That's the one!!! It isn't on that clip, but I seem to recall a clip with Mike Rice saying something like Travis Outlaw just disrespected Rodney Carney's ancestors. BNM
We tended to draft very young back then. Jermaine, Travis, Telfair and Martell were all taken right out of high school. BNM
Don't forget the crucial game-ending block against Denver during the tenth game of that streak. My family and I were at that game in a suite (we were averaging maybe one or two games a year for many years), and my dad and I decided right there that we were going to get season tickets starting the next year.
My Travis Outlaw story: This is literally like my 3rd year refereeing. I'm refereeing a city men's league at Bally's Total Fitness. Outlaw's brother regularly played in the that league. Catfish has JUST signed his new (21MM?) deal with us and I see him walk in and start getting warmed up. I remember thinking: "I can't fucking believe it. This MF is about to play!!" Everyone in the gym was stunned except of course his brother's team. Now, I don't know, he seems like a nice guy but I certainly didn't get Rhode's Scholar from him. There were times when the defense was in a 2-3 zone and he's calling for Iso clear outs at the top of the key.... Um... Bruh, it's a 2-3...
Nate's influence - all iso all the time! I remember watching a game against PHO with my daughter back when she was in middle school. It was a nationally televised game. PHO was playing a zone and Nate ran a Roy iso 6 times in a row and POR failed to score all six times. The TV announcers couldn't understand what POR was doing. They asked, why is Portland running isolation plays against a zone? My daughter jumped up and shouted at the TV, "even I know you don't run isos against a zone!". BNM
Glad Travis got a huge payday but think everyone could see his game was not going to progress with more money. Great player off the bench but definitely not someone to build around.
You should have challenged him for a 1v1 on the nearest BB court. What a missed opportunity to create your own legacy. Does he play in that 3v3 league, where AI plays?
