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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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The sickest guard playing today is the one they call G-unit. A little 5'5” white boy out of Middletown, CT. Also nicknamed 'Find-a-way'. Why? He just finds a way to put the ball in the bucket. Straight buckets! - gary10711
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Hey GO, About a week ago while on vacation out of the country I ran into a guy named Tony. Turns out he was from NYC and into the ball world big time back in his day. We swapped stories of some of the great players over the years that have blessed the parks with their talents. One name kept coming up . . . ARTIE GREEN! This story sums it up . . . It was a hot summer day in Harlem, 138th and Lenox Ave. The tournament was the Whitney M. Young Memorial Tournament. Artie was to play the last game of the day. The place was packed, the trees, tops of cars, fences, you name it, it became a seat. Needless to say Arite put on a show . . . spin moves ending with base line dunks, Tomahawk jams right in guys mugs. (NASTY) Artie did his thing. Artie's team was overmatched but Artie kept them in the game, he had about 40 pts. With about 5 min. left Artie fouls out, within minutes the park was empty. That's right once Artie fouled out it was "GAME OVER". Didn't matter how much time was left or what the score was . . . Game Over. Artie was the show and that dumb ass ref closed the show. - Newburgh NY.
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Message: What's up GO,
Do you know who Curtis Redding is? Let me refresh your memory. Curtis was an All-City and All-American player for the 24-0 USA ranked #1 Canarsie High School basketball team in 1978. Curtis was a terror on the court. I never forget the game when he destroyed Stretch Graham from Lafayette High School. He was absolutely ridiculous, hitting jumpshots, slam dunking at will. He was such an overpowering 6'5 forward guard. I remember when he was playing for Kansas State as a freshman. He was killing Kansas at Kansas. This was a rival game, when Curtis went to the foul line the crowd began taunting him, after making two pressure free-throws, he turned to the crowd and began taunting them. Well, from then on, everytime he played against Kansas, they threw hotdogs at him, and he continued to bust their butts. That year he made freshman of the year.
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 at the Big Apple Exposure Game held at John Jay College. I saw the best crossover from a big man ever. It was done by all of 6'6" Rashawn McCormack, A.K.A. The Beast of Lincoln High. He was being held by a 5'10" guy. You would think the little guy would easily strip him. Rashawn put it hrough his leg to the left, then crossed it back to the right, then went back to the left again, sending the little guy to the wall. The crowd went wild. That was the best big man crossover I have ever seen other than the one by Alimoe at the Rucker last summer. - orobin |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Hey Game Over! I have heard a lot of different names of cats who were supposed to be so great. Can someone tell me some stories about some of these guys? Artie Green, Gary Springer, Lowes Moore, Master Rob, Booga Smith, Carlton Green a.k.a. MOJO. - Young Buck in Brooklyn.
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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I remember in this one game, this guy named Edgar Mcphatter, a.k.a. Headbanger. He jumped from inside the dotted lines from the blind side to block a break away dunk by this 6'7 kid named Lloyd Clinton. The block was so vicious that Lloyd fell flat on his back. That was one of the best defensive stops I've seen. - Brooklyn, ST. JOHNS REC |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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The second story is when D.O.C. was playing for the Madison Square Broncos. They were playing the Gauchos who supposedly had the city's best players with Lloyd Daniels, Chris Brooks and many more. The Broncos had D.O.C., Juice and Jayson Williams - yes, the Jason Williams that played for the Nets. On this day Jayson was a no show. In the first half of this game Lloyd was killin' the Broncos because they were playin zone and Lloyd had a great jumpshot. I think Lloyd had 30 points at half time and D.O.C. had 6 points. At half time Lloyd came over to D.O.C. and said "D.O.C. I got your heart in my back pocket". D.O.C. said "WHAT!, your talkin Shit." I guess Lloyd should have let a sleeping dog lay because in the second half D.O.C. put it on Lloyd so bad that Lloyd must have thought he was dreaming. The Broncos came out playing man to man with D.O.C. on Lloyd. Now Lloyd is 6'7 or 6'8 and D.O.C. is maybe 6'4 and D.O.C not only locked the boy up, he made shots from all angles. Lloyd finished the game with 34 points and D.O.C had 42 points. He should have not awakened that sleeping dog. Oh yeah, the Broncos won that game. D.O.C. was one of the greatest players not to make the NBA. He could do it all, from scoring to rebounding to playing defense and could also pass his ass off. For those who don't believe me the reason D.O.C. didn't make the NBA was he went to college when Prop. 48 was introduced to the college world and we didn't understand the meaning. Trust me, I know I was there. I'm his cousin. |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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It's Lyndon and I have many D.O.C. legendary stories to tell, but I will start with the two that comes to mind first. It was a hot summer day in Brooklyn and there was a B-ball tournament going on in Foster Park. D.O.C.'s team was wearing all PINK uniforms and they were playing a team wearing black. I guess they didn't know about D.O.C. but by the end of this day they recognized. The game was flowing and the Park was so crowded that they had to rope off the sidelines so the fans wouldn't go onto the court. They also knew that D.O.C. was playin. There was a play where the point guard from the Pink team was on a fast break and D.O.C. was trailing with a defender between the both of them. The point guard threw the ball as if he was throwing an alley-oop, but it was the worst one I ever saw because he threw it too far under the basket and there was no way for D.O.C. to get it and lay it up. Not only did the D.O.C. catch the ball, but he somehow jumped so high and twisted in mid-air that he tomahawked it backwards. The crowd went crazy, broke the rope baracades down and started throwing bottles in the air. They had to stop the game for at least a half-hour to clean the court. Till this day alot of people still say it was the greatest dunk they had ever seen in game play. |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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When it comes to urban legends, there's one sitting in Tulsa, Ok. You've seen him for one season with the Phoenix Suns, Richard Dumas!!! In 1986 at the AAU National Tournament at Georgetown University when he was sixteen, he was in the dunk contest. Dumas was with Elliot Perry, Alonzo Mourning, and Big Stanley Roberts as finalists. Each cat had three dunks. Richard's first was the infamous MJ one hand cuff float past the rim and throw it in as you past the rim. His second was a 360 two hand double pump, and his third was a Dominique two hand windmill. After all of that there was still a one dunk tie breaker, between Zo and Dumas. Zo's dunk was with two balls (basic). Dumas finished up the evening with a dunk that tops D.O.C.'s explanation of Chris Brooks dunk. Dumas went baseline from the left, jumped and put the ball in the rim took it out swung under the basket and Tomahawked it on the right side of the rim. The judges all threw up 10 cards and ran out the gym. The judges were Georgetown's own, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jackson, Gene Smith, Reggie Williams, David Wingate, and Sleepy Floyd. Oklahoma went on to win the 1986 AAU Nationals. After that we could say, GAME OVER!!! - Poncho Joseph |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Yo, check out Marbury, he is the real deal. None in EBC could stop this cat. I seen him do moves that none other then Bone Collector would think of. His jumper is sick, the only person that can guard him iz . . . . none can, my bad. Another thing in the EBC tape, my man Stevie Franchise shook the crap outta Headache. He is nasty too. People front on the NBA catz but they shut EBC down. Example - Baron Davis, AI , Stevie, Jamal Tins, Marbury, Al Harrington, Kobe, Shawn Marion, and Jermaine. onela and so many more |
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