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    Local High School Star WillC's Avatar
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    Default Slam HS All-Americans (1994-2014)

    It's interesting looking back at who Slam selected for their HS All-American teams going back as far as 1994.

    It's amazing how many went on to be undrafted, while others are now household names.

    http://basketballjournalist.blogspot...ns-hit-or.html

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    Default Re: Slam HS All-Americans (1994-2014)

    A little off-topic, but how about this...

    http://www.si.com/vault/2002/12/23/3...still-love-him


    That he can't see the damage to this day is part of the mystery
    of Stanley Roberts. So is his blindness to how great a player he
    could've been. Dale Brown, who was the LSU coach during Roberts's
    and O'Neal's one season together, 1989--90, wasn't alone in
    considering Roberts the better pro prospect. When the 17-year-old
    O'Neal arrived in Baton Rouge in the summer of 1989 as the most
    hotly pursued recruit in the land, Brown told him he might get a
    chance to play as a freshman. After all, Roberts, a Proposition
    48 sophomore heading into his first college season, had hammered
    Alonzo Mourning in the McDonald's High School All-American game
    in 1988 and had been just as coveted as O'Neal
    .

    When the 19-year-old Roberts met O'Neal down on the LSU practice
    court known as the Dungeon to face off for the first time, people
    scrambled to drag in chairs. Might play? The first time O'Neal
    got the ball, he slammed right over Roberts, and Roberts returned
    the favor. The next four possessions went like that: Two 7-foot,
    290-pound mastodons colliding, Boom! Six times up and down the
    floor, six straight dunks. Onlookers howled, and teammates jawed
    at Roberts, "This is your house! Your house!"

    Then, abruptly, Roberts switched gears. He took the ball on the
    wing, and as Shaq stood in the lane, waiting, never thinking to
    go guard him, Roberts lofted an 18-footer over his head and in.
    O'Neal was frozen--and, worse, exposed. It hit Roberts at once:
    You can't come out. I got you. O'Neal's feet were still heavy,
    awkward, size 22 to Roberts's 16. His game was all height and
    force. Roberts rained jumpers over O'Neal, and the few times Shaq
    dared to step out, Roberts cut around him and dunked. On the
    other end Roberts learned quickly how to time Shaq's jump hook
    and slap it away, how to shiver Shaq with a forearm to the chest
    at the foul line and halt his momentum before he got into the
    lane, how to frustrate him until he lost focus.

    "When we played each other in the NBA, he was the only one who
    ever really slowed me down," O'Neal says of Roberts. "His game is
    just like mine: Big, funny, silly--but he can shoot. I can't."

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    Default Re: Slam HS All-Americans (1994-2014)

    Interesting stuff. It's crazy to think that Roberts was regarded by some as a better pro prospect than Shaq, but he probably had more refined skills at that stage of their career. I remember watching Roberts in the NBA. He was overweight but talented.

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    Default Re: Slam HS All-Americans (1994-2014)

    Quote Originally Posted by LAZERUSS
    A little off-topic, but how about this...

    http://www.si.com/vault/2002/12/23/3...still-love-him
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD9ePMQERbc

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    Default Re: Slam HS All-Americans (1994-2014)

    Quote Originally Posted by julizaver
    Damn...if I didn't know better, I would have thought that was Shaq.


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