OT: Old HS Recruit Rankings. 1981 Edition

[Chin Diesel]

I get these on my social media feeds a bunch. Old AA teams and HS rankings.

From 1981.

They compared Jordan to David Thompson, an all-time great college player, and NBA Hall of Famer, and they low balled him.

 

[alexd]

HOF Chris Mullin at 28. Just a few spots higher than SJU teamate Bill Wennington.

 

[Umami Zen]

Skywalker was one of Jordan's idols growing up. David's vertical was 44-45" and he regularly took it to the hoop(at 6'4'') and dunked on Bigs. Career ended too soon with the Nuggets.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Nice little blurb for Milt Wagner of Camden dropping 52 against DeMatha.

 

[Lafayette]

Skywalker was one of Jordan's idols growing up. David's vertical was 44-45" and he regularly took it to the hoop(at 6'4'') and dunked on Bigs. Career ended too soon with the Nuggets.

but he makes a very good cannabis strain

 

[Umami Zen]

Nice little blurb for Milt Wagner of Camden dropping 52 against DeMatha.

Taking a closer look at your list.. Pretty decent representation from players of the old BE

 

[alexd]

Taking a closer look at your list.. Pretty decent representation from players of the old BE

Yep... BE about to head into their golden era.

 

[HooperScooper]

Georgetown with numbers 1, 2 and 10. Ewing (obviously!) and Martin were on the 1984 national champions. What happened to Anthony Jones? Can't say I remember him.

 

[Icculus]

Wichita State with 2 Top 10 recruits! Wha?

 

[upstater]

I had high hopes for Uwe Blab.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I don't wantto starta new threading every list, still throw this one right here.

Billy Owen's was a stud in HS and college where he was physically bigger and had a great feel for the game too.

 

[UConnJim]

When you look at the list, there were many top players that were not in the top 50: Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Joe Dumars, Jeff Hornacek, Akeem Olajuwon (overseas). That was a stacked class.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

The crime of the century is Buzz Peterson @ 29 being the state player of the year over Jordan.