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Uncle Cliffy's record broken

StllH8L8ner said:
Give us one. I loved Cliff when I was a kid. Had his 00 jersey that I bought at a game before buying jerseys was a thing. It was basically a white Fruit of the Loom cotton tank top with “Connecticut” and 00 on the front.
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We were playing nerf hoop in my dorm room one night and let’s just say there may have been foreign substances involved. Watching Oklahoma play Kansas, this was his Junior year I believe.

He starts telling us “Wayman Tisdale, he doo-doo. Danny Manning?? Doo-doo. Im going HARDSHIP.

Now mind you, back then very few players left early and those two were the best two players in CBB. We cracked in him so bad, telling him he sucked, not even the best player in the BE, he had no chance to go hardship, etc.

It was hilarious. Phil Gamble was with us and he was on the floor laughing. They were great dudes to hang with, except Cliff would snap every once in a while.
 
uconngb said:
Im pretty sure our Cliff did toss in over 40 at least once in his career. I was very good friends w him in school, used to get his tix for home games.

The stories I could tell…..
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You are very right about that, as pointed out from what I found when looking up his single game high score:

"UConn legend and 18-year NBA veteran Clifford Robinson scored a career-high 50 points on January 16, 2000, while playing for the Phoenix Suns against the Denver Nuggets. At age 33, he was the oldest player at the time to record his first 50-point game."

I was clearly wrong and completely forgot that he had a long and quite successful NBA career. Definitely one that many of us have overlookded.

Cool to hear you were really good friends back when you were in school together.
 
superjohn said:
What is it, the mustache?

It's a shame injuries ended his career so early, he was a great player.

He would be even better today.
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Nah. I appreciated Ruland and he had skills, but he is way too slow for today's NBA. He was a poor man's Sabonis before the broken down poor man Sabonis played for the Blazers.
 
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Inyatkin said:
Jeff Ruland I know because he's the least likely looking NBA player this side of Kurt Rambis
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I actually think this card might be from when Jeff made his NBA comeback.

Never understood why HE would make a comeback. He looks absolutely gassed in this picture. They captured his essence perfectly
 
Chin Diesel said:
Nah. I appreciated Ruland and he had skills, but he is way too slow for today's NBA. He was a poor man's Sabonis before the broken down poor man Sabonis played for the Blazers.
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Sabonis was maybe the best center of all-time before we saw the broken down version of him in the NBA. If you're comparing him to the USSR Sabonis yes Ruland obviously wasn't as good as him, nobody was. It's always a weird comparison because Sabonis was 7'3 and Ruland was 6'10. The NBA Sabonis was totally washed do to injuries and not being able to move, Ruland could really move before the injuries. I get thinking Ruland couldn't move because he was only healthy for 3 seasons in the NBA and was already a shell of himself physically at 25 years old because of debilitating injuries and he was done at that point. He was a top 10 player in the NBA for 2.5 seasons and he dominated the best frontline ever and arguably the best team ever in the '83-84 Celtics in a hard fought playoff series.

They're two of the biggest what ifs I can think of in the NBA. Sabonis maybe would've been the best NBA center ever had he come over to the US at 21 and not had all the injuries and Ruland would've been a perennial all-star and could've possibly had a hall of fame career without all the injuries.

It's weird to say Ruland is way too slow for today's NBA because healthy Ruland in those first three seasons is faster than Jokic who has been the best player in the NBA for six straight seasons. Ruland before the injuries was built for today's wide open high scoring NBA which is based around offensive skill.


 
superjohn said:
Sabonis was maybe the best center of all-time before we saw the broken down version of him in the NBA. If you're comparing him to the USSR Sabonis yes Ruland obviously wasn't as good as him, nobody was. It's always a weird comparison because Sabonis was 7'3 and Ruland was 6'10. The NBA Sabonis was totally washed do to injuries and not being able to move, Ruland could really move before the injuries. I get thinking Ruland couldn't move because he was only healthy for 3 seasons in the NBA and was already a shell of himself physically at 25 years old because of debilitating injuries and he was done at that point. He was a top 10 player in the NBA for 2.5 seasons and he dominated the best frontline ever and arguably the best team ever in the '83-84 Celtics in a hard fought playoff series.

They're two of the biggest what ifs I can think of in the NBA. Sabonis maybe would've been the best NBA center ever had he come over to the US at 21 and not had all the injuries and Ruland would've been a perennial all-star and could've possibly had a hall of fame career without all the injuries.

It's weird to say Ruland is way too slow for today's NBA because healthy Ruland in those first three seasons is faster than Jokic who has been the best player in the NBA for six straight seasons. Ruland before the injuries was built for today's wide open high scoring NBA which is based around offensive skill.


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I knew someone would pull the Joker comparison. Thanks for not disappointing.

A Young Sabonis is a Top 5 center in history of basketball. The few clips available of him destroying the US including David Robinson are enlightening.

I was comparing Ruland to the broken down Sabonis in the NBA.

And Ruland is significantly smaller than either Jokic or Sabonis.

I won't argue over who was quicker, a young Ruland or Jokic. I doubt there is any way to change your mind or mine
 
Chin Diesel said:
I knew someone would pull the Joker comparison. Thanks for not disappointing.

A Young Sabonis is a Top 5 center in history of basketball. The few clips available of him destroying the US including David Robinson are enlightening.

I was comparing Ruland to the broken down Sabonis in the NBA.

And Ruland is significantly smaller than either Jokic or Sabonis.

I won't argue over who was quicker, a young Ruland or Jokic. I doubt there is any way to change your mind or mine
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If you can't admit saying Ruland before all the injuries is way too slow for today's NBA is a really silly thing to say, yep there's nothing to discuss.

Comparing young healthy Ruland to broken down Sabonis who couldn't move in the NBA is also incredibly silly. There's clips all over the place and entire games so you don't have to go off of memory.
 
superjohn said:
If you can't admit saying Ruland before all the injuries is way too slow for today's NBA is a really silly thing to say, yep there's nothing to discuss.

Comparing young healthy Ruland to broken down Sabonis who couldn't move in the NBA is also incredibly silly. There's clips all over the place and entire games so you don't have to go off of memory.
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Watch Sabonis with the Soviet teams and watch Sabonis with the Trailblazers.

Then watch Ruland.

And you're going on record saying Ruland at any point in his pro career looks more like Soviet Sabonis than Trailblazer Sabonis? Odd hill to die on. But do you.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Watch Sabonis with the Soviet teams and watch Sabonis with the Trailblazers.

Then watch Ruland.

And you're going on record saying Ruland at any point in his pro career looks more like Soviet Sabonis than Trailblazer Sabonis? Odd hill to die on. But do you.
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You're pretending to have the reading comprehension of a nursery schooler.

This is Waylon level bad from you.
 
nomar said:
Here's a photo

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That’s Cliff Robertson
 
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