Kirk Hinrich Remains A Jayhawk Legend

I never watched college basketball, i only knew hinrich went to kansas, that he went to the finals his last year, and Melo's Team beat his. I have no jayhawk pride whatsoever, i never saw hinrich play for them, never saw hinrich at perhaps the peak of his stardom. Yet i read this article and i share the sentiments.

Obviously if you despise hinrich you probably should keep away from this fanshot, although you wont, so...at least keep the bashing to a minimum....

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You Hinrich fans...

I’ll stick to his college career only: Frank Williams ate Kirk’s lunch!

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Feb 27, 2009 8:00 AM CST reply actions

Well Kirk

Demolished D. Wade, and Wade was just as awesome at the college level as he is today (given lesser competition) but I couldn’t believe Wade didn’t go at least 3rd that year, if not 2nd just because of the Marquette name recognition…

by majoyenrac on Feb 27, 2009 8:30 AM CST up reply actions

Marquette was still in the Conference USA when Wade was there

Few schools from mid major conferences have reputations strong enough to help a player’s draft stock and Marquette at that time was not one of them.

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by snley on Feb 27, 2009 8:38 AM CST up reply actions

Conference USA at the top though

Hardly was a bad conference…..Cincinnati was a perenial #1 seed and had a #1 overall pick 3 years earlier or whatever with Kenyon Martin. Louisville and Rick Pitino were a big draw, Marquette was a power there for several years, as was and still is Memphis (and it’s former #1 pick Derrick Rose)……

Wade was amazing and took his team that really was crap outside of him and Diener to the final four, pummeling the considered unbeaten Kentucky team, where D. Wade had one of college’s greatest ever games and a triple double as Marquette rolled to a 19-20 pt win….

He was definately 1-3 worthy then, I never got it. Pat Riley got it though….

by majoyenrac on Feb 27, 2009 10:45 AM CST up reply actions

If i remember right

The bulls had thier sights set on wade, and were convinced he would fall to the 7 spot, they shouldve done something…ANYTHING….to move up a few spots and they could have him. Many people question why paxson ever chose hinrich, the truth was hinrich was paxsons second choice. With J. Williams being injured the bulls desperately needed a pg, they wanted wade but when wade was gone they chose the next best pg.

On Behalf of Sue, Wjb, majoyenrac, Bullshooter and all the other Hinrich fans...Ill keep the Hinrich Hope coming...There will be light!

by piccolomair on Feb 27, 2009 10:58 AM CST up reply actions

Yeah

Exactly, all of the Chicago Marquette guys like me were incredibly excited to see Wade fall…..I just couldn’t believe it when he kept falling….and then thought he was ours after CB4 was picked with all the buzz around Chicago…..stupid Riley.

And yes I think we had to change plans pretty quickly and pick Hinrich bc we needed a PG and Williams’s accident was pretty fresh during draft day.

by majoyenrac on Feb 27, 2009 11:47 AM CST up reply actions

That Marquette team is better than you give it credit for.

In additioin to Wade and Diener, they had Steve Novak who is in the NBA still. They had Scott Merritt, who played 4 seasons in the D-league, Robert Jackson was a solid big man. I believe he was getting looked at by NBA teams at the draft, but told teams he was going to med school instead of the NBA.

1 NBA superstar, 2 NBA bench players, 1 D-League guy, and 1 guy who turned down the NBA.

All in all, that was a pretty solid team.

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by Andrew7 on Feb 27, 2009 1:26 PM CST up reply actions