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If only he'd kept himself in that kind of shape...
Best high school basketball player ever? ""At 250 pounds, O'Neal was a formidable center for his high school team. During his junior year Cole H.S. recorded only one loss for the season as they went 32-1. The following year the team was undefeated, at 36-0. O'Neal averaged 32 points per game, 22 rebounds, and 8 blocked shots for his last two years of high school. By high school graduation in 1989 O'Neal was fully grown. He stood 7-feet-1-inch tall, wore a size 22 shoe.""
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If only he'd kept himself in that kind of shape...
To bad he will always be known as....................
Last edited by Re-Animator; 01-08-2008 at 06:27 PM.
Used to play summer ball at Ft. Sam in school. He would hang with some of my boys and I would be there with all of them. I always thought he was a total dork and could be a major A-hole on most days. He was a tall, skinny guy. I have several photo albums FULL of news paper clippings from High School and funny thing is for all of his Junior year and most of his senior year, he was so not the focus of basketball in San Antonio.
A friend of mine has a pic of his sister posing with shaq at windsor park mall(back when it was THE MALL to go to). The best part is that he is wearing a David Robinson jersey. I gonna see if can get that pic and post it.
That's true -- at that time (late 80's) San Antonio had several really good young basketball players around. There were the John Jay guys (including Calvin Thomas and Bo Outlaw), the East Central guys (led by Tony Terrell and Robert Keno) and a handful of other players here and there (Artie Griffin at Lee, Ski Jones at Marshall). Shaq was a part of that, but I think because he played in 2A and not in 5A, he probably was more of an after-thought in some people's minds. Obviously, not the way it should have been, but I think that might be the reason he wasn't the center of the SA hoops world at that point.
San Antonio was able, in the summer of '89, to put together a junior olympics team that beat a similar team from Bloomington, Indiana. The Bloomington team included Calbert Cheaney and Lawrence Funderburke, among others.
=Dawn!
are you the one from KTSA, do you have a NASCAR show on Saturdays?=
Yes. And I went to East Central and was very good friends with all those guys. They are the ones I used to go to Ft. Sam with. We would play against Ski, Bo and Artie. Also was very close with Reggie Clark from Judson. That is how I gre up. Playing ball and talking trash with those guys. Great times!!!
Wow this is like when I got to see Bon Scott for $4.50 general admission back in 1978 in Chicago, a night I will never forget. Dawn is one lucky Ho....
Good times. The Cash Twins, Mike McKenzie and Joey Garza at Holmes, Gary Durbon at South San (Now the A.D. there) Mike Laderer at Taft. There were some great games I saw in the summer of 87 at Taft High with a lot of the Northside guys. Those East Central guys were crazy good. They used to go to the coast and play during Spring Break and challenge people. They would play in their jeans and still win.
Lot of good girls players too. Clarissa Davis at Jay, The King sisters at Marshall, Jennifer Lennon and Lisa Acosta at Taft, , the Kobergs at Lee...Clark and Churchill always had good teams too
Last edited by samikeyp; 01-08-2008 at 12:48 AM.
I think Cole was 3A.
I remember that Jay team with Outlaw. They had a tall frontline, from what I recall.
I knew the center for Somerset Highschool and he played against Shaq. He told me it wasn't fair because Shaq could run like a deer in highschool.
I used to go to east central when we went undefeated all the way through the state championship.
Im amazed some of those guys didnt do anything even in college ball...Stanley Bonewitz was an amazing shooter, that just flopped at Tech...i remember when he broke the world record for most free throws made in 5 minutes or something like that...dude was really good.
Actually some of those old school East Central player still get together to run a game at Oak Crest middle school. Its been a while since i went out to play, but we used to pay 2 bucks a person to the school to rent out their gym for a few hours twice a week.
Im not sure if they still do that or not, but used to be lots of fun...this was about a year ago.
Good ole days. Have to disagree with you. Snaq was never an after thought. He was the most highly recruited of them all. What's funny is the guy couldn't play a lick his first two years in highschool. I remember one of snaq's first games. It was a summer league game at Lee. Damn he was clumsy.
btw, that bloominton team had Damon Bailey if my memory serves me right. Also, the NY team was suppossed to be pretty good that year too, but I think Kenny Anderson didn't make the trip.
That SA all-star team was probably the best ever.
btw, have you noticed the Tony Terrell basketball camp signs around town?
Tony not only holds camps and trains, but he is a coach here in town. He was one of my best friends in and outside of school. Injuries killed his career. But Tony I still think was one of the best point guards and pure shooters around. I have never seen a guy so young with such court awareness.
