Unfortunately I'm a bit younger, so my vote would probably have to go to Russell. Seeing his "spin pass" live against ULL and again vs Ole Miss was probably the best thing I saw during my time at LSU. If we take athleticism out of the equation, I'd have to say the best individual performance I saw by a player was Jacob Hester vs. Florida in 07. The only other LSU athletes I can remember being as athletically astounding as JaMarcus were Tyrus Thomas and Anthony Randolph.
Casanova was the best athletete I saw in a Tiger uniform. Pete was the best player. His court awareness was unlike anything I've ever seen.
No Brainer: Pistol Pete, born and raise in my home state of Pennsylvania. Averaged 44.2 ppg his entire college career. No 3 point line folks, incredible. He invented, in that he perfected, the no look pass for a generation of basketball players at all levels. Feb.3, 1970: T-Town Pete scores 69 on Bama, 47 points in the 2nd half.
Not quite old enough to have seen Maravich or Casanova in the purple and gold. I'm going to go with Chris Jackson. Shaq was my first instinct, but he had the God-given advantage of being 7 feet, 300 pounds. CJ worked for his talent, and overcam Tourette's Syndrome along the way. Too bad he turned himself into a USA-hating Muslim later in life, but as a Tiger, he was unbelievable.
you must've been too young to have seen pete play during his college days, no doubt. shaq had nothing on pete except height and weight. the harlem globetrotters had nothing on pete as far as showmanship. shaq had god given gifts that he didn't develop, pete had gifts that he worked tirelessly on.
