Geno Carlisle, AJ Diggs, Sean Marks, Solomon Hughes, Patrick Christopher

First Team:

PG – Jason Kidd
SG – Ed Gray
SF – Lamond Murray
PF – Shareef Abdur Rahim
C – Amit Tamir

Second Team:

PG – Jason Randle
SG – Kevin Johnson
SF – Joe Shipp
PF – Ryan Anderson
C – Yogi Stewart

My disclaimer: I didn’t see a lot of the older guys like Imhoff. So I have to just focus on the guys I saw play.

Thanks for contributing. Have a problem with a few of your selections, but overall, they are not bad.

Came across this link looking up Buckley’s stats (averaged about 12 and 16 points his junior and senior years (got them from another link). Confirms that Murray, Grigsby, and Buckley were in the same recruiting class, plus K.J. Roberts. A good article, with probably some great footage, including Kidd when he was playing in high school. When I have time I am going back to read it. The Kidd/Murray years were the best for Cal since 1959-1960, which was way before my time.

http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2011/5/20/2180733/jason-kidd

Kidd – PG
Jorge – SG
Murray – SF
Shareef – PF
Powe – C

Can you imagine the defense of a Kidd and Jorge backcourt?? And it could happen if Jorge gets a shot at the NBA, maybe the Knicks are looking to expand their fan base, a la Jeremy Lin?

Second team

Randle – PG
Gray – SG
Buckley – SF
Kamp – PF
Anderson – C

How fun would it be to watch Randle, Gray and Monty run the break?

Go Bears!

First team –

Point guard — Jason Kidd
Shooting guard — Ed Gray
Small forward — Lamond Murray
Power forward — Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Center — Darrell Imhoff

My second team is –

Point guard — Kevin Johnson
Shooting guard — Phil Chenier (though a very good argument could be that it should be Rusty Critchfield)
Small forward — Ryan Anderson
Power forward — Leon Powe
Center — Mark McNamara

First team –

Jason Kidd — point guard
Ed Gray — shooting guard (though I think he actually played the point)
Shareef Abdur-Rahim — power forward
Lamond Murray — small forward
Darrell Imhoff — center

My second team is

Point guard — Kevin Johnson
Shooting guard — Phil Chenier (though a very good argument could be that it should be Rusty Critchfield)
Small forward — Ryan Anderson
Power forward — Leon Powe
Center — Mark McNamara

Just to let everyone know that the link I provided above showing Cal’s basketball history, including a ton of stats, only goes through the 2000 season.

In answer to Juancho’s question in #16 above, I think we just go on how well players performed at Cal.

Based upon that, who has been selected as having their name on a banner above Haas should count for a lot in determining the best freshman class. Your three players will never get their name on a banner and will never be considered to be up there, while I already have at least one (Grigsby), and if Murray is not up there now his name will at least be considered (could be his name is not up there because Cal doesn’t want to have two players from the same team hanging from the rafters, but I could be wrong about that.

In terms of who should be first team shooting guard, based upon Cal performance, I should point out that Critchfield won Cal MVP three times (though on very mediocre teams), Chenier twice (also on mediocre teams), and Gray once (I think).

If its on career at cal i dont think i include powe, anderson, kately.