90-91 UNLV Runnin' Rebels or the Fab Five

[Killakobe81]

Yep Childress. We drafted him and he was a bust.

yep dude was an ACC beast!!!

[Beau]

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.

By face raping I didn't mean they'd blow em out, just that they'd make the Fab 5 blow em. UNLV had almost a Tyson air about them going into a game, the outcome already being decided in the eyes of the opponent, only they weren't the bully that cowered when he got punched in the mouth - they were grown-ass men in the college game and they punk'd people, whereas the Fab 5 out-talented and out-swaggered people.

I know you've got a real good feel for the Fab 5, a much better one than I could ever have seeing as where you're from and how closely you followed em, but I envision this playing out a little like the frontcourt matchup of '08, Bos-LA. UNLV as the Celtics, Fab 5 as Pau and company...