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CROFLMAO Fab Five
Arrogant pricks who lost the NCAA championship game in a very stupid way
LOL C-Webb
Fab Five
Runnin' Rebs
Both have had recent do entaries. Fab Five on ESPN and the Rebs on HBO. The Rebs were probably the first gangsters of college basketball. I mean when people are looking at Duke to be the good guys, you know you must be NWA material.
Personally, I think those Runnin' Rebel squads would have killed the Fab Five. They should have gone back-to-back if weren't for "The Fixer" lacing their pockets. No way Duke beats that team.
CROFLMAO Fab Five
Arrogant pricks who lost the NCAA championship game in a very stupid way
LOL C-Webb
This. Precisely...
Gotta go with the Rebs
Man the running Rebs was good times. I used to rock runnin' Rebs starter gear and it got me "hit up" a couple times. Of course i just loved the color (though blue is my favorite color) black on red. The Pacoima Pyrus adopted the themes and made runnin reb gear dangerous to wear when the rollin' 60's (they had a valley set) started heading North ...
The above is not to make me sound hard ...i never banged and I grew up in the valley far from south Central ...TBH I was more Larenz Tate than "o dog" ...but the White sox, gtown, raiders (of course), and the runnin' rebels were the team gear of choice in those days ...in southern Cali. all the ball players on my teams rocked gear but even though we were all huge Laker fans none of us rocked Laker gear...it was considered "soft" LOL.
Man, do my southern Cali fam on here rememer when running Rebs games were on KCAL 9 and Chick used to call them? Great stuff.
Havent seen the HBO doc but will watch this weekend.
Oh and the UNLV team that went to backtoback Finals would of beat michigan ...either squad.
Yeah, and that one guy on the team, I think his name was Graham. He was like the Larry Fishburne character in "King of New York."
Runnin' Rebels were awesome. I remember watching them against Michigan State at the Palace. They were a sight to see, pretty crazy.
The one thing about the Fab Five was they were huge collectively. Juwan and Chris were both about 6-9, 250. Jimmy and Ray were both around the 6-4 to 6-5 height. And Jalen ended up playing PG at 6-8. So along with that athleticism, they had great length and size. Larry Johnson was a beast but he was really about 6-5 or 6-6. Augmon was 6-8 and George Ackles was tall but both slim builds. And Greg Anthony and Anderson Hunt were both midgets. I obviously know more about the Fab Five and than UNLV so I don't know what kind of depth they UNLV had, but the Fab Five team had pretty good upperclassman depth in Eric Riley (legit 7 footer), Michael Talley, and a couple of guys who could shoot the ball in Voskil and Rob Pelinka (Kobe's agent).
I'll be a homer and say the Fab Five would have taken the Rebels.
UNLV was still crazy but I do think in my biased opinion that the Fab Five were bigger and at least as athletic and probably more so. The one thing the Fab Five did lack was discipline down the stretch. Execution late in games was a what hurt them at times.
Fab Five, only cuz THAT Jimmy King went to the same HS that I did.
Moses Scurry always screamin' after every rebound .... I usta remember them playing on KDOC Channel 56 in Los Angeles........ I even cut my hair like Arman Gilliam. Damn shame how they tried to do Tark, even though there was a lot of shady going on in Vegas at the time.
I went to school at UNLV waaaay back in '79! They've always been my favorite non-Pac-10 team. Great memories with Tark the Shark, Reggie Theus, etc...
wearing that gear woulda got you ed up seriously ....... , I got jumped for wearing a Cincinnati Reds cap in Eight Trey hood ....... everyone was sportin' UNLV stuff back then......
That 1992 Duke team was big with the exception of Hurley. Laettner 6-11, Lang 6-8, Grant Hill 6-8, Brian Davis 6-7, Cherokee Parks 6-11, Thomas Hill a 6-5 guard. Hurley was the only midget. And the Hill boys and Lang offered some athleticism to match. Plus it's a little different playing Laettner and Hurley as seniors as opposed to freshmen or sop res plus adding Grant Hill, who was still in high school for that 1990 game.
I already said UNLV was great. And Michigan did underachieve those two years considering all the hype and all the talent. They didn't win the Big Ten championship either year. But mind you, the Big Ten wasn't the Big West with the likes of Fresno State and Long Beach State. Bob Knight's Hoosiers were still powerhouses. Ohio State with those Lawrence Funderburke and Jimmy Jackson teams. The Flying Illini with Kendall Gill and Marcus Liberty. The Big Ten back then was a beast of a conference. Still, for all the hype and all the trash talk, those two Fab Five years they underachieved even though they made it to the championship game both seasons.
UNLV did blow out teams and did flex their muscles. The year they lost to Duke in the championship game, they looked unbeatable. I just tend to think the Fab Five match up with them pretty well because they had both size and athleticism to match each player on the Rebels. Anderson Hunt wasn't going to go off on either Jimmy King or Ray Jackson. Augmon wasn't exactly a great scorer. Webber and Larry Johnson would be interesting to watch. Webber had size on Larry, but Larry was a load inside. Ackles was the Joel Anthony of that team, he was irrelevant. As dominant as those Runnin Rebel teams were for a couple years and as underachieving as the Fab Five teams were for their two year run, I think the Fab Five match up great against UNLV.
