Arizona exposed Georgetown's fundamental flaw by cool counterexample. "We're a team here," said Geary, who was Iverson's counselor at a Nike camp two years ago. "We're not a one-man dribbling exhibition." But the Wildcats also showed up the Hoyas with efficient execution. They doubled up on Iverson when he came off screens. "Late in the game he got tired, and his teammates weren't helping him," Simon would later say. "Maybe he was wasting some oxygen running his mouth with Reggie." The Cats also broke the Hoya press with surgical passes up the floor, leaving Georgetown in much the same quandary as the 1988 U.S. Olympic team Thompson coached to a disappointing bronze medal finish: When the team's furious defense provided few chances to score, there was little else to fall back on offensively.
Mention to Geary that the teams the Wildcats beat in the Preseason NIT are all young ones, and you do so at your peril. Geary thinks that observation is encoded with the dreaded disrespect. "Don't be telling me all those excuses," he said. "They'll say Georgetown's young, Coach Thompson had a cold, that their mascot wasn't loud enough. This ain't no fluke. We got down and got dirtier than they did."
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:27 pm
by catgrad97
John Thompson is probably the most overrated Division I college basketball coach in history.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:37 am
by Merkin
catgrad97 wrote:John Thompson is probably the most overrated Division I college basketball coach in history.
I recall his coaching strategy was: Just roll out the ball and let them play
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:43 pm
by KaibabKat
I remember his coaching strategy as being having one of his goons spit in the face of one of our star players trying to incite a fight that would get him thrown out of the game. March 13, 1976 NCAA Regionals Tempe, AZ. It didn't do him any good. Arizona won 83-76 on route to the first elite eight in school history.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:23 pm
by RichardCranium
Off topic: Georgetown does have some interesting and useful admissions policies though:
My first post. I'm a newbie here. Too bad the original thread is gone. And all those original programs from the 70s and newspaper clippings are gone as well. Probably in a landfill somewhere back in Ohio.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:46 pm
by KaibabKat
walk-on-wildcat wrote:My first post. I'm a newbie here. Too bad the original thread is gone. And all those original programs from the 70s and newspaper clippings are gone as well. Probably in a landfill somewhere back in Ohio.
Posted in the PGU thread - nice to have you here . You are no newbie. Is there any way that we could work on recreating the "old School" thread?
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 4:06 am
by HiCat
walk-on-wildcat wrote:My first post. I'm a newbie here. Too bad the original thread is gone. And all those original programs from the 70s and newspaper clippings are gone as well. Probably in a landfill somewhere back in Ohio.
Good to see you posting again. Seems like it's been a while.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:30 am
by Merkin
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:44 am
by walk-on-wildcat
Now that IS old school!
Kaibab....there's a link to it? Probably might not work, but it's worth a try. Merkin would have found a way.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:10 am
by 84Cat
My family moved to Tucson in 72. I got to watch it all and went to many of those games during the early Snowden years. Those were some fun teams to watch. Could have won more if they were more committed to defense.
Kimia and Matt Othick have opened a Crust Pizzeria in Torrey Hills Shopping Center and hope to build a thriving community eatery with the same winning recipe as their first location in Carlsbad: an adult- and family-friendly pizza place with a really good, high-quality product.
When they opened their doors in late September in Torrey Hills, the restaurant was bombarded. more...
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:07 pm
by Jefe
Anyone else catch the 1995 Arizona/Georgetown game that was on TV Sunday? It was the preseason NIT in Madison Square Garden and we fell out of the Top 25 after losing Stoudamire to the draft. Dickerson went down early in the game with an ankle injury and McLean stepped up big time. Sophomore Allen Iverson jammed a finger, bruised an elbow and still put up 40 points but Geary, Simon, Davis, and Blair were unstoppable. We wound up winning 91-81 and beat 3 top 16 teams in that tournament
I hate to say it but our current team would have lost by 25+ to those guys. I wonder if our guys ever watch old game films of Lute's teams. They need to!
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 3:23 pm
by MrMeow
[quote="Jefe"]Anyone else catch the 1995 Arizona/Georgetown game that was on TV Sunday? It was the preseason NIT in Madison Square Garden and we fell out of the Top 25 after losing Stoudamire to the draft. Dickerson went down early in the game with an ankle injury and McLean stepped up big time. Sophomore Allen Iverson jammed a finger, bruised an elbow and still put up 40 points but Geary, Simon, Davis, and Blair were unstoppable. We wound up winning 91-81 and beat 3 top 16 teams in that tournament
I hate to say it but our current team would have lost by 25+ to those guys. I wonder if our guys ever watch old game films of Lute's teams. They need to!
Lute's teams were such fun to watch. You always knew the "spurt of death" was coming (thank you Jason Kapono for that).
