(12-17-2019 09:24 AM)mac Wrote: (12-17-2019 07:43 AM)Cant Tame the Lion Wrote: (12-16-2019 10:54 PM)FearTheLion Wrote: Great list. I'd add Ronnie McAdoo and Mark Davis to it. High level NBA prospect and a NBA player.
Mark Davis was outstanding... outstanding hops and one of the best finishers we've ever had.
A lot of those names are really fine players. Yes, Mark Davis could jump. It took him till his senior season to really shine and his last 15 games really at that from what I recall. Reggie Bassett showed flashes of greatness.But only so often. Cal Bowdler was good but took him a while to get going.
Petey Sessoms WAS A STUD FROM THE SECOND HE STEPPED ON THE COURT. Teams had to game plan to try to stop him. Couldn't be done but every so often. No offense to Baze but he couldn't even bring the ball down the court as a freshman without bouncing it off his knee. All time greats are players that ARE GREAT their whole time at a school.
Of all the players we have ever had Petey Sessoms and Ronnie Valentine were two (And Odell Hodge, too bad he got hurt wasn't "quite" the same after) that took off from the first second they played. McAdoo, another fine player. Not in the same caliber as Petey. Stats don't lie.
Petey Sessoms: He scored 1,985 points (the fourth most in school history at the time), grabbed 779 rebounds and shot 81.9% from the free throw line. In each of his four seasons, Old Dominion qualified for postseason tournaments. These included the 1992 and 1995 NCAA Tournaments as well as the 1993 and 1994 National Invitation Tournaments.
Sessoms was named the 1995 CAA Player of the Year as well as that year's CAA Tournament MVP behind his team-leading 22.1 points per game and still-standing school record 730 total points. At the end of the year, Sessoms was also given Honorable Mention All-America status by numerous sports media outlets.
Don't dilute what Petey Sessoms did by rehashing all the other fine players we have had. Mark Davis? Mark Poag? Good players but not in the same category at all.
By the way Poag held the record 9-9 from three for only one year. Flipping George Mason kid went 10-10 to break the record. Not sure if that's still standing or not.
I'm pretty sure that no one is diminishing the stellar accomplishments of Petey during his time at ODU. All some of us are saying is that there are a lot of very good players that have played at ODU and not gotten their jersey retired. I'm probably as big a fan of Petey as anyone else is and he certainly is worthy of very strong consideration.
Listed below are the scoring and rebounding stats of 3 former ODU greats that don't have their jersey retired. All three players played the forward position. For impartiality I have left the player's name off the listing. All three players are from the Division 1 era. Which of the three players is the clear runaway winner of getting their jersey retired over the other two, and why?
Player A
Fresh. - 15.2 points, 8.7 rebounds
Soph. - 14.4 points, 7.3 rebounds
Junior - 15.9 points, 7.9 rebounds
Senior - 14.7 points, 8.4 rebounds
Player B
Fresh. - 9.0 points, 5.3 rebounds
Soph. - 16.9 points, 5.9 rebounds
Junior - 16.0 points, 5.6 rebounds
Senior - 22.1 points, 8.4 rebounds
Player C
Fresh. -15.5 points, 7.1 rebounds
Soph. - 15.0 points, 7.0 rebounds
Junior - 20.2 points, 6.7 rebounds
Senior - 21.1 points, 6.6 rebounds
