Not at all. It's only because it's in your timeline. It's the MJ syndrome. There is a guy with 11 rings. But because no one remembers watching him, they make excuses that it was a different time or worse competition Players from the late 1800s and early 1900s were just as good as today's players People are so dumb it amazes me half of you can tie your own shoes anymore
@@MorrisB1971 You could easily take the 69-70 Knicks and put them in today's NBA and they'd probably win the Championship....so much for your less competition
@@Drjones_ Nope, not trying to prove anything. But to think players in the 50s and 60s couldn't play in today's era is dumb. And if you want to say that, then tell me exactly what year everyone would be able to play in today's game... Were the 1980 NBA players able to play in 2021? If yes, then what's the difference in a 1975 player and a 1980 player? And if 1975 player could play, then what about a 1970 player?? Again, people think MJ is the best because it's in their own timeline. Trust me, 7'2, 300 plus pound Wilt would dominate today. Same with Bill Russell...
Only People Who can Sucessfully Shoot the Basketball and make it under that much Pressure! And I'm Not talking lay ups or dunks. Shooting the Basketball Exposes you, especially if you miss it. Apparently only 1- #32 Christian Laettner.
You don't know much history. Lew Alcinder played 3 years for UCLA, won 3 national championships, 3 national player of the year awards, and 3 final four most outstanding player awards. And then there's Bill Walton, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and others. Laettner was a very good player who made some clutch shots on great teams with a great coach.
@@a1aprospects470 unfortunately for lew when he was in college. Freshmen weren't allowed to play. Leattner made four straight final fours. Winning back to back nation titles.
Nah, that would be Lew Alcindor and it's not really debateable. For three years straight, he won national player of the year, the national title, and MOP of the FF.
Laettner is EASILY in my top five college players of ALL TIME..clutch and always calm and confident...this game..Kentucky game in 92' etc..etc...he DELIVERED!! 👍 #UKRAINE 🙏🙌
@@overratedgm5713 Ferry was an annoying flopper. Laettner was legitimately awesome. I think that in that late 80s-mid 90s era, some of my faves were Laettner, Duncan, Dennis Scott.
Laettner is the Jordan of college hoops...he didnt play like jordan but the way he ran his Duke teams was identical...he played the intimidating bully, every practice..fighting, trash talking...and the results for both dont lie..you HAVE to make your entire team tough, to overcome any lack of talent in a game
UConn's win over Duke in the 2004 Final Four (the Emeka Okafor game) was by this exact same score of 79-78 and the game played out very similarly to the way this one did.
..and let me say this, I am a Auburn fan, but I always respected Duke..and when I heard how that timeout went in 92' during the last 2.1 seconds of that game when Coach K asked Grant Hill could he make the pass and Grant said YES..then Laettner said, "if Grant makes the pass I WILL make the shot" and DID!!! Wow...reminds me of something Larry Bird used to say and delivered!! Just flat out CLUTCH and CONFIDENT!! Love it!! #UKRAINE 🙏🙌
Lol it took UConn 9 years to get their getback on Duke but boy did they do it in a big way in 99 oh yeah can’t forget bout what we did to you boyz in 04 too 😂😂
UCONN : “ Let’s not guard one of the very greatest college players and clutch shooters in history on this last play” LAETTNER: “ I’m about to mess up this whole team’s year.”
At this point, Laettner was only a sophomore and had done NOTHING. The play call took advantage of the likelihood that the man inbounded the basketball is unaccounted for after passing the ball in.
Yeah at this point Laettner hadn't really done anything clutch...he missed some crucial freethrows against Arizona as a freshman. The UNLV freethrows he hit as a junior would be a call back to that. But against UCONN the play was called Special. K called it when he saw they weren't guarding the inbounder.
Every time I watch this I wish Tate George's fingers were 1mm longer. can you imagine if the ball just rolled down the sideline in bounds for the last 3 seconds. Anyway we got our revenge in 1999 :)
Ironically, this is just one game after UConn beat Clemson with a last-second shot to advance to the Elite Eight. Floor-length pass from Scott Burrell to Tate George, 1 second on the clock…sound familiar? 😎
Stop it. He was great, no doubt, but the best college player ever is Lew Alcindor and it's not really debatable. For three years straight, he won national player of the year, the national title, and MOP of the FF.