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 9:50 pm
by UAEebs86
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 8:34 am
by BBQ wildcat
That is great to see. Congratulations, Herm.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 7:41 pm
by UAEebs86
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 8:13 am
by Newportcat
Ivan! Still remember that Stanford game from his senior year. One of the best individual games I have ever seen a Wildcat play. Nice to see he is still playing in Europe
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 12:43 pm
by EVCat
Jefe wrote:Anyone else catch the 1995 Arizona/Georgetown game that was on TV Sunday? It was the preseason NIT in Madison Square Garden and we fell out of the Top 25 after losing Stoudamire to the draft. Dickerson went down early in the game with an ankle injury and McLean stepped up big time. Sophomore Allen Iverson jammed a finger, bruised an elbow and still put up 40 points but Geary, Simon, Davis, and Blair were unstoppable. We wound up winning 91-81 and beat 3 top 16 teams in that tournament
I hate to say it but our current team would have lost by 25+ to those guys. I wonder if our guys ever watch old game films of Lute's teams. They need to!
Same day we came back from 14 down with 6:40 left to beat ASU in Sun Devil Stadium in football. UA fans were flooding out of the stadium listening to the early parts of that game, looking for somewhere to go watch it.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 8:59 am
by CatsbyAZ
Found a strapping young Jason Terry in my binder of old NBA Cards:
Lingerie loser.
That’s a phase you won’t hear during a game these days
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 2:49 am
by RichardCranium
MrMeow wrote:
Jefe wrote:Anyone else catch the 1995 Arizona/Georgetown game that was on TV Sunday? It was the preseason NIT in Madison Square Garden and we fell out of the Top 25 after losing Stoudamire to the draft. Dickerson went down early in the game with an ankle injury and McLean stepped up big time. Sophomore Allen Iverson jammed a finger, bruised an elbow and still put up 40 points but Geary, Simon, Davis, and Blair were unstoppable. We wound up winning 91-81 and beat 3 top 16 teams in that tournament
I hate to say it but our current team would have lost by 25+ to those guys. I wonder if our guys ever watch old game films of Lute's teams. They need to!
Lute's teams were such fun to watch. You always knew the "spurt of death" was coming (thank you Jason Kapono for that).
Ya know, I think the Arizona/Georgetown "rivalry" is one of my absolute favorites. No animosity, just darn honest, hard fought, entertaining, win some, lose some, contests ever since Fred Snowden booked 'em and beat 'em. I love it. I don't even care what the win/loss record is (probably close to even I suppose), I just think the games with them have always been entertaining and honest, I'll say it again, honest. You can't say that with ASU or Duke or UCLA.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:44 am
by KaibabKat
The first Arizona/Georgetown meeting was during the NCAA's and the game was played in Tempe. It is the game where a Georgetown player walked up to Al Fleming and, in an attempt to get him to retaliate and get thrown from the game, hawked up a great big goober and spit directly into Al's face. It didn't work. Al went on to be the player of that game in an Arizona win.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:42 pm
by Merkin
I don't follow this site, but this was retweeted by someone who does:
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:20 am
by Longhorned
Boycott. Fuck this guy.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:42 am
by Spaceman Spiff
Longhorned wrote:
Boycott. Fuck this guy.
I'm gonna need some context.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:45 am
by Longhorned
Sevun.
It's got to be him.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 6:41 pm
by Postmaster
SEC Network is showing 1990 AZ vs LSU right now.
I know we lose but it’s crazy seeing all these guys.
Watching the 2001 Ikon Classic game against #3 Maryland.
The team was 3 juniors and 6 freshmen, resulting from having lost most of the Final Four team from the year before and the NCAA having a real dumb scholarship limit rule.
Channing and Salim were the best freshmen, although Isaiah Fox and Will Bynum started over them.
We played a ton of zone against a Maryland team that had Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter, Steve Blake, and Chris Wilcox. And we look good doing it. Pretty crazy for having a really thin bench with a ton of freshmen (Dennis Latimore? Andrew Zahn?).
Dick Vitale called the game. I shit you not, he mentioned Duke in the first 20 seconds of the broadcast. Fucker...
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:33 pm
by azgreg
Chicat wrote:Watching the 2001 Ikon Classic game against #3 Maryland.
The team was 3 juniors and 6 freshmen, resulting from having lost most of the Final Four team from the year before and the NCAA having a real dumb scholarship limit rule.
Channing and Salim were the best freshmen, although Isaiah Fox and Will Bynum started over them.
We played a ton of zone against a Maryland team that had Juan Dixon, Lonny Baxter, Steve Blake, and Chris Wilcox. And we look good doing it. Pretty crazy for having a really thin bench with a ton of freshmen (Dennis Latimore? Andrew Zahn?).
Being ranked number one and beating another top-tier program ranked in the top ten on the road (out of conference) seems like a lifetime ago. AZ had it with Miller for five minutes about five years ago.
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 5:14 am
by Chicat
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 9:39 pm
by Chicat
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:31 pm
by azgreg
Re: Official Old School thread
Posted: Mon May 11, 2020 12:29 pm
by zonagrad
I saw this article shared on social media yesterday about Steve Kerr being cut from the US Olympic team by John Thompson back in '88. My memory was that Sean Elliott was left off the team because he had sustained a bad cut from broken glass right before tryouts. But other articles revealed that Thompson cut Elliott based on skill/talent/need. That seems unconscionable -- no wonder the US lost to the veteran Soviet team in the semis in Seoul. And funny how Lute won the '86 World Championship with Kerr & Elliott two years prior.
Probably in a landfill somewhere back in Ohio.
. You are no newbie. Is there any way that we could work on recreating the "old School" thread?
