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Why does no one talk about Rudy Gay?

CTBasketball said:
The BY is a weird place. Rudy was a 2nd team All-America, 4-2 record in the NCAA’s, but still gets no love.
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Rudy actually had a good game against George Mason. Just didn’t get the ball enough. Got to be Calhoun’s fault - LOL
 
ClifSpliffy said:
'Rudy was here only 2 years. The only comparison there is Caron'
only? what aboot james?
rudy, 14/6/2 assists per. 38% on 3s, 9 winshares. ncaa all region, consensus AA, lots of hardware. 8th pick.
james, 15/5/2 assists. 32% on 3s, 5 winshares. all aac, all big east. 11th pick.
caron, 18/8/3, 36% on 3s, 9 winshares. all big east, big east tourney mvp. 10th pick.

the highlighted portions are code for doing it when it really matters.
clearly, rudy was pretty great here, and now his footprint in the nba career numbers for 'top 100' is impressive. thanks dude.
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Why not james? Winshares.
 
pretty cool.

prolly our best dunker -ever, tho my man jerome certainly had some loud ones too.
and marcus, charlie, and rudy? sum kind of holy trinity right there.
 
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I'm sure the Foundation talks about him (with $167M of career earnings).
 
Huskybass said:
He averaged over 20 points a game 4 times and over 19 ppg 9 times. He averaged over 17 ppg in 14 straight seasons. Outside of Ray Allen, I doubt any former Husky has been that productive offensively.
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None of that has a single thing to do with him being an "elite scorer". Youre also moving the goal post by comparing his offensive production to other huskies. Your original comment was you claiming RG is an elite NBA scorer. Not hes the best scorer outside of Ray Uconn has had in the league. That being said youre entitled to your opinion so ok.
 
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TheChamps990411 said:
None of that has a single thing to do with him being an "elite scorer". Youre also moving the goal post by comparing his offensive production to other huskies. Your original comment was you claiming RG is an elite NBA scorer. Not hes the best scorer outside of Ray Uconn has had in the league. That being said youre entitled to your opinion so ok.
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I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite in his peak years averaging 20 and 21 points per game with many other years over 17 ppg. More prolific in the NBA than college Superstar Rip Hamilton or lottery picks Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon. And despite that, no playoff success at all.
 
Huskybass said:
I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite in his peak years averaging 20 and 21 points per game with many other years over 17 ppg. More prolific in the NBA than college Superstar Rip Hamilton or lottery picks Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon. And despite that, no playoff success at all.
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Who cares what he did in NBA? Although it's noteworthy to point out in pretty much any sport, "elite" players don't have 0x All-Star appearances.
 
who?


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August_West said:
I mean we don’t say why does no one talk about Charlie Villanueva either
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When his name gets brought up here its like ehh whatever, when its Rudy I feel it brings some anger out of people.
 
Huskybass said:
I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite in his peak years averaging 20 and 21 points per game with many other years over 17 ppg. More prolific in the NBA than college Superstar Rip Hamilton or lottery picks Emeka Okafor and Ben Gordon. And despite that, no playoff success at all.
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Hey!
'I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite...'

fail.
rayray is 23, mr robinson is 53 at 19591, and rudy is 93 at 17295.
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not on my watch, bub.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
Hey!
'I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite...'

fail.
rayray is 23, mr robinson is 53 at 19591, and rudy is 93 at 17295.
www.nba.com

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The all time official leaders for the NBA.
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not on my watch, bub.
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Thank you sir. I also got a good laugh out of "not on my watch, bub"
 
ClifSpliffy said:
Hey!
'I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite...'

fail.
rayray is 23, mr robinson is 53 at 19591, and rudy is 93 at 17295.
www.nba.com

All Time Leaders | Stats | NBA.com

The all time official leaders for the NBA.
www.nba.com www.nba.com

not on my watch, bub.
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Rudy has averaged 16.3 points over his NBA career, Cliff averaged 14.2 but played 3 more seasons. Nevertheless, my point stands that while Rudy has scored a ton of points in the NBA, he hasn't had any playoff success.