With UConn back in the Final Four, I remember this was before UConn men had ever been to the Final Four even once. I remember the New Haven Register newspaper from the day after this (I was 10 living in Seymour, CT)...pic of a anguished Tate George and headline "He Had Denver in His Hands" (where the final four was that year) Brutal. Pizza Hut was selling mini-basketballs for a discount with pan pizzas that year (with the Denver final four logo on them). I still have that ball somewhere. They brought them back this year 😅.
I was living in Berlin, CT at the time and loved it because the only college basketball fans more arrogant and obnoxious than the UConn mens team fans were the UConn womens team fans.
Nah, I'd say Laettner was definitely a better college player than Jordan. He's in the top 5-6 ever in college. Jordan was great, but didn't become transcendent until he got to the NBA.
Two shots with no time left to win it all. Laettner is the king of last second dramatics. I think the shot to beat Kentucky is just more exciting than his shot to beat connecticut.
The way this shot is talked about makes it seem like it was to win the championship, or even at least to advance there from the final four. Still an incredible moment though.
This was the final in the east region so Duke made it to the final four with this win. Yes, it was a great moment, but how do you not guard the inbounds pass in a situation like that?
Laettner was money in college. I would only put Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton were better in college. If he had been selected by a better team out of college instead of the lowly Timberwolves, Laettner would have had a better pro career than he had. Regardless, Laettner had a pretty long and decent pro career if you look back and count his years in the League. He never shied away from taking the big shot or criticism and he kept his sense of humor and teamwork about him through college and the pros.
Have to give credit to Laettner, but Jim Calhoun made one of the biggest mistakes of his coaching career there and Duke/Coach K. exploited it at the end. How you don’t guard Laettner, arguably among the greatest college players of all-time, at the in-bound and then deny him the ball so that he can’t be the one to beat you is about as incompetent as leaving Michael Jordan alone on the final play of an NBA championship game when he was in his prime.
Although at that point in time, nobody considered him one of the best of all time. Sure he was a good player then...and they should have guarded him on the in bounds
That was his freshman year.... the season he started out missing two free throws at the end of the game that would have beaten then #1 Arizona. He was highly touted, but no one had any idea he'd turn into the money guy he did. I'm glad I got to see him play in person many times in person for Duke. I also saw Pistol Pete Maravich play in person...
@@mikebailey3680You are mistaken. This was Laettner’s Sophomore year. He was a Freshman in 88 - 89, and this was 1990. Also, the game against Sean Elliot’s Arizona team that Duke lost by 1 did indeed occur the season before this when Laettner was a Freshman (Danny Ferry was still on the team as a Senior that year-note he is not in this game at all in 1990 because Laettner is a Sophomore and Ferry graduated), but Laettner missed the front end of a 1-and-1 that could have tied it with a chance to win. He did not miss both, because he never had a chance to make the 2nd shot.
I can't believe Christian Laettner was on the Dream in 1992, just boggles my mind, I don't think that helped his career in the NBA what so ever as he was pretty much a bust...
@@dougsmith5690 Yep, he had a couple of decent seasons and I believe made All-Star team one year. The NBA was a lot more physical then which I think caused him problems, probably would have done better in today's NBA.
well before they sent the pros they previously sent college players, and Laettner was there to represent college, just for a revenge. The college player in a dream team that surprised me was Nick Collison
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Christian Laettner is simply one of the top 5 college basketball players of all times point period
Not at all. It's only because it's in your timeline. It's the MJ syndrome. There is a guy with 11 rings. But because no one remembers watching him, they make excuses that it was a different time or worse competition
Players from the late 1800s and early 1900s were just as good as today's players
People are so dumb it amazes me half of you can tie your own shoes anymore
@@charlieharper8477 different era. Competition wasnt the same though. Christian laettner was simply unstoppable
@@MorrisB1971 You could easily take the 69-70 Knicks and put them in today's NBA and they'd probably win the Championship....so much for your less competition
@@charlieharper8477 Did you just try to use a hypothetical as proof?