I would have loved to see them play each other.
I wouldn't call the Rebs underachieving ..... local radio dude Dave Smith said he had talked to Stacy Augmon about that Duke loss in the Semis and he told him that they were, ahem, ahem, playing poorly, wink, wink. Ironically, that photo with the players and the hot tub appears. They did win one National Championship and if they didn't play poorly, <wink, ahem, cough, wink> in the semis against Duke, they would have surely been cemented. That regular season game where they beat #2 Arkansas on the road was a great game.........
I'd take the Rebs as the better team, but the Fab Five undoubtedly had a greater impact on college basketball
Sounds like a certain team BUILT BY Riles ...TBH.
didnt the runnin rebs have a 7 footer an underachiever, sure but they had some size ...I forget his name.
Anybody used to ply coach k on sega? great game. you could play out some of these type of matchups. no current generation game has ever did all-time teams as well as the old coach K ...
David Butler was his name but he was on the team that actually beat Duke. George Ackles was the center of the team that lost.
The UNLV team was more dominant and more polished since they were mostly upper classmen. They would have definitely beaten the Fab 5 since those guys were younger and not as physical.
I remember the UNLV team crushing everyone that season. No one could keep it close. Even the Arkansas team got crushed on their own homecourt. I don't think they purposely lost the game to Duke, but I do believe they were keeping it close to keep it under the spread. They were doing that all tournament. Playing close games in the first half only to blow it open in the 2nd half. However they were playing with fire against Duke and they got burned.
crofl cweb singlehandled cost umich a championship
I don't want to get graphic or anything but the Rebs would have face raped the Fab 5.
Men vs. boyz, in my honest, humble opinion...
Reeeeeeeeeeebellssss!
I don't want to get graphic or anything but the Rebs would have face raped the Fab 5.
Men vs. boyz, in my honest, humble opinion...
1990-91 Rebels v. 1992-93 Fab Five
(edit: 1990-91 UNLV, not 1991-92)
No face-raping going on at all if you take those two teams and match them up. Rebels might win, but they're not running over Michigan. That Michigan team was better prepared and more focused and more disciplined, acknowledging the stupidity of the time-out in the championship game. Their sop re year, they were 31-5. They lost to Duke, UNC, Iowa, and Indiana twice (by one point each contest). They beat Ed O'Bannon's UCLA team, Jamal Mashburn's Kentucky team, North Caroline earlier that season, the Flying Illini, Glenn Robinson's Purdue Boilermakers. They could run with UNLV plus they had an advantage on the boards and inside. Shut down Webber, you still have to stop Howard.
The 1991-92 Fab Five could have been blown out. Too y and probably not prepared to tangle with that 1992 UNLV team yet.
Again, not saying the 1992 UNLV team wouldn't win. They steamrolled almost everybody. But, I think people remember that team way more fondly than they should. They had Larry Johnson who was a beast, Augmon who was a really good college player. Greg Anthony was okay. And Anderson Hunt (from Detroit) was like a 6 foot JR Smith, a three point chucker who could get extremely hot. Obviously they had talent. Not any more than the Fab Five. More experience because they had more upperclassmen. That's why I say take the 1992-93 sop re Fab Five, not when they were freshmen. No way is it a route.
Last edited by JamStone; 03-15-2011 at 03:13 PM.
UNLV in a landslide, but speaking of "laced pockets", Tark was pretty good at hooking his players up as well.
Rebels were better. Ackles (remember him?), Greg Anthony, and Anderson Hunt were all underrated. They made the Rebels a lot tougher because they stepped their games up when it mattered. LJ and Augmon made them special.
Let's pit both two team's best players against each other. Augmon was like Pippen for them. He would have shut Jalen Rose down if they matched up. CWebb was nice, but had LJ never blew his back out, he had HOF written all over him. He would have destroyed CWebb in their matchup.
Then I would take Hunt, Ackles, and Anthony against Jimmy King, Howard, and Jackson.
Rebels in a blowout. They should have repeated as champions. Fab Five choked away a championship. That's the difference for me.
I think Stacey Augmon is getting underrated here he was such a great college defender. Like Corey Brewer was for the recent Florida teams only better.
And Hunt was one of the great college streak shooters almost like Tony Delk, Donald & Shamond Williams or the kid from Wake (forget his name and too lazy to look up) that put up 40 inthe ACC tournament some years back (Harrison B recently tied his record).
Point is though I agree that people here saying that the Fab 5 would of been "routed" are overstating things quite a bit... I do think UNLV was a better team.
Was it Randolph Childress?
Last edited by LkrFan; 03-15-2011 at 08:18 PM.
Yep Childress. We drafted him and he was a bust.
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