I went to law school with Jacob Rose. I remember him running the law school ping pong tournament, which got me into quite a bit of trouble with one of our professors, and I ended up getting a C minus in the course, which was completely undeserved. The professor was unhappy with me showing up for class late without any books and sweating like a pig. I also remember Jacob running the school one on one basketball contest, in which I believe I made it to the semi finals. I have a strange recollection, which you can check on with Jacob, of his brother, Cecil, winning the competition, even though he wasn’t attending UF. I might be wrong about that one, but Cecil, along with Charles Thompson and Mychal Thompson ended up playing college basketball at Houston for Guy Lewis. Their teammate in high school, Osborne Lockhart, attended Minnesota. Those guys all played for a great and undefeated Miami Jackson high school team. I believe that the Thompson’s and the Rose’s are all related. Mychal Thompson is Klay Thompson‘s father. I also have a vague recollection, that the Gators basketball coach, John Lotz, had an opportunity to sign all four of the Miami Jackson guys, but he preferred a point guard from Tennessee over Lockhart, which resulted in him not signing any of these guys. You can check with Jacob on all of this stuff. Other players that I played against while I was at UF included, Nat Moore and a bunch of other Gator football players and Gator basketball players such as Tim Fletcher, Mark Thompson, Ken Van Ness and Tony Miller. I also played against Rusty Clark from UNC, Ron Harris from FSU and I played with former UNC player, David Chadwick, on a law league team in the Gainesville city league. Ken Van Ness and I continued to play together on teams in Tampa for years there after. Ken, unfortunately, has passed away. That’s it for now.
Thompsons and Roses are cousins. The Miami hs team had its state championship taken away because, I think, Cecil and others, weren’t eligible. I don’t recall Cecil being in Gainesville, but maybe. One year Jake and another law school student named Roger Hurd played for the campus wide 1on 1 championship. Don’t recall who won.
I played with and against Roger Hurd. I believe he played basketball in college for DePauw. My recollection of the one on one contest that I was referring to ended up with Cecil and Bill Jula playing against each other. I could be wrong about Cecil, but for some reason it has stuck in my mind that it was Jacob’s brother playing for the championship. Bill Jula, Tom Marriott and I used to play together as a three-man team on the courts somewhere around 34th St. We also played in the city league together along with Niff Chamberlain, Dave Chadwick, and others. Roger Hurd played for the former Gators basketball players team in the city league. They finished first in the league. We were the runner ups.
Played a lot of ball in the Fl gym around 90-92, remember playing against Mike Kerr. He was a beast. We would play after Social Dance class in the gym. (Also had to dance with him, Shane Matthews other other fball players. Was looking for an easy A with lots of girls, got the easy A part, but class was mostly made up of the football team - only THREE girls... sigh, story of my life. Danced the polka finals and ran into, and tripped, Shane. Was terrified I might have hurt him.) Also played lots at court off 34th north of campus... can't remember exactly where. Ran into Terry Dean and some other fball players (and some pretty good locals) down there a good bit.
I mimic Iverson's game when I play against 9-10 year old kids in my neighborhood. I can put my hand on a kid's head when I drive to the hoop to dunk the ball.
Name any white guard in the nba from 89-96, and I was, at one time or another, nick named him. Especially if we were playing in the “hood”.
ha yes, you and me both. I used to try the Chris Jackson / Abdul-Rauf 3-crossover dribbles then three that he used to drop 50 on us, but had far less success with that too. Go figure.
Right before Jason Williams came into the league and changed everyone's perception of a "white guard"
They don't make 'em like they used to! I'm not athletic enough (anymore) to talk trash, but damn, the instinct lives deep within me. lol. That is my favorite NBA era, for sure.
I was not a great basketball player. I could shoot some and was sound on defense, could dribble with either hand but not explosive. Really good basketball IQ though. I saw the floor really well. I played on some very good intramural teams and was always the coach and played maybe 25% of the game. Two times I made a huge difference. The first time we were playing a team with a VERY good point guard and it was close at half time. I told my guys to press once the ball passed half court. I did not tell them why. After five minutes one of our best players said to me "It isn't working" because he thought that I wanted turnovers for easy baskets. I asked him "How many points have they scored?" The answer was none. Their whole offense was in the toilet because their point guard wasn't actually running it. The wrong guys were taking shots in the wrong places. He then gave me a huge smile. The second time was when we were playing the Physical Plant Division team and their warmups were dunking drills. My teammates were all scared to play them and we started out sucking bad. I subbed myself in. I got a couple of steals, rebounds and baskets and cut the lead and subbed myself out and told them "If I can do that you guys can do that." By the middle of the second half we were up by more than 20 points and the game was stopped due to an abundance of technicals.
I was on the Circle K team at UF in the mid '70s, playing both intramurals as well as prison inmates. I was like a coach on the floor and didn't add much as a player, so the team asked me to become their full time coach. Being a Knick fan, I modeled my game after Red Holzman. Red Holzman - Wikipedia
