Rip on this year's team
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My favorite Husky ever and the best Husky ever IMO.
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Certainly the player that had the best combination of individual accolades and team success.
Two time BEPOY
Two BE Regular Season Titles
Two BET Titles
1 Second Team AA
1 First Team AA
NCAA Tournament MOP
1 iconic NCAAT shot
1 E8
1 Championship
The team missed the tournament once (as opposed to Ray's career), but they wouldn't have if it weren't for the BS that led to Moore and King being suspended (11-3 at the time).
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It's a pretty compelling argument. One of the best and most accomplished. He maybe doesn't get mentioned as much because he's not super flashy but he was just a consistent winner and walking bucket. If he is not the best, and he may be, he's on the shortlist of top 5. Great college and pro player.
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The debate for the top spot is Ray-Rip-Okafor. Kemba and Donyell are on the list for greatest individual season (probably 1-2 in that order), but that initial trio did it for at least 2 years. Shabazz is lurking in the conversation as well.
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Rip's the best ,man. Coming to the show, giving it up to this team, it doesn't get any better. I'm not comparing players here; I'm just sayin, making this happen here, is one of a kind. It's inspiring.
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Same list. I might swap Bazz and Donyell but that's splitting hairs. Donyell was amazing and his last year was epic. With that said, Bazz has 2 rings and was clutch as heck. That's gotta count for something. Donyell had some post season disappointments(Florida), as did Ray but Ray is so iconic it's impossible to leave him off. Donyell is in there if the criteria is best season or prospect for sure though.
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Ray's post-season disappointments weren't entirely on him, though. He had 22 points against Mississippi State on some lower than normal shooting but 4 for 10 from 3, and his performance against UCLA is in conversation with Caron for best performance in a loss for UConn ever. Doron—and the injury to Moore—is why they fell short against MSU.
Donyell, on the other hand...well, that was absolutely on him.
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Exactly right and I was gonna qualify that because I meant team disappoinments more than individual success. Shoukd hace specified that. Ray deserves better!
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He could be a shooting coach on virtually any team... NCAA or NBA.
Loyalty to your school.
Man, I am 67 years old and I would run through a wall for that guy.
Funny story about RIP. About a week after winning the 1999 championship he was doing a promo at a phone store in Manchester. Thinking it would be mobbed I get there about 15 minutes early. Nobody else showed up for about 20 minutes, it was just RIP and me. He was great, we talked and talked. I mentioned what a great job the referees did vs Duke, especially Tim Higgins who did lots of our games. He asked me which ref was that! I couldn't believe I knew the refs by name better than he did. Makes me think the players don't really care who the refs are.
Funny story about RIP. About a week after winning the 1999 championship he was doing a promo at a phone store in Manchester. Thinking it would be mobbed I get there about 15 minutes early. Nobody else showed up for about 20 minutes, it was just RIP and me. He was great, we talked and talked. I mentioned what a great job the referees did vs Duke, especially Tim Higgins who did lots of our games. He asked me which ref was that! I couldn't believe I knew the refs by name better than he did. Makes me think the players don't really care who the refs are.
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Disagree. He looked like he was playing on ritalin that game. Where was the Ray that played the in the 2nd weekend the year before? I think Ray just wasn't a wartime consiglere. Look at the teams where was supposed the be the man. Disappointing. Look where he was just an integral piece, two rings.