If you want to take votes and make it more in depth, I'd rank everyone to help set prices. Would we vote/rank one position at a time? It could get kinda complicated otherwise.
Since I am probably a lot older than most of you, this got me thinking of the all time UC teams. This is based on players I know, legendary players that I never saw, such as Jim Holstein are not included on the list. I also added two players at each position for the one dollar slot, since there were so many that I remember. If I have any positions wrong please let me know, most of this is from memory.
So here goes:
Center:
$5 Paul Hogue
$4 Kenyon Martin
$3 Connie Dierking
$2 Rick Roberson
$1 Robert Miller / Derrick Dickey
Power Forward:
$5 Jack Twyman
$4 Danny Fortson
$3 Pat Cummings
$2 George Wilson (Played C after Hogue Graduated)
$1 Jim Ard / Jason Maxiell
Small Forward:
$5 Oscar Robertson (His college position, G in NBA)
$4 Ron Bonham
$3 Tom Thacker (also played G)
$2 Bob Wiesenhahn
$1 Herb Jones / Mel Levitt
Shooting Guard:
$5 Roger McClendon
$4 Sean Kilpatrick
$3 Lloyd Batts
$2 Steve Collier
$1 Darnell Burton / Lazelle Durden
Point Guard:
$5 Steve Logan
$4 Nick Van Exel
$3 Eddie Lee
$2 Tony Yates
$1 Don Ogeltree / David Kennedy
From this here is my starting 5.
$2 Rick Roberson
$2 George Wilson
$5 Oscar Robertson
$3 Lloyd Batts
$3 Eddie Lee
Other than Field, no one comes close to Darnell Burton as a shooting guard (percentages)...he led the team in 3 pt shooting for 3 years straight, from '94-'95 through '96-'97. During those 3 years, he averaged right at 40% from 3 (combined 257-643). When you throw in the fact that he was a demon on defense (Huggins said he was the best on the ball defender), he is probably my top pick at shooting guard.
Great first post. I was very young when Burton was around. Didn't know he was THAT good. I know LaZelle Durden is way up there as well. Throw in the clutch-factor.
Since I am probably a lot older than most of you, this got me thinking of the all time UC teams. This is based on players I know, legendary players that I never saw, such as Jim Holstein are not included on the list. I also added two players at each position for the one dollar slot, since there were so many that I remember. If I have any positions wrong please let me know, most of this is from memory.
So here goes:
Center:
$5 Paul Hogue
$4 Kenyon Martin
$3 Connie Dierking
$2 Rick Roberson
$1 Robert Miller / Derrick Dickey
Power Forward:
$5 Jack Twyman
$4 Danny Fortson
$3 Pat Cummings
$2 George Wilson (Played C after Hogue Graduated)
$1 Jim Ard / Jason Maxiell
Small Forward:
$5 Oscar Robertson (His college position, G in NBA)
$4 Ron Bonham
$3 Tom Thacker (also played G)
$2 Bob Wiesenhahn
$1 Herb Jones / Mel Levitt
Shooting Guard:
$5 Roger McClendon
$4 Sean Kilpatrick
$3 Lloyd Batts
$2 Steve Collier
$1 Darnell Burton / Lazelle Durden
Point Guard:
$5 Steve Logan
$4 Nick Van Exel
$3 Eddie Lee
$2 Tony Yates
$1 Don Ogeltree / David Kennedy
From this here is my starting 5.
$2 Rick Roberson
$2 George Wilson
$5 Oscar Robertson
$3 Lloyd Batts
$3 Eddie Lee
It's hard for me to answer this one since I was born in 85. There's not a lot of game footage out there of pre-Huggins era Bearcats basketball. Based off what I know, I would go with:
$4 - Kenyon Martin
$1 - Jason Maxiell
$5 - Oscar Robertson
$1 - Lazelle Durden
$4 - Nick Van Exel
Great first post. I was very young when Burton was around. Didn't know he was THAT good. I know LaZelle Durden is way up there as well. Throw in the clutch-factor.
C Kenyon $4
PF Fortson $4
SF Oscar $5
SG Burton $1
PG Don Ogletree $1 (never heard of him but this team is still amazing)
From the SI archive Top 20 December1968:
The best reason of all for Tay to let the Bearcats run is 6' junior Don Ogletree, who looks like a starving 13-year-old boy. Nobody knows where he gets the energy, but he streaks up and down the floor like a state 440 champ (which he was in high school in Batavia, Ohio) and feeds his teammates so well that any Cincinnati workout seems to be an agitated rondo capped by the refrain, "Nice pass, 'Tree.' "
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1081853/5/index.htm
