(01-29-2013 09:22 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Alan Ogg's greatest games were against Jacksonville. They were really good a couple of years with Dee Brown, Ronnie Murphy and Otis Smith.
I was thinking about those guys earlier. Jacksonville provided some of the greatest players to play against the Blazers. And the most heartbreaking of losses in the finals of the Sunbelt Conference Tourney in 1986.
(01-29-2013 09:22 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Alan Ogg's greatest games were against Jacksonville. They were really good a couple of years with Dee Brown, Ronnie Murphy and Otis Smith.
I was thinking about those guys earlier. Jacksonville provided some of the greatest players to play against the Blazers. And the most heartbreaking of losses in the finals of the Sunbelt Conference Tourney in 1986.
Oh, Steve Mitchell's missed free throws at the end of the game. That would have won the game. Then Foster hits a three pointer shot from around half court that would have tied the game, except that the three point shot didn't become a part of the game until the next year. I have a picture of Mitchell on the bench after those free throws with his head bowed, covered by a towel, totally distraught.
True, but it was Emmett who engaged Alan Ogg in the epic clash of gangly, awkward freshman 7-footers. Arms were flying everywhere in jerky, random patterns. Smith had Noriega-level acne scars if memory serves.
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I remember, well, a Jacksonville University player in the late 60s or early 70s named Artis "The-A-Train" Gilmore, 7'2". He was born in Chipley, Florida and reared in Dothan, Alabama. Artis is an ABA Hall of Famer. I lived in Panama City for a year, or so, and used to go to the recreation center down there. I played pick up games along side a fellow pick up game player and popular gym rat named James Gordon(his rec. center court nickname was Greta-D). James claimed to be Artis Gilmores cousin. I saw Artis Gilmore at a book signing at the Galleria, years ago, and asked Artis point blank, are you James Gordons cousin? Artis said, yes, thats my mothers sisters son and they live in Panama City. Greta-D nicknamed me "Larry Bird" at the rec. center, and thats what they all called me in the pick up games. Fun times, back then. Heck that was thirty something years ago, but I can still throw down those long shots like Larry Bird, even if I am 57 years old.
(01-30-2013 08:05 AM)the_blazerman Wrote: I was nicknamed Jack Sikma as well as Jay Shidler in junior high school.
Sikma had that somewhat unorthodox but totally unblockable, back pivot jump shot that he would bring up behind his head before he shot it.
George Gervin also had an unorthodox shot, elbow out.
Here is a George Gervin vs. Pete Maravich in a game of horse, video. Some of my favorite all time players, too, Sikma, Gervin, Maravich, Bird, Russell, Cousy, Gilmore, Unseld, etc..
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