OTF Basketball Mount Rushmore

[DanielOnorato]

What is your Mount Rushmore for Texas College Basketball?

As a Celtic fan I'm cancelling out Joe Z saying Payton Pritchard with Avery Bradley.

Longhorn Nation, who are your top picks in hoops? TJ Ford and Kevin Durant should be shoe ins...

[Gerry Hamilton]

Is it purely at Texas? Or NBA career factors in? 
 

KD

TJ 

The obvious … Wooden & Naismith Awards winners 

DJ Augustin and LaMarcus Aldridge in my years. 

LaSalle Thompson is likely a pick for some Texas fans … Johnnie Moore could be too 

You have guys that are better NBA players that college players - Myles Turner, Jarrett Allen

PJ Tucker will always be underrated as a college player at Texas 

[SpaceCityWrangler]

NBA

Bird and Magic… literally changed the game.

Jordan was an amplifier to that change.

Abdul-Jabbar for longevity, social activism.  In short, he was a cultural icon.  People forget how dominant he was… 6 MVP’s… all-time scorer.  

[SpaceCityWrangler]

For Texas

Kevin Durant

TJ Ford

Terrence Rencher

Slater Martin 

[Sundancekid]

Travis Mays should be in there somewhere with KD, TJ, LA and PJ.

[Sundancekid]

Johnny Moore, Jim Krivacs, Lasalle Thompson, Lance Blanks and Miles Turner are 2nd Team.

Tristan Thompson, DJ Augustine, Terrence Rencher, James Thomas and BJ Tyler round out third team.

[DanielOnorato]

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Is it purely at Texas? Or NBA career factors in? 
 

KD

TJ 

The obvious … Wooden & Naismith Awards winners 

DJ Augustin and LaMarcus Aldridge in my years. 

LaSalle Thompson is likely a pick for some Texas fans … Johnnie Moore could be too 

You have guys that are better NBA players that college players - Myles Turner, Jarrett Allen

PJ Tucker will always be underrated as a college player at Texas 

Great post. I'd say at Texas but a pro Mt Rushmore is very interesting also.

 

Tre Johnson professionally will far surpass the college legacy he left.

DJ Augustin is severely underrated. 

Cory Joseph - Chris Mihm - Tristan Thompson many first round picks in the past who provided much less value to winning than PJ Tucker. 

[TexasMDcoach]

TJ Ford, Kevin Durant

Lasalle Thompson, PJ Tucker, LaMarcus Aldridge

DJ Augustin, Lance Blanks, Jarrett Allen, Mile Turner, Travis Mays, Johnnie Moore

[UTAlum8595]

Here’s the list starting from the Tom Penders era:

Travis Mays

Lance Blanks

Joey Wright

Terrance Rencher

Reggie Freeman

Kris Clack

 Chris Mihm

TJ Ford

PJ Tucker

Lamarcus Aldridge

Kevin Durant

DJ Augustin

Tristan Thompson

 

 

[Jordan91]

1 hour ago, SpaceCityWrangler said:

NBA

Bird and Magic… literally changed the game.

Jordan was an amplifier to that change.

Abdul-Jabbar for longevity, social activism.  In short, he was a cultural icon.  People forget how dominant he was… 6 MVP’s… all-time scorer.  

Oh God. It’s Jordan, even if all of them played for Texas. 

[DanielOnorato]

3 minutes ago, UTAlum8595 said:

Here’s the list starting from the Tom Penders era:

Travis Mays

Lance Blanks

Joey Wright

Terrance Rencher

Reggie Freeman

Kris Clack

 Chris Mihm

TJ Ford

PJ Tucker

Lamarcus Aldridge

Kevin Durant

DJ Augustin

Tristan Thompson

 

 

Met Kris Clack at the Summer League at UMass Boston back in the day. He had a shootout with spurs prospect Derrick Dial. Pretty cool but Red Auerbach sat two rows in front of me during that game.

[Jordan91]

Okay I am assuming we are talking four. 
 

KD, TJ (Back to back players of the year), DJ and LA.

Apologies to PJ, LaSalle, Mays, Mihm, and Turner

I am amazed Turner is still not pissed at Barnes for only playing 16 minutes in his last game. 

[Migas & Fajitas]

Isn’t Slater Martin in the nba HOF? Did UT make the final four during his time at UT? Seems like Martin and KD should be leading the way followed by TJ and LaSalle. 

[thatdude2]

Reggie Freeman, TJ Ford, KD, Tre Johnson

[Sundancekid]

  Travis Mays would have had a very good NBA career if not for the injuries. He may be my favorite ever because he came from Florida to a sorry team and brought it up from the ashes to create the most exciting version of Texas basketball ever with Blanks, Wright, Collie, Myers and the rest.

[Sundancekid]

Maybe Mt Bonnell… not Rushmore.

[SpaceCityWrangler]

31 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

Oh God. It’s Jordan, even if all of them played for Texas. 

Jordan is on the list.  Rushmore means 4.

[Migas & Fajitas]

1 minute ago, Sundancekid said:

  Travis Mays would have had a very good NBA career if not for the injuries. He may be my favorite ever because he came from Florida to a sorry team and brought it up from the ashes to create the most exciting version of Texas basketball ever with Blanks, Wright, Collie, Myers and the rest.

BMW the ultimate scoring machine…

[Jordan91]

3 minutes ago, SpaceCityWrangler said:

Jordan is on the list.  Rushmore means 4.

Was specifically related to the OPs list. He somehow listed his best players ever. It was the best players at Texas. 

[DanielOnorato]

18 minutes ago, Migas & Fajitas said:

Isn’t Slater Martin in the nba HOF? Did UT make the final four during his time at UT? Seems like Martin and KD should be leading the way followed by TJ and LaSalle. 

Yes sir inducted in 1982.

It is the basketball hall of fame so it encompasses college, pro, international etc contributions to the game.

[SpaceCityWrangler]

3 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

Was specifically related to the OPs list. He somehow listed his best players ever. It was the best players at Texas. 

I did one for Texas and the NBA.  Covered all the bases 😉

[Sundancekid]

 Penders will always have a place in my heart after trying to support Kaiser Bob era for too many games… rough. From Abe Lemons to Weltlich(sp?) was a horrible move. Our entire roster jumped ship after being in the top 5 when Mike Wacker’s knee exploded. 6 and 7 win seaaons… BAD. 
 I forgot about Mike Wacker! … and George Mueller…

 Seriously though… Mike Wacker was a stud before his knee injury and that team was as good as any we have had when they were in full health.When Wacker went down we had the worst collapse of any team I can think of … Texas or otherwise. Wacker deserves serious consideration. He was also about the only player who stayed though he played on essentially one leg forevermore. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

32 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

Okay I am assuming we are talking four. 
 

KD, TJ (Back to back players of the year), DJ and LA.

Apologies to PJ, LaSalle, Mays, Mihm, and Turner

I am amazed Turner is still not pissed at Barnes for only playing 16 minutes in his last game. 

I am still pissed lol

[Gerry Hamilton]

In terms of at Texas … I really believe DJ Augustin will always be undervalued 

Led Texas to E8 winning Bob Cousy Award, first team All-American … lottery pick 

Stellar two year college career IMO 

[Sundancekid]

DJ was damn good… no doubt. Got a paycheck for many years.