This April I celebrate 10 years on this board and my first post was the same as this one. My all time top 10 Tigers. When we start doing this it reminds us how many really great players Memphis has had. In no particular order of the best first:
1. Keith Lee
2. Penny Hardaway
3. Larry Finch
4. Larry Kenon
5. Ronnie Robinson
6. Derrick Rose
7. Antonio Anderson
8. Lorenzen Wright
9. Chris Douglas Roberts
10.Elliot Perry
It's o.k. to disagree. These are the one's I saw play who I thought were the best. We may see a couple coming next year as good as some of these.
and to think I left off Mike Butler, Antonio Burks, Andre Turner, William Bedford, Win Wilfong (who I never saw play), Billy Smith, Sean Williams, Chris Massey, David Vaughn, Jeremy Hunt there's been so many...
(02-18-2019 01:32 PM)Antonio5fan Wrote: [ -> ]This April I celebrate 10 years on this board and my first post was the same as this one. My all time top 10 Tigers. When we start doing this it reminds us how many really great players Memphis has had. In no particular order of the best first:
1. Keith Lee
2. Penny Hardaway
3. Larry Finch
4. Larry Kenon
5. Ronnie Robinson
6. Derrick Rose
7. Antonio Anderson
8. Lorenzen Wright
9. Chris Douglas Roberts
10.Elliot Perry
It's o.k. to disagree. These are the one's I saw play who I thought were the best. We may see a couple coming next year as good as some of these.
and to think I left off Mike Butler, Antonio Burks, Andre Turner, William Bedford, Win Wilfong (who I never saw play), Billy Smith, Sean Williams, Chris Massey, David Vaughn, Jeremy Hunt there's been so many...
Elliot number 3 ahead of Finch..I was about 5 years too late for him.Substitute Bobby Parks, Baskerville, Bedford for Finch, Kenon, and Robinson due to my age and I'm good. I loved watching Keith battle Ewing and Tisdale back in the day.
Not bad.
I would move Elliot Perry to #5 move everyone else down and swap AA and CDR.
Mine would be
First 5 the same then
6. Cedric Henderson
7. Bill Cook
8. CDR
9. Derrick Rose
10. William Bedford
I enjoyed Joe Jackson, Will Barton, Adonis Thomas too
(02-18-2019 01:32 PM)Antonio5fan Wrote: [ -> ]This April I celebrate 10 years on this board and my first post was the same as this one. My all time top 10 Tigers. When we start doing this it reminds us how many really great players Memphis has had. In no particular order of the best first:
1. Keith Lee
2. Penny Hardaway
3. Larry Finch
4. Larry Kenon
5. Ronnie Robinson
6. Derrick Rose
7. Antonio Anderson
8. Lorenzen Wright
9. Chris Douglas Roberts
10.Elliot Perry
It's o.k. to disagree. These are the one's I saw play who I thought were the best. We may see a couple coming next year as good as some of these.
and to think I left off Mike Butler, Antonio Burks, Andre Turner, William Bedford, Win Wilfong (who I never saw play), Billy Smith, Sean Williams, Chris Massey, David Vaughn, Jeremy Hunt there's been so many...
No offense, but why not title it the "Best I've Seen" vs All Time
Or, best by decade
Move E.P. to number 4
Remove A.A. , and put Tyreke in at #10
(02-18-2019 02:39 PM)k2tigers Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoyed Joe Jackson, Will Barton, Adonis Thomas too
Jackson- Barton- and WHO ?
This may be an unpopular opinion, but Rose shouldn't be top 10. He was good when he was here--- and phenomenal if you consider that he was a freshman. He also was a key ingredient to getting us over the Elite 8 hump, but we've had dozens of players with stat lines better than Rose's at PG.
Again, phenomenal in that he was a freshman and was a key factor in our run. But I would put Tyreke Evans and senior Joe Jackson and senior Jeremiah Martin over freshman Rose.
1. Larry Finch
2. Elliot Perry
3. Penny Hardaway
4 Keith Lee
5. Andre Turner
6. John Wilfong
7. Antonio Anderson
8. Lorenzen Wright
9. Bobby Parks
10. Hank McDowell
CDR, Otis Jackson, Dwight Boyd, Chris Garner, Cedric Henderson, Ernest Smith, William Bedford, Vincent Askew, Doom Haynes, Joe Jackson, Will Barton, Tyreke Evans, Rodney Douglas, Ben Spiva, Chris Crawford...
Hard to stop now, let alone at 10
In all reality, Dedric has to be on there.
