No. 1 basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins to Kansas

LeBron was a freak. He reminded me of a young Moses Malone at Petersburg High but he wasn't as good. Kobe was good but in my opinion, he wasn't better than his father, JellyBean, at the same point. Joe Bryant was a beast who do could anything when he was at John Bartram High School.
I haven't seen this kid yet but for him to unseat Parker, who I have seen, as the top stud, he must be special.

 

So Drip. So, so Drip.

When I think of Moses Malone, I definitely think "point guard handle, shooting guard range, and man could that guy leap."

 

I thought it was Reggie Theus who gave way to MJ. After which he channeled his frustration into his art...

 

I don't know what the So, so stuff is about but that's you're deal. MM had all of those skills but the thing that separated him from others was he had stamina and a killer instinct. He didn't want to lose and he didn't very often.

 

Theus was traded to Kansas City in February 1984. Jordan was not drafted til that June:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/theusre01.html

 

The memory I have of Kidd was in the state tournament during his junior or senior year, there was a game where his team scored something like 64 points, and he had the basket, or the assist on every field goal but two during the game. I think he finished one rebound short of a quadruple double. It was just insane...

 

Yeah, as demonstrated by his career 19 percent on threes... Oh wait, isn't that awful?

I seem to recall his daddy being known more for defense and athleticism (and cocaine ingestion), not "shooting the lights out."

 

Kentucky fans handling disappointment in their usual gracious manner:

 

In the games that I saw him play, he seemingly always put up good numbers. How's that?

 

The good old eye test. What one sees and what is reality are two completely different things.

Moses Malone could run the point in highschool?

 

He could pretty much do anything he wanted when he was a member of the Crimson Wave.

 

He's a good kid. And an even better young person.