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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 4976253, member: 175"] Calling it the greatest is an overreach, since he only had 21, but here’s one that’s criminally underrated: Rip vs. Gonzaga. The reason is the context and the in-game circumstances. If you didn’t live it, you’ll never understand the pressure of that game. It is seriously maybe my least favorite sporting event I’ve ever watched, at least for 39:55. The bracket opened up for us big time, Gonzaga wasn’t Gonzaga yet, they were just some random 11 seed school that John Stockton played for, and we had a red carpet to the Final Four, at last. Except, Gonzaga wouldn’t go away. The in game circumstances were that Khalid was having a dumpster fire of a game. He shot 0-12 and dribbled off his own leg out of bounds down the stretch. And the guy Khalid was guarding (Quentin Hall) was lighting it up. With KEA off the rails, Gonzaga went ahead and threw a box and one on Rip and didn’t give him any room to breathe, and he shot 9-16 against it, and he found Jake twice down the stretch for layups when we were only up 2. And then he had to guard a legit scorer (Richie Frahm) and locked him up (Ricky locked up Santangelo). Free did well in a supporting role, especially on the boards, but Rip essentially had to carry us over the FF hurdle against a box and one with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and a fan base wound so tight we had diamonds in our stool. I’ve always appreciated that game from him. A loss there and who knows - maybe we are still sitting on zero titles. [/QUOTE]

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