YouTube Gold: The Dominance Of Patrick Ewing At Georgetown
Ewing was an immensely disruptive force
The most intimidating college player since 1969 - when Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) graduated from UCLA - was without question Patrick Ewing.
Ewing had a solid pro career, but he was never as mobile or as defensively oriented as he was in college.
At one point, he - pretty much by himself - so totally discombobulated Oregon State in the tournament that the game was functionally over in five minutes.
Ewing is 7-0 and played at 255 and he was a relentless shot blocker. And as Oregon State found out, he could block it on one end and beat everyone down court to dunk on the other.
This clip shows him taking it to, well, everyone. You can get a sense of his extraordinary abilities on this video.
He didn't just block shots, he went after them with an attitude. He didn’t just dunk, he tried to rip the rims out.
In other words, Ewing played with a certain edge of menace if not anger, and it worked brilliantly. As with Oregon State, people who played Georgetown in the Ewing era knew that they were very likely to lose before the game even started. He was that good.