Kenny Pratt destroyed Paul Pierce

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Really got a kick out of watching the 1996 Big 8 Championship game on cyclone.tv tonight. I forgot how much Kenny Pratt handed it to Paul Pierce in the second half. Damn that was fun to watch again, highly recommended.

Also got me excited to see the physicality of Burton in the coming weeks.
 

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Really got a kick out of watching the 1996 Big 8 Championship game on cyclone.tv tonight. I forgot how much Kenny Pratt handed it to Paul Pierce in the second half. Damn that was fun to watch again, highly recommended.

Also got me excited to see the physicality of Burton in the coming weeks.
Thanks for the heads-up. And I love the Hollway avatar.
 

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Love Kenny. Dustin Hogue reminds me a lot of his toughness. Kenny could shoot better but both would just go after it.
 

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Just watched some YouTube of that 1996 team play at a&m.... That was a good team! Love how Cato liked to punish the rim with his dunks....
 

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Just watched some YouTube of that 1996 team play at a&m.... That was a good team! Love how Cato liked to punish the rim with his dunks....
And block shots into the 27th row.
 

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Incredibly fun team. Cato was one of the greatest shot blockers of all time. He just got to everything. With dedric shooting and bankheads D that team had a good shot at it all. Up huge on UCLA and ran out of steam. Cato missed a block by inches that would have clinched the game that would have sent us to the elite 8. Still hurts to think about that one.
 

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Love Kenny. Dustin Hogue reminds me a lot of his toughness. Kenny could shoot better but both would just go after it.
Hogue had a much better mid to long range game. Kenny was almost unstoppable in the post. Especially considering he was 6'3".
 

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I have the ISU Texas Pan Am game from Cato's senior year. He had 11 blocks in that game and barely played in 2nd half. Floyd benched Bankhead, Cato and Edwards for TRamp, Shirley and Stevie Johnson because the starters were not rebounding worth a crap. Pratt was out due to academics or something. That team was bench depth away from really making noise.
 

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Kind of an odd team, in that they only had 2 real guards that played, Dedric & Jacy. Everyone else was a center, PF, or undersized forward with limited ball handling and shooting abilities.
 

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Kenny was suspended for drinking 4 bottles of NyQuil a lot of his senior year. That is what he told the police NyQuil.
 

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Kenny Pratt gets a shout out in the novel Hoop Dreams
 

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And block shots into the 27th row.
Cato was a shot blocking machine but one of his great talents was blocking the shot and keeping in bounds so his teammates could track it down and start the fast break. He could certainly put it in the 27th row if he wanted to but he was one of the best "team player" shot blockers I ever saw.

Kenny was suspended for drinking 4 bottles of NyQuil a lot of his senior year. That is what he told the police NyQuil.
I'm not sure if Kenny was actually suspended or not for that OWI that he blamed on Nyquil. He was actually academically ineligible for the first semester of his senior year and I think they sort of considered that his suspension. I remember him sitting in the stands at Carver in his letter jacket as Willoughby, who could barely run because of a knee injury, and crew blew out the Hawks without him.
 

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Loved KP's game. As the 6'0" tallest guy/center-by-default on our hs team, I could definitely relate. I learned lots of those same 1940s post moves like the quadruple pivot, double pump fake, step-through, hook shot. And other garbage. Kind of like Georges "old man game" except it took me about 12 seconds to get a shot off.
 

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Really got a kick out of watching the 1996 Big 8 Championship game on cyclone.tv tonight. I forgot how much Kenny Pratt handed it to Paul Pierce in the second half. Damn that was fun to watch again, highly recommended.

Also got me excited to see the physicality of Burton in the coming weeks.


The ISU team the following season might have been the best ISU has ever had. Got robbed against UCLA to go to Elite 8.
 

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Hogue had a much better mid to long range game. Kenny was almost unstoppable in the post. Especially considering he was 6'3".



Ehhhh,,,,, Pratt was a pretty decent jump shooter. Hogue was more athletic, but Pratt had more skill. Both were great Cyclones.