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Date Posted: 18:40:23 12/16/02 Mon
Author: Voice of Reason
Subject: Only Herb Jones and Pete Mickael were "Instant Impact players
In reply to: JMac 's message, "How right you are. Without the guys you mentioned, we would have a bad memories of Juco transfers. Guys like Nick Van Exel, Ruben Patterson, Pete Mickael, Herb Jones, Terry Nelson, Art Long, Erik Martin, Immanuel McElroy, Corey Blount and Terrance Gibson. I can't believe five of these guys are playin in the NBA, others in Europe, and others starting coaching careers. Man, there is no way Whaley or Nick Williams could turn out to be good players." on 17:40:24 12/15/02 Sun

From the first day of practice these two established themselves as guys who were going to contribute heavily RIGHT AWAY. Isn't that why all you JUCO fans want JUCO's, for their alleged instant impact? All those other guys, minus Gibson-a H.S. signee, took varying degrees of time to begin making CONSISTENT contributions.
By the way this, and others coming to the aid of all the JUCO's, was exactly the type of response I envisioned when I wrote the original post. If JUCO's are so great then why since 1990 have only two National championship teams had a significant JUCO presence on their team? (significant meaning that more than one JUCO transfer who played meaningful minutes.
UNLV 1990- Larry Johnson, David Butler and others
Arkansas 1994-Corey Beck, Dwight Stewart, Alex Dillard

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