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Title: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 08:51:25 PM
Off the top of my head:

Wade
Thompson
Meminger
Kojis
Lee
Tatum
Rivers??
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Nukem2 on February 04, 2021, 08:57:25 PM
I'm an old guy, but...  Markus, the first DJ, Jerel, Wes, David Boone, Vander, etc.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: DoctorV on February 04, 2021, 08:59:28 PM
You forgot Markus.

Since 2003-

Wade
Markus
Diener
DJO
Vander
Dominic James
Jerel McNeal
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:01:01 PM
My bad on Howard.  How good was Kojis?
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:02:23 PM
Quote from: DoctorV on February 04, 2021, 08:59:28 PM
You forgot Markus.

Since 2003-

Wade
Markus
Diener
DJO
Vander
Dominic James
Jerel McNeal

I d probably take Wes over Vander because of his overall resume.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: DoctorV on February 04, 2021, 09:05:52 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:02:23 PM
I d probably take Wes over Vander because of his overall resume.

I'd agree if you meant overall career resume, clearly Wes there.

MU career resume I'd still take Vander. I didn't consider Wes because I thought he was 6'5/6'6 but I'd still go Van if you meant at the collegiate level
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:11:50 PM
Quote from: DoctorV on February 04, 2021, 09:05:52 PM
I'd agree if you meant overall career resume, clearly Wes there.

MU career resume I'd still take Vander. I didn't consider Wes because I thought he was 6'5/6'6 but I'd still go Van if you meant at the collegiate level

Fair enough.  V did have an epic three game stretch in 2013 tournament.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: We R Final Four on February 04, 2021, 09:18:24 PM
Is it the off season?
Is this what you guys do on Dodds board?
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:21:54 PM
Quote from: We R Final Four on February 04, 2021, 09:18:24 PM
Is it the off season?
Is this what you guys do on Dodds board?

Why the hostility?  I was just thinking about cool MU players.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Herman Cain on February 04, 2021, 09:45:37 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 09:01:01 PM
My bad on Howard.  How good was Kojis?
I saw Kojis play several times in the Pros. He had incredibly broad shoulders and was a very physical player who could score and rebound . No three point back then so he did a lot of his work at mid and short range

Just to give you an idea of how talented he was, Kojis dunked on Wilt Chamberlin. Not many guys his size would even try that.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 10:17:10 PM
Quote from: Herman Cain on February 04, 2021, 09:45:37 PM
I saw Kojis play several times in the Pros. He had incredibly broad shoulders and was a very physical player who could score and rebound . No three point back then so he did a lot of his work at mid and short range

Just to give you an idea of how talented he was, Kojis dunked on Wilt Chamberlin. Not many guys his size would even try that.

Cool.....what kind of elevation are we talking about here?  Kojis was listed at 6'2.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: pbiflyer on February 04, 2021, 10:29:10 PM
Ask the US Olympic basketball team how good Butch Lee was.....
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: franklinjerry on February 04, 2021, 11:04:13 PM
Mugs you really forgot Marcus? That was 11 months ago! This question should perhaps be 6' 1" or 2".

Lloyd Walton was a great PG.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 11:16:32 PM
Quote from: franklinjerry on February 04, 2021, 11:04:13 PM
Mugs you really forgot Marcus? That was 11 months ago! This question should perhaps be 6' 1" or 2".

Lloyd Walton was a great PG.

I don't want to be accused of diminutive bias.  But if we're going the 6'0 and under route whatcha got?

Howard
Hutch
Rowsey
Miller
Doninic

Oh...was Lee 6"0?


Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 11:20:26 PM
Oooops.  If Lee and Meminger were 6'0:

Lee
Meminger
Dominic
Howard
Hutch
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: swoopem on February 05, 2021, 07:24:45 AM
Quote from: DoctorV on February 04, 2021, 08:59:28 PM
You forgot Markus.

Since 2003-

Wade
Markus
Diener
DJO
Vander
Dominic James
Jerel McNeal

Wasn't Lazar 6'5? He's on the list over Vander or DJO
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: hairy worthen on February 05, 2021, 08:04:41 AM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 08:51:25 PM
Off the top of my head:

Wade
Thompson
Meminger
Kojis
Lee
Tatum
Rivers??

Walton
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Eye on February 05, 2021, 09:18:19 AM
Not sure if they're top 7, but Diener and Hutchins need to at the least be in the conversation.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Judge Smails on February 05, 2021, 01:09:55 PM
How about Tony Smith
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: PJDunn on February 05, 2021, 01:30:43 PM
How about Mandy Johnson? The pride of Jersey City.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MU82 on February 05, 2021, 02:36:19 PM
Those of us in the Class of '82 got to see two stars from this group: Sam Worthen our first two years; and Rivers our third and fourth.

That Sam was pretty underrated is confirmed by this thread -- not a single mention of him so far even though he was a hell of a college player for 2 years (17 ppg, 7apg, 4rpg as a senior) and ended up playing 2 years in the NBA.

Worthen would be in my top 11 along with Wade, Lee, Meminger, Thompson, Diener, Howard, Tatum, McNeal, Rivers and Tony Smith.

