this chic I know's son is supposed to portray Muggsy in some scenes Pops was friends with David Wingate's older bro growin up Reggie Williams was a BEAST ...Reggie Lewis was on the bench
I say the National Champion '91-92 squad is the best I've ever seen...
I remember when Sheed finally got his W down here his senior year
We (Baltimore) KEPT Nationally ranked squads in the 90s... I miss those days...
but yeah
let's talk HS hoops....
what/who are some of the best ballers/squads you've ever seen/ played with/against
5. "My HS was trash at basketball. " In response to Reply # 0
My dad and his brother and his other brothers dad used to coach in Austin forever. Dad told me Kris Klack was ambidextrous at the age of five. Dude grew up and was a Texas star before TJ Ford came around
I can't think of too many Texas hoppers in my days. Everything was football and track. If I'm being truly funky with it, best hoopers I've seen compartive to completion have been women. My sister used to play against Nneka Ogwumike, that woman was tough even as a kid.
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22. "my HS went from trash togood to trash to half trash to aiight" In response to Reply # 5
grew up in the burbs and played in the WPIAL. While we were mostly known for Football in Pittsburgh most of those football players also played basketball.
Played against Dante Calibria who was coached by Sean Millers dad at Blackhawk
Gabe Jackson was another local legend.
Had this white dude on our team my sophomore year who's jumper was fucking ridiculous. He ended up going to Cornell. First time lifting weights with the basketball team he showed me his routine. Bruh, I woke up 2 days later stiff as a door.
We had a few players on my HS teams who could have been D1 but they either started hustling or didn't have the grades.
My cousin was about to be a star his senior year but the coach kicked him off the team when he got caught smoking weed at lunchtime. That coach was the father of Dan Cortez who ended up being a host on MTV.
This was the problem with being a Black kid in the burbs. These white coaches and fathers fucked up multiple opportunities to have good squads because they would rather see their son get playing time than play the Black kids who grew up together.
If my coach put the kids who grew up together on the court at the same time we would run fools off the court. They always fucked up the flow with politics and racism/favorites
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
9. "This one and the Morningside documentary are gonna be nice..." In response to Reply # 0
Being close to some of the big hoopers who played here, I get to hear a bunch of stories that are hilarious. Dudes from that era up through the mid-90s help make basketball season one of my favorite times of the year. Same stories year after year with growing embellishments.
13. "we played some guys from Oak Hill Academy once" In response to Reply # 0
back in the 90's in VA. they literally showed up to a local court we were playing on in a minivan with matching shorts and tshirts. THEY RAN US OFF THE COURT!!! we might have scored 1 or 2 baskets. got back in their minivan after 2 games and bounced. we had no idea who they were. they weren't particularly tall. nothing about them stood out other than they could ball and were obviously very organized. i believe they were the JV squad (8th & 9th graders).
15. "I just knew the moment I wasn't gonna be a hooper" In response to Reply # 13
Went the same way as football. You can only be so good and try so hard before physical talent takes over. My dad put me on his 16u team when I was 13. I had the body of a 12 year old. Everyone else on the team was at least 6 feet. We had two dudes that were 6'10, one dude that could jump out of the gym that was 6'7, another dude that would go on to play multiple lettered sports at UT Austin, he was like 6'2. I had to be like 5'4 maybe.
I got dunked on one time. That was enough.
------ “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.” -Albert Camus
28. "Sablehaus!!!" In response to Reply # 19 Wed Aug-09-17 04:49 PM by Overqualified
I saw he was producing this and it all came back to me - was wondering if "Yo, is that the same guy?". He was at McDonough and I was at another private school. I was on our JV squad when he was doing his thing, so I never played against him. But he did play against some of my upperclassmen and that's all we were talking about the week of. Our team went on to win the MIAA C Conference that year, but I do remember him CARVING up our squad when we played them during the season. I read an article on him a while back in SI I think. I knew dude was good, but when it came to HS recruiting, he was LARGE.
34. "i never played against them" In response to Reply # 28 Fri Aug-11-17 08:36 AM by ambient1
Stukes went on to UVA and the NFL...dude was running like a 4.5 when we were like 11-12 lol
but yeah Sablehaus was 'different'....like he was the only QB in the area who had the look, size, arm, etc of your prototypical D1 Top Prospect QB...California-ish
Patterson QB (Willie McGirt) was dumb nice too but more of RB
I remember playin Loyola my senior yr.....they had this LB/TE who was a top D1 prospect for Boston College....one of the few people who gave me WORK...I STILL remember this play he did where I missed blocking him and he crushed my homeboy something serious
24. "Was a dope documentary with one exception..." In response to Reply # 0 Wed Aug-09-17 11:09 AM by Creole
I don't get why the featured the whole team in the ending scenes when the documentary was really about four players and the head coach.
It would have been nice to see them introduce each of the players, tell us a lil bit about what their life was like after leaving Dunbar, and also about what their up to now.
Muggsy's tears were real. When I saw the MCM pouch in his hands, while he was at the draft, had me cracking up. You could tell that he may have been the most street of them all.
Reggie Williams always reminded me of an overgrown Webster. I hated Georgetown overall but liked Reggie and Wingate.
David Wingate was nice. And I'd forgotten about that he was on that Sonics team in the mid to late 90s. I just remember him holding on to his career by sitting on the Knicks' bench for a few years until Pat got sent to Seattle.
Reggie Lewis is someone I discovered late one night when ESPN first appeared and I fell in love with the late night NCAA basketball coverage. As a Lakers fan, I'm embarrassed to say that I enjoyed watching him play for the Celtics. I also remember watching the game when he collapsed. Still sad to hear the tale and about how they really attempted to assassinate his character.
26. "it would have been great...example...Herman Tree Harried was on " In response to Reply # 24
the bench for that squad but he did his thing in college AND came back to coaching up Lake...I think he is the AD now
they coulda also mentioned how the school was the shit thru the early 90s...Reebok even did a commercial in their gym and them niggas had their own starter jackets
they did bring up Skip Wise story which EVERY old head here heralds as that dude
I did not know Wingates brother got high....my father grew up with him... now I got some ?'s for dad lol...
29. "Damn. All of this shit is coming back to me...The Starter Jackets" In response to Reply # 26
Memory hazy but if I recall, someone on the team in the mid 90s got robbed for their jacket (maybe at the harbor movies?), and the person who took it ended up getting killed. They were the nephew of one of my mom's friends.
31. "Damn. Donta Bright. He used to be all over the news." In response to Reply # 30
You probably know this dude. He was from around my way and played at Dunbar. I remember going away to school and coming back and people telling me about what derailed his career. Looks like he got it relatively back on track, although this article is eight years old.
32. "i actually don't remember yo (Daryl)...he a bit younger than me and i " In response to Reply # 31 Thu Aug-10-17 03:13 PM by ambient1
don't quite remember that name
I might a played against him in football if he played varsity as a freshman but I don't think he was on that squad...
funny...that is the one year I didn't quite follow local hoops that heavy...98-00ish lol... I DO remember Melvin Scott from Southern who went to UNC and the (younger) Jenifer boys ...Keith n Damien
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