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Topic: way OT - dantley honored

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bornacatfan
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way OT - dantley honored

Posted: 3/4/2012 4:44:59 PM

inducted into ring of honor yesterday this post is for you OCF. joyce center looks more like mackey.purdue than it does the convo....roof is plenty familiar though

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bobcatsquared
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RE: way OT - dantley honored

Posted: 3/4/2012 5:38:07 PM

Thanks, borna.

     AD, my all-time favorite basketball player. As a junior high school student living in the shadow of St. John Arena, I went to an ND-OSU game when Dantley was a frosh. ND was heavily favored but almost lost partly due to AD getting a technical for a dunk, which was illegal back then. I had decided late in that game that I was going to dropped out of school if ND had lost as my "buddies" would not have let me hear the end of it.

     Later, I remember my older brother, an ND alum, and I driving up to the Richfield Coliseum whenever the Buffalo Braves (w/ AD and John Shumate) visited to play the Cavs (w/ Austin Carr and Gary Brokaw).

     Some of my basketball buddies over the years said I modeled my playground game after AD, but I think that might have had more to do with my sizeable rear end.

OhioCatFan
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RE: way OT - dantley honored

Posted: 3/4/2012 5:47:47 PM

Thanks, borna.

BTW, the first pix does not show up on my computer, but the second one -- of the banner does.

bobcatsquared: Yes, I remember the period when they outlawed the dunk. Can't recall exactly, but I think it went on for five or six years, before they restored the legal dunk. Some of my earliest most indelible memories are of great dunks in Grover Center by the likes of Bunk Adams and Nate "The Great" Thurmond. Ohio's best dunker of all time, IMHO, I know others will say Gary Trent, was Don Hilt. Doc once backed me up on this assertion. I've never seen anyone before or since dunk with the authority of Mr. Hilt. I think part of it had to do with his physique. He looked like a football player with pads in his basketball uniform; he had very broad a big shoulders. When he went up for a dunk any players unfortunate enough to be anywhere near him went flying as his shoulders just pushed them out of the way. Lots of "and one's" for the man. [sorry for the thread drift.]

Edit: Now, I can see the first pix. Thanks for fixing, borna.

Last Edited: 3/4/2012 5:51:39 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: way OT - dantley honored

Posted: 3/4/2012 6:07:19 PM

Great to see A.D. getting honored. A great player and a great person. Son played quaterback at Syracuse. I worked for the Jazz while he was there. Worked several of his camps with Barry Hecker who is now the assistant coach of the Grizzlies. Surprised he got in trouble for a dunk. He rarely dunked with Utah. In fact he cautioned Darrell Griffith to not dunk, saying it would shorten his career because it would hurt his knees.

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