Wow. His skill set was decades early.
Pistol Pete
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Pete, Calvin Murphy and Rick Mount were all members of the same class, I believe. Pete was a basketball smoke show...Calvin Murphy was an offensive marching...as was Mount. Mount was a great “long range” shooter..from the corner as he was fading out of bounds...MONEY!
He is one of my all time favorite athletes. Many battles on and off the court. I reference him every year to the kids when I coach basketball.
nothing against caitlin but he didn't have the three available
Nothing against Pete, but he took twice as many shots and was less efficient than Clark.
Against almost exclusively white players.
Pete’s skull set was definitely decades early, but I think the game has caught up. The NBA these days is chuck the ball up without running any type of offensive sets and playing lazy defense on the other end. Pete would love it.
Good point, but he can only play against the teams on the schedule. Playing against professional black players didn’t seem to slow him down, tho he played with, shall we say, not top talented teammates.
The Globe Trotters offered him a million bucks to join the all black team.
I agree with a lot of the premise in the YouTube video. Many of his moves were groundbreaking and have assimilated into the modern game. Dude was a flat out force on the court.
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Pete was fundamentally lazy on defense and you can’t prove me wrong. He’d thrive in today’s NBA.
Well, why don’t you prove he was lazy?
He thrived on every court he ever played on.
I am definitely not disparaging CC. How many three pointers has she hit? 503, including 116 as a freshman.
Comparing stats from different eras is unfair to both players. Rules change, umpiring evolves, team strategy differs.
Pete was 6’5” and 160 #s entering LSU. Nutrition, strength training, larger support staff, and other factors have dramatically helped change the game.
CC and PP are some of the all time greats, without question.
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A little known link between Maravich and Mount was a guy named Jeff Tribbett. Tribbett was the second starting guard for Lebanon High School in Indiana where Mount won the Mr. Basketball award in 1966. After graduating, Mount went onto Purdue while Tribbett continued his career at LSU where he was the other starting guard with Maravich.
I don't know if Tribbett ever got a shot off.😉
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That is a trifecta of my favorites joe, and your descriptions match my memories. To add several other guards from the era…
Tommy Curtis at Leon HS filled the bucket and got recruited by the Wizard of Westwood. He did not get a lot of playing time, but his exploits in Tallahassee were of legend.
The Kentucky Rifleman, Ron King, played for Hugh Durham and was a leader on FSU’s team that pushed UCLA to the limit 81-76 in the 1972 finals. He was a bomber from deep.
She earned it. Different eras are hard to compare. There is a kid from a Division 2 or Division 3 school, I think, who still holds the all category record.
Gotta love it when people who don’t watch the Association think they can give a cognizant thought on the state of the game.
It's really silly to attempt to compare the two. Here is something about which there is no controversy - she broke his scoring record. What that means is up to each person to decide for themselves, because it is impossible to compare the two considering the vastly different circumstance under which they each played.
But she broke the record, and that's plenty of reason for her and Iowa fans to celebrate.
But she broke the record, and that's plenty of reason for her and Iowa fans to celebrate.
