Retro Draft: Winner is Stun704

LamarMatic7 · Post #741 » by **LamarMatic7** » Mon Oct 3, 2011 4:51 pm

this got me wondering.. what would be the All-NBA Cool Names team

PG Fat Lever/God Shammgod
SG World B. Free
SF Bonzi Wells (?)
PF ???
C Zelmo Beaty/Tree Rollins

SWedd523 · Post #742 » by **SWedd523** » Mon Oct 3, 2011 5:24 pm

Lots of cool names over the years.....

Alaa Abdelnaby
Forest Able

Henry Bacon
Herschel Baltimore
Butch Beard
Spider Bennett
Mookie Blaylock
Muggsy Bogues
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje

Corky Calhoun
Cornelius Cash
Speedy Claxton
Bimbo Coles
Chubby Cox

and that's just A-C

Post #743 » by **Diop** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:29 am

LamarMatic7 wrote:He was one of the best NBA centers in the 60s, averaged big double doubles and made the all-star team a couple of times. Then he jumped leagues to the ABA. He had to sit out the first year (same deal as with **** Barry) and he started off his ABA career at 30+. Won the title the first year with the Utah Stars.

6'9 and a terrific, underrated player. Wilt actually said that Zelmo gave him more trouble than anyone. Beaty was strong as hell, a good outside shooter and had a great attitude. Although his knees were worn down (and by "worn down" I mean can't get up in the morning, have to use painkillers every day... god I love how tough NBA players used to be) already during his ABA years (he never dunked, per example), he knew every trick in the book, played dirty and was a great center basically without jumping. He'd elbow you, he'd step on you and when you retaliated, you would get the call, since he knew how to do it when the refs weren't watching.

I love your knowledge of the old school basketball Lamar.
When I was researching Don Buse, the only footage I could find was your Youtube videos.

LamarMatic7 · Post #744 » by **LamarMatic7** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 12:32 pm

Sachmo wrote:
LamarMatic7 wrote:He was one of the best NBA centers in the 60s, averaged big double doubles and made the all-star team a couple of times. Then he jumped leagues to the ABA. He had to sit out the first year (same deal as with **** Barry) and he started off his ABA career at 30+. Won the title the first year with the Utah Stars.

6'9 and a terrific, underrated player. Wilt actually said that Zelmo gave him more trouble than anyone. Beaty was strong as hell, a good outside shooter and had a great attitude. Although his knees were worn down (and by "worn down" I mean can't get up in the morning, have to use painkillers every day... god I love how tough NBA players used to be) already during his ABA years (he never dunked, per example), he knew every trick in the book, played dirty and was a great center basically without jumping. He'd elbow you, he'd step on you and when you retaliated, you would get the call, since he knew how to do it when the refs weren't watching.

I love your knowledge of the old school basketball Lamar.
When I was researching Don Buse, the only footage I could find was your Youtube videos.

What can I say - I'm a student of the game. The book "Loose Balls" helps also for these ABA guys.

Post #745 » by **fatlever** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 2:04 pm

go ahead and pick stun... ian, pick whenever you can.

-Ian- · Post #746 » by **-Ian-** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 3:36 pm

Craig Ehlo for Single Digits
Sam Perkins for Journeyman

Stun704 · Post #747 » by **Stun704** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 8:29 pm

Truck Robinson - 1st teamer

Post #748 » by **fatlever** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 9:26 pm

add truck to the all name team for sure.

Post #749 » by **fatlever** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 10:25 pm

kenny smith - bball mecca

i figured i could always use another speedy combo guard on the end of my bench. they didnt call this guy the "jet" for nothing. he could fly. kenny was also a deadly 3pt shooter during his peak years with the rockets. he made 142 3's in 1995 at 42%. his career 3pt % is 39.9%.

