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Pick 1 player from the post Tark era that would have helped the 1991 Squad beat Duke

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if you could pick 1 player from Massimino, Cle Edwards, Bayno, Spoon, Kruger, Rice, Menzies up to current Era..

We know the 1991 squad was pretty stacked, but hindsight being 20/20, they were missing a piece that didn’t help them get over the top.

Who would you personally pick would have helped them possibly beat Duke that year..

Pick 1 and only 1.
 
RebelScrub said:
if you could pick 1 player from Massimino, Cle Edwards, Bayno, Spoon, Kruger, Rice, Menzies up to current Era..

We know the 1991 squad was pretty stacked, but hindsight being 20/20, they were missing a piece that didn’t help them get over the top.

Who would you personally pick would have helped them possibly beat Duke that year..

Pick 1 and only 1.
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Give me Marcus Banks as backup PG given the way the game went down.
 
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Grant Hill was the difference and Stacey Augmon is the best all-around defender we ever had so you have to beat Duke some other way. I would say either Marcus Banks or Greedy Daniels. Marcus could play great defense when he wanted but just my opinion I thought Greedy was on another tier defensively. He locked up Jeryl Sasser for a half and he shut down USCs backcourt practically single-handedly. With Tark and Grg coaching Greedy who knows? Marcus was such a forceful scorer though. With LJ having an off game you need someone to compensate so I'll go with Marcus too.
 
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Isaiah "J.R." Rider. Yes, he was initially Tark's recruit but the last year at UNLV, he played for Fat Rollie Mass.
We, needed a 3 point shooter who drove to the basket, as well. He would of dunked over Grant Hill's Ass too.
 
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j. spilotro said:
Give me Marcus Banks as backup PG given the way the game went down.
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Marcus Banks is choice 1A for me too. He could guard the ball and save GA from phantom foul trouble and he would be far more physical and able to really punish Hurley. Other than that my list would probably be senior Mark Dickel, Oscar Bellfield, or Kevin Kruger. Us not having H ready to play on this level is one of the few failings I had with how Tark developed that team.

If not a PG, then probably a utility wing/forward Stacey had a rough game and Davis off the bench was basically the second biggest x-factor for that game, even better if they could give Ackles a hand with Laettner. Shawn Marion or Dalron Johnson would probably be at the top of my list. Varied offensive toolkits, length and solid defenders.
 
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Marcus Banks is choice 1A for me too. He could guard the ball and save GA from phantom foul trouble and he would be far more physical and able to really punish Hurley. Other than that my list would probably be senior Mark Dickel, Oscar Bellfield, or Kevin Kruger. Us not having H ready to play on this level is one of the few failings I had with how Tark developed that team.

If not a PG, then probably a utility wing/forward Stacey had a rough game and Davis off the bench was basically the second biggest x-factor for that game, even better if they could give Ackles a hand with Laettner. Shawn Marion or Dalron Johnson would probably be at the top of my list. Varied offensive toolkits, length and solid defenders.
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Shawn would be a good addition. Needs no touches, but gets his points, and can defend. Similar to Stacey.

JR Rider makes any team better, I might consider him.

But we are talking about arguably the best team of all time. So it’s hard to add somebody to make them better, imo.
 
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j. spilotro said:
Shawn would be a good addition. Needs no touches, but gets his points, and can defend. Similar to Stacey.

JR Rider makes any team better, I might consider him.

But we are talking about arguably the best team of all time. So it’s hard to add somebody to make them better, imo.
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The only thing that team lacked was back court depth. Bice was a specialized tool, waldman was a freshman without a ton of development, and your only other guard was Brian Emerzian.

Your front court depth was actually solid, but you could have really used a bench wing who could get buckets. Gray and Spencer were both nice players but after that there was a huge drop off. Going 7.5 deep was enough to be undefeated until it wasn't. I often think if they would have lost a game or two during the season they would have dealt with the adversity better, but that's just one basketball nerd's opinion.
 
Banks is the only choice, they needed one more backcourt player that could contribute both on offense and defense. Invested Greedy is the second option, but man too many times he was just out there. I think the other guards listed are ok but you really needed defense and not sure they could bring that need.

Rider and Marion would have helped. Not sure we have had too many players that would have seen many minutes on that team since then. Probably those four above and Clark.
 
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The thing with Clark is I don't know how much he would've affected the game. Laettner as much as I hate him had faced just about the best big men college basketball had at the time. Not sure how much trouble Clark would've given Laettner. Marion would've been nice because he could play both forward positions and he had enough talent to give Hill all kinds of headaches. But our glaring weakness was depth at point.
 
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Isaiah "J.R." Rider. Yes, he was initially Tark's recruit but the last year at UNLV, he played for Fat Rollie Mass.
We, needed a 3 point shooter who drove to the basket, as well. He would have dunked over Grant Hill's Ass too.
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JTthe2nd said:
Grant Hill was the difference and Stacey Augmon is the best all-around defender we ever had so you have to beat Duke some other way. I would say either Marcus Banks or Greedy Daniels. Marcus could play great defense when he wanted but just my opinion I thought Greedy was on another tier defensively. He locked up Jeryl Sasser for a half and he shut down USCs backcourt practically single-handedly. With Tark and Grg coaching Greedy who knows? Marcus was such a forceful scorer though. With LJ having an off game you need someone to compensate so I'll go with Marcus too.
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Hill and Augmon cancelled each other out..
 
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