Visitor from the Seton Hall community...first-time poster...longtime admirer of what St. John's has meant to NYC area hoops...As a teenager, I was at the Holiday Festival game against the unbeaten Indiana team...one of the best games that Hoosiers team was given all year.
My favorite pure shooter was Rick Mount from Purdue, class of '70...the year Maravich came out. Calvin Murphy and Geoff Petrie from that year were great shooters as well, but no one was like Mount.
I've included a video from Mount's days at Lebanon High, about 90 seconds long. Nice shooting near the end, perfect form, unreal range. He scored 61 in a game at Purdue. With the three-pointer, it would have been 74.
Great call on Tony Bennett. I saw him go bonkers against Manhattan in an NIT game while playing with a bad back.
Mullin had tremendous touch from wherever he shot the ball. Bill Schaefer had quite a shooting year for the Johnnies as a senior.
At Seton Hall, the best I've seen was Randy Duffin, a 6-3 forward in the mid-70s.
Along with some already mentioned, there was Allan Hornyak (Ohio State), Joey Hassett (Providence), Kevin Houston (Army), Walter Davis, Dell Curry, Brian Winters. Stephon Curry certainly joins his dad.
I saw Randy Woods from LaSalle have some huge shooting games, but was he ever a hog.
Among the big men: Robert McAdoo, Bob Lanier.
Check out the Mount clip...from back in the days when kids practiced shooting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fEreY3UcK0