Lots of scoring on that first team and JJ not really a power forward. Maybe him off the bench and rebound warrior Evans to clean the glass for all those shooters......
Are you kidding? You would put John Johnson on the bench in favor of Reggie Evans for rebounding? Johnson averaged 10.1 rebounds his senior season while Reggie averaged 11.1 rebounds his senior season. For one rebound a game you'd bench John Johnson in favor of Reggie Evans. The same Johnson who made 56.9 % of his shots as compared to Reggie making 49.7% of his shots all from under the basket. The same Johnson who made 75.2 % of his FTA and averaged 28.0 points per game while Reggie shot just a lousy 61.9% of his FTA and averaged only 15.4 points per game. Yeah, I can see why you'd want to bench Johnson, after all Reggie grabbed 1 one more rebound per game.
In today's game position labels mean very little and you want to take Iowa's most prolific scorer and bench him to put in a rebounder.
G- Ronnie Lester 6'2'' 19.9 pts. 2.5 rebs. 6.0 assists
G-Fred Brown 6'3'' 3.8 rebounds and 27.6 points
G-Sam Williams 6'3'' but averaged 10.3 rebounds and 25.3 pts
G-John Johnson 6'7'' 10.1 rebounds and 28 points
C-Luka Garza 6'11'' 23.9 pts. 9.8 rebs
Fred Brown and John Johnson played together in that magical 1970 season. Imagine if Sam Williams who last played in 1968 had played with them.
The first guard off the bench would be B.J.(6'2'' 18.6 points 5.4 assts.) and the second would be Woolridge (6'1'' 20.2 points 2.7 rebs 6.0 assts.)
Kevin Kunnert (7' 0'' 19.2 points and 13.8 rebounds ) would replace Luka and could play alongside of him.
If we wanted to go bigger we could, also, bring in Chuck Darling (6'8'' 25.5 points and averaged 17.6 rebs his Jr. year) and/or Don Nelson (6'6'' 23.8 pts 11.9 rebs) or Greg Stokes (6'10'' 19.9 points 8.4 rebs.). Personally, I could never put together any such list without Chris Street ( 6'8'' 14.5 pts. 9.5 rebs. 89.2% Ft 63.1% FG)
And regarding the best team ever, that would come down to the 1956 Team that played and lost against Bill Russell's San Francisco team in the NCAA Championship game, the 1970 Ralph Miller team that averaged 100 points per game and was undefeated in the Big Ten, and the 1987 Raveling/Davis team that got to the Elite Eight and won 30 games that season. Imagine if Ralph Miller had coached that 1987 team.
