re: Phi Slama Jama, dominate teams in any sport that screwed the pooch?

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With multiple HOF players, they didn't win the big one. That's under-achieving.

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You realize the teams they played also had Hall of famers right?

1982 they lost to UNC they had 2 hall of famers Worthy and Jordan plus Perkins who was a lottery pick. They were also in the Final (sans Jordan) the year before. Olajuwon wasn’t even a starter that year, he had only be playing basketball for 3-4 years at that point. At 18-19 he was no where near the “Hall of Famer” he became.

1984 Drexler was gone and they lost to Georgetown who also had a HOF C in Ewing. Only 1 team can win.

If you want to say they underachieved I 83 losing to NCSt fine, i don’t disagree but clearly not the only or even close to best team to not win that tournament

Eta the other flaw in looking back and saying they had 2 hall of famers is players aren’t always the same at every point in their career. Olajuwon was very raw at that time.

Ralph Sampson, who isn’t a HOFer but was the 3 time player of the year. Yet UVA only made 1 FF and lost in the semis, imo that’s more “underachieving”