Remember, do not rate each highlight, only the one you are voting for. Go to TechHoops. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Feeds: Posts Comments. After the game we both laughed about it and he remarked "you said you were going to block my shot. A buddy and I were at War Memorial looking for a game and Robert was part of it. After we divided into teams the game got going and it was fairly close.
My friend was 6'3" and some years before had beaten the state's high-jump champion in high school but for weird reasons didn't go to the meet that year. Anyway, Brown made a move and I stepped in front of him and he yelled, "pick" - yeah, like if he hadn't wanted it to be a pick he'd have squashed me, all 6'3", pounds of that solid man, crushing me like a bug.
The play turned to the other end of the court. Someone takes a shot, it bounces high above the rim, let's say a good foot higher.
My buddy is up there to snare the ball. Nope, wasn't going to happen. Rocket ship Brown launched himself up behind my friend and with the finesse of a ballerina slammed that ball down for two.
He never touched my friend. It was so smooth, but yet so hard. It was then it dawned on me just how gifted guys who make it into the NFL are. He played eight or nine more years after that. I about retired from basketball.
I played a touch of college ball before the baseball gods decided my sophomore year was the time for my elbow to explode. Shit happens. Anyways, at lbs, I could leap for a white boy me now At the end, HC gave us two options: if one of us could dunk, it was over I said "I can" and got shut up quickly by everyone there and out steps our 6'4 pitcher ended up in the Rangers org down the line. Got rejected by the rim both times. I'm still standing there saying "I can dunk.
I go to the free throw line, two dribbles and two hand slamma ramma jamma our way out of more sprints. Perhaps the coolest and most inconsequential athletic moment in my life. I was fine and in that environment, play D, rebound and if i got an open look in a comfort zone, i would take a shot. I don't remember much, not sure if i scored and don't think i embarrassed myself Bernard Basham was our big guy who checked Carruth.
For the most part the basketball players were half ass, just doing enough to stay even. Once it got to they rattled off 4 straight points in about 30 seconds to win. Mike Davis was killing it, killing us, Purcell seemed to careless and Basham for the most part was physical enough to keep Carrutth away from the basket.
Well, game point, Davis crosses his guy at the 3 point arch and heads for the foul line to pull up. This makes everyone rotate, so what had happen was, my rotation was to Carruth. I am 6'3 then and he was 6'10 , lonnnnnng ass arms. So when Basham moves to the open guy, Carruth reverse pivots and jumps, instinct I jump with him as I watch Davis simply throw it a lot higher than I can go and Jimmy grabs it with 2 hands and flushes it.
To my credit, I did get a hand on the ball, but I am no Bam Adebayo, he powers thru talking shit on his way down. It was good help side defense that against any rec or Y player is a straight block or at least a foul and ball out, but ummm not that day. When a DII or D1 guy wants to go, not a lot most of us can do about it. As a student in the mid 80s,-remember watching Bruce Smith play pickup ball in War Memorial -nothing like a 6'3 pound lineman slamming the ball! Also remember another large football player playng defense when another student tried to drive to the basket on him.
My own best play- as a short 5 ft 8 lb student was guarding Al Young, the starting point guard a year earlier on the Hokies' varsity team and somehow managing to get in his way enough to make him dribble the ball off his foot and out of bounds! Not so much a basketball at McComas story, but a intramural softball story. I was on one of those intramural teams with the athletes, one of whom was Coleman Collins.
I swear if I were in my batting stance, my height would be his strike zone. Dude seemed taller than listed. Coleman seemed huge. I'm 6'-3". He and I always seemed to be in line together at D2; I felt very short around him. He always seemed to be there by himself. I'm not sure why; I probably should have invited him to eat with us. It just never hit me at the time. Coleman's father passed away while he was at VT I believe. IIRC, he found out his dad was sick before the Duke game in season where we upset them and he had the game of his life.
He was never really the same player later in his career. By all accounts, he was a great kid with a lot of natural ability, and I hope he is doing well right now. My roommate played 3rd base on a team with Bobby Beecher at second base 6 ft 9 and Bimbo Coles playing shortstop and the rest of the players mainly athletes too. Their pitch would;d throw the first pitch with about a six foot minimum arc for a strike.
