:thumb: Miller don't get hurt who knows HC might have a State title.

 

Also to answer your question yes Goetz was POY year also his senior season when they lost in 9th region finals on a buzzer beater to Conner.

 

I guess I need to bone up on my HC b-ball history.

 

Here's what I remember about HC and region tourney: In the 70s, they had Mike Turkey Jones (I think that was his name) and the long sleeve shirts when they played in the 9th at Conner. In 93, they lost to my alma mater at the buzzer in the region finals.

I guess I need to bone up on my HC b-ball history.

 

Here's what I remember about HC and region tourney: In the 70s, they had Mike Turkey Jones (I think that was his name) and the long sleeve shirts when they played in the 9th at Conner. In 93, they lost to my alma mater at the buzzer in the region finals.

That was the year Goetz got a POY year. Didn't Turkey Jones have a stint in the CBA? The buzzer beater was a heart breaker. If those schools play each other 10 times HC probably wins 8 of them.

The buzzer beater was a heart breaker..

 

Not from my side of the court.

:thumb: Miller don't get hurt who knows HC might have a State title.

 

Also to answer your question yes Goetz was POY year also his senior season when they lost in 9th region finals on a buzzer beater to Conner.

 

That Holy Cross team was very good, but they wouldn't have beaten Louisville Fairdale. Fairdale was just too loaded with Turner, Brown, and Morris.

That Holy Cross team was very good, but they wouldn't have beaten Louisville Fairdale. Fairdale was just too loaded with Turner, Brown, and Morris.

 

Anything can happen in one game, but I would say you are right. HC wasn't very deep and it would have been difficult to play and win another game. Faridale was very very good.

Great team. However, only one would make the individual list.

Just for fun, I will pick a team that goes back beyond 25 years that would beat any team picked so far.

1 Dave Cowens

2 George Stone

3 John Turner

4 Tom Thacker

5 Dick Vories

6 Roger Tieman

7 Bucky Steffen

8 Bob Barton

9 John Crigler

10 Larry Redmond

11 Jack Thobe..so he didn't play in the 9th! It's my team and I get to pick and he lived in the 9th.

12 Jerry Rump

 

The guards would have to rotate because all were great and brought different things. One thru 4 would start every night. Barton would be my designated shooter. Tieman would start at point because he could do it all, but the remainder of the guards were just as good, but could not play d with Roger and he evolved from a scorer to a pass first olayer in college. I feel sorry for those of you who did not get to see Bucky Steffen play. Cornelius Freeman said it best when asked by a friend of mine how his Deporres team had fared against St. Henry. He said " some little fat guy beat us by himself. That dude just ran up the walls."

Vories was the state's all time college college scoring leader until Travis Grant came along. Redmond took his team to the State finals and was All bluegrass Tournamnet his freshman year at Eastern and then got drafted into the service. Rump accepted a scholarship to UK., but developed health problems. Thobe was a big scorer on a very good Xavier U. team.

John Crigler's drives to the basket fouled out Elgin baylor and led UK to an NCAA championship that night. i went to a 3 point shooting contest at the YMCA and we all argued about who would win. No one mentioned Crigler because he played center in HS. He won by a wide margin. he almost made the Royals and Tom Marshal told a friend of mine he would have made the team, had he played guard at UK.

Tom thacker is the answer to a trivia question. Who played on an NCAA champion, an AbA champion and an NBA Championship team? Few know this.

Sorry for the long post, but basketball started more than 25 years ago and while the players are generally better conditioned now, shooting has become a lost art.

4 Tom Thacker

 

8 Bob Barton

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Wouldn't Thacker have to be considered for the greatest ever in NKY?

 

I heard that Barton was very good and his range was only limited by the size of the court.

Just for fun, I will pick a team that goes back beyond 25 years that would beat any team picked so far.

1 Dave Cowens

2 George Stone

3 John Turner

4 Tom Thacker

5 Dick Vories

6 Roger Tieman

7 Bucky Steffen

8 Bob Barton

9 John Crigler

10 Larry Redmond

11 Jack Thobe..so he didn't play in the 9th! It's my team and I get to pick and he lived in the 9th.

12 Jerry Rump

 

The guards would have to rotate because all were great and brought different things. One thru 4 would start every night. Barton would be my designated shooter. Tieman would start at point because he could do it all, but the remainder of the guards were just as good, but could not play d with Roger and he evolved from a scorer to a pass first olayer in college. I feel sorry for those of you who did not get to see Bucky Steffen play. Cornelius Freeman said it best when asked by a friend of mine how his Deporres team had fared against St. Henry. He said " some little fat guy beat us by himself. That dude just ran up the walls."

Vories was the state's all time college college scoring leader until Travis Grant came along. Redmond took his team to the State finals and was All bluegrass Tournamnet his freshman year at Eastern and then got drafted into the service. Rump accepted a scholarship to UK., but developed health problems. Thobe was a big scorer on a very good Xavier U. team.

John Crigler's drives to the basket fouled out Elgin baylor and led UK to an NCAA championship that night. i went to a 3 point shooting contest at the YMCA and we all argued about who would win. No one mentioned Crigler because he played center in HS. He won by a wide margin. he almost made the Royals and Tom Marshal told a friend of mine he would have made the team, had he played guard at UK.

Tom thacker is the answer to a trivia question. Who played on an NCAA champion, an AbA champion and an NBA Championship team? Few know this.

Sorry for the long post, but basketball started more than 25 years ago and while the players are generally better conditioned now, shooting has become a lost art.

 

Any list of 9th region players no matter what years you are talking about that doesn't include Dicky Beal is a joke.

Few know this.

Sorry for the long post, but basketball started more than 25 years ago and while the players are generally better conditioned now, shooting has become a lost art.

 

One thing about this statement people do not take into account. People today are more mechincaly gifted shooting than they were 30 to 40 years ago. Not to mention offensive players year ago had the luxury of not facing they fast amount of defensives played today and the amount of athletic people in your face at all time guarding your shot.

Any list of 9th region players no matter what years you are talking about that doesn't include Dicky Beal is a joke.

 

His list was from prior to 1980,thus, Dicky would not be on it.

His list was from prior to 1980,thus, Dicky would not be on it.

Ok...................But any team made up of athletes over the last 25 years from the 9th region would blow about any other team out of the water.

The late 70's would have some good big men in Schlomer and Turkey Jones.

One thing about this statement people do not take into account. People today are more mechincaly gifted shooting than they were 30 to 40 years ago. Not to mention offensive players year ago had the luxury of not facing they fast amount of defensives played today and the amount of athletic people in your face at all time guarding your shot.

 

Basketball is basketball.

 

Today's players aren't any better than players from years ago, just different.

Basketball is basketball.

 

Today's players aren't any better than players from years ago, just different.

:thumb: So many poeple fail or refuse to realize this.

Any list of 9th region players no matter what years you are talking about that doesn't include Dicky Beal is a joke.

 

I know this thread is about players from 1980 to present, but I just wanted to say that I totally agree with Big Stud about Beal and you would have to include N. Ky's first Mr. Basketball, Doug Schloemer from Covington Holmes. Schloemer also got robbed of a State Title in 1978 when Shelby County's Charles Hurt clearly goal tended in the final minute and it was not called.

 

I won't bring up anymore players prior to 1980.

:thumb: So many poeple fail or refuse to realize this.

Because I think its a false statment. Its just hard for old timers to realize how much quicker the game is today. Every player on the floor is so much more athletic it makes it harder to score, defense today is so much better.

 

So many more schemes and the game is much more complex.