(02-18-2019 03:29 PM)jsw3ent Wrote: [ -> ] (02-18-2019 02:39 PM)k2tigers Wrote: [ -> ]I enjoyed Joe Jackson, Will Barton, Adonis Thomas too
Jackson- Barton- and WHO ?
What did Adonis Thomas do to become a WHO? Not live up to his billing? Not make it as a pro?
Joe Jackson may not be top ten but well ahead on The Who is next list over Massie and Hunt etc...they were good players.
Jackson was better.
(02-18-2019 03:43 PM)MtownTigers916 Wrote: [ -> ]This may be an unpopular opinion, but Rose shouldn't be top 10. He was good when he was here--- and phenomenal if you consider that he was a freshman. He also was a key ingredient to getting us over the Elite 8 hump, but we've had dozens of players with stat lines better than Rose's at PG.
Again, phenomenal in that he was a freshman and was a key factor in our run. But I would put Tyreke Evans and senior Joe Jackson and senior Jeremiah Martin over freshman Rose.
Seriously? I know it doesn’t count in the record books now but we’d have never made that Final game or Final 4 even without Rose. That stretch of games against Mich St, Texas, UCLA, and Kansas was the best basketball in Memphis history.
(02-18-2019 05:03 PM)ItsDude Wrote: [ -> ] (02-18-2019 03:43 PM)MtownTigers916 Wrote: [ -> ]This may be an unpopular opinion, but Rose shouldn't be top 10. He was good when he was here--- and phenomenal if you consider that he was a freshman. He also was a key ingredient to getting us over the Elite 8 hump, but we've had dozens of players with stat lines better than Rose's at PG.
Again, phenomenal in that he was a freshman and was a key factor in our run. But I would put Tyreke Evans and senior Joe Jackson and senior Jeremiah Martin over freshman Rose.
Seriously? I know it doesn’t count in the record books now but we’d have never made that Final game or Final 4 even without Rose. That stretch of games against Mich St, Texas, UCLA, and Kansas was the best basketball in Memphis history.
Depends on how you look at things. When I think all time Tigers I think career Tigers with more than one year. When we think all time seasons, 2008 has to be at the top. D Rose was a strong part of that. So he would be in a best Tigers season category with Detric Golden, Sean Banks, Tyreke Evans, even Sunday Adebeyo. Of course we love the headliners of those great teams..Penny, Larry Finch, EP, CDR but there are certain Tigers that don't get mentioned with the greats despite the numbers they put up....Joe Jackson, Rodney Carney, Cedric Henderson, Chris Garner, Andre Turner, Kelley Wise and now Jeremiah Martin will be added to that list. Antonio Anderson has proved to be everyone favorite glue guy, but Vincent Askew, Dwight Boyd, Baskerville Holmes, Chris Crawford, Doom Haynes were valuable members of some great teams. It hard to do a all time list without establishing categories.
Surprise no one developed a what if team guys who were signed or playing and was cut short..... Sylvester Gray, Marvin Alexander, Amari Stoudemire, Kendrick Perkins, Sean Banks,
Probably not a top 10 but deserves to be mentioned somewhere in this thread... Darius Washington Jr.
(02-18-2019 05:03 PM)ItsDude Wrote: [ -> ] (02-18-2019 03:43 PM)MtownTigers916 Wrote: [ -> ]This may be an unpopular opinion, but Rose shouldn't be top 10. He was good when he was here--- and phenomenal if you consider that he was a freshman. He also was a key ingredient to getting us over the Elite 8 hump, but we've had dozens of players with stat lines better than Rose's at PG.
Again, phenomenal in that he was a freshman and was a key factor in our run. But I would put Tyreke Evans and senior Joe Jackson and senior Jeremiah Martin over freshman Rose.
Seriously? I know it doesn’t count in the record books now but we’d have never made that Final game or Final 4 even without Rose. That stretch of games against Mich St, Texas, UCLA, and Kansas was the best basketball in Memphis history.
Rose by far had the most potential and was a great player in his lone season, but CDR was better as a junior than Rose as a freshman. If Rose stuck around 2 more years he’s in the conversation as greatest Tiger ever, but we only have a small sample size to go on.
Keith Lee
Penny
Larry Kenon
Finch
EP
CDR
Derrick Rose
Ronnie Robinson
John Gunn
Tyreke/Bedford/Sylvester Gray
Penny Hardaway, Keith Lee, and Derek Rose are possibly better basketball players. I say possibly though i believe Larry Finch was the best basketball player.
As far as the GREATEST TIGER OF ALL TIME: ONCE AND FOREVER MORE?
LARRY FINCH