Memory Lane

by Nestor on Oct 26, 2006 5:12 PM PDT in Basketball Comment 23 comments

One last hoops post before we switch back to pigskin heading into Saturday's game. I mentioned Ed and Tyus in my post below. So here is probably one of the five greatest moments in my life, involving those two Bruin legends. It is finally up on YouTube:

Our HT goes to Dump Dorrell for this priceless find.

This video begs the question of where were you that specific moment? As for yours truly, I was watching the game with all my room-mates at our apartment at 403 Landfair Ave. (2nd floor w/ the balcony facing Landfair). Anyways, my 2 room-mates (the 3rd was at the game at Boise) and 10 other friends were huddled in front of the tube in the living room. I remember the moments right before those last 5-6 seconds. It was excruciating. One of the guys watching the game had all but given up cursing out Jim Harrick for coming up short again. Lol Anyways ... then the magic happened. Bedlam in the living room. IIRC we broke both our coffee table and the side table.

Everyone poured out on the balconies.

Oh, yeah, it was the Sunday before Finals Week. I had two the next day. But didn't matter. I was walking on air. So was rest of the Bruin Nation.

So where were you that day or during that very moment? I'd love to hear your memories of those magical 4.8 seconds.

Just 7 days til Ben Ball.

Yeah Baby.

Thank you God/Jesus/Buddha/Allah/Krishna for Ben Howland.

GO BRUINS.

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that is so friggin incredible

it brings tears of joy

God Bless UCLA

by bruin95 on Oct 26, 2006 5:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I was at my apt. on landfair too

I want to say 528 landfair but I could be wrong. The feeling after that shot was better than when we won it all in a way.

by bruinmikeh on Oct 26, 2006 5:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Has any one else noticed ...

just how horrible the announcing in on that play?

The play-by-play person is completely caught off guard by the inbounding of the ball. He's still talking about UCLA being knocked out of the tournament in the first round the year before and it's not until Tyus Edney is past half court that he starts to comment on the play.

One of the most dramatic moments in college basketball and he completely fails to set it up and enhance the drama.

I always thought there was something wrong whenever I watched that video and now I realize what it is.

Go Bruins

by Achilles on Oct 26, 2006 6:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeap

I think that's why so we all loved the Marques Johnson call even more. Compared the call of the announcers in that game (I believe it was Tim Ryan), Gus Johnson and Len Elmore's calls/commentary in the final minutes during the Zaga game was so much more exciting. I can still hear "Oh what a game," "Unbelievable," and "Holy Macro" in my dreams.

by Nestor on Oct 27, 2006 5:36 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah Baby! Yeah Baby! Yeah Baby!

Anyone remember that call??! We heard this classic commentary not on the tube but on the radio. It was awesome. Me and four good UCLA buddies were at a friends place and I will tell you honestly, we NEVER gave up hope. It was tense no doubt, but we had that feeling this was a destiny team. Like Nestor all hell broke loose. I think the carpet stains lasted for another five years until my buddy finally moved. Glorious day!

I truly hope for a great season, but if we dont have one we must dumpdorrell.com

by DumpDorrell on Oct 26, 2006 6:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That reaction

sounds exactly like the Gonzaga game. I've got a few thoughts on some more recent Bruin players, but I can't get the html table formatting to preview correctly for some reason...

by Tydides on Oct 26, 2006 6:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Email it to me

I will get it fixed.

by Nestor on Oct 27, 2006 4:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was watching the game with a buddy of mine

who was and to this the day the bigest SC honk on the planet! And I am not going to to lie to you, I thought we were done. TY Edney! BABY! WOW!

GO BRUINS!!

by Bruin Mijin on Oct 26, 2006 7:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hard to believe that was 11 years ago

So glad you found this. I was looking for this clip Saturday when I needed a little pick me up, but couldn't find it. Hope you don't mind, but I'll be snagging this and putting it up on Insomniac's Lounge later tonight.

I was at my apartment on Veteran during this game. Total bedlam throughout the building, and just a few weeks later, we'd be dancing through the streets of Westwood.

Good times. Good times.

by dbruin95 on Oct 26, 2006 7:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Absolutely

any time.

and I love reading the lounge!

by Nestor on Oct 27, 2006 4:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

At Home

Watching the game with my wife (who was a huge Tyus fan), cursing Jim Harrick and yelling for Tyus to run faster. I thought the shot was going to be blocked, but when he looped it over the defender my wife and I were cheering for an hour afterwards. Surprised the police weren't called.

