"Troy Jackson" was an American basketball player. The younger brother of former NBA player Mark Jackson (basketball)/Mark Jackson, he was a member of the AND1 Mixtape Tour, known by his streetball nickname ""Escalade"". Jackson was listed by AND1 at 6'10" and 375 pounds.

Troy Jackson weighed close to as a senior at Half Hollow Hills High School West#High School East/Hills East High School in Long Island, New York, but his performances at Rucker Park caught the attention of Bill Hughley, coach of Wallace Community College Selma/Wallace Community College in Selma, Alabama. Jackson enrolled at Wallace, and even though he continued to play at 500 pounds (or more), he received all-region honors as a sophomore. "People wonder how I played at 500-plus pounds. But to me it felt natural," he later said. Jackson's accomplishments in community college led to a scholarship offer from the University of Louisville, though the school demanded that he lose weight. Jackson complied, and by his senior year at Louisville, he had slimmed down to about after adhering to a strict diet.

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It was an adjustment without Catron. Before we had a double-barreled attack, with an inside and an outside threat.

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It was frustrating to everybody. To be one of the top teams in the state, then all of a sudden the big guy was gone and your team is reduced to just trying to hang on game after game ... he meant so much. That's how we play -- everything went through him. It took us a while to regroup.

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We were pleased with the guys who came off the bench. They energized us. We were fast breaking and getting the ball up the floor. Barnes and (senior guard Reggie) Frank did a great job in the second quarter.

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I smelled something, came outside, then the flames just shot out. The flames just leapt out. These houses are wood, so they're going to burn.

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I thought our offense was good, but our defense was not there. Our focus was to play better defense in the second half.

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That's the best performance I've had since I've been in college. This was revenge, because they killed us when we were up there last time.

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It's big because we did it without Catron.

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