All-Star Johnnies Lineup

If you had one game to win, who do you pick for your all-time great johnnies lineup:

Head Coach (obvious)
Assistant 1 (can plug in a past head coach you liked or assistant)
Assistant 2 (can plug in a past head coach you liked or assistant)

PG:
SG:
SF:
PF:
C:

Bench 1:
Bench 2:
Bench 3:

I’ll let Louie be the head coach but, I want Jarvis and Mike Dunlap as his two assistants. I want those two guys to do the actual coaching.

PG: Mark Jackson
SG: Chris Mullin
SF: Malik Sealey
PF: Ron Artest
C: Tariq Owens

B: Erick Barkley
B: Dwight Hardy
B: Robert Werdan

Head coach: Joe Lapchick
Asst 1: Louie
Asst 2: Fran



PG: Mark Jackson
SG: Chris Mullin
SF: Walter Berry
PF: Ron Artest
C: Bill Wennington

B: Malik Sealy
B: Erick Barkley
B: Jayson Williams

I think Johnny23 nailed it.

But, I would like to have Matt Brust on my bench.  All time great energy guy.

Head Coach: Joe Lapchick
Assistant 1 Louie Carnesecca
Assistant 2 (Frank McGuire)

PG: Erick Barkley
SG: Chris Mullin
SF: Malik Sealy
PF: Walter Berry
C:  Leroy Ellis

Bench 1: Ron Attest
Bench 2: Tony Jackson
Bench 3: Dick McGuire

Mel Davis averaged 21 points and 16 rebounds over his two-year career. Can he be ninth man? Assuming Matt Brust is unavailable obviously.

Mel Davis is easily #9, and could possibly deserve to be even higher. He was a great player.

If you had one game to win, who do you pick for your all-time great johnnies lineup:

Head Coach: Buck Freeman
Assistant 1: Mike Dunlap
Assistant 2: Joe Lapchick

PG: Mel Utley
SG: Bill Schaeffer
SF: Mel Davis
PF: George Johnson
C: Le Roy Ellis

Bench 1: Marcus Hatten
Bench 2: David Russell
Bench 3: Billy PaulBerwangerz

All pre-1980 players in your starting lineup. If we were talking about music, I would have definitely agreed.

I think Johnny23 nailed it.

But, I would like to have Matt Brust on my bench.  All time great energy guy.

Yeah Matt Brust was a bull and instant impact. Maybe make a special exemption for his role.

Jackson, Mullin, Seally, Berry, Harkless.  Bench of Barkley Artest and Wennington. Head coach Lapcheck w  Carneseca and Dunlap.

Jackson, Mullin, Seally, Berry, Harkless.  Bench of Barkley Artest and Wennington. Head coach Lapcheck w  Carneseca and Dunlap.

Ironically 3/5 of my first team was the 1985 team, , too bad they didnt have the 3 point shot then

All pre-1980 players in your starting lineup. If we were talking about music, I would have definitely agreed.

I was half way joking - no Mullin, no Berry - the point being that basketball didn't start in 1985. Mel Davis averaged 21 and 16. George Johnson averaged 15 and 10. Leroy Ellis averaged 17 and 13. They played a combined 30 years in the league. And people are trying to find room on the GOAT team for floor slapping dope Matt Brust, the most over rated player in SJ basketball history. It's sad how little people know about the history of the program and how little they appreciate it.

I was half way joking - no Mullin, no Berry - the point being that basketball didn't start in 1985. Mel Davis averaged 21 and 16. George Johnson averaged 15 and 10. Leroy Ellis averaged 17 and 13. They played a combined 30 years in the league. And people are trying to find room on the GOAT team for floor slapping dope Matt Brust, the most over rated player in SJ basketball history. It's sad how little people know about the history of the program and how little they appreciate it.

85 was a long time ago and many people didn’t follow before then and aren’t familiar w the players, Although,I know we had some good ones. Agree w Brust not being in the discussion.

85 was a long time ago and many people didn’t follow before then and aren’t familiar w the players, Although,I know we had some good ones. Agree w Brust not being in the discussion.

All well and good and yes 1985 was a long time ago. And yet so much of what SJ fans hold on to when they lay claim to basketball greatness happened well before that and very little after. If you asked me to name the greatest Yankee team of all time and I left off Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle and Berra in favor of Chris Chambliss, Tino Martinez, Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada would you credit that to my youth or attribute it to my ignorance?

My father graduated from SJU right after ww2. He told me about the nationally prominent Redmen, They won the Nit when it was a better tourney than the NCAA and in 52 made the NCAA finals. I agree that the rich bb history dates back well before 85. But, the players were not household names like Babe Ruth,Joe D et al.

mel davis, walter berry, ellis, mark Jackson, mullin.  Bench....dove, seiden,, billy schaefer

Lets not forget Bob Zowaluk

Kevin Loughery, Tony Jackson, and I always include Donny Burke(sic)

Billy Paultz and Johnny Warren.