The Coach would be Carrot Top so that he would concentrate on basketball and not dialing down the center every time I turn the TV on.
I noticed only one other poster gave props to my all time favorite basketball Tiger... Vernell Singleton. What a player!! He was so silky smooth and he did it all. In case any of you don't remember, he even played center the year before Shaq and Stanley arrived. Man I miss watching the Band-Aid man....
I almost put this team on as my original post. They were so much fun to watch. DeWayne "The Astronaut" Scales might have been the most exciting and charismatic basketball player I ever saw in an LSU uniform (I only saw Pistol Pete in a Jazz uniform). A 6'8" guy that could run like a deer, jump out of the gym and shoot lights out. What a stupendous squandering of talent!
Willie Sims was definitely the best sixth man in LSU basketball history. He could come in for a guard or a forward and always stepped the game up a notch. The coach has to be Dale Brown. Love him or hate him, he coached 25 years, beat Kentucky regularly, took us to 10 straight NCAA tournaments in one stretch, and to two final fours. Nobody else comes close.
"Pistol" Pete Maravich Don Redden Howard "Hi-C" Carter Shaquille O'Neal Durand "Rudy" Macklin Off the bench: Chris Jackson Ethan Martin Stromile Swift Leanord Mitchell Jerry "The Ice Man" Reynolds
Wasn't DeWayne Scales Jervauhgn Scales dad? Scales was the first ever player to lead the NCAA in scoring and rebounding in the same year, and he played at Southern...
C- Shaq PF- Nikita Wilson SF- John Williams 2G- Chris Jackson PG - Derrick Taylor Petit and Maravich are before my time...that's the best starting 5 in my time...
Re: Re: Assemble your best LSU basketball "team" I agree but how could you leave off Bob Pettit, one of the 50 best NBA players of all time, a 6-10 center in favor of a 6-7 center that was a warrior but not even close to the player Pettit was. Ethan Martin is the best point guard that ever played at LSU IMO.
Ethan Martin was the best ball-handler, ball thief, and game controller at point guard. He's probably my favorite player of the era. Every time he came on court or made a big play the crowd would yell "E!" But Pete Maravich and Chris Jackson also played point for LSU and were All Americans in every year they played. They were showboating crowd pleasers and Maravich still holds the NCAA scoring record, even though playing only 3 years with no 3-point shot. Still Jackson was scoring at a pace to catch him if he hadn't gone pro after his sophomore year. It's tough. Maybe we should name a team with 3 point guards plus Shaq and Bob Pettit.
