A History of Centers

[jade_hippo]

Darko is already our best center, erv, felton and rasho.
Wow. That's such a bad list...

It's not bad. It's hilarious that this franchise has never had a real C.

We've been pretty bad historically at pretty much every position except the 2 forward positions. Everyone's PG and SG spots have an asterik on them or are really really subjective due to short tenure.

[LegendaryLegend]

Big Stanley Roberts' presence on and off the court was bigger than those numbers can ever describe him.

[karch34]

Best game ever for a Wolves center in my opinion was Dean Garrett vs. Houston in game 3 of the 1st round of the playoffs. (Also my favorite game that we've lost). I'll have to look up the numbers but he had some ridiculous numbers. I think those basically produced his payday thereafter.

That list is so bad we actually had a SF, La Phonso Ellis, playing C for significant stretches at one point.

[Klomp]

Randy Breuer scored 40 (or 44) for the Twolves one night. I remember Kevin Harlan going out of his head!

http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 40MIN.html

[Klomp]

Best game ever for a Wolves center in my opinion was Dean Garrett vs. Houston in game 3 of the 1st round of the playoffs. (Also my favorite game that we've lost). I'll have to look up the numbers but he had some ridiculous numbers. I think those basically produced his payday thereafter.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/box ... 90MIN.html

[karch34]

Thanks Klomp. 26 and 15 with 12 of those rebounds being offensive against Olajuwon and Barkley impressed me.

That was such a great game. We score 120 pts, get 41 rebounds, 30 assists, and still lost by 5 (to 3 future HOFs). I just remember everyone out of their seats the whole game and chanting "Willis sucks" after his cheap shot on KG in game 1 which caused Mitchell to get thrown out by retaliating.

I seriously thought that was the start of something big. Game 3 the following year against Seattle when we went up 2-1 was a crazy fun one too.

[Winter Wonder]

Thanks Klomp. 26 and 15 with 12 of those rebounds being offensive against Olajuwon and Barkley impressed me.

That was such a great game. We score 120 pts, get 41 rebounds, 30 assists, and still lost by 5 (to 3 future HOFs). I just remember everyone out of their seats the whole game and chanting "Willis sucks" after his cheap shot on KG in game 1 which caused Mitchell to get thrown out by retaliating.

I seriously thought that was the start of something big. Game 3 the following year against Seattle when we went up 2-1 was a crazy fun one too.

Wow, good memories, good times. I was going to comment on Randy Breuer having a crazy game back in the day, but glad someone cited it properly.

Only thing with Garrett, in most games he was simply the beneficiary of his defender having to help on our other better players. Still, he did play well for a bit, especially off of Steph's driving. Again, good times. Wish we could have kept that core together, Googs, Marbury, KG... what could have been.

[chrbal]

Torontos is the saddest list. Names like Zan Tabak, a dead in the water Hakeem Olajuwon, Oliver Miller, etc.

[mandurugo]

Torontos is the saddest list. Names like Zan Tabak, a dead in the water Hakeem Olajuwon, Oliver Miller, etc.

Oliver Miller is on the wolves list too...

[karch34]

No doubt that Marbury basically made Garrett's deal happen and he was the beneficiary of teams paying attention to KG, Googs, and Marbury.

LOL, Oliver Miller. I remember having Stanley Roberts for a stretch too, I think that was when we only had a 7 or 8 guys healthy to suit up against Seattle in the playoffs. I'd have to check, but I think it was like Marbury, Porter, Peeler, KG, Hammonds, Roberts, and Mitchell, with that plantar facia PG even getting a few minutes (Williams?)