MGoBlue.com's Top Ten Michigan NBA Draft Picks
We all love lists and debating about lists. MGoBlue.com just completed its series on the top Michigan NBA Draft Picks of all time. Drum roll, please.
- Rudy Tomjanovich
- Glen Rice
- Juwan Howard
- Cazzie Russell
- Jalen Rose
- Jamal Crawford
- Ricky Green
- Campy Russell
- Terry Mills
- Phil Hubbard
That list is hard to argue with -- if you confine yourself to the players that the Athletic Department is allowed to consider. Of course the list has a huge hole since one person many would put as number one disqualified himself.
So where to put C-Webb? He was a number one draft pick and finished his 15 year NBA career with 17,182 points and 8,124 rebounds. He was a 5 time All-Star, 5 time All-NBA selection (2001 first team, 1999, 2002, & 2003 second team, 2000 third team), All Rookie team and Rookie of the Year in 1994, and the 1999 NBA rebounding champ (13.0 rpg). But, he has no NBA championships, something that both Rudy T (as a coach) and Glen Rice (as a role player) have. And Rice still beats Webber out as the most prolific Wolverine NBA scorer (natch).
I say number three, but it's close.
I refuse to have our #1 be most famous for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNNAvyspGs&NR=1
He's in this list too, but it ends with a much more satisfying #1.
How come he's not on that list? Was he excluded because of the Ed Martin nonsense?
Yep
As said in the OP
Technically I don't think C-Webb ever went here.
For a guy that never went to Michigan, he did a great job photoshopping himself into all those pictures with the basketball team.
Loy Vaught was underappreciated during his career. He should be right up there next to Terry Mills.
Webber is the best player we've ever had. All the extracurricular nonsense aside he was the most talented Michigan basketball player of all time in college or in the NBA. He's a future NBA hall of famer and will go down as one of the most intelligent and well rounded power forwards of all time. He had incredible agility to pull off moves in the post and I don't think I've ever seen a 4 pass as well as he could.
Unfortunately his best years he had Kobe and Shaq down the expressway from him. He was an underrated passer and a dominant scorer before his knees gave up on him.
against orlando in 95.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noUmAlzwq7Q
Gmoney had the sweetest shot i have ever seen. 98 All star game MVP and record holder for most points in a half, plus he brought us our only National Championship still holding the record for most points in a NCAA tournament. My number one player of all time, hands down. C-Webb has love for the university which i like to see, but he was part of the reason our b-ball program has been in the abyss for the last 10 years, so I cannot include him on the list.
But I could be wrong
I'm pretty sure my wife is pregnant with our first child, and there is no way I can consider naming this child anything other than first name Glen, middle name Rice.
Boy or girl.
My favorite player of all time. By far.
he would be #1
but look at the stats, and the records (the NCAA tourney record will probably never be broken in this day of college b-ball). The fact that he was the main reason for our ONLY National Championship should be the remaining factor that seperates him from the rest. C-webb was a great player, but neither he nor the Fab Five won jack shit.
No Maceo Baston?
Maceo was my favorite UM player ever. Go Maccabi Tel Aviv!
People either forget or never had knowledged dropped on them about how good Rudy T was, and how great he could have been if he hadn't had his brain knocked out of his skull in an on court fight/cheap shot.
That being said, as others have already noted, Webber was the most talented player Michigan has ever had. As a pure athlete he was up there before Air Georgia (before his knees chose to be pudding), passing, well passing he is one of the all-time great passing big men, and was a steller defender, jump shooter, rebounder, and dunker. There was nothing he couldn't do (besides maybe win the big game). Before he came to the Pistons and looked like Grandpa Webber he averaged 20-10 for his NBA career.
No doubt he is either number 1 or 2, and the only reason I even give the option for number 2 is because sometimes people forget how good Rudy T really was.