UL Athlete Andrew Toney

[MiamiCajun32]

_ Barkley in a TV interview once said Toney was the best player he ever played with. _

Charles Barkley said in his autobiography "Outrageous!", "Toney was amazingly strong, he and Moses were the only ones on the team that could post me up!" Barkley went on to say in the book, "I thought he (Toney) was the best player on the team when I got here. We had Bobby Jones, Moses Malone, and Julius Erving but the only one I was in awe of was Andrew."

[marklapinski]

_ Charles Barkley said in his autobiography "Outrageous!", "Toney was amazingly strong, he and Moses were the only ones on the team that could post me up!" Barkley went on to say in the book, "I thought he (Toney) was the best player on the team when I got here. We had Bobby Jones, Moses Malone, and Julius Erving but the only one I was in awe of was Andrew." _

Another Sixer told me that in practice he would take the big guys inside, and overpower them. Said the same thing about strength and wanting it inside. He was as much an inside player as he was a perimeter threat. I remember myself watching him beat his man and taking to the hole against Parrish, Jabbar, Lanier.

[marklapinski]

Day Five of Twenty Two Days of Toney....include the special by ESPN Classics entitled Vintage NBA - Andrew Toney.

It has comments from the time and action from game 7 of the ECF's in the Boston Garden, where the phrase, "Beat LA!" was heard for the first time. That series cemented Toney into legend.

http://philaphans.com/sixers/?p=19096

[Turbine]

How is the effort going?

[NewsCopy]

Back in town along with Julius Erving, Earl Cureton and Bobby Jones from the 1983 NBA Championship team, Malone took a few moments to talk about the old days. But even then, what everyone wanted to know about was Toney.

The rest of the story

[I_Bleed_RED]

Great story and nice to see he returned.

[CajunRed]

It's hard to explain to my kids and others exactly how good Toney was. As good as I say he was, I am STILL understating his ability to dribble, drive to the basket, pass it off...and, of course, score. And that scoring could be hitting a 20 footer one moment...and slashing to an easy basket the next. He was amazing to watch.

[TheTruth]

Great player...too bad the injuries got to him...anytime you get props from the likes of Larry Bird, Moses Malone etc you know your the man....I remember watching those games on CBS and all the announcers would talk about how scared the Celtics were of him...never ran his mouth either but boy would he put a dagger in their hearts when the game was on the line...he was also part of that second great wave of teams after Lamar and Ebron and Freddie Saunders and Winkler...his group with Cordy Glenn, Calvin Crews etc was also a special group

[Zeebart21]

Great player...too bad the injuries got to him...anytime you get props from the likes of Larry Bird, Moses Malone etc you know your the man....I remember watching those games on CBS and all the announcers would talk about how scared the Celtics were of him...never ran his mouth either but boy would he put a dagger in their hearts when the game was on the line...he was also part of that second great wave of teams after Lamar and Ebron and Freddie Saunders and Winkler...his group with Cordy Glenn, Calvin Crews etc was also a special group

Thats why they called him, "The Boston Strangler"...

Z

[iedmunds]

He returned to Philly back in 2001 with his kids during the NBA Finals. This was not his first visit back. For the record.