(06-23-2019 08:33 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 06:00 AM)SouthernMSTiger Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 02:49 AM)rolexjames Wrote:  

(06-20-2019 07:57 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(06-20-2019 07:42 PM)Herff Tiger Wrote:  "Our Frontcourt. Just how good can/will it be?"

Better than most of us have ever seen.

I didn't see a game in person until '87. I saw some televised games from the preceding 3 or 4 years.

Joey and Rob were really good, but there were only 2. Before that, IIRC, we generally only had 1 at a time, Wright, Wise, Vaughan.

turn it back just a bit, and you would look at Keith Lee, William Bedford and Baskerville Holmes as a viable candidate to our best ever frontcourt

If you are talking just the PF and Centers on the team then
Bedford, Lee, Holmes, Bailey, best Tiger front court ever.
Dozier, Dorsey, Taggert, Niles in 08 would be 2nd IMHO.
Vaughn, Wright, Wilson, 95
Gray, Alexander, Bailey 86
Sean Williams, Dorsey, Dozier, Waki Williams, Cooper in 06
Anthony Douglass, Kevin Allen, David Vaughn Tim Duncan Ernest Smith in 92 as honorable mention

If you include the SF in the equation.....
08 - adding CDR to Dozier, Dorsey, Taggert, Niles would be the best
92 - Penny, 6, David Vaughn, Tim Duncan and Kevin Allen
95 - Wright, Wilson, Henderson, Vaughn, Rodney Newsome, (3 McDonalds AA)
86 - Gray, Alexander, Bailey, Askew
06 - Sean Williams, Dorsey, Dozier, Waki Williams, Cooper, Rodney Carney, CDR

02 - Barron, Wise, Massie, Scooter, Diarra, Erwin, had great potential but never realized it unless you count the NIT championship

With small forward on the equation, my preference is:

Lee, Phillips, Holmes, Parks, Bailey

I don't think Phillips and Bailey ever played together. They were both better players than their stats showed. I think Derrick has the edge IMO.

Lee, Bedford Baskerville are the best ever along with Bailey and Willie B. off the bench. And it’s not close. #6 and #11 draft picks and Keith slid due to training staff putting too much weight on him and ruining his knees. He should have played at about 200-210 lbs.

Excellent bar room banter !!! And no one has called any one out.
Obviously this frontcourt has the potential to be the best. We've got 2 possible NBA lottery picks ... Lee and Bedford were probably our other NBA LP Front Court. And I think Boggie and the Band gonna go down as one of ... if not the ... Best Back Courts, as well.
What's the day count on the start of hoops season !!

(06-23-2019 08:33 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 06:00 AM)SouthernMSTiger Wrote:  

(06-21-2019 02:49 AM)rolexjames Wrote:  

(06-20-2019 07:57 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

(06-20-2019 07:42 PM)Herff Tiger Wrote:  "Our Frontcourt. Just how good can/will it be?"

Better than most of us have ever seen.

I didn't see a game in person until '87. I saw some televised games from the preceding 3 or 4 years.

Joey and Rob were really good, but there were only 2. Before that, IIRC, we generally only had 1 at a time, Wright, Wise, Vaughan.

turn it back just a bit, and you would look at Keith Lee, William Bedford and Baskerville Holmes as a viable candidate to our best ever frontcourt

If you are talking just the PF and Centers on the team then
Bedford, Lee, Holmes, Bailey, best Tiger front court ever.
Dozier, Dorsey, Taggert, Niles in 08 would be 2nd IMHO.
Vaughn, Wright, Wilson, 95
Gray, Alexander, Bailey 86
Sean Williams, Dorsey, Dozier, Waki Williams, Cooper in 06
Anthony Douglass, Kevin Allen, David Vaughn Tim Duncan Ernest Smith in 92 as honorable mention

If you include the SF in the equation.....
08 - adding CDR to Dozier, Dorsey, Taggert, Niles would be the best
92 - Penny, 6, David Vaughn, Tim Duncan and Kevin Allen
95 - Wright, Wilson, Henderson, Vaughn, Rodney Newsome, (3 McDonalds AA)
86 - Gray, Alexander, Bailey, Askew
06 - Sean Williams, Dorsey, Dozier, Waki Williams, Cooper, Rodney Carney, CDR

02 - Barron, Wise, Massie, Scooter, Diarra, Erwin, had great potential but never realized it unless you count the NIT championship

With small forward on the equation, my preference is:

Lee, Phillips, Holmes, Parks, Bailey

I don't think Phillips and Bailey ever played together. They were both better players than their stats showed. I think Derrick has the edge IMO.

Phillips left after the 1983-84 season. He averaged 5/5.
Bailey's first year was in the 1984-85 season.

The thing I remember most about Bailey was that he was a junkyard dog and gave the worst interviews of any player I can remember.