All-Time IUBB Defensive Team

[Stuhoo]

Slower week and the off-season, so thought I'd get our history buffs activated.

Name your all-time IUBB defensive team. Say why... or don't!

(of note - please don't turn this into a discussion of how good an all-around player Calbert or Isaih were -- we already know that! :)

Ready... GO!!

 

[Stuhoo]

I started the thread, so I get to start:

• Bobby Wilkerson. Team Captain - best defensive player in IUBB history
• Victor Oladipo
• OG Anunoby - for the Jamal Murray tournament shutdown, and so much more.
• Quinn Buckner - strrrrong, and the other half of the best defensive backcourt in college basketball history
• Jared Jeffries - so long and so good

Just missed my first five: Dane Fife, Dean Garrett, Chris Reynolds, Ray Tolbert, Jeff, Newton, Steve Downing

[IUHoosierJoe]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

I started the thread, so I get to start:

• Bobby Wilkerson. Team Captain - best defensive player in IUBB history
• Victor Oladipo
• OG Anunoby - for the Jamal Murray tournament shutdown, and so much more.
• Quinn Buckner - strrrrong, and the other half of the best defensive backcourt in college basketball history
• Jared Jeffries - so long and so good

Just missed my first five: Dane Fife, Dean Garrett, Chris Reynolds, Ray Tolbert, Jeff, Newton.

Gonna agree with all those.

[Pagoda]

Man this is difficult, I don't disagree with any of those.  Only one I'd add:

Alan Henderson: finished his career #2 in rebounds, #5 in steals, and #3 in blocks in IUBB history.

One honorable mention:

Isiah: Before my time, but he was a steals machine.

[go iu bb]

5 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Alan Henderson: finished his career #2 in rebounds, #5 in steals, and #3 in blocks in IUBB history.

You'd have to think that TJD would have an argument, too. Finished #1 in school history in both rebounds and blocks. Not as good at getting steals as Henderson.

[Scotty R]

Wilkerson 

Buckner

IT

Henderson 

Tolbert

[CSP]

Buckner 

VO 

Wilkerson 

OG 

TJD 

 

Switchability, length, athleticism

[ebridges24]

44 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I started the thread, so I get to start:

• Bobby Wilkerson. Team Captain - best defensive player in IUBB history
• Victor Oladipo
• OG Anunoby - for the Jamal Murray tournament shutdown, and so much more.
• Quinn Buckner - strrrrong, and the other half of the best defensive backcourt in college basketball history
• Jared Jeffries - so long and so good

Just missed my first five: Dane Fife, Dean Garrett, Chris Reynolds, Ray Tolbert, Jeff, Newton, Steve Downing

tough to argue with this

[ebridges24]

Dan Dakich

[Stuhoo]

14 minutes ago, ebridges24 said:

Dan Dakich

[Stuhoo]

15 minutes ago, ebridges24 said:

Dan Dakich

Other side of the coin... Full-on rotation players who were a defensive train wreck:

• James Blackmon Jr.
• Matt Roth
• Tom Pritchard
• Marty Simmons
• Mackenzie Mgbako

[str8baller]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

I started the thread, so I get to start:

• Bobby Wilkerson. Team Captain - best defensive player in IUBB history
• Victor Oladipo
• OG Anunoby - for the Jamal Murray tournament shutdown, and so much more.
• Quinn Buckner - strrrrong, and the other half of the best defensive backcourt in college basketball history
• Jared Jeffries - so long and so good

Just missed my first five: Dane Fife, Dean Garrett, Chris Reynolds, Ray Tolbert, Jeff, Newton, Steve Downing

Good list. I’d probably bounce OG and put in a true big. One of Zeller/TJD/Henderson. 

[ebridges24]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

it had to be said

[BA47591]

The original list here is petty rock solid. 

Bellamy, Jeffries, Wilkerson, Oladipo, Reynolds would be a line-up that could defend

 Not sure we could shoot very well though. 

 

[68Hoosier]

Greg Graham played some pretty good D back in the day.

[Demo]

Off the top of my head with no thought at all:

Wilkerson

Newton

Tolbert

Reynolds

G Graham

 

[LIHoosier]

31 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Other side of the coin... Full-on rotation players who were a defensive train wreck:

• James Blackmon Jr.
• Matt Roth
• Tom Pritchard
• Marty Simmons
• Mackenzie Mgbako

6th man (cuz he's always in foul trouble): Larry Richardson

[Stuhoo]

51 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

6th man (cuz he's always in foul trouble): Larry Richardson

Imagine a game of 1-v-1 between Scary Larry and Tijan.

There'd be blood and broken bones everywhere.

[HoosierHoopster]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

I started the thread, so I get to start:

• Bobby Wilkerson. Team Captain - best defensive player in IUBB history
• Victor Oladipo
• OG Anunoby - for the Jamal Murray tournament shutdown, and so much more.
• Quinn Buckner - strrrrong, and the other half of the best defensive backcourt in college basketball history
• Jared Jeffries - so long and so good

Just missed my first five: Dane Fife, Dean Garrett, Chris Reynolds, Ray Tolbert, Jeff, Newton, Steve Downing

Vic and OG - 2 of my favorite all time Hoosiers

I'd sub inJeff Newton - not for steals, just so good around the basket, blocks and boards, stopper and that FF against Duke...

[steubenhoosier]

Ahh… the false narrative of OG at IU lives on.

Freshman year played in 34 games but a little less than 14 mpg. Clearly a sub. Averaged 1.4 DRB per game. 0.8 steals and 0.8 blocks per game.

Sophomore year, 25 mpg in 16 games before he got hurt. 3.7 DRB per game. 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks per game.

No idea how this “prowess” constitutes qualifying for one of the best defensive players all-time at IU.