Just watched a large portion of the video that BEARCATDALE posted, man, you forget how good Van Exel and Jones were and how far this current team has to go.

(01-25-2015 10:35 AM)Eastside_J Wrote:  

(01-25-2015 12:38 AM)subflea Wrote:  Anyone who puts Brannen on their list obviously never met the guy.

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Haha!

Well FWIW, if they want to test that statement all they have to do is hang around a certain bar in Reading.

Do not know anything about this, but I was at a dump bar on McMicken, Waldecks?
and Joel Dolinski and Fabini were there giving Bobby a hard time.

Steve Sanders -The man who hit the shot heard round the City to start off the resurgence of UC basketball.

Brad Jackson - Anyone willing to chuck a guy into the 3rd row diving for a loose ball is OK in my book.

Jamaal Davis - For completely shutting down and frustrating David West and making him cry after the game in one of my all time favorite Crosstown Shootout games as the Cats went into Cintas and blew them out by 20. Here is the post game article from 2001:



SULLIVAN: Davis' defense gets better of West

By Tim Sullivan
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Jamaal Davis got the word Friday morning. Too early to lose any sleep. Too late to quietly slip out of town.

The University of Cincinnati's senior forward did not learn until game day that he would be guarding Xavier's David West in the Crosstown Shootout.


“When I told (Terry) Nelson he had to guard (Indiana's) Calbert Cheaney, he almost had a heart attack,” UC coach Bob Huggins said. “I didn't want J.D. to have a heart attack. I kind of sprung it on him.”

Sometimes, short notice is the best kind.

Davis' defense was not the only reason the Bearcats drubbed Xavier 75-55, but it was at the top of the list. He frustrated West, effectively denied him the ball and held him to nine points and five rebounds before the Xavier All-American was immobilized by injury.

“I just tried to keep a body on him and wear him down a little bit,” Davis said. “They don't really have anybody behind him who can play the post as well as he can.”

That much goes without saying. Few teams have one player of West's stature, much less two. For the bulk of Friday's second half, Xavier had none.

But the ankle sprain that effectively ended the Shootout's suspense should not detract from the defense Davis had played previous to it.

When West fell to the floor with 1:03 remaining in the first half, while Davis was making a layup to extend UC's lead to 13 points, the game's tone had already been set and its outcome seemed inevitable.

To that point in the proceedings, Davis had spent most of the night in West's face, in his shirt and in his way. When Davis could not deny West the ball, he frequently forced him to take possession out on the perimeter, far beyond his effective range. Instead of being a dominant inside presence, West was reduced to flinging fadeaway jumpers from deep along the baseline.

This is a formula for failure for the Muskies. For the Bearcats, it was evidence of the kind of forceful defense with which Huggins forged his reputation.

Having watched West's 23-point, 13-rebound effort in last year's Shootout, Huggins was disinclined to reprise a strategy that found Donald Little in foul trouble almost at the opening tip. Huggins' Bearcats have never been as physically unimposing as they were last season, but their work in the weight room has added bulk to their bullying.

Jamaal Davis' mission Friday night was to shadow West, to make him work on the defensive end, to wear him down to a more manageable size. It was a mission he might not have been able to accomplish last season — either physically or mentally.

“J.D.'s playing like Erik Martin did his last year,” Huggins said. “He's always where he's supposed to be.”

Because of West's limitations, Friday's game may not say much about the relative strengths of the two teams. But it did say quite a lot about Jamaal Davis. He has started 40 of his last 42 games at UC, never scoring more than 16 points, but he handled his season's most strenuous defensive assignment with the grim obsession of a stalker.

Before the game was five minutes old, West's frustration was clear. Davis started “jawing” at him, and West responded at considerable length. Then, after the Bearcats took an 11-7 lead, West picked up an offensive foul with a series of insufficiently subtle elbows and some superb acting by Davis.

“I wasn't really trying to get into his head,” Davis said. “I just wanted him to know I would be all over him.”

