Greatest Starting 5 of All Time

[Storrs South]

 

[BUConn10]

No contest tbh

 

[CL82]

Done

 

[tcf15]

Hard to argue with any of those. Good problem to have when you look at those 5 and say what about Shabazz and Caron.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Hard to argue with any of those. Good problem to have when you look at those 5 and say what about Shabazz and Caron.

Ben as well.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Ben as well.

and el-amin

 

[intlzncster]

and el-amin

And we could go on and on.

 

[StepbackCity]

I feel people who don’t follow UConn would vote for us more if they replaced Marshall with Caron or Shabazz. Since Marshall isn’t well known among casual fans.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Is this a 1 v 16?

 

[Storrs South]

Somehow the vote is close at this point

 

[Palatine]

Toby Kimball would be the best power forward at UConn in any era.

He averaged 18 points and 17 rebound a game for three seasons in Storrs.

In the NBA he averaged 6 and 6 in 18 mpg in an 8 year career. There were only 10 NBA teams when he graduated. I believe he would have been much better in today's 30 team league.

 

[CL82]

Wow, closer than I'd expect UConn 56% Purdue 44%

 

[Huskies4ever]

Wow, closer than I'd expect UConn 56% Purdue 44%

As my nephew once said:

"That's ridisculous ."

 

[billybud]

The '71-72 UCLA team was a great national champ...maybe the best that's been.

Went 30-0 with an average winning margin of 30 points.

Bill Walton, Jamal Wilkes, Henry Bibby, Larry Farmer all averaged double digit points per game

 

[intlzncster]

Wow, closer than I'd expect UConn 56% Purdue 44%

And we wonder why UCONN isn't in the top historical program conversation.

It's because people are stupid.

Robinson is the only one who you can even have an argument about starting on the UCONN squad.

 

[Matrim55]

And we wonder why UCONN isn't in the top historical program conversation.

It's because people are stupid.

We need a bunch of 35-win seasons in a row, and we need to put another Hall of Famer out there (Kemba & Andre both have a shot, but neither's as great as Ray was).

 

[whaler11]

And we wonder why UCONN isn't in the top historical program conversation.

It's because people are stupid.

Robinson is the only one who you can even have an argument about starting on the UCONN squad.

Yeah if you don’t know who Rick Mount is. LOL.

 

[Ts5034]

I think that just goes back to UConn not getting the respect and attention nationally as far as its success the last 25+ years. I honestly think people believe, mainly with 2011 and 2014, that we were just simply a cinderella with a bunch of nobody’s outside Kemba and Shabazz that got lucky. Thats not the case at all.

 

[intlzncster]

Yeah if you don’t know who Rick Mount is. LOL.

Dick Mount. Someone had to.

 

[4in16]

It’s because of the Purdue twitter account campaign that its remotely close.

 

[Austin316]

Wow, closer than I'd expect UConn 56% Purdue 44%

Could be worse...

 

[HuskyHawk]

We should handle LSU easily before almost certainly losing to Duke.

 

[the Q]

Could be worse...

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Funny, I see that one as really close.

Probably would be A LOT closer if Martin didn’t break his leg in 2000.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Funny, I see that one as really close.

Probably would be A LOT closer if Martin didn’t break his leg in 2000.

The star of Cinncy’s two NC’s
Teams didn’t make their first team.
Paul Hogue who twice outplayed Jerry Lucas and that OSU team that also had Havlicek.
Also that Fla Team has no one close to the Big O ‘s talent level
We’re talking in the top ten all time greatest players .
He was shorter than LeBron
But height relative to the time was a lot closer. Probably a better ball handler and shooter but like him could do anything he wanted to do.
One of my early hero’s so Im a bit biased. Florida coaching was great and Noah was a load but Cinncy had some great athleticism up and down the lineup . A real game is a toss-up

 

[the Q]

The star of Cinncy’s two NC’s
Teams didn’t make their first team.
Paul Hogue who twice outplayed Jerry Lucas and that OSU team that also had Havlicek.
Also that Fla Team has no one close to the Big O ‘s talent level
We’re talking in the top ten all time greatest players .
He was shorter than LeBron
But height relative to the time was a lot closer. Probably a better ball handler and shooter but like him could do anything he wanted to do.
One of my early hero’s so Im a bit biased. Florida coaching was great and Noah was a load but Cinncy had some great athleticism up and down the lineup . A real game is a toss-up

As good as Noah was, Martin was amazing.