Comments on: Adidas Plays “What If. . .”

By: Dr R

Dr R — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:41:05 +0000

Gerald Green was Okie State, not Mississippi State. Not that his mediocre presence would have made a huge deal.

Garnett at Michigan would have been insane. He would have been wrapped up in the Bullock/Tractor Traylor class, a year following the Baston/Mo Taylor/Jerod Ward class. A sick amount of talent (most of which did little outside of college, and most likely were being paid under the table).

By: jersey

jersey — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:18:39 +0000

Growing up I always rooted for players to go to college at least for a season, and every year my heart was broken when high schoolers and college early entrants flooded the NBA Draft.
Anyway, this is something I’m actually good at remembering. Dorrell Wright was headed to DePaul, Perkins to Memphis, Ebi to Arizona, Diop to Virginia, Eddy Curry to DePaul, Miles to St. John’s and Al Harrington was going to either Seton Hall or Georgia Tech.

By: Hayesfan

Hayesfan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:32:48 +0000

Can you imagine a team with Tmac and Prince together? I would have been in hog heaven. UK made the elite 8 in what would have been his freshman year. They would have made it much farther in 99-00 than the second round. Would have at least made the Final Four in 00-01 and I have no doubt could have won the whole thing in his senior year.

If he would have stayed all the way with Tayshaun, the line up for that season would have been.

Cliff Hawkins, Keith Bogans, Tmac, Tayshaun and Marguis Estill. With Erik Daniels Chuck Hayes and Gerald Fitch off the bench.

Tmac would have been able to match everyone in the Maryland game and they would have marched on to the title.

It makes me sad to think about it. LOL cause if they had they would have gotten better recruits and Tubby would still be the coach at Kentucky.

Darn you Tmac!

By: jablo

jablo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:05:32 +0000

LeBron probably would have ended up going to Ohio State, alhtough it would have been awesome if he went hometown school by playing at Akron. At OSU im betting final 4, while at Akron maybe he carries them to a MAC title and Sweet 16 appearance? Of all these players I’m betting Howard or Stoudemire would have had the biggest impacts immediately; Stoudemire would have scored 30 a game in Conference USA after a year or two. Josh Smith definitely would have killed someone trying to take a charge who was standing directly under the basket (NBA has the circle). And Uconn almost certainly gets the 2006 title with Bynum, and maybe he convinces some of his theoretical teammates that season (Rudy Gay, HIlton Armstrong, Denham Brown, Josh Boone, Marcus Williams, etc) to stick around for a little while. If he stayed until senior year and was the center on this years team they would have the best frontcourt since at least Mourning and Mutombe- probably more like Walton and Lew Alcindor getting year together at UCLA.

By: tyus edney

tyus edney — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:28:17 +0000

Robert Swift was going to USC. He would have fit in perfect with that dysfunctional bunch.
Tyson Chandler was supposedly enamored with Steve Lavin and would have made sure this Bruin Fan suffered every March for two decades instead of the one that the Hair-Gelled one actually did..

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:19:01 +0000

Makes sense that they are representing Adidas’ biggest schools, sponsorship wise.