I had videotaped the game and we kept re-running the tape long after the TV announcers stopped, just watching in amazement.

Thank you Tyus, Ed & George. True magic.

by artybruin on Oct 26, 2006 7:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Vivid Memories

I was sitting in my living room, freaking out before the ball was inbounded. My father, as he always is during crucial situations, was outside in the front yard, not watching a thing. Tyus drops it in, I go screaming through the house, and bolt out into the front yard. Dad shits a brick.

There was much celebration that evening.

Go Bruins...F@#$% Southern Cal... UCLA Fight Fight Fight!

by HomeBruin on Oct 26, 2006 9:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

If I could just re-live that all over again!

I was watching this game in lounge area of Sproul, with what seem liked all the residents of Sproul. Absolute pandemonium with sweat spots showing in all the usual spots! And then that momentous day when we all rolled out into Westwood... I was outside Maloney's and ended up getting moved over to Strathmore and Gayley by the riot police... ahhh... the memories... brings a friggin tear to my eye!!!

by tommybruin on Oct 26, 2006 9:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

At Maloney's, downstairs bar

and as I have said, probably one of the two greatest sports moments of my life (Gibson's HR in '88 being the other), was with about half dozen friends watching the game, lamenting about (yet another) Harrick tourney failure, then absolute mayhem broke out. AWESOME BABY!!!! I knew we were a team of destiny at that moment, and sure enough, we cruised the rest of the way. God bless you, Tyus (and Ed, and George and Toby and Cameron and all the rest of the '95 team!)

by godblesstyus95 on Oct 26, 2006 10:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

At a bar near ASU

What memories. I was visiting a buddy of mine from HS, and we watched the game at a bar near the ASU campus. I distinctly remember the last few minutes of the game, with my friends starting to get quiet, as they knew I'd be completely intolerable if UCLA lost. Then Tyus does his thing, and I drunkenly exclaim "[unintelligible screaming babble], Tyus for President!" It was so lame, my friends still give me shit about it. But, I wouldn't have it any other way.

by Menelaus on Oct 26, 2006 11:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

lol

drinking near ASU the weekend before finals?!

I expect nothing less from you M.

by Nestor on Oct 27, 2006 5:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Have I ever mentioned

that I loved college? Just in case you didn't hear, I loved college.

by Menelaus on Oct 27, 2006 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, I remember it as if it was yesterday

First year of law school in Philly. Watching the game alone in the bar at the Downtown Marriott - the only bar that would promise to put the game on - on the smallest TV in the room with no sound. After Tyus scored I ran around the bar like a madman, screaming at the top of my lungs. Half the bar had no idea what happened, and just thought I was nuts.

Good times.

by bry93 on Oct 27, 2006 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

At my apt. on 729 Gayley Avenue, baby.

My windows only faced out to the Chabad House, so no direct street exposure, but when the game ended, I could hear the cheers rolling up and down Gayley Avenue.

I ran to the balcony connected to the common hallway, facing out to the Medical Plaza parking lot across the street. Cheers and shouts echoed from the bars, the frat houses, shoot, probably even the dorms.

Nothing like the sounds of an entire community victorious on a Sunday afternoon in the Spring...

MIM

by Meriones on Oct 27, 2006 2:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

403 Landfair

Nester, I also lived at 403 Landfair (#206). I was there from 1991-1993. It faced the street and I remember lots of yelling and screaming from the buildings and dorms nearby.

Must have been great for you being there in 1995.

by hitch89 on Oct 28, 2006 9:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Location

I was dead asleep. At the time, I was living in Germany, and it was very difficult to get the games. I did stay up all night to watch the final game the next week. I think my downstairs neighbor was pissed at me the next day.....

Bob O. (Signholder #3)

by TuneMan7 on Nov 1, 2006 9:55 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

437 Gayley

Bottom floor - hot chicks above us, and I'm screaming on the balcony in my boxers - would probably get arrested today for doing the same thing - that was awesome!

Go Bruins, Go Howland, F-Lavin, and let's get rid of Dorrell....

by BruinManDan97 on Nov 2, 2006 3:00 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Westwood Roar

I was watching the game with a bunch of friends in Dykstra Hall. We were screaming, but we still heard all of Westwood rise up in the sort of roar you only hear in football stadiums. I'll never forget that or the rest of my life.

by solidgoldsound on Nov 2, 2006 4:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs