The heart-stopping final seconds of Carmelo Anthony's freshman title run need a deep rewind
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2023
- One coach was going to win his first, long-awaited title in the 2003 NCAA Men's Basketball Final. Kansas's Roy Williams had built a deep, senior-led team to bring the Jayhawks back to the precipice of glory. Jim Boeheim had finally gotten Syracuse back to the Superdome on the back of one of the greatest freshmen ever: Carmelo Anthony.
But in the end, it all came down to the little things: missed free throws, a kick-out to the corner, and one frantic, last-second close-out for the win.
Welcome to a moment in history. Let's rewind.
Written and produced by Seth Rosenthal
Edited by Charlotte Atkinson
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It is truly wild how Melo seemed destined to be one of very few basketball Triple Crown championship holders, and now he’s just the butt of an infinite number of prima donna superstar criticisms
This may be true, but he’s still a 1st ballet Hall of Famer at the end of the day. Off of just his NBA career alone.
What’s the Triple Crown? NCAA, NBA, & what? Olympic gold medal?
@@MSUHitman yes, Olympic gold
He is a triple crown champion though? Syracuse, USA, Lakers.
@@sidthekid1678 He was not on the Lakers squad that won the championship with LeBron a few years back
The fact that this man is able to take a four second moment, turn it into a 15 minute video, and keep me here on the edge of my seat to watch the whole thing is phenomenal. The art of story telling. He and whoever he works with always do a wonderful job! BRAVO 👏🏽 🙌🏽 🤩
I was hoping for more backstory on Hakim Warrick. He played H.S. ball at Friends' Central which just 4 years prior to him graduating, went 0-20 and even lost to Akiba Academy. That turnaround was absolutely crazy.
What u know about akiba? I used to work there lol. It's called Jack Barrack or something like that now
@@itzlevelz FCS class of '97. I just knew that they didn't have the best basketball team at the time either and I think we lost to them by 20.
George School grad here. Don’t think we beat y’all once in my time on the team.
@@gregorym-f4842 Were you there during the Hakim Warrick / Mustafa Shakur years or the De'Andre Hunter era?
Friends’ Central ‘21 grad here. I didn’t know Hakim Warrick obviously but I’ve never heard a teacher say anything bad about him in my time at the school. All around great guy it seems like and I just found out he turned our basketball program around.
Congratulations to coach Boeheim on a legendary career. You will be missed and never forgotten. Go Cuse!!
I literally forgot who you were talking about halfway through your post. He is absolutely forgotten
@@IAmTheDawn try harder
I'll never forget him killing that dude 😮
I was 14 years old, I was sitting on the love seat, my sister and Dad watching from the bigger couch. When the final buzzer sounded, we didn't scream, my Dad simply said, "They did it. Syracuse is the National Champions... That's awesome!"
I have that scene baked into my memory, it is something I don't know how I could ever forget.
This was my favorite Kansas team of all time. I was 11; I was told it was too late, and I needed to go to bed. I had a small battery powered radio that I remember putting into a shoebox to listen to the end of the game, because it sounded like the radio call was coming from inside the Super Dome. The ending broke my heart, as did Roy Williams' leaving afterwards, but I still remember that March Madness and that game with fondness.
I was at my dorm away from my mom who we watched every game together. I said the same thing...we did it...
Every time I see that play I get tears in my eyes. Makes me proud to be a ‘Cuse fan
Carmelo was one of the very few NBA level ready players I ever seen in the NCAA. If you watched the tournament that year, it was like Melo playing with kids. He was just so dominant in every game.
My first real sports memory. I'll never forget my dad sobbing in joy.
Now people are saying dads instead of dad. Or moms.
@@larosa823 ok
Rewinder: SEND IT IN JEROME
Rewinder: the miracle of Istanbul
Rewinder: Christian laettner’s shot against Kentucky
Rewinder: Sidney Crosby’s golden goal
Rewinder: 2010 World Cup final
Untitled: Ted Williams
Untitled: Marcel Dionne
Untitled: Johan Cruyff in the World Cup
Untitled: pavel Bure
Beef history: George Steinbrenner vs Billy Martin
Beef history: George Steinbrenner vs Dave Winfield
Beef history: Real Madrid vs Barcelona
Beef history: the derby of the eternal enemies, Olympiakos vs Panathinaikos
Beef history: Juan marichal vs John roseboro, a beef that ended in an unlikely friendship
Collapse: how the Buffalo Bills failure to win 1 of 4 straight super bowls led to 2 decades of failure
Collapse: how the Montreal Canadiens failed to reach sniffing distance of lord Stanley for 28 years
Collapse: how the Vancouver Canucks went from the best team in the NHL to rock bottom
Collapse: how the back to back Toronto blue jays went from champs to chumps
Collapse: how the Chicago cubs went from breaking a century old curse, to failing to reach a dynasty and blowing it to pieces
Collapse: how the 83 sixers went from playoff domination to not reaching their full potential
Collapse: How Alex Ferguson’s departure led to Manchester United’s downfall
Collapse: How the San Antonio Spurs slowly unraveled from playoff contenders to lottery squatters after the 2014 NBA Finals
Collapse: the 2015 Atlanta Hawks
Collapse: how the Seahawks and its Legion of Boom became doomed after back-to-back Super Bowl appearances
Untitled: Tracy McGrady
Untitled: Vince Carter
I've been saying the Bills Collapse needs to happen as well! I wouldn't mind seeing them do a Collapse on the Falcons Post Super Bowl 51. Kind of like a sequel to their history of the Falcons videos.
Throw in the Chicago White Sox post 2005 collapse as well.
Man Utd v Bayern Munich in the champions league final in 1999 would be an even better episode of rewinder than the Istanbul "miracle". Because of how much bigger that game was, it being the first (and to date only) treble in English football history, and how they went from going into stoppage time at the end of the 2nd half losing, and within about 2 mins turned it around to actually be WINNING the match with two goals in back to back minutes which rarely happens in general, let alone right at the very end of the biggest football match in football, the champions league final.
And also the man utd team was completely destroyed with injuries and suspensions from red cards etc, so half the starting line up was players playing out of position because there was nobody else available, like giggs was playing on the right wing if I remember right, with jesper blompquist of all people playing left wing, Beckham was playing as a central midfielder which he'd never done before (he only started playing there full time years later when he joined real Madrid, before then he was always on the right wing). So there shouldn't have been any way man utd could have beaten Bayern, especially considering Bayern were ALSO trying to win a treble and if they'd won that final then they would have sealed it, just like man utd they were 1 match away from winning it, and so they weren't just any team, not even any typical champions league finalist, they were just as strong as utd really, and weren't destroyed by injuries and suspensions. So how on earth could man utd have actually won that match? Literally everything was stacked against them. Yet they managed it, all the same.
It's still the greatest comeback victory in football history. And was way more of a big deal than most champions league/European Cup finals. It's never been done before or since, by an English team, and only like 3 or 4 other teams in all of Europe have ever done it in the history of football, too. One being bayern themselves, years and years later, another being Inter Milan when they were managed by Mourinho, and Barcelona under Guardiola. So, all huge huge teams, teams who are in the discussion for best ever in the history of the sport, when simply just winning a regular champions league isn't enough to automatically put you in that conversation. And I think Celtic when they won it in the 60s, which actually is probably the most stunning thing to ever be done in football in general because all the players in that celtic squad were from within like 5 miles of celtic's stadium. That just isn't a thing anymore, these days. No big team even has all the players in their squad be from that country, let alone be from the same city as the club. But that was generally a lot more common back then, all the players being locals, it was before big money had really taken over the sport. It wouldn't happen these days.
But yeah, man utd winning it in the modern era of football with an injury-wracked squad is absolutely stunning. There's no achievement like a treble. It's next to impossible to achieve even at the best of times, let alone when half your first team can't play in the final. It'd be like in American football if, I dunno, Tom Brady and 7 or 8 other starters had to sit out of the superbowl because of injuries and suspensions, and yet the patriots still won it anyway.
It's the thing that put Sir Alex Ferguson over the top to become the best manager in the history of the sport. Managers who win multiple champions leagues aren't automatically the best ever. Plenty of bad managers have won champions leagues before, like Di Matteo with Chelsea. Has he even has a job since he got sacked by them? But to win multiple champions leagues AND at least one of them being a treble which is more difficult to do than just about anything, then yeah you are always going to be in that conversation.
It's very telling how none of the big money teams who pay to win, like Man City, Chelsea, PSG, etc, have managed to win a treble, even though they have significantly more money than anybody else. Because there's some things in football you just can't buy. Teams like man City say at the beginning of every season that they're gonna win a quadruple, and everyone laughs at these teams, and then everyone moves on and those teams then pretend they never said it, because they invariably fail when they say something like that. It's tempting fate, really. Don't jinx your season before its even begun. But some football clubs just seem to run on pure arrogance.
Great list, I would just add Ken Griffey Jr to the Untitled list
@@duffman18 easy there, United Fan. Take 7 seconds to catch your breath.
How timely of you to release this Rewinder! This NCAA tournament run was iconic.
A little off topic but I cannot believe the Pistons decided to draft Darko Millicic instead of Carmelo Anthony. If the Pistons drafted Melo then his whole career would have been so much different. He would have won a few rings with Detroit.
This game changed so much. Jim Boeheim was free to stay for basically forever as the coach at Syracuse and Roy Williams felt he couldn't win it all at Kansas so he went back to UNC. Does Boehim coach so long without winning this title? Does Roy go back to UNC if he won a title at KU? That's something I wonder about.
Such great points. If Roy wins this title, it's just hard to imagine he goes back to UNC...Maybe he still does, but coming off a title, you'd have to think KU would've given him a lifetime contract. As a heels fan, I'm actually grateful for this Kansas loss, because it basically secured Roy coming back, where he got us three more titles.
If Roy doesn't go to UNC, I cant imagine how many more titles Duke would have as opposed to 5. Thanks to Roy, UNC outnumbered Duke 3 to 2 in titles since he got there.
I always think about how we view Jim if Keith Smart’s shot doesn’t fall. Does he stay forever and after winning two titles what do we think of him. While he’s a great figure of college basketball he isn’t the one of the greats but with two titles what does that mean?
Yes, he does. He left for two reasons. One is that he didn't like the changes in the administration at KU after he'd turned UNC down three years before. The second is that Dean Smith asked him to come back, and he couldn't say no, even after Kansas fired the AD Roy didn't like.
He was going back to UNC, win or lose that night. He would have rather gone back with a win, though. Kansas fans didn't forgive him until they kicked his butt a few years later in another Final Four. Roy, a class act, then pulled for KU when they won the title two nights later. It all worked out. Roy won three titles at UNC and Kansas has two under Bill Self (and really could claim 2020, since there was no tournament and they won the polls).
Based on a book I had read called the Legends Club, Roy said he wanted to win a title at Kansas before leaving which is why he turned them down the first time. He probably still would've left, but I can't tell you for sure.
That hakim moment is seared into every SU fan’s memory forever. Bricking the free throws sucked, but that block cemented him as a Syracuse legend forever
Cuse Melo is probably the most legendary ncaa player ever
I remember seeing Hakim Warrick in high school....his junior year, he was super, super raw, but talented. He then got invited to the Nike camp that summer, and soon after that, committed to 'Cuse. A bunch of people I knew that played against him then thought there was no way he could ever play at Syracuse, and then he came back for his senior year and just exploded...The jump he made that summer was just awesome, and at that point, everyone was like "Oh, he'll definitely be ready for the big east" and boy was he. Seeing this play always gives me chills, because I remember seeing him as a lanky, raw, 17 year old, and then three years later, he makes the biggest play in the NCAA title game. Just really cool stuff :)
You should have included how 'Cuse defeated every Big 12 team in the tournament to win this championship.
Syracuse's FT issue was a season long struggle. They were last in the Big East that year shooting 62% and that was with McNamara being 7th in the nation at ~92%
As a die hard UCONN and old big east fan, I'm glad the orange won the title that year. McNamara would give me head aches as his career grew later
I miss the old Big East. As a 'Cuse fan I was always happy to see UCONN win, as long as it wasn't against Syracuse. Very happy UCONN won it all this year. Congrats :-)
This period of time was when I was absolutely obsessed with college hoops. Thanks for this.
Deep rewind in the 2023 wbc championship. That was a moment in history
I’m a KU fan but I was only 7 at the time this game happened so I didn’t have any interest in it as I was more concerned with toys and playing video games but I remember my dad yelling at the TV A LOT as he is also a KU fan and his emotions with this game were so up and down lmfao
Roy Williams is definitely absolutely without a doubt not taking the UNC job after this one!
This Syracuse team was so legendary no team has touched them since
Shows how talented Melo and McNamara was
BTW Secret Base may I recommend a Rewinder on Danica Patrick's IndyCar win in 2008
As a Syracuse native, I thoroughly appreciate this.
the fact that we still havent seen Rewinder: Micheal's shot v Georgetown pains me so much
We Need More Melo Content
This is a fantastic game to do a deep rewind on I’m so glad you guys did this! Another one you could possibly do is the 2008 championship game between Memphis and Kansas. The last 2 minutes of regulation are an absolute classic.