@@Drjones_ Nope, not trying to prove anything. But to think players in the 50s and 60s couldn't play in today's era is dumb. And if you want to say that, then tell me exactly what year everyone would be able to play in today's game...
Were the 1980 NBA players able to play in 2021? If yes, then what's the difference in a 1975 player and a 1980 player? And if 1975 player could play, then what about a 1970 player?? Again, people think MJ is the best because it's in their own timeline. Trust me, 7'2, 300 plus pound Wilt would dominate today. Same with Bill Russell...
Laettner with 2 buzzer beaters in 3 years…. he’s a March Madness hero
Who hits 2 true buzzer beaters to go to the final 4 in their college career? Absolutely insane
Nobody
@@wayneedward7391 look up Christian Leattner please. Kentucky and UCONN p
He went to final four all four years won 2 titles
Only People Who can Sucessfully Shoot the Basketball and make it under that much Pressure! And I'm Not talking lay ups or dunks. Shooting the Basketball Exposes you, especially if you miss it. Apparently only 1- #32 Christian Laettner.
Christian Leattner was the best basketball player in NCAA history.
Christian Leattner was the best basketball player in NCAA history.
You don't know much history. Lew Alcinder played 3 years for UCLA, won 3 national championships, 3 national player of the year awards, and 3 final four most outstanding player awards. And then there's Bill Walton, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and others. Laettner was a very good player who made some clutch shots on great teams with a great coach.
@@a1aprospects470 unfortunately for lew when he was in college. Freshmen weren't allowed to play. Leattner made four straight final fours. Winning back to back nation titles.
How many College Player of the Year for Laettner? (I'd leave looking at google for the nerds)
No
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Yes !
Great coaching. What a play. He brought it in and it went back to him.
Near-7 footer running around popping bucket after bucket in clutch moments.
Best college career of all time!
Nah, that would be Lew Alcindor and it's not really debateable. For three years straight, he won national player of the year, the national title, and MOP of the FF.
Laettner is EASILY in my top five college players of ALL TIME..clutch and always calm and confident...this game..Kentucky game in 92' etc..etc...he DELIVERED!! 👍 #UKRAINE 🙏🙌
My 2 favorite college players are Laettner and Danny Ferry!
@@overratedgm5713 Ferry was an annoying flopper. Laettner was legitimately awesome. I think that in that late 80s-mid 90s era, some of my faves were Laettner, Duncan, Dennis Scott.
Say what you will about Laettner, but he was clutch!
Dirtiest player in NCAA history
SpongeBob McPringle not even
@@austinmiller4832 poor little Kentucky snowflake 😂😂
@@spencerpearson3986 name a more clutch player ?
Jeep Jeep I wasn’t responding to that bruh. I know he’s clutch.
Laettner is the Jordan of college hoops...he didnt play like jordan but the way he ran his Duke teams was identical...he played the intimidating bully, every practice..fighting, trash talking...and the results for both dont lie..you HAVE to make your entire team tough, to overcome any lack of talent in a game
UConn's win over Duke in the 2004 Final Four (the Emeka Okafor game) was by this exact same score of 79-78 and the game played out very similarly to the way this one did.
..and let me say this, I am a Auburn fan, but I always respected Duke..and when I heard how that timeout went in 92' during the last 2.1 seconds of that game when Coach K asked Grant Hill could he make the pass and Grant said YES..then Laettner said, "if Grant makes the pass I WILL make the shot" and DID!!! Wow...reminds me of something Larry Bird used to say and delivered!! Just flat out CLUTCH and CONFIDENT!! Love it!! #UKRAINE 🙏🙌
Stronger. And in that case it was needed. You can’t think you will make the shot. You have to KNOW you will make it
And both of Laettner’s buzzer beaters, nobody guarded the inbounder.
This shot was just as big as the one against Kentucky.
@Alan M. yes it was
Agreed
Yea good point. I forget about this one. This dude is unreal.
started the 90s with a duke-uconn classic
ended the 90s with a duke-uconn classic
I disapoprove of the 99 game, we(Duke) should won that, they choked.