Hey ... if Muggsy can choose an arbitrary number like 7, I can choose 11. Yo 11!
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Herman Cain on February 05, 2021, 03:03:40 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 04, 2021, 10:17:10 PM
Cool.....what kind of elevation are we talking about here?  Kojis was listed at 6'2.
I think Don was closer to 6-5 . I saw him at the basketball alumni event a few years back and he was still very robust looking .
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: WarriorPride68 on February 05, 2021, 03:23:39 PM
All the love to Cordell Henry. Guy could hoop
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 03:58:41 PM
I remember when I was little kid and  I hooped with my uncle at Helfaer....I was like 8 or 9 so this was 1992 I believe.  I don't think he ever wound up playing at MU even for a game but does the name Keith Stewart ring any bells?  I think he played at Messmer.  Anyway, he was balling on the court next to us against some other good players but not MU team guys.  He must have been 5'9/10.  He snagged an offensive reb in traffic, went back up vertically, and threw it down with prime-time force and power over a big guy.  There was a whoa around the gym.  Let's just say the kid could get up.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 04:10:32 PM
Quote from: Herman Cain on February 05, 2021, 03:03:40 PM
I think Don was closer to 6-5 . I saw him at the basketball alumni event a few years back and he was still very robust looking .

Wiki lists him at 6'3.   But I assume you are right Herman and they are incorrect.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MU82 on February 05, 2021, 04:16:53 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 03:58:41 PM
I remember when I was little kid and  I hooped with my uncle at Helfaer....I was like 8 or 9 so this was 1992 I believe.  I don't think he ever wound up playing at MU even for a game but does the name Keith Stewart ring any bells?  I think he played at Messmer.  Anyway, he was balling on the court next to us against some other good players but not MU team guys.  He must have been 5'9/10.  He snagged an offensive reb in traffic, went back up vertically, and threw it down with prime-time force and power over a big guy.  There was a whoa around the gym.  Let's just say the kid could get up.

Keith Stewart, eh? Now we know Ners' true identity!
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 05:02:00 PM
Quote from: MU82 on February 05, 2021, 04:16:53 PM
Keith Stewart, eh? Now we know Ners' true identity!

Who is Ners?
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: willie warrior on February 05, 2021, 05:02:09 PM
Quote from: Herman Cain on February 04, 2021, 09:45:37 PM
I saw Kojis play several times in the Pros. He had incredibly broad shoulders and was a very physical player who could score and rebound . No three point back then so he did a lot of his work at mid and short range

Just to give you an idea of how talented he was, Kojis dunked on Wilt Chamberlin. Not many guys his size would even try that.
Kojis is way up there. Great rebounder and scorer for MU. He was a stud.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: willie warrior on February 05, 2021, 05:03:28 PM
Quote from: PJDunn on February 05, 2021, 01:30:43 PM
How about Mandy Johnson? The pride of Jersey City.
Mandy was great. An all time steal artist. on defense
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: NCMUFan on February 05, 2021, 09:07:03 PM
Quote from: pbiflyer on February 04, 2021, 10:29:10 PM
Ask the US Olympic basketball team how good Butch Lee was.....
I wonder what Dean Smith was thinking when he realized he passed up on Butch Lee. 
https://www.usab.com/history/national-team-mens/games-of-the-xxist-olympiad-1976.aspx#:~:text=1976%20OLYMPIC%20GAMES%20FINAL%20STANDINGS&text=Tied%2051%2D51%20at%20half,for%20a%2095%2D94%20victory.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MU82 on February 05, 2021, 09:58:48 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 05:02:00 PM
Who is Ners?

Trust me ... you don't want to know.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Galway Eagle on February 05, 2021, 10:00:20 PM
Quote from: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 05:02:00 PM
Who is Ners?

If you say his name in the mirror three times in the dark he'll show up telling you about how much better John Dawson was over Derrick Wilson
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: GooooMarquette on February 05, 2021, 10:26:59 PM
Quote from: PJDunn on February 05, 2021, 01:30:43 PM
How about Mandy Johnson? The pride of Jersey City.


Great defensive player. Tough as nails.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MuggsyB on February 05, 2021, 10:28:39 PM
Here's a list of people that could guard me if I was in my prime and 6'5:











..Just sayin.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: 4everwarriors on February 06, 2021, 04:44:07 AM
Y'all have bin played. Mugster iz Ners, hey?
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: ATL MU Warrior on February 06, 2021, 07:15:23 AM
Quote from: Galway Eagle on February 05, 2021, 10:00:20 PM
If you say his name in the mirror three times in the dark he'll show up telling you about how much better John Dawson was over Derrick Wilson
Then he dunks on your head
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: tower912 on February 06, 2021, 07:31:53 AM
Quote from: 4everwarriors on February 06, 2021, 04:44:07 AM
Y'all have bin played. Mugster iz Ners, hey?
Not a chance.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: Eye on February 06, 2021, 08:57:10 AM
Keith Stewart started at Purdue and transferred to MU, but then either played little or none at MU before being kicked off the team IIRC.
Title: Re: 7 best all-time MU players 6'5 or smaller?
Post by: MU82 on February 06, 2021, 01:12:54 PM
Quote from: 4everwarriors on February 06, 2021, 04:44:07 AM
Y'all have bin played. Mugster iz Ners, hey?

Whatever you say, chicos.
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