Bill Walton vs Dr J poster

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Anyone know what this is worth? It's #659 of 777 printed.

 

[THE HCP]

Nothing! It's OBVIOUSLY not a real photograph! #DumbAss

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'll give you $20 for it.

 

[MarAzul]

If the painting is actually a painting of a photo, Walton is abut 43" off the floor. His vertical was good, his timing was superb, but I don't know if he could do 43".

 

[MarAzul]

Something else strikes me as wrong with this painting. Dr. J never saw a moment in that series without Bob Gross or Larry Steele within his private space.
Neither are in the picture.

 

[Haakzilla]

...what are the dimensions? Are you selling it? I love that poster!

 

[chris_in_pdx]

That would be priceless to me, at least.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Something else strikes me as wrong with this painting. Dr. J never saw a moment in that series without Bob Gross or Larry Steele within his private space.
Neither are in the picture.

Bobby Gross (#30) is shown between Dr J and Walton.

 

[MarAzul]

Bobby Gross (#30) is shown between Dr J and Walton.

Well dang! I think you are right. I remember him a slightly lighter shade.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Well dang! I think you are right. I remember him a slightly lighter shade.

I got an opportunity to meet Bobby Gross earlier this year. Seemed like a great guy.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Something else strikes me as wrong with this painting. Dr. J never saw a moment in that series without Bob Gross or Larry Steele within his private space.
Neither are in the picture.

If I remember correctly (I was pretty young at the time), Corky Calhoun was our defensive specialist that spent quite a bit of time on Dr J.

 

[jlprk]

If the painting is actually a painting of a photo, Walton is abut 43" off the floor. His vertical was good, his timing was superb, but I don't know if he could do 43".

All through the 70s, a picture was often in magazines of Walton in a college game, his head a couple of inches from the rim. His posture was perfect as usual, straight up and maximizing his altitude. His gaze was thoughtful and looking perpendicular across the rim...his chin wasn't pointed up. This matters because HIS CHIN WAS about an inch ABOVE THE RIM...higher than in that painting.

Operations from possibly politicized Blazer doctors later ruined Walton's leaping ability. Yet as a hobbling Celtic, his stats per minute were still much better than those of starter Robert Parish, considered one of the top centers of the decade.

 

[MarAzul]

If I remember correctly (I was pretty young at the time), Corky Calhoun was our defensive specialist that spent quite a bit of time on Dr J.

You could be right again, but I just don't remember him playing all that much in that series. Steele played quit a bit in that series and sort of made his name count in steals.

 

[MarAzul]

CHIN WAS about an inch ABOVE THE RIM

That is really up there you know. 47" 48" off the floor. Bill Russell, David Thompson, Jordan, sky-walker territory.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

47' 48" off the floor.

47 feet off the ground?!?

 

[jlprk]

He was in the middle of a rebound. Someday I will find that picture and post it. I can't find it on Google images or Bing images.

 

[MarAzul]

He was in the middle of a rebound. Someday I will find that picture and post it. I can't find it on Google images or Bing images.

Well Russell said once in talking about putting a quarter on top of the backboard, there are no rebounds up there.

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[jlprk]

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I saw that just now while searching, but Walton was higher in the picture I used to see. Also, he was facing the basket, and in yours, he's facing away from it. And his mouth was closed (ha ha) in my picture.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://bballbreakdown.com/2011/07/w...st-center-of-all-time-game-6-1977-nba-finals/

I think you all will like this one.

 

[jlprk]

I think you all will like this one.

He criticizes Gene Shue's system and compares it to the Blazer system back then. Yet the 76er system, which they so ably executed, was what Stotts and the Blazers currently aspire to, and fail to execute. It just shows how far we have fallen.

Bill Walton wanted to be an NBA assistant coach a few years ago. His back got worse for a couple of years and he quit national broadcasting. He dabbles in local broadcasting now. I wonder whether any NBA head coach would feel his job unthreatened enough, to accept Walton as an assistant.

I won't say which NBA team I'm thinking of, but then we could go after his son, too...

 

[MarAzul]

we could go after his son

Oh, I wish we would.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

You guys are seriously analyzing the vertical? That's funny. It's a drawing/painting!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You guys are seriously analyzing the vertical? That's funny. It's a drawing/painting!

$21

 

[MarAzul]

You guys are seriously analyzing the vertical? That's funny. It's a drawing/painting!

Flawed! $22

 

[SlyPokerDog]

$23 and I'll let you ban anyone you want for 2 days.

 

[PCmor7]

http://bballbreakdown.com/2011/07/w...st-center-of-all-time-game-6-1977-nba-finals/

I think you all will like this one.

"Ricky" Davis?

 

[PCmor7]

Fundamentally, Walton was the best center I've ever seen. Arvydas Sabonis might have been second.

 

[ripcityboy]

I went to school with Bobby's daughter. He's a really nice guy. I always loved his stories about talking sh-t with Daryl Dawkins.

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