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Kenny Beckway

  • sgii said...

    Ekene, Jamar Smith, DJ and others were hurt by the fact that the NC team, in addition to being obviously very talented, was full of players with extraordinarily high basketball IQs. Steve. Juan. Lonny. Tahj. Byron. Really pretty remarkable. Fans got spoiled and expected that of everyone.

    This...although the effect was amplified because Ibekwe had all-world athletic ability and awful basketball IQ and hands. In Terp modern history in terms of players who shocked/frustrated you with great athletic ability and horrible basketball IQ I rank it:

    1 Exree Hipp
    2 Ibekwe
    3 Mychal Parker
    4 Jamar Smith
    5 Mike Jones

    skindeep

  • skindeep said...

    This...although the effect was amplified because Ibekwe had all-world athletic ability and awful basketball IQ and hands. In Terp modern history in terms of players who shocked/frustrated you with great athletic ability and horrible basketball IQ I rank it:

    1 Exree Hipp 2 Ibekwe 3 Mychal Parker 4 Jamar Smith 5 Mike Jones

    0. Larry Gibson

    thesloth

  • goterpss said...

    great video, thanks for posting. Young Gary. Booth with the inbounds pass. And the band actually playing rock n' roll during a TO with Cole rocking. Great memories.

    We actually have 2 Olympians in that clip.

    Sarunas will be competing for Lithuania yet again this year. This is his 4th Olympic games.

    I haven't looked it up, but I bet Cabbages is one of the top Olympic scorers of all-time by now. Lithuania has finished 3rd, 4th, and 4th in Sydney, Athens, and Beijing respectively.

    This post was edited by neverrree on 7/22/2012 at 8:49 PM

    neverrree

  • skindeep said...

    This...although the effect was amplified because Ibekwe had all-world athletic ability and awful basketball IQ and hands. In Terp modern history in terms of players who shocked/frustrated you with great athletic ability and horrible basketball IQ I rank it:

    1 Exree Hipp 2 Ibekwe 3 Mychal Parker 4 Jamar Smith 5 Mike Jones

    Not to get picky but wasn't Gary's beef with w/ Jones that he was too slack and slow on D? I never thought of him as somebody who was totally lost out there like Parker seemed to be. He just wasn't the athlete we thought we were getting. I also thought Smith was alright. In fact, between Lonny and Williams I'd take Smith over any other big we had. The biggest let down from great expectations for me was Garrsion but I think it has more to do with his motor than basketball IQ.

    cjterps98

  • cjterps98 said...

    Not to get picky but wasn't Gary's beef with w/ Jones that he was too slack and slow on D? I never thought of him as somebody who was totally lost out there like Parker seemed to be. He just wasn't the athlete we thought we were getting. I also thought Smith was alright. In fact, between Lonny and Williams I'd take Smith over any other big we had. The biggest let down from great expectations for me was Garrsion but I think it has more to do with his motor than basketball IQ.

    wilcox is the answer to both

    bad iq and still way better than jamar smith, who was awesome

    Mike Terprico

  • Mike Jones smoked his college career away. I was there for most of it.

    Mr Tiffles7673