Lol it took UConn 9 years to get their getback on Duke but boy did they do it in a big way in 99 oh yeah can’t forget bout what we did to you boyz in 04 too 😂😂
@@410trilland now UConn has more championships than Duke 😂
UCONN : “ Let’s not guard one of the very greatest college players and clutch shooters in history on this last play”
LAETTNER: “ I’m about to mess up this whole team’s year.”
At this point, Laettner was only a sophomore and had done NOTHING. The play call took advantage of the likelihood that the man inbounded the basketball is unaccounted for after passing the ball in.
Yeah at this point Laettner hadn't really done anything clutch...he missed some crucial freethrows against Arizona as a freshman. The UNLV freethrows he hit as a junior would be a call back to that. But against UCONN the play was called Special. K called it when he saw they weren't guarding the inbounder.
He wasnt the man at this point in time.
As a UConn fan why did I watch this??? Oh well 77-74
Every time I watch this I wish Tate George's fingers were 1mm longer. can you imagine if the ball just rolled down the sideline in bounds for the last 3 seconds. Anyway we got our revenge in 1999 :)
As a resident of Connecticut I took great pleasure in seeing Laettner fail in the NBA.
Ironically, this is just one game after UConn beat Clemson with a last-second shot to advance to the Elite Eight. Floor-length pass from Scott Burrell to Tate George, 1 second on the clock…sound familiar? 😎
Who's here after jalen suggs hit the game winner for gonzaga in the final four vs UCLA
Game tying shot. It didn’t win it just sent the game to OT
@@jeepjeep9979 did u watch the game?
Laettner was the greatest college basketball player of all time. I did not like the guy but you cannot argue with his skill at the college level.
Stop it. He was great, no doubt, but the best college player ever is Lew Alcindor and it's not really debatable. For three years straight, he won national player of the year, the national title, and MOP of the FF.
@@BlyGuy You could have just said Kareem. No one goes around saying Cassius Clay was the best boxer.
@@GramOfAdderall Except Kareem didn't exist at UCLA
I was at both of laetners buzzer beaters. Thus game and the other one at the spectrum in Philadelphia. And tate George 2 days before this game.
This is the play that elevated Christian Laettner to greatness.
With UConn back in the Final Four, I remember this was before UConn men had ever been to the Final Four even once.
I remember the New Haven Register newspaper from the day after this (I was 10 living in Seymour, CT)...pic of a anguished Tate George and headline "He Had Denver in His Hands" (where the final four was that year) Brutal.
Pizza Hut was selling mini-basketballs for a discount with pan pizzas that year (with the Denver final four logo on them). I still have that ball somewhere. They brought them back this year 😅.
I was living in Berlin, CT at the time and loved it because the only college basketball fans more arrogant and obnoxious than the UConn mens team fans were the UConn womens team fans.
All the attention for that Kentucky shot, which he deserved, but this one doesn't get much attention and was just as big.
Laettner was a great collegiate player. One of the best all time.
College basketball's version of Mr. Clutch! 2 regional final clutch shots, 4 Final Fours, 3 Championship games and 2 NCAA tourney titles.
i love *Laettner*
On both of Laettner’s tourney game winners nobody was guarding the inbounder.
Maked absolutely no sense
And I meant to say "maked"
The highlight of Laettner's career. Oh wait...
Laettner was a better college player than Jordan.
You’re an idiot. lol
Nah, I'd say Laettner was definitely a better college player than Jordan. He's in the top 5-6 ever in college. Jordan was great, but didn't become transcendent until he got to the NBA.
Two shots with no time left to win it all. Laettner is the king of last second dramatics. I think the shot to beat Kentucky is just more exciting than his shot to beat connecticut.
Laettner was so clutch.
I rate Laettner as the second best college basketball player of all time after Pistol Pete. Imagine that.... 2 white guys coveting the top 2 spots
white and nerdy
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If Tate just tapped that ball towards half court.... game over. History forever changed
If they guarded the inbound passer they most likely would had won also, but history always repeats it's self 😉😉😉
Why have I never seen this before? Why do people only ever talk about Laettner’s shot vs Kentucky and not this one?