If the batter didn't get a hit. The next pitch would either be a dead on strike with a 20 foot arc or a knuckleball if you've never seen a slow pitch knuckleball in softball, it's amazing. Bimbo was so fast that every hit he had was at minimum a double because he would round first at full speed before the outfielder could get to the ball. Back then the teams often played their games up on the hills off Southgate where Lee Corsos car got hit by lightning. The closest field had the big hill at the edge of left center field and every guy on the team could clear the edge of that hill so eventually teams would put their outfielders right at the edge of the hill.
At which point my buddy's team would just start dropping singles in front of them. He got his glove up just in time to keep from having his face smashed but wasn't able to hold onto the ball. Dude was visibly shook up but stepped right back into the circle and went to tossing balls again. I was super impressed he even got glove on it.
This one goes back a ways, to when it was the "War Memorial Gym". Summer school early-mid s pickup game. It's a little hazy now after all these years but I was on Reggie Steppe's team and a few other male and female VT BB team members were there.
Not a long story but I will always remember cutting through on baseline through a LOT of traffic while Steppe had the ball up top. Wasn't looking for it at ALL due to the crowd, but somehow Reggie totally threaded the needle and made the ball magically appear in my hands!
Through all of the bodies. The pass was so perfectly placed that I could not help but catch it in stride and put up the layup. That pass still amazes me. CC drove baseline and rose up on me. Luckily i was smart enough to get out of the way.
TJ Jackson was also kinda working him in the post, considering he's lbs and can dunk. That shit is scary. I reffed Intramurals of all kinds from and many of the athletes would form different teams. By far the most fun to work was basketball.
The faculty team had been playing together for years and was a bunch of scrappy dudes in their 40s and 50s who could all shoot it and played solid zone D. They always went deep in the top tier. Second was when a team of Tyrod, Justin Harper, Josh Morgan, Duane Brown, a DB and another player you were only allowed a max of 3 scholarship athletes met up in the playoffs. I saw Justin Harper throw down an alley oop from the top of the backboard and swallowed my whistle on some trash talk that would normally earn a technical.
The talk about how fast and agile those dudes are is real, seeing it up close is humbling. I reffed Duane Brown's team earlier that year and watch a guy who was maybe 5'7" and a chubby lbs set up to take a charge on DB running half court breakaway and called the guy for a blocking foul before contact so I wouldn't have to call an ambulance.
Other high points was T-ing up Chris Tucker after slamming the ball off the wall after I whistled him for a blatant foul. He started puffing up to get in my face before I offered him another and his team, who would get killed without him, jumped all over him. Tucker was a huge baby.
He thought he should be dominating and if everything wasn't going his way it must have been missed calls. That experience went exactly how you'd expect that one to go. I lived in Thomas freshman year and before it was torn down it stood next Monteith and the upper quad full of cadets. We always had a little rivalry with the Corps being mixed in with them and separated from the rest of campus.
I don't know how it started but one afternoon the civilians and some cadets decided to start a little impromptu wrestling tournament on the grass in front of Monteith. The cadets typically won as they were usually in better shape and there was one tough kid who pinned 2 or 3 civilians in quick fashion. The cadets were adopting him as their champion and chanting his name when a kid who lived across the hall from me stepped up.
Richard was an odd guy. He told us all one night while dancing on a chair in the middle of the hall and eating tuna from a can that he wanted us to call him, "The Wizard," after the old Fred Savage video game movie from the 80s. He was always entertaining and high on something so we didn't have much hope for Richard's chances against the current cadet champion. That's when we learned Richard was a state champ in his weight class.
He embarrassed the burly cadet guy in 15 seconds and then took on all comers until the cadets realized it was pointless taking him on. Eventually the crowd dispersed but Richard's dominance over the cadets was all we could talk about at Shultz for the next week. Where you in Thomas the year they did baby oil on the 4th floor? Subscribe in a reader. COM Disclaimer: This blog is for entertainment purposes only. All images and videos that appear on this blog are copyright their respective owners.
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