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Message: [QUOTE="Zonepress, post: 3796021, member: 10855"] From mid sixties thru early nineties probably saw 30/40 games per year So I can actually say I saw the teams and coaches play At the upper level Charlie Bentley of Harding and Bob’s Salisbury the Wilbur cross we’re far away the two best coaches The commitment to defense that Bentleys teams had was phenomenal The three-quarter quart zone press with man-to-man principles on the rotation was something to see The full court denial press utilized by coach Saulsberry was equally devastating if I had to choose Between the two I would go to coach Salisbury simply because they played significant amount of games against top-notch competition outside of Connecticut defeating search teams is Saint Anthony’s Washington DC with John Thompson New York city champion do it Clinton New Jersey powerhouse Camden New Jersey Patrick Ewing in Cambridge Rindge and Latin While also scheduling the best teams in Ct lots of other good “coaches most that have been mentioned in previous posts The two that stand out the most to me would be Joe Riley at South Catholic and Don Usher Of New Canaan If I had to choose I would go with Coach Usher.. His 1980 Team that went to the final possession before losing to the w cross team that had beaten Patrick Ewing and Cambridge R&l and the team that beat Hamden with Scott Burrell Two examples of great coaching with the next birthday being 70 it’s very easy to be one of the old guys and say how great things were back in the day but as I wrote this I thought of all of the phenomenal players that had seen from the late 60s through the early 90s it truly was a great time for Connecticut high school bssketball [/QUOTE]

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