The best college basketball player ever.
I've seen way too many buzzer beaters where the inbounds pass was not guarded. Why?
To double-team the go-to guy. Of course, Duke had several on this team.
I never saw this game. Congratulations to Duke for the win. Just two more games to play. Go Blue Devils 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Long Live King Laettner
This was tougher shot than KY. Pure ice water...
The way this shot is talked about makes it seem like it was to win the championship, or even at least to advance there from the final four. Still an incredible moment though.
This was the final in the east region so Duke made it to the final four with this win. Yes, it was a great moment, but how do you not guard the inbounds pass in a situation like that?
I HATE CHRISTIAN LAETTNER was my favorite 30 for 30
Lot of comments about "best NCAA player ever." That's a little much. But I never saw anybody better in the tournament.
Laettner was money in college.
I would only put Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton were better in college.
If he had been selected by a better team out of college instead of the lowly Timberwolves, Laettner would have had a better pro career than he had.
Regardless, Laettner had a pretty long and decent pro career if you look back and count his years in the League.
He never shied away from taking the big shot or criticism and he kept his sense of humor and teamwork about him through college and the pros.
That busted my bracket. But that was the last time I bet against a Laettner Duke team.
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Tate George could have changed history... Uconn wins this game they win the National championship
Nah UNLV would've smoked em
@@randywatson341 Yeah, probably, seeing as Duke lost to UNLV by 30 in the Finals.
32 years ago, today
How did Tate not steal that pass. Calhoun looked visibly ill in the handshake line. We got our revenge in 99 and 04 though.
They never covered the inbounder and he walked right in and hit a clutch shot. Great game. But tough way to lose.
I hope y’all will reply to this Coach K still looks the same today as he did then huh???????!!!!!
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Makes you wonder why Laettner's game didn't translate to the NBA.
Have to give credit to Laettner, but Jim Calhoun made one of the biggest mistakes of his coaching career there and Duke/Coach K. exploited it at the end. How you don’t guard Laettner, arguably among the greatest college players of all-time, at the in-bound and then deny him the ball so that he can’t be the one to beat you is about as incompetent as leaving Michael Jordan alone on the final play of an NBA championship game when he was in his prime.
Although at that point in time, nobody considered him one of the best of all time. Sure he was a good player then...and they should have guarded him on the in bounds
That was his freshman year.... the season he started out missing two free throws at the end of the game that would have beaten then #1 Arizona. He was highly touted, but no one had any idea he'd turn into the money guy he did. I'm glad I got to see him play in person many times in person for Duke. I also saw Pistol Pete Maravich play in person...
@@mikebailey3680You are mistaken. This was Laettner’s Sophomore year. He was a Freshman in 88 - 89, and this was 1990. Also, the game against Sean Elliot’s Arizona team that Duke lost by 1 did indeed occur the season before this when Laettner was a Freshman (Danny Ferry was still on the team as a Senior that year-note he is not in this game at all in 1990 because Laettner is a Sophomore and Ferry graduated), but Laettner missed the front end of a 1-and-1 that could have tied it with a chance to win. He did not miss both, because he never had a chance to make the 2nd shot.
Hubie Brown has not been able to shut up for 100 years
ctwwtc mean much????????!!!!!
To bad he did not last in the nba
rip coach k he is a L egend
Think he was any good? Lol
Nothing but luck. Duke was never them.
Great college player. Shaq should have still been on a dream team.
Hate latenner
I can't believe Christian Laettner was on the Dream in 1992, just boggles my mind, I don't think that helped his career in the NBA what so ever as he was pretty much a bust...
He wasn't that bad, he just wasn't a superstar.
They wanted to pick at least one college player since that year was the first year that we had NBA players playing in the Olympics.
@@dougsmith5690 Yep, he had a couple of decent seasons and I believe made All-Star team one year. The NBA was a lot more physical then which I think caused him problems, probably would have done better in today's NBA.
well before they sent the pros they previously sent college players, and Laettner was there to represent college, just for a revenge. The college player in a dream team that surprised me was Nick Collison
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