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Post by stlvufan on Mar 4, 2010 10:04:32 GMT -5
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Post by stlvufan on Mar 4, 2010 10:10:08 GMT -5
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Post by vuweathernerd on Mar 4, 2010 11:11:03 GMT -5
what happened? i was only 2 at the time. |
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Post by stlvufan on Mar 4, 2010 11:25:10 GMT -5
what happened? i was only 2 at the time. I think the linked article describes what happened, but basically he shot a free throw, headed toward the defensive end, collapsed, and never regained consciousness. WCC cancelled their tourney at that point, and sent Loyola Marymount as the regular season champ to the NCAA tourney, they went all the way to the Elite 8 before getting beat by UNLV. "Fond memories" pertains to the most exciting basketball team I've ever seen -- hands down -- *not* Hank Gathers dying on the basketball court, by the way  |
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Post by vuweathernerd on Mar 4, 2010 13:24:57 GMT -5
what happened? i was only 2 at the time. I think the linked article describes what happened, but basically he shot a free throw, headed toward the defensive end, collapsed, and never regained consciousness. WCC cancelled their tourney at that point, and sent Loyola Marymount as the regular season champ to the NCAA tourney, they went all the way to the Elite 8 before getting beat by UNLV. the second article described it very broadly, but that was about it. your explanation makes more sense. i figured as much. no worries. your character on here is too gentlemanly to suggest anything else. |
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Post by valporun on Mar 4, 2010 16:15:12 GMT -5
I think the linked article describes what happened, but basically he shot a free throw, headed toward the defensive end, collapsed, and never regained consciousness. WCC cancelled their tourney at that point, and sent Loyola Marymount as the regular season champ to the NCAA tourney, they went all the way to the Elite 8 before getting beat by UNLV. the second article described it very broadly, but that was about it. your explanation makes more sense. i figured as much. no worries. your character on here is too gentlemanly to suggest anything else. I remember this happening, as I was 9 at the time. I watched Sportscenter that morning, as this game was happening while I was in bed, and back before Sportscenter went repetitive for about 18 hours a day. It was just weird to think that a kid who was playing a fun, simple game could have it taken from him while he was playing it at the same time. Hank was the epitome of the style of game that Paul Westhead taught and recruited for with his "run and gun" style, shoot the ball quickly, use as little shot clock as possible, hence Jeff Fryer describing the "six seconds to shoot" explanation. This became the style the Virginia Military Institute uses ineffectively now, and that Grinnell and Beloit Colleges were using, and why ESPN made them a tv game feature a few years back, because they would put up scores that reveled the NBA of old, where the scores were consistently 120+ per team, and 220+ combined, points per game. LMU was the mid-major dream of 1990, around the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, just before the Fab Five at Michigan, and the season after the Flyin' Illini of Lou Henson, with Kendall Gil, Nick Anderson, and a couple others that slipped my mind. This was college basketball when Michael Jordan was making the NBA what it was in the '90s, and before the "One-and-done" generation and the "Kobe" high school to NBA years. |
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Post by stlvufan on Mar 4, 2010 18:06:07 GMT -5
Actually, just *after* the Fab Five at Michigan, no? They were defending national champs when LMU pasted them by 30+ with both teams topping 100. And don't forget "The Human Bruise" Tom Peabody |
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Post by valporun on Mar 4, 2010 20:50:25 GMT -5
Actually, just *after* the Fab Five at Michigan, no? They were defending national champs when LMU pasted them by 30+ with both teams topping 100. And don't forget "The Human Bruise" Tom Peabody I was referring to the FAB FIVE of Webber, Howard, King, of 1992 and 1993. The Michigan team of 1989 had Rumeal Robinson, Glenn Rice, and the first year of Steve Fisher, after he was placed in the spot after the previous coach up and left for another school, Bill Freiders. |
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Post by stlvufan on Mar 5, 2010 0:35:00 GMT -5
Actually, just *after* the Fab Five at Michigan, no? They were defending national champs when LMU pasted them by 30+ with both teams topping 100. And don't forget "The Human Bruise" Tom Peabody I was referring to the FAB FIVE of Webber, Howard, King, of 1992 and 1993. The Michigan team of 1989 had Rumeal Robinson, Glenn Rice, and the first year of Steve Fisher, after he was placed in the spot after the previous coach up and left for another school, Bill Freiders. I stand corrected. My historical memory banks have some definite holes in them |
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Post by bbtds on Mar 5, 2010 5:23:15 GMT -5
I was referring to the FAB FIVE of Webber, Howard, King, of 1992 and 1993. The Michigan team of 1989 had Rumeal Robinson, Glenn Rice, and the first year of Steve Fisher, after he was placed in the spot after the previous coach up and left for another school, Bill Freiders. I stand corrected. My historical memory banks have some definite holes in them Ahhh, yes, holely memories but in the words of another poster "your character on here is too gentlemanly to suggest anything else" :-) A finer character statement could not have been better stated. :-) |
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