These kinds of videos are the best for me. I have never really followed NCAA, I'm more of an MLB guy. But I love hearing you guys/girls tell stories that ARE into it. I genuinely had no idea how that was going to end! I was in suspense for real. Do more of these, now.
Those Syracuse unis were 🔥🔥🔥
The black ones too 🔥
Lifelong KU fan and alum here. I remember watching this game with my friends at 14. The loss was devastating, but only until they won in 2008 when I was a sophomore at KU.
i love this
The background music really makes these clips memorable.
Great work! I love Rewinder. Perfect timing as well.
Can we get a rewinder of the 2017 NCAA championship game? That block by Meeks to seal the win for UNC was epic
REDEEM TEAM 🙌🏻
Seth is narrating? Time for popcorn. Dude is the best narrator on secret base💯
I love Ken man, so glad to hear you narrating. It gives me goosebumps...
Thank you for making this!
This was a great year to be a CNY'er
Always love the March madness stuff you guys do
I remember watching these games as a 10 year old. I forgot all about Jerry Macnamara 😂 D wade at Marquette.. Lebron in high school..watching Jameer Nelson and Delonte West at Saint Joseph’s. Man those were the good ole days. Now all those players are retired except Lebron.. I’m getting old😞
Delonte West & Jameer Nelson broke out the yr after. They went to the Elite 8 and lost to Ok St
@@xandercrews4729 they were still well known that year, they were like 6 seed? Or 11. Can’t remember. The next year is when they were a 1 seed yes, but they were still balling in 03
I’m a simple man. I see new Secret Base uploads, I click.
Thank you for this one.
thanks for covering the best moment in my town's sports history..
2008 KU Final Four. Mario’s shot, Memphis collapse, some of the NBA’s biggest names were in that tourney, Bill Self’s first title…many many stories.
Being from Baltimore seeing the terps win in 2002 and melo leading Syracuse in 03 felt like back to back titles for college basketball fans in the city lol
As a Kansas fan, ugh. Still painful memories.
Same. I was like “when are they going to get to the terrible FT shooting from Collison.”
I was born in Syracuse, but never had the attachment to the team like my father did. He lost his mind when they won that title... ah good times
Carmelo is surely on the short list of NBA Greatest Players To Never Make a Finals, right?
definitely
Last time Carmelo won a championship or even played in one ha.
College basketball and football should be like half of all secret base videos, there’s so much lore
This page is a sports historians wet dream. The story telling is phenomenal. 🎉
2003 was my first time watching march madness in 8th grade because our history teacher had us do the brackets to win extra credits. what a great run by cuse.
I was a senior at KU at this time. This was a tough one. Someone in my girlfriend at the time's neighborhood began smashing windows out of cars when we lost that one. The free throws sunk us Gerry McNamara sunk us. Melo wasn't too bad.
*Hakeem Warrick was an absolute BEASTTT…always played him in NCAA!!👏🏼*
Man I remember this tournament like yesterday. My team, the Texas Longhorns, had a great squad let by TJ Ford. They made their best run in the modern NCAA era making an appearance in the final four. Unfortunately they ran into Melo and Syracuse and he proceed to torch them. Melo was so good that year.
Love Seth, but there's a small error in this video...Syracuse in 1996 actually kept it close against Kentucky. Most people thought the wildcats would blow them out, but John Wallace just absolutely killed it for the Orange...was the best guy on the court that night, and once again alllllllmmmmmooooosssssttttt got Jimmy B his first title.
Game changed when Wallace foul'd out. 2-3 of the fouls were weak calls.
"Kept it close vs Indiana" is also a weird description. Had a 6-8pt lead most of the 2nd half and missed multiple wide open 3s that would've clinched it.
@@MrPhilaCuse Eh, I wouldn't say that. Yes, Wallace fouling out was huge, but, Kentucky was up 5 with a minute left, with the ball when that happened, so they most likely win even if Wallace finishes the game. If you look at the play where he fouls out, 'Cuse turns it over, and had he not fouled Mark Pope, Anthony Epps has a wide open layup on the other end, so they still would've most likely been up 7 with a minute left...that's a game they still most likely win. Now, maybe the game does change if he doesn't pick up a few ticky tack fouls early (some were definitely a little soft) and can play really aggressively at the end, because he was the best on the court that night. Kentucky had absolutely no answer for him. Kinda surprised he wasn't a better pro.
melo had a one and done title in college, crazy he didn’t get at least one in the nba
Because he reached his prime in tandem with the kid from Akron.
