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Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 28, 2024, 7:17 PM
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I heard an old guy talking about him. How good was he?
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:25 PM
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Chris Whitney was pretty solid.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:24 PM
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Yep. Whitney was a good shooter and prolific scorer.
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He was very good from 3-pt land, a good shooter all the way around.***
Feb 28, 2024, 7:30 PM
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:39 PM
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KC Rivers Louis Solomon Colon Abraham and Anthony Jenkins could shoot it as well
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Do you mean Will Solomon? Louis played QB***
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:47 PM
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Colon had a teammate
Feb 28, 2024, 8:40 PM
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at Mayo HS in Darlington, Carmegius Murray, maybe a year ahead. We (St John’s) only get to scrimmage them in a closed gym, post integration tensions had administrators nervous. As good as Colon was, I thought Carmegius was better.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:40 PM
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He was good but not close to best shooter at Clemson. Michael Tait, Anthony Jenkins, Chris Whitney were all better right off the top of my head.
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Tait was the best shooter, although Jenkins was DEADLY from the corner***
Feb 28, 2024, 7:45 PM
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And Whitney was the best all around of the group***
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:46 PM
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Maybe not the best but..
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:43 PM
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Terrence Oglesby was a heck of a shooter.
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Re: Maybe not the best but..
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:17 PM
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Van Gregg before the 3 point shot, a lefty
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Re: Maybe not the best but..
Feb 28, 2024, 8:27 PM
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TO could shoot. Remember a game where he made a 3 from the Paw.
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I dont know for sure but he made the best hashbrowns at Waffle House
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:50 PM
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He ran a tight ship in his. Wish he was still around managing it.
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Re: I dont know for sure but he made the best hashbrowns at Waffle House
Feb 28, 2024, 10:06 PM
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Really nice man that loved talkng sports. Greer hwy 14 is where I got to know him.
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Whitney > Girard > Others > Young***
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:56 PM
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Skip Wise***
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Feb 28, 2024, 7:59 PM
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Re: Skip Wise***
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:34 PM
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Guys. Whoever posted this has got to be from my era. This goes back to the early 1970’s with Tate’s Locke as our coach but we got three of the best basketball players in the NATION! Skip Wise, Tree Rollins, and Stan Rome. Beloved alumni and former football payer B.C. Inabinet (sp?) helped recruit these guys…if you catch my drift.
Anyway, Skip Wise was a one of a kind.
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And I think we had Moses before he decided to go straight to the NBA . Can
Feb 28, 2024, 9:09 PM
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you imagine if we would have had Tree and Moses. They would have needed 4 refs......
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Skip was a great talent for sure
Feb 28, 2024, 9:16 PM
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But Tree and Stan R. among best 3 in nation? Nuh-uh. That's just orange colored glasses stuff. Tree - obviously a great defender and shot blocker, but not a great scorer. Rome: very fine athlete, no doubt, but not near the top as a basketball player. More of a defender but an average shooter with mid-range only.
Let's at least try to be objective about Clemson players, and I loved them all. I'd have to look up the players of the time at places like UNC, Duke and other places, to name better ones.
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Re: Skip Wise***
Feb 28, 2024, 9:25 PM
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Skip Wise was a tragic case. He was the best player in the conference and the 1st Freshman All Conference and he could just control the game. His life after leaving Clemson was just a sad situation.
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Re: Skip Wise***
Feb 29, 2024, 12:06 PM
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Skip Wise made Phil Ford look like a secound stringer when they played.
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Skip's career was short but he averaged 18.5 ppg and shot 49.5% from the
Feb 28, 2024, 9:29 PM
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floor. I have not researched it, but I doubt any other Clemson guard averaged that many points with that high of shooting percentage.
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Re: Skip Wise***
Feb 28, 2024, 9:15 PM
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Skip gets my vote.
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Re: Skip Wise***
Feb 29, 2024, 3:15 AM
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Yep. this was the best shooter ever here.
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Vincent Hamilton
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:26 PM
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Was pretty good.
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Re: Vincent Hamilton
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:27 PM
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The Rainbow Archer
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Re: Vincent Hamilton
Feb 28, 2024, 8:39 PM
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Met him and his dad one day in my uncles auto parts store-
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Re: Vincent Hamilton
Feb 28, 2024, 9:03 PM
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First guy I thought of
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Re: Vincent Hamilton
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Feb 28, 2024, 9:35 PM
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Story about Vince -
Clemson was playing in the Great Alaska Shootout in 1981. Vince went down under the basket and got a Colles fracture of the right wrist. Since I was chief of hospital services at Elmendorf AFB, I was able to call our orthopedist; we drove Vince over to the ER, and had it set right away. Really nice kid - we had to keep reassuring him that it would be good as ever.
The first time that the Shootout was held in the new Sullivan Arena, my wife, son, and I, dressed all in orange, of course, looked across the court, and there was another family dressed the same way!
We ran across at halftime and hugged each other - became friends for years.
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I used to light it up at Fike
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Feb 28, 2024, 8:46 PM
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Made it rain like my name was Pacman Jones
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 28, 2024, 8:57 PM
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Best I can almost remember was a European who played only a couple of years for Oliver.
Wife just told me, Terance Oglesby
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IMHO Oglesby was best pure shooter but Wise was before my time
Feb 28, 2024, 9:00 PM
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Best all around after Wise ... maybe Terrell "Boogie" McIntyre ...
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 9:20 PM
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Probably the late Butch Zatezalo _ if there had been a three point line, he'd have averaged a million.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
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Feb 28, 2024, 9:25 PM
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Billy Williams 77-80 was one of the Tigers best. He used the glass better than anyone I’ve ever seen!
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 28, 2024, 10:02 PM
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Haven't seen Bruce Martin mentioned here. His 44% 3 point rate his senior year was better than Oglesby, Whitney, Girard, etc. He could stroke from 3.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 28, 2024, 10:03 PM
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I went to every home game in 89-90. David Young was a great shooter but was streaky. That team was good enough to win it all.
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Skip Wise
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Feb 28, 2024, 10:18 PM
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No doubt. If he had stayed at least three years, Clemson basketball would have been changed forever.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 28, 2024, 11:29 PM
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McIntyre, Solomon, and Whitney are all debatable best ever.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 29, 2024, 11:29 AM
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Butch Zatesalo. His stats would have been much different if he had played in the 3-point era.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 29, 2024, 11:48 AM
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Anthony Jenkins was. And if you asked Vincent Hamilton, he'd say the same thing.
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Re: Was David Young the best shooter ever at Clemson?
Feb 29, 2024, 12:12 PM
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After all these years, I was just a kid, but I can still name the line-up for that team. Rollins, Rome, Croft, Wise, Jo Jo Bethea.
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