Since Im snowed in today lets just make some stuff up.

[DA#23]

Morris would come in and look like a man among boys then just kinda quit.

I always said that if you took his chewing gum away, the sky was the limit. Just too evenly keeled to get robust on an opponent

[KevinHall]

Going way back, Richard Madison. I often think of him when I watch Poythress. Also Derrick Hord was a bit of disappointment. He seemed to regress each year while he was at UK.

[Blue Heaven]

Going way back, Richard Madison. I often think of him when I watch Poythress. Also Derrick Hord was a bit of disappointment. He seemed to regress each year while he was at UK.

The Master Blaster! A lot of seemingly underacheivers back then. I would say Blackmon is one of the biggest.

[Joneslab]

Im gonna have to disagree on the Jamal Mashburn. He was an NBA all star at one point. I would never say he didn't get it. Was a great one.

Yeah but at UK he was an all-time great. In the NBA the Mavericks sort of bet the house on him--and Jason Kidd, and I think Juwan Howard--but he was always sort of a good-but-not-great player.

At UK he was so freakishly great that I thought he'd have more of a Tim Duncan-esque career.

[DA#23]

I think Juwan Howard-.

Jim Jackson. They were viewed as a potentially deadly 1-2 punch

[Westtncat]

Their careers were different lengths but stats are very similar. Tim Duncan averaged 19.2 points over his career, Mash averaged 19.1

[teamchemistry15]

Their careers were different lengths but stats are very similar. Tim Duncan averaged 19.2 points over his career, Mash averaged 19.1

Tim Duncan is one of the best power forwards to ever play. Please don't compare Mash to him.

[Catsrock]

I was pumped when we got Rodney Dent. Seems like he disappointed a bit.

He's the answer to a totally different question but Troy McKinley could not miss from the corner. If there was a 3 point line then or if Coach Hall didn't have to go thru the bigs every trip he would be a name someone other than me remembers.

[Westtncat]

Mash was an NBA all star, not chopped liver. Im not comparing them head to head. Duncan was more of a center 6-11 250. Stats are not my personal view just facts. Now my opinion is that if Mash had the longevity that some players have he WOULD be mentioned in the same sentence. My motive is not to compare anyone to Duncan really, just saying I think Mash is not a guy I would put in the under achiever list or a guy that never got it. Injuries washed him up.

[Catsrock]

Tim Duncan is one of the best power forwards to ever play. Please don't compare Mash to him.

ESPN just finished a ranking of the best in the NBA at each position. They named Duncan THE BEST power forward for what that's worth.

[Westtncat]

I don't disagree

[Catsrock]

Me neither. Duncan is just so totally different from everyone else from an on court personality standpoint. He is all substance with no show. No primal screams while dunking a lob from that fella...just go make the next play.

[Lighthouse]

Barbour was a tweener by NBA standards. Not quick enough to play guard and not big enough to play forward.

[DA#23]

Meh...he was an honest 6'-4". Crawford was listed at 6'-5" and probably was 6'-2", and he couldn't compare to Barbour athletically. Barbour didn't have any athletic or physical deficiencies, he simply wasn't that good mentally. You have to be a darn good player to make it as a guard and Barbour couldn't do it on the college level.

With that said, he smoked Johnson Central in the 2000 Boys State Tournament where he played for Elizabethtown.

[Joneslab]

Barbour was also really raw skill-wise. Couldn't shoot a lick.

What he could do was guard. Turned into a really good defender by his senior year.

And when I think of Barbour I always think of the night before my son was born. Had a tremendous game against Alabama. Thought that would be his breakout performance, but he was always just sort of a role player. Poythress-esque.