David Thompson left NC State in 1975 after a sensational career and is still widely considered the best player in ACC history. Among the people who consider him so is Michael Jordan, who did pretty well himself, starting a decade or so later.
We’ve linked to Thompson videos before and the specific reason that we linked to this one is because of one of the first shots: you can see that, in fact, he could get to the top of the backboard.
And he was just 6-4.
Keep in mind that Thompson grew up in Shelby, NC, and arrived in Raleigh in 1972.