Mark Price

[PIP]

Seriously this man was ahead of his time… He could have dominated this era like some of the guards do today. So underrated.

 

[Zeus69]

I was thrilled when the Cavaliers drafted him because I followed his college career so closely and saw first hand what he could do.

I grew up in Maryland and attended games at Cole Field house while in high school. Price was always hitting daggers against my future college (U of MD Terps). I hated him then lol.

 

[PIP]

I was thrilled when the Cavaliers drafted him because I followed his college career so closely and saw first hand what he could do.

I grew up in Maryland and attended games at Cole Field house while in high school. Price was always hitting daggers against my future college (U of MD Terps). I hated him then lol.

Terp4Life huh ? I lived near college park for about 7 years.

I would have loved to have seen Price in college

 

[bob2the2nd]

Steph curry and mark price would have had some epic battles if price was in this era

 

[bob2the2nd]

I was thrilled when the Cavaliers drafted him because I followed his college career so closely and saw first hand what he could do.

I grew up in Maryland and attended games at Cole Field house while in high school. Price was always hitting daggers against my future college (U of MD Terps). I hated him then lol.

All I have to say to that is...

Umbc

 

[PIP]

@The Oi Went to Howard University.

 

[The Oi]

@The Oi Went to Howard University.

I was on their yachting team and used to eat in the cafeteria alone a lot.

 

[PIP]

I was on their yachting team and used to eat in the cafeteria alone a lot.

The student body knew your name wasn’t Chauncey.

 

[Otsego Mar]

He was the guy you relied on hitting big shots down the stretch. A true PG.

 

[Sebastian]

Seriously this man was ahead of his time… He could have dominated this era like some of the guards do today. So underrated.

In retrospect, the frustration at not beating Jordan is even worse considering that perhaps the Cavs already had the very weapons on hand to do it (more so had they not traded fucking Harper or exposed Curry in the expansion draft).

These old school teams never took enough threes.

A Warriors small ball concept perhaps would have given the Cavs an edge. They had some excellent shooters on those teams.

Like I was saying to @RchfldCavRaised, in 87-88 Price shot 48.6% from three over 80 games. 48.6%. That is insane.

He shot over 40% from three over the course of a season on five occasions. And he only averaged more than four threes a game in two seasons.

A shooter like that should have been dropping 8-10 threes a night. Between him and Ehlo, at least 12-14.

One considers the team could have had a small ball line-ups of Price, Ehlo, Curry, Nance, Hot Rod, or Price, Harper, Ehlo, Curry, Hot Rod, and they could have shot the three ball incredibly well.

(Of course I could be way off, defensively those small ball lineups are potentially bad on defense, and hinge on Ehlo and Harper being able to keep forwards in line enough to not overwork Hot Rod or Nance, but the point is that they had a number of three point shooters and the strategies of the day squandered one of the greatest shooters of all time).

 

[Deezus]

Seriously this man was ahead of his time… He could have dominated this era like some of the guards do today. So underrated.

My favorite player as a kid! He basically patented splitting the double team, and would dominate with today's style/pace/rules.

I became friends with John Sabol (new Fox8 sports guy) recently... He and his brother did a podcast with Price as the guest. Really worth a listen!

‎Sabol Brothers on the Baseline: Mark Price on the Richfield Coliseum glory years, Cavs Draft & more on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Sabol Brothers on the Baseline, Ep Mark Price on the Richfield Coliseum glory years, Cavs Draft & more - Jul 28, 2021

podcasts.apple.com

 

[Randolphkeys]

One of Price's contemporaries on the West Coast Tom Tolbert talked about how he broke double teams by splitting them. He wasn't the greatest athlete in the world, so once Price started doing it a quicker guard could do it easily. Great point, Deezy.

The biggest hurdle to those 80s teams failing to do what Golden State currently can do is the way defenses are reffed. The 1980s were physical in a way the game cannot be physical today.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Price-God was a god among mortals.

 

[PIP]

Need a closer ? here’s the guy….That machine is a better passer than Windler

 

[macbdog]

Need a closer ? here’s the guy….That machine is a better passer than Windler

He could be a bench veteran who comes in at the end to take big shots, kind of like Jason Giambi was for a couple years with the Indians when Franconia first got here.