I’m from Syracuse and I remember these days like it was yesterday! And years later after Syracuse wins the championship there’s a girl who is from Syracuse and went to high school about ten minutes from where I live but unfortunately decided to go play college basketball at another school!
Her name is Breanna Stewart by the way maybe you heard of her?
That Syracuse team was amazing. There were 6 or 7 guys who all consistently contributed. Don't forget the THIRD freshman on that team, Billy Edelin, who IIRC was suspended for part of the season but made pretty valuable contributions when he was available.
Melo is the greatest college freshman ever
Syracuse is my hometown I would love to be able to see my hometown in the national championship and either football or basketball in my lifetime. I hope to see that day soon.
Maybe football sooner than BBall, but I think both teams are going to be good, very good, very soon.
Good to hear small RUclipsr Drew Gooden mentioned
Brings me to tears. Was the first game I ever watched as a Syracuse fan at 3 years old and have a love for melo and these guys I will never forget
At 3 years old? You remember watching and understanding a basketball game and its significance as a 3 year old? I HIGHLY doubt that
@@Shmuel420 lmao I don’t gotta qualify myself but it’s one of my first childhood memories. call cap if you want but that’s you dawg
@@Parkafterrdark fair enough
Melo is the reason why Jim Boeheim has a National Championship win
20 years ago that's crazy
Awesome stuff
This the one true fans needed..
SETH BASKETBALL CONTENT LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO
Secret Base making my spring break with a rewinder 🎉🎉🎉
The only time I’ve won money off of sports!! Still proud of myself for picking Melo to win it all that year… but I’ve never replicated that March Madness prediction ‘success’ since.
Who else from NY hit the like button within 3 seconds of playing the video? I did.
It’s simple. I see a Rewinder, I like.
Dikembe mutombo embracing the basketball after upsetting the first seed supersonic deserves a deep rewind
Damn, SB dropping a Syracuse vid. Crazy
You guys never miss. Your content gives me hope for the world and possibility of this black hole known as social media. Bless up bless up.
Gotta love a march madness rewinder
I picked Syracuse to win it all that yr, saw it coming. Can’t tell you exactly why, I just felt it.
This was the height of college basketball.
As a KU fan in HS, watching this the year after losing to Juan Dixon/Steve Blake-led Maryland in the Final 4 was devastating!
KU missing so many FT's this game still gives me nightmares as Jayhawk fan.
The closest thing Carmelo got to a championship game. Memories.
closest? he literally won
@@bananabonzai I think he’s talking about the NBA championship
He literally raised the trophy dumbass.
@@dafuzzbear7711 He's a dumbass. Don't save these hoes.
And you will be forgotten
Best channel on youtube
One thing we can all agree on: Carmelo Anthony is a total and unmitigated baller.
growing up in cuse, this warms my heart
HERE I AM FOR SOME MELO LOVE TY SECRET BASE
CUSE BY A MILLION!!!
It always drives me crazy when college and NBA players can't make free throws consistently.
My dad is a big ‘Cuse fan (He went there), so this got my interest right away.
I wish Roy won one with Kansas ❤️💙
That kid Carmelo has a bright future ahead of him.
I'm so happy Melo has this on his resume since he likely won't win a NBA title. Very historic run to the championship and a great time to be a fan knowing the #1 high school phenom was ready for the draft next to a freshman who just won an NCAA championship. Crazy.
Best RUclips account.
The guy on the thumbnail looks like Bobby Shmurder 😂
Alright!!!!! This is one I had hoped you all would one on
Warrick's long arms was the savior in the end 😊
Carmelo Anthony
Melo only scored 10 points in the final game but his entire March Madness run was legendary.
People often overlook his career. In his one year in college, he's probably one of the greatest college player ever.
Wish he could've won a ring in the NBA but it wasnt meant to be. Still, a first ballot HOF no cap
Melo has 20 pts in the final...
THE BLOCK THE BLOCK THE BLOCK
This game was the first time I stayed up late to watch something on the 14 inch screen I had in my room
Cuse sounds like a funny name. "Cuse Zooboomafu , Florida State" 🤣
It would have been funnier if they called that last action a goaltending.