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Avery Bradley is Number 1

Posted by Trips Right on April 9th, 2009 under Basketball, Recruiting

At least according to ESPN’s Top 100. Congratulations on a well deserved accomplishment. I guess when Oak Hill Academy’s coach says you’re the best guard he’s ever faced, it carries a little weight.

If you’re scoring at home, that gives Texas the 1, 8, and 53rd best player in the land. I remember when I was pumped to get Corey Lockridge.

Hook ‘Em.

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  1. Eskimohorn said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 10:47 am

    Locksley Collie was pretty solid back in the day.

  2. Vasherized said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Well deserved. Avery dominated every opponent he played against last week in all aspects of the game.

    I caught up with Todd Wright a few days ago and he’s particularly geeked to get this kid on campus. He’ll be here for most of the Summer.

  3. Scipio Tex said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Locksley Collie and Panama Meyers, boy! I respected the hell out of those guys. Locksley was 6′6″ with a nine inch vertical leap who averaged about 15 per with a pure garbage game and Panama was 6-7 240 with the shooting touch of Dogus Balbay.

    Those two were our front line with a three guard line up behind them and we still managed to not get slaughtered on the boards.

  4. Trips Right said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Scip, it’s easy to rebound a ball out of the net.

  5. Scipio Tex said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:15 am

    You are no Alvin Heggs, sir.

  6. srr50 said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:16 am

    I remember when I was pumped to get Corey Lockridge.

    I remember when I was pumped to get Carleton Cooper.

  7. Scipio Tex said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    I cried real tears when Lance Hughes went to Texas Tech. He was the SWC’s answer to Rex Chapman.

    Though I don’t know what the question was.

  8. HenryJames said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    I’ll never forget where I was the day Sheldon Quarles committed.

  9. Trips Right said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:35 am

    Probably at a Pete Newell camp.

  10. Steve Nebraska said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am

    I once shook Sonny Alvarado’s hand. That was awesome, and the only thing that has to date eclipsed getting Dennis Jordan’s autograph.

  11. hot wire said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Locksley probably was 6′4″ or 6′5″ max. Back then he sported a kid n’ play haircut that gave him around 3 more inches in perceived height. If I remember correctly, he was not particularity athletic or physical, but he did have some nice, quick swivel post moves (and he had a big, Barkely-esque butt to get some room to move), a nice, soft touch around the bucket, and a running floater in the lane that was fairly consistent.

    Panama was surprising a very strong defender. He was strong for his size with decent hops, which allowed him to defend players bigger than himself, but he too probably went for no more than 6′5″. Panama had unusually long arms which allowed him to play as essentially a taller player on the court, but we were really undersized back then. Texas B-ball has come a long way and, frankly, it’s about time.

  12. HenryJames said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am

    Scipio added Anthony Goode as a Facebook friend.

  13. Trips Right said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Scipio bought Roderick Anderson’s headband off of Ebay and proceeded to wear it to the swim up topless blackjack table at the Hardrock Hotel and Casino. Said Roderick’s pheromones got him bitches.

  14. groover said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Panama showed the Japs a thing or two.

    Or maybe it was Purdue. I forget.

  15. Scipio Tex said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    He cost Steve Scheffler draft money, I tell you!

  16. Steve Nebraska said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Wendell Carter and Marlon Drakes used to dominate pick up games at Gregory Gym.

  17. srr50 said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Henry James has a signed Jose Nassar jersey hanging in his bedroom.

  18. George Mueller said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    I once dunked on Hank Dudek.

  19. HenryJames said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Trips checks into hotels under the name Titus Warmsley. Says it gets him a free Toblerone from the mini bar.

  20. The General said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    How penders outrecruited KU for Brandy Perriman, I will never know. He must have paid off his AAU coach.

  21. Eskimohorn said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Brandy Perriman was the best post player I ever went up against at the Rec Center. I also once had a friend give James Brown a hard foul at the Rec when we played the football team. And, I lost a pick-up game when Travis Mays played on our team. Oh, the good ole days of humiliating myself at the Rec.

  22. Compton said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    I got to play a team featuring Shaun Rogers at the rec once. At 5′10″, 185 I got to “guard” him for much of the game (my teammates and I were all ChEs…I was white giant compared to my non-caucasian teammates). His game consisted largely of picking the ball up at the three point line, running in sans dribble, and attempting to dunk all over my shit. He didn’t make a single one. He was high enough every time, and obviously I was no impediment, but he bricked all of them.

  23. Vasherized said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Instead of playing HORSE at Gregg Gym we played WHORES.

    I gladly lost every time.

  24. The General said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Shaun Rogers (when Shaun was a Frosh DE) and Ivan Williams came and played in our Low Hoop tournament one year. I got to defend Rogers on an 8.5′ foot goal. He didn’t miss any dunks.

  25. Texoz said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    I feel like I stepped into a Dennis Miller random-reference-a-thon.

    Is there a phone bank I can call to donate?

  26. srr50 said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Kenneth Sims made the local celebrity charity basketball circuit right after finishing up at UT and he was very good.

  27. RansomStoddard said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    I have the distinction of having the ball stolen from me by Johnnie Moore and Vinnie Johnson. And Kenneth Sims mashed me like a bug in a pickup game once.

  28. CrazyJoeDavola66 said:

    April 9th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    I met Jon Brownlee in an elevator at the Castilian once.I asked him why on Earth he’d transfer from North Carolina, and he mumbled something about playing time before asking if I was there for the party.

    I was too star-struck to be able to answer.

    No, not star-struck. Drunk. Too drunk to be able to answer.

  29. marlon brandon said:

    April 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    i was playing in a pickup game at gregory gym back in the late eighties that matched a bunch of gym rat guys against some of the ut women’s team. i saw my 6′-5″ friend frustrated by his matchup against vicky hall. it got really physical and he ended up on the floor at one point…which was not easy to do. she wrecked his ego. the harder he played, the redder his face got and the further his game spiralled downward. we won the war, but my friend was never the same after losing that battle. that was a monumental moment.

  30. J.R.69 said:

    April 12th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    You shoulda seen Jon Arnett dunk over Wayne Clark and Al Almanza!

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