AND kenny is now reunited with charles barkley on my team adding to the overall entertainment factor of my team.

best season: 18.4ppg 7.4apg 1.4spg 52%fg

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBdp4DrwDw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9J2RgmI37k&feature=related[/youtube]

Post #750 » by **fatlever** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 11:40 pm

hey paydro, how are you done? check your squad. you should have one pick left to make. where did i mess up?

Post #751 » by **BigSlam** » Tue Oct 4, 2011 11:58 pm

fatlever wrote:hey paydro, how are you done? check your squad. you should have one pick left to make. where did i mess up?

Stack is still there? Didn't we say he didn't qualify?

Post #752 » by **Diop** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 12:12 am

Yeah he changed from Stack to Blackman

Paydro70 wrote:Hmm, my bad about Stackhouse. I'll take Rolando Blackman for Basketball Mecca.

captaincrunk · Post #753 » by **captaincrunk** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 6:38 am

Bob Dandridge - Ironman. He played 32,000 minutes including playoffs (which are still in the NBA).

LamarMatic7 · Post #754 » by **LamarMatic7** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 1:44 pm

I got bad news for all of you. From the ABA category my pick is Marvin Barnes.

Probably the biggest **** in basketball history as he would have been one of the greatest forwards of all-time, if not for his terrible attitude. Since he is my 15th man, I don't care that he wouldn't show up for games, since I still have a 24/14 guy at his prime. Maybe some of the guys on my team would inspire him to change his ways.

If you don't know about Mr. Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, I'd recommend you to read this blog and see some highlights if you want to:
http://www.mixmakers.net/basketball/lam ... ws-barnes/

This story pretty much sums up Marvin Barnes:
“After the game, I saw [Marvin] in the dressing room and he started giving me his state of the Spirits speech. He told me, ‘Bro, you know what’s wrong with this team? We don’t have any team play. We don’t care about each other…Let me give you an example. Tonight, I had 48 points with two minutes to go. Did anybody pass me the ball so I could get 50? Huh? No, they just kept the ball to themselves and I got stuck on 48.’”

Post #755 » by **BigSlam** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 2:40 pm

Jalen Rose - son of Jimmy Walker

SWedd523 · Post #756 » by **SWedd523** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:25 pm

LamarMatic7 wrote:Marvin Barnes

Keep in mind that I'm not dissing him, but what caused the drop from 24/13/2 in the ABA to 8/5/1 in the NBA?

SWedd523 · Post #757 » by **SWedd523** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 3:26 pm

The one game

BigSlam wrote:Jalen Rose

is known for?

81 points

(yes, I'm dissing him

)

LamarMatic7 · Post #758 » by **LamarMatic7** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 6:54 pm

SWEDD523 wrote:
LamarMatic7 wrote:Marvin Barnes

Keep in mind that I'm not dissing him, but what caused the drop from 24/13/2 in the ABA to 8/5/1 in the NBA?

Cocaine's helluva drug. Seriously. Of course the two last seasons of ABA didn't have as good competition as the late 70s NBA after the merger, but that's the case with Marvin. He was just that good. He did cocaine during the game on the bench. That's just outrageous. During the ABA years he didn't lose a step with all of the partying, never sleeping during the night, not coming to practice and drug use. Yet it catches up even with the best ones. Watch the highlights of him in the ABA I did. And then watch these, where he's in the ABA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFeXHBVuCE

A step slower, constantly out of breath and sort of off-balance. You can still see the offensive and rebounding skills though. It's amazing that he could even score 13 after 4 years of a wild lifestyle.

Post #759 » by **fatlever** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 7:54 pm

captaincrunk wrote:Bob Dandridge - Ironman. He played 32,000 minutes including playoffs (which are still in the NBA).

awesome pick crunk. i was mad a few rounds ago when i realized i had no cats left for this guy.

SWedd523 · Post #760 » by **SWedd523** » Wed Oct 5, 2011 8:02 pm

lol I never would've thought of using the playoffs to skirt the 32k minute mark