Pick 2 players, past or present, from UM for your NBA Jam Team
Saw this tweet from B1G Network and thought it'd make for fun discussion:
Random, but this should be fun. Which two players, past or present, from your #B1G team would you pick for a mythical B1G NBA Jam?
— Brent Yarina(@BTNBrentYarina) June 12, 2014
I think I'd go with Glen Rice and Chris Webber. In NBA Jam, I was always a fan of having one guy who was awesome at 3-point shooting and one guy who was awesome at dunking. Generally, I'd have the dunker passing to the 3-point guy, who would take like 50 3's a game. Then, I'd have the big guy stand under the basket and basically goaltend everything because (IIRC) I think the goaltends counted on the stat sheet as blocks for some reason. You?
Glen Rice and C-Webb was my first thought. Inside-outside.
Lou Bullock and Brent Petway
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I love Beilein so much.
Trey Burke and Brent Petway: Non-stop lob city.
Team would be unstoppable, with Nik being on fire the entire game.
Everyone takes the close corner 3. I'd use the turbo to get open and let Nik shoot from his sweet spot. Then Id pound CW down low when I needed a basket.
This is the combination that I thought of as well. One of the two would be doing something at any given moment in this contest, and but the offense would definitely keep rolling along with little to no interruption. Pretty sure defenses wouldn't know who or how to guard between the outside shooting and accuracy of Stauskas and the knack for getting open looks and assisting on what seemed like every over shot in the case of Webber.
Or Webber and Glenn Robinson III, just dunk on everyone from everywhere.
Rudy Tomjanovitch & Cazzie Russell
Are you actually familiar with the concept of NBA Jam?
I actually am - thanks for asking. But given that the OP's premise is whimsical I thought it would be fun to look at players from the past who had skills that might translate to the gameplay. Rudy T was a incredible outside shooter who could take the ball to the hole when needed and Cazzie was a multidimensional player who was probably not the best choice but hey...this is Michigan and no discussion of Michigan players can be complete with Cazzie in their someplace. And everybody had already given what was probably the obvious choice C-Webb & either Nik or Rice so was just trying to be a bit different and look at players from a different era.
My first two choices were Alan Hardy (fierce dunker) and Marty Bodner for whatever that's worth.
Stauskas and Rice. Also my 2 favorite ballers of all time.
I logged in to post the same thing.
Give me Rice and stauskus!
If I went a different direction I would go CWebb and Garnett (He could have went here..)
max bielfeldt
Jalen Rose and CWebb.
Lack of communication may lead to turnovers becuase, you know, they don't talk to each other anymore.
Mitch and Novak. ALL GRIT.
Trey and C-Webb
These were my thoughts too. Could outscore most people they go against.
webber and stauskas (though tough to pass on burke)...if i recall that game was all about perceived player strengths and of course who heats up quickest and most frequently...webber would be one of best athletes on both ends and stauskas is a historically accurate shooter...nice post though, love the topic, that game was sick
Stauskas and Pettway, with C-Webb, GRIII and Burke as my bench.
Jamal Crawford and Chris Webber. I'm gonna win
with Cazzie as a sub.
Stauskas and GRIII all day!
Stauskas and Robert Traylor. Stauskas because I'd spend the whole game on fire, and Traylor because of the no-fouls rule. Every rebound would be mine, I don't care how fast and athletic you are. It's like NES Ice Hockey. Just pick four fat guys.
Stauskas on fire would never miss, actually I think anyone on fire in the game never missed, but still......
I had NBA Jam on my Game Boy, the original one. I also had this clip on magnifier with a light because the screen was small and shitty, but awesome at the time.
are you sure that wasn't NBA All-Stars?
I think it was the Tournament Edition.
Glen Rice and Roy Tarpley.
If Tarpley had been a more recent player, people wouldn't be forgetting about him, he was a better player than any other big man I've seen at U-M.
Drive to hoop all day, both lightening fast
Mark Price from three! "He's on fire!!!"
C Webb for sure because there is no traveling in NBA Jam.
Glenn Robinson also seems to be built for the game because of his dunking ability. I think Glenn Rice and Glenn Robinson could be a solid team.
"Anything in a Glenn". What movie?
Spike Albrecht and Dugan Fife.
Avery Queen and Spike?
Gary Grant and CWebb. Oh wait, defense doesn't matter in that game.
Ok fine. Burke and Webber.
Chris Webber and Glenn Robinson III. Rock the rim!
taking Stauskas over Glen Rice is nuts. Stauskas is the best shooter Michigan has had since Glen Rice. But he's not Glen Rice. How much of that is because he's only a sophomore I don't know, so maybe in 2 or 3 years he'll be Glen Rice.
Beyond Rice I don't see how you pass on Webber. The rare times Rice misses, Webber would just rebound and dunk. Plus, Webber would give you some blocks and rebouding.
The only weakness here is that neither of these guys is really a great ballhandler. I doubt that would matter that much in NBA Jam. But maybe Burke is your sub so that you have a distributor.
Denard and Jumbo Elliot!