7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux, world's tallest teenager, set to become tallest..
...college basketball player ever
What do they say, you can't coach height?
Link:
Click for the article!
20 Replies
Dude won't even have to jump to dunk the ball...
(In response to this post by EDGEMAN)
2y
It'll be fun to watch him play if he can stay on the floor for any type of significant minutes.
(In response to this post by EDGEMAN)
2y
And it sounds like he's still growing. Could have Robert Wadlow's disease.
(In response to this post by Zanderhokie)
Thought that was legal now
(In response to this post by YBYSAIAHokie)
2y
(In response to this post by Palmetto Hokie)
V
VT One
2y
(In response to this post by Truthahn)
2y
He has a lot of weaknesses for sure, and will be exploited when he's on the floor. But if you're creative in how you use him he could be a real weapon.
His NBA prospects are probably a step above Sim Bhullar and a step below Zach Edey so staying in college all four years is a distinct possibility
(In response to this post by EDGEMAN)
H
HokieSA
2y
Curious if you ever had a take on him..
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)
2y
He was just terrible...it was before the movement where post players started becoming more skilled, so coaches would spend a lot of time actually putting post players through skill work that wasn't directly translatable to posting up
It was tough for him to move at all...at times he wouldn't even make it down the floor in transition. He wound up having trouble with infections and his feet and I think he actually lost his foot.
Gate City had a 7'3 center before he transferred to Twin Springs HS (turns out people transferred schools even way back in the 90s...who knew?!) who wound up at UNC Asheville as well but before Kenny George...he also wasn't serviceable in the mobility department and played less than 30 games at UNCA
Fun fact, that Gate City team had 6'10 Joh Shoemaker who started at Wake Forest with Tim Duncan, Jake Houseright and Chad Beasley...just
...monsters
(In response to this post by HokieSA)
2y
team in the state quarterfinals. 6’1 point guard Robert Carson for Liberty guarded Shoemaker. It was a great game.
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)
Shoemaker also played football
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)
2y
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)
Nope, that didn't happen until McClung
(In response to this post by SCHokie80)
None of them can hold a candle to Luke Minor.
(In response to this post by GCHokie34)
K
KCHokie2
2y
battles.
** Edited by KCHokie2 at 6/22/2024, 11:08:16 PM
(In response to this post by Chris Coleman)
2y
(In response to this post by EDGEMAN)