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Favorite College player that never made it

Postby TONY_YAYO on Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:55 pm

Whats your Favorite College player that never made it due to injury or just not flat out making in the NBA.

Mines was Jay Will one of the best PG's to come out of Duke. He could shoot pass play D One of the best players to play in college at one point. Due to stupidity and also being young got hurt from a motorcylce accident fractured his leg and broke his pelvis. And his hoop dreams was shattered. I thought he was goin to be the PG for Chicago for long time but that didnt turn out so good.


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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby Burgz on Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:37 am

mateen cleaves

was my favourite player ever at MSU (other than Magic, but I wasn't old enough to see him play)

was such a great leader in college, too bad he sucked in the NBA
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby TONY_YAYO on Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:12 pm

Cleaves was very good PG @ MSU just never translated to the League. But I loved them MSU teams Izzo had some real talent around that time. Cleaves, MoPeete, JRich, ZBo my favorite on the squad was Charlie bell
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby Burgz on Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:19 pm

TONY_YAYO wrote:Cleaves was very good PG @ MSU just never translated to the League. But I loved them MSU teams Izzo had some real talent around that time. Cleaves, MoPeete, JRich, ZBo my favorite on the squad was Charlie bell


yea ive always been a big fan, NCAA games in Canada were hard to come by but MSU games were a plenty

cleaves didn't have overwhelming speed and he was undersized, couldn't stretch the D consistently but he was never afraid of big moments
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby GothamGM on Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:45 pm

I wish Jason Gardner would have made it. He was stellar in college (played as a starting PG for 4 years, including the NC vs Duke as a soph). I think he was in the same boat as cleaves. Gardner was undersized, not a freak athlete, or lightning fast either.
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby JimboSlice on Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:48 pm

Burgz wrote:mateen cleaves

was my favourite player ever at MSU (other than Magic, but I wasn't old enough to see him play)

was such a great leader in college, too bad he sucked in the NBA


Agreed. I also loved Maurice Ager when he was with Shannon Brown. Was sad he went to several undesirable situations and his career kind of fizzled out.

TONY_YAYO wrote:Whats your Favorite College player that never made it due to injury or just not flat out making in the NBA.

Mines was Jay Will one of the best PG's to come out of Duke. He could shoot pass play D One of the best players to play in college at one point. Due to stupidity and also being young got hurt from a motorcylce accident fractured his leg and broke his pelvis. And his hoop dreams was shattered. I thought he was goin to be the PG for Chicago for long time but that didnt turn out so good.


Also speaking of Chicago point guards, I loved Khalid El-Amin. After a solid rookie season he faded off the map. He was a heckuva player at UConn
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby TONY_YAYO on Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:27 pm

GothamGM wrote:I wish Jason Gardner would have made it. He was stellar in college (played as a starting PG for 4 years, including the NC vs Duke as a soph). I think he was in the same boat as cleaves. Gardner was undersized, not a freak athlete, or lightning fast either.

Dam 4got about gardner he was a good PG I thought he would have made it
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby TONY_YAYO on Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:29 pm

JimboSlice wrote:
Burgz wrote:mateen cleaves

was my favourite player ever at MSU (other than Magic, but I wasn't old enough to see him play)

was such a great leader in college, too bad he sucked in the NBA


Agreed. I also loved Maurice Ager when he was with Shannon Brown. Was sad he went to several undesirable situations and his career kind of fizzled out.

TONY_YAYO wrote:Whats your Favorite College player that never made it due to injury or just not flat out making in the NBA.

Mines was Jay Will one of the best PG's to come out of Duke. He could shoot pass play D One of the best players to play in college at one point. Due to stupidity and also being young got hurt from a motorcylce accident fractured his leg and broke his pelvis. And his hoop dreams was shattered. I thought he was goin to be the PG for Chicago for long time but that didnt turn out so good.


Also speaking of Chicago point guards, I loved Khalid El-Amin. After a solid rookie season he faded off the map. He was a heckuva player at UConn


hell yea Khalid El-Amin that was ny dude this was when college basketball was really good b4 the one and done. Khalid chubby ass could handle the ball like a muthafuka
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby Silver Man on Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:55 pm

Wayne Simien for me. He did win a championship with the Heat.....playing no part in it I'm sure, but loved him when he was with the Jayhawks.
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby fishnc on Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:39 am

Ed Cota for sure



I think he is still top 5 all time in total assists
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby Chuck Newhouse on Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:36 pm

Chris Washburn - NC State
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby TONY_YAYO on Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:22 pm

fishnc wrote:Ed Cota for sure



I think he is still top 5 all time in total assists


Dude Ed Cota I thought was going to be a good PG in the League did he even get drafted ?
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby donkeylips on Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:30 am

arthur lee from stanford
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby oberyn3 on Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:25 pm

Mark Macon, Temple
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Re: Favorite College player that never made it

Postby LameR on Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:20 pm

fishnc wrote:Ed Cota for sure



I think he is still top 5 all time in total assists


This was me too.
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