Little Stanley tore his knee up at Tech and I think that did him in also. A lot of the EC Boys are coaches around town and the State.
here is a link to Tony's website http://terrellsports.com/
SoulPatch you were there at the same time as my younger sister.
Last edited by dawn; 01-08-2008 at 03:13 PM.
Are you SERIOUS??
Do you realize the Internet Trash Talk Gold you've been sitting on for all of these years??? This is, like, The Holy Grail for Laker Haters!
Oh, what we could have done with this photo between 2000 and 2004...
Cool to know, im really bad with names so i dont remember a lot of the people on that team other than stan, just because was the coaches son, and i was loosely associated with him and a few of his friends.
i just know i really expected him to make some big waves in college and possibly the NBA, and then nothing came of it.
The good ole days - Ft. Sam was nice but everyone used to go play at Randolph back in the day and then to Ladybird .... and then later in the afternoon ICW.
That AAU team was nice - Shaq, Ski, Outlaw, Robert Keno -- they had Vince Embry and Artie both they didnt get to play much. They had those Jay boys playing guard for defensive purposes and they didnt shoot. Lord knows they had enough scorers. I remember that summer because Montross was supposed to be there and so was Kenny Anderson -- neither of them showed up. Much debate over who was the #1 player in the country -- Kenny or Shaq. New York had a nice team with Conrad Mcrae -- Indiana was solid with Greg and Pat Graham, Pat Knight, Funderburke and of course Calbert Chaney who punched it on Shaq's head.
San Antonio had another nice team too - with Chad Collins and Sean Swisher heading that one up. They should have had Reggie Clark and Henry from Lanier. Artie should have dropped to this team and they might have made it to the finals to play Shaq. Hank was a bad dude - 6'4" and the best Latino I have seen play ball to date.
Man from 87 through about 96 -- San Antonio had some damn good players. Bo, Calvin and Kenny from Jay; Tony Terrell, Richard Jones, Robert Keno, Vanlandingham from EC, Sean Swisher, Dwight Govan , Lil John, Matt and CLifton, Clark had Clark Haugh and the Cash twins ... Sam Houston had Sindey Kimble; Judson had Reggie Clark, Damon Johnson, Deion Phelps, Fred Battles, Randy Phoenix; Cole had Shaq; Ski Jones was there - -Chris Doyal both from Marshall - JErald Reiner and Boyd from MAdison. Hank from Lanier - Willie Heights from Fox Tech...Bonewitz - Gee -- some damn good ball in San Antonio.
I used to love going up to Randolph and playing with those guys man - We also used to play at the Mormon Church in Windcrest with Sean - Reggie - Dwight - Keno ... Terrell - Marcus Peoples from Clark and an older cat - Lawrence Frazier from Churchill fame.
Randolph and The church -- and to end the day -- Ladybird-- ICW or the dunk courts at Live Oak elementary. RObert Keno - you know you should have never gone up there-- 6'3 ase...
oh and andre pitts from seguin...
The Cash Twins went to Holmes.Man from 87 through about 96 -- San Antonio had some damn good players. Bo, Calvin and Kenny from Jay; Tony Terrell, Richard Jones, Robert Keno, Vanlandingham from EC, Sean Swisher, Dwight Govan , Lil John, Matt and CLifton, Clark had Clark Haugh and the Cash twins ... Sam Houston had Sindey Kimble; Judson had Reggie Clark, Damon Johnson, Deion Phelps, Fred Battles, Randy Phoenix; Cole had Shaq; Ski Jones was there - -Chris Doyal both from Marshall - JErald Reiner and Boyd from MAdison. Hank from Lanier - Willie Heights from Fox Tech...Bonewitz - Gee -- some damn good ball in San Antonio.
Got to get a shout in for my boy Mike Laderer at Taft, led the city in scoring 85-86
Holy crap....speaking of The Cash twins and high school athletes in the 80's...
so did Clark Haugh -- sorry -- I typed Clark twice. sorry.
Mike Grimes and Ed Vidal were good players from Taft -- so was Laura Steward for the women.
That AAU team was nice. Bo was our classmate and friend, he graduated ahead of us (a couple of years) but whenever the Clips came into town, he would score us some great tix for the game.
I thought he was better that Shaq early on, but then he turned into a monster.
I knew Grimes but Vidal and Steward must have been after 1990, I kinda lost track after that.
I knew guys like Yuron White, Ed Costley and Darrin Wylie. As far as the girls, Jennifer Lennon, Lisa Acosta and Trisha Wendt I was more familiar with.
that holmes team was dope until they ran into that Judson brick wall
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