. Was originally a Chipman recruit.
What class was Thomas Hamilton was supposed to be in the 7ft 4in center? And man we almost had Jamal Magloire. Think we had a decent chance at James Harden.
I saw Hamilton behind our bench and remember thinking who was this giant.
How highly rated was Hamilton? Think he was from Chicago. Speaking of Chicago, I remember Marcus Liberty’s name as a potential transfer back then too. That would have been huge. Oh what might have been with one of those types of players added back then.
My bad - I meant to say Roy Chipman. He committed to Roy before he quit. I edited it.
Hamilton wasn’t a super high recruit - around top 100.
He would be equivalent to a solid 4 star recruit. Pretty sure Ahmad Shareef was from the same HS or area as him.
I heard the same thing. He has to stay in Pittsburgh for his probation. We'll see if that is true.
Pitt had Harden. Maggie’s passing put the Operations hire on the back burner, which was going to be James’ high school coach. ASU swooped in and hired the guy. Rough luck losing Danny Green in 2005 then Harden in 2007.
Amazing how Pera parlayed that into now being the head man at Rice (and was named that during the Harden Rockets era). Got it when Rhoads took VCU. I’ve heard he’s a real asshole and talked to him once on the phone about a job and it seemed like he was.
Either guy, and we are cutting the nets down in 2009.
That’s all he was , had he been 6’8” he’d have been a NBA HOF level player .
6’6” program/media. Longest arms of anyone I can remember. Combination Clyde Vaughan and Jerome - dare I say.
He was the 9th draft choice taken in 1974 , they had him listed 6’11 215lbs .
I thought we were talking about Thomas Hamilton, the guy Evans recruited out of Chicago. He ended up getting a cup of coffee in the NBA.
It was a shame what happened to him for his senior year. He was just a shell of the player he had been previously.
He had an illness that zapped his strength and you're right , he was a shell of the great player he had been .
Tom McMillen had quite a life .#1 rated hs bb player in 1970 , starred at Maryland was on the 72 Olympic team that lost that rigged finish to the Russians. Became a Rhode scholar, then played 11 yrs in the NBA . Became a US congressman etc .