Davis absorbed West's punishment, and dished out his own, with an expression notable for its lack of expressiveness. He countered West's mounting exasperation with a perfect poker face. Late in the game, after his lack of mobility forced him to the bench, West sat for a long stretch with a towel covering his face. When he removed the shield, he started shaking his head from side to side.

Jamaal Davis, meanwhile, was holding his head high.

http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/12/15/...davis.html

K Martin
Nick Van Ex
Steve Logan

(01-27-2015 10:31 AM)mac6115cd Wrote:  K Martin
Nick Van Ex
Steve Logan

From my UC years:

Rick Roberson
Jim Ard
John Howard
Roland West
Eddie Lee

From Huggins era:

Nick Van Exel
Kenyon Martin
Steve Logan
Sean Kilpatrick
Mel Levett

I go back a ways...

1. KMart
2. Roger McClendon
3. Myron Hughes
4. Mel Levitt
5. E. Hicks
6. Herb Jones
7. Curtis Bostic
8. Jelly Jones
9. Maxiel
10. Van Exel

I could go on...and on

I don't think I have missed it but I have not seen Derek Dickey's name mentioned.

One of the smoothest closers near the rim I have ever seen.

(01-27-2015 11:06 AM)Bearcat Otto Wrote:  I don't think I have missed it but I have not seen Derek Dickey's name mentioned.

One of the smoothest closers near the rim I have ever seen.

If Oscar only gets a cursory glance, I'm not surprised Derek's name is omitted.

If it is pure "favorites", it is hard to outdo Terry Nelson.

I remember going to the Great Midwest conference tournament in Memphis. Nelson probably scored his usual 2-4 points in the final, but he took a charge late that fouled out Penny Hardaway and sealed the game.

There was a gathering at the hotel afterwards were all the rich alumni met the team (and my friend and I who heard about it even though we were staying at a Motel 6 on the edge of the city). Huggins and the entire team were totally wiped out and dead. Huggins mumbled in the microphone for a bit, then handed it off to Nelson, who immediately perked up and launched into a 15 minute comedy bit about the team. Probably my most enjoyable experience relative to Bearcat basketball.

(01-27-2015 11:06 AM)Bearcat Otto Wrote:  I don't think I have missed it but I have not seen Derek Dickey's name mentioned.

One of the smoothest closers near the rim I have ever seen.

Not that it is worth anything, but he made my list earlier in the thread.

This is kind of off topic, but does anyone know if Logan ever tried NBA basketball later on after Golden State traded his rights? I don't think he was ever on an NBA roster... was just curious what happened after the contract dispute with Golden State.

(01-27-2015 04:24 PM)Topkat Wrote:  This is kind of off topic, but does anyone know if Logan ever tried NBA basketball later on after Golden State traded his rights? I don't think he was ever on an NBA roster... was just curious what happened after the contract dispute with Golden State.

Career history
2004–2005 Texas Tycoons (ABA)
2005–2006 Mersin BB (Turkey)
2006 Kolossos Rodou (Greece)
2006 Benfica (Portugal)
2006 Znicz Jarosław (Poland)
2007 Hapoel Galil Elyon (Israel)

Pro career

Despite strong performances in his senior year, Logan slipped to the second round of the 2002 NBA Draft, where he was drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the first pick of the second round (30th overall). It is believed Logan fell to the second round mainly due to concern about his height. Although his listed height was 6'0", Logan was probably closer to 5'10". As a result of being a second-round selection, the Warriors refused to offer him a guaranteed contract, while Logan and his agent argued that he should have been offered a guaranteed contract since he was in fact the 29th player taken in the draft (this was because the Minnesota Timberwolves had to forfeit their first-round pick). After a bitter contract dispute with the Warriors, Logan did not sign a contract. His draft rights were later traded to the Dallas Mavericks. In 2006, he played in Poland (Znicz Jarosław), and the next year in Israel. As of 2012, Logan remains one of the few first team All-American who has never been on an NBA roster and has yet to appear in an NBA game.