To be in the top 100 all time point scorers out of THOUSANDS of NBA players absolutely says that he was an elite scorer during his peak years, otherwise his point total wouldn't be in the top 100.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
Hey!
'I think by establishing that he was the second most prolific scorer out of all the UConn players in the league shows he was elite...'

fail.
rayray is 23, mr robinson is 53 at 19591, and rudy is 93 at 17295.
www.nba.com

All Time Leaders | Stats | NBA.com

The all time official leaders for the NBA.
www.nba.com www.nba.com

not on my watch, bub.
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Rudy averaged over 19 points a game 9 times, Cliff only did it 4 times. Cliff played so many more games due to 18 seasons in the league.

Look at it another way. If Rudy has just one more decent season, he could very well pass Magic Johnson in career points. Perhaps Chris Mullin as well. Rudy would never amassed those type of totals if he wasn't a pretty elite scorer in his prime.

That was my basic premise...despite being a top 100 scorer in NBA history, he has had no playoff success. Statistically improbable perhaps, but true.
 
Just behind Ray for our leader in total career earnings... Has pulled in 166 million.
 
Huskybass said:
That was my basic premise...despite being a top 100 scorer in NBA history, he has had no playoff success. Statistically improbable perhaps, but true.
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191st in PPG. No all star appearances, no playoff success.

His MLB equivalent would be Todd Zeile.
 
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Palatine said:
As an NBA player he was never on a great team.
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But there was that stretch where teams got better upon Rudy leaving. That his teams barely ever made the playoffs is partly due to Rudy playing for them. But Rudy always got paid, that's his legacy.
 
Rudy had/has talent
He had some highlight film stuff and some impressive numbers at UConn
I think because he rarely spoke, didn't hold a high profile and kind of snuck into UConn last minute plays into his non persona career at UConn as well as the NBA. He's not one to enter a talent show to show his stuff
Can't argue his longevity in the league - that's not an easy thing to do - maybe he'll eclipse Uncle Cliffy
 
storrsroars said:
191st in PPG. No all star appearances, no playoff success.

His MLB equivalent would be Todd Zeile.
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Ok, so of the 4374 players who have played in the NBA, Rudy is 191st in ppg. That's still pretty select company, top 5 percentile. And he is 96th in total points scored, again pretty select company. My point is despite all those buckets, he has never tasted playoff success.
 
Scoe said:
35 and still playing at a high level for a contender and nobody cares. Is it because he didn’t win a National championship and because his last game against that team that shall remain nameless.

I’m just curious on everyone’s thoughts. I understand he’s so talented everyone expected Rudy to be a superstar.
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Huskybass said:
Ok, so of the 4374 players who have played in the NBA, Rudy is 191st in ppg. That's still pretty select company, top 5 percentile. And he is 96th in total points scored, again pretty select company. My point is despite all those buckets, he has never tasted playoff success.
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Todd Zeile is also in top 5 percentile in all-time MLB hits, but no all-star appearances. Thus the comparison.

(Zeile did get to the postseason 4 times, including a WS with the Mets, and had a good stat line)
 
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Rudy and Charlie V are in the same category of enormously talented and hyped recruits who were quite good for us. But they didn't get the "great" vibe. You could easily make the argument that they are the two most purely talented players we've had in that they could do absolutely everything. My lasting memory of Rudy, despite some great accolades, is that he was too passive and didn't produce what he was capable of.
 
boog204 said:
Rudy and Charlie V are in the same category of enormously talented and hyped recruits who were quite good for us. But they didn't get the "great" vibe. You could easily make the argument that they are the two most purely talented players we've had in that they could do absolutely everything. My lasting memory of Rudy, despite some great accolades, is that he was too passive and didn't produce what he was capable of.
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I always felt that while he put up numbers and did have a solid two year career for us, Rudy got to a point where he was playing at 75% effort so as not to get injured since he knew he was entering the draft.
 
I don't disagree with any of these Rudy takes but it seems worth pointing out that he was - despite being underwhelming in many peoples' eyes - the Sporting News' national freshman of the year and an NABC first team All-American and one of four finalists for the Naismith Award as a sophomore.
 
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