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OK, boys and girls, I've got some NBA trivia for you.
The High School class of 1988 was one of the most renowned in history (right up there with 1981 and 1979).
The five top blue-chip recruits were; Alonzo Mourning, Billy Owens, Shawn Kemp, Stanley Roberts, and Kenny Williams.
These players started their freshmen year in college in the fall of 1988 (except Williams).
OK, now here is the question.
The Sporting News college basketball preview magazine (Fall '88) rated all the freshman, in many categories. The most under-rated freshman was Byron Houston, for example.
QUESTION
Who was rated the most over-rated freshman???
The first person to answer this correctly gets FIVE Bonus points!!!!!
PS - If no one gets this after one page, I will post a hint.
Good luck, boys and girls.
Last edited by Galileo; 03-11-2008 at 05:22 PM. Reason: clarification
Zo
Just for the of it: Robert Horry.
NBA players born in between September 1, 1969 and August 31, 1970 who were likely in the 1988 Freshman class (there are others -- my list didn't catch Billy Owens or Christian Laettner, for example):
Sean Rooks
Matt Geiger
Doug Smith
Cedric Lewis
Carl Thomas
Charles Thomas
Bob Martin
Kevin Brooks
P.J. Brown
Joe Courtney
Anthony Avent
Jerrod Mustaf
Gary Alexander
Myron Brown
Jimmy Carruth
LaMark Baker
Demetrius Calip
Sam Cassell
Matt Fish
Byron Houston
Anthony Peeler
Shawn Kemp
Elmore Spencer
Evric Gray
Tom Gugliotta
Bobby Phills
Tony Farmer
Todd Day
Chris Jent
Don MacLean
Chris Mills
Dexter Cambridge
Eric Mobley
Malik Sealy
Sean Green
Jo Jo English
Stanley Roberts
Alonzo Mourning
Dell Demps
Elmer Bennett
Adam Keefe
Sasha Danilovic
Litterial Green
Rex Walters
Marques Bragg
Matt Steigenga
Oliver Miller
Walt Williams
Corey Williams
Dexter Boney
LaPhonso Ellis
Doug Christie
Marcus Webb
Keith Tower
Hubert Davis
Todd Mundt
Chris Smith
Terrell Brandon
Eric Anderson
Sam Mack
Eric Riley
Lee Mayberry
Zan Tabak
Popeye Jones
Brian Davis
Rastko Cvetkovic
Acie Earl
Rich Manning
Alex Blackwell
Antonio Harvey
Malcolm Mackey
Mark Strickland
Stephen Howard
Brooks Thompson
Adonis Jordan
Reggie Smith
Robert Horry
Reggie Slater
James Robinson
If it's not Horry (or Dell Demps), I'm not sure how the question is Spurs-related.
Danny Manning??
hmm, I'm assuming this is Spurs related so... Sean Elliott!
I have no idea what year he was a freshman, to lazy to look it up
shawn kemp.....and he never played college ball
Are you trying to tell me that Horry is overrated??
Danny Manning's collegiate team won an NCAA championship in the spring of 1988, so he wasn't in the class of freshmen that entered college in the fall of 1988.
Sean Elliott entered college in the fall of 1985.
Sean Elliot is from the wrong year. He is not from the HS class of '88.
I'm trying to tell you that Robert Horry is my guess to the question, "Which Freshman did the Sporting News Rate as Most Overrated in 1988?"
That answer has no subjective analysis of the merits of the publication's prediction.
not Kemp.
I tried to fix it before anyone saw
Christian Laettner?
This is a good list. The correct answer is no it.
You can't really over-rate being the common thread to 7 NBA championships and a bevy of well remembered shots to prove you weren't just coattailing.
Chris Webber?
stanley roberts
Rick Fox?
Jerod Mustaf?
Hubert Davis?
M. Night Shyamalan
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