(06-13-2014 05:52 PM)geedog50 Wrote: (06-13-2014 01:59 PM)southpaw1 Wrote: (06-12-2014 07:58 PM)rolexjames Wrote: (06-12-2014 07:45 PM)Downtown Tiger Wrote: (06-12-2014 04:25 PM)MEM-Fist Wrote: Anthony Douglas and Billy Smith should go coach at Treadwell, just to balance the old rivalry scales.
I don't think there is a Treadwell High School anymore.
That's a shame. Those were great games. If you could set up an all-time HS alumni games East, Treadwell and WS would have some great squads.
East
Tony Harris
Anthony Douglass
Billy Smith
Nick King
Cedric Henderson
Treadwell
LaMarcus Golden
Penny
Chris Garner
G. Arnold
Elliott Perry
White Station
Robert O'Kelly
Earnest Shelton
Leron Black
Joe Jackson
Chris Chiozza
Hamilton
Todd Day
Paris London
Billy Richmond
Rodney Newsome
Marcus Nolan
Fairley
Deuce Ford
Vincent Rainey
Marlon Towns
Corey Beck
Dwight Stewart
Melrose
Bingo Smith
Larry Finch
John Gunn
William Bedford
Sydney Adkins
Kingsbury
Brian Kizzie
Kimbrough
Clyde Wade
Mike Butler
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My money would go on Melrose. Too much size. Imagine Gunn and Bedford on the same team.
Treadwell had twin towers when they won the St. Championship, H. McDowell and ...., I forgot the other guy's name. He was like 6'10", so put those two there instead of Gardner and Golden, you might have the best team at Treadwell. Just Sayin
Best game in the history of Memphis Basketball was in the late 1960s with Larry Finch's Melrose team vs The Overton Team headed up by Johnny Newman.
Old-timers in Memphis remember what is still considered the biggest city championship game in the history of the basketball-rich city – Johnny and his 26-0 Overton High Rebels team vs. future University of Memphis all-American guard Larry Finch and his 24-1 Melrose High squad.
The teams met on Feb. 21, 1969, before a sold-out 10,000-seat Mid-South Coliseum.
Despite foul trouble, the late Finch, who later led then-Memphis State to the 1973 Final Four championship game where it lost to Bill Walton-led UCLA, scored 21 points in a 76-65 victory. Johnny was nothing short of magnificent, scoring 34 points and grabbing 13 rebounds. He did so even after breaking his left hand in the first half on Melrose center Ronnie Robinson’s knee brace.
“I’ve coached all over the world and played in some great arenas like the Forum in Los Angeles when I was with the Lakers, and the atmosphere in the Mid-South Coliseum that night was as good as it gets,” Johnny recalls.
Johnny finished that season, his senior year, averaging 35.1 points. Memphis State basketball fans dreamed of a recruiting class that would include Johnny, Finch and Robinson, a trio of unmatched outside-inside firepower that would surely bring the Tigers their first national championship.
But as much as Johnny liked then-Memphis coach Moe Iba personally – “I deeply respected him,” Johnny says – he didn’t like Iba’s deliberate style of offense.
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