Comments on: THF Countdown #15: 1989

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:16:32 +0000

I am hoping they will be #1 on this list by the end of next season.

By: geof

geof — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:53:24 +0000

I think as a new feature in your season preview you need to predict where the current year’s vintage will fall in your countdown.

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:27:44 +0000

You are correct. Glen Rice went 4th…shocking isn’t it.

By: Matt Privett

Matt Privett — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:48:13 +0000

Just for the sake of accuracy J.R. Reid was the 5th pick, not the 4th. But yes, he should not have gone that high.

By: rhd

rhd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:46:56 +0000

I think that Tyus Edney was the starting PG for UCLA at the time. McGinnis still probably could have used his bigger body to disrupt the ultra quick but tiny Edney.

By: DeanForever

DeanForever — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:50:15 +0000

JoeCool-

The loss to Arkansas was so unbelievably cruel; especially, the way our boys walloped an unnecessarily over-confident Kentucky team the previous week. My feeling going into that Final Four was, “okay, Rasheed is finally healthy and we are defending lights-out.” Then Stackhouse had his leg issues and it slowly crept into the nether.

I’ve often thought about how a UNC-UCLA matchup would have went down, had it happened. Since 1977, Dean was 2-2 in national championship games to that point. Other than the Indiana game, where a future Hall-Of-Famer just took over for the Hoosiers, the other three contests were close. I would like to think that Donald Williams would have donned his Superman cape and hit about 5-6 threes, and Rasheed would have eaten that tall “Z” named oaf (UCLA’s center)alive. O’Bannon vs. Stackhouse would have been a great matchup. There is no way Cameron Dollar could have hung with Jeff McGinnis, no way.

By: keithunc

keithunc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:19:32 +0000

I call my dad when halftime starts and he says (if a guy on the other team is doing well) “that guys is going crazy”. If it’s a UNC guy playing bad he says “that guys gone crazy” (for three years it was reserved for Q).

By: geof

geof — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:49:00 +0000

I’m holding the ticket stub to that 1/15/89 game in my hand right now!

By: Tar Heel Fan

Tar Heel Fan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:40 +0000

Yes it was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcatoUpQLrU

By: JoeCool

JoeCool — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:43 +0000

Was the ‘tubby’ Arkansas player Dwight Stewart???? I still can’t believe that shot nor the fact that Jerry Stackhouse picked up that charley-horse in that game…that was a crushing loss especially after beating Kentucky to get there.