Pistol Pete

[Phatguysrule]

I wish I'd been able to watch more of him than just the clips we get now.

Was he the best college player ever? 57pts per game?!

One of my favorite movies

 

[Hoopguru]

I wish I'd been able to watch more of him than just the clips we get now.

Was he the best college player ever? 57pts per game?!

One of my favorite movies

Kareem would be my pick with all the championships too.
I saw him a couple of times at the MC. Very flashy with the handle, but so was jwill.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Kareem would be my pick with all the championships too.
I saw him a couple of times at the MC. Very flashy with the handle, but so was jwill.

How many championships would pistol Pete have won if his team was scoring an extra 13 points per game?

Just an interesting consideration...

Kareem was absolutely incredible.

 

[Hoopguru]

How many championships would pistol Pete have won if his team was scoring an extra 13 points per game?

Just an interesting consideration...

Kareem was absolutely incredible.

But other teams at the same time would be hitting three's.

 

[THE HCP]

Love those old training videos of him doing drills with Red Auerbach.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Maravich was years ahead of the game. God only knows how many points he would have averaged had the 3 point shoot existed back then (hell, even the dunk was illegal back in college then). He was doing things with the ball that are pretty ubiquitous these days, but Maravich is the guy who "invented" them.....or at least made them mainstream. I still remember either his junior or senior year, they were in the playoffs, they had a fast break going, Maravich was dribbling full tilt boogie down the floor. His teammate was leading the break but Maravich's defender was on him like a well fitting suit and had the passing lane blocked. Or so he thought......Maravich (again at full speed) passed the wall between his legs AND the defenders legs while both were in mid stride, hitting his teammate with a perfectly placed pass for an easy lay up. That shit just did not happen at ANY level of basketball back then. The crowd went crazy and the network must have replayed it a dozen times. Awesome stuff....at least to a 14 year old. He went #4 in one of the best NBA drafts of all time. Arguably (sorry Bob Lanier) he probably would have gone #1 but every team (but Atlanta) was scared shitless of what his price tag was going to be. Despite being #4, he got far and away the largest contract for its time ($2M....the ABA was still in existence and causing bidding wars) and everyone was sure it was the end of the NBA. The guy was pure ass entertainment on the floor. He was White Chocolate before Jason Williams's dad ever had his first ejaculation.

 

[Phatguysrule]

But other teams at the same time would be hitting three's.

Very true. But at the time, and after the 3-point line was introduced, coaches were chastising players for shooting too many threes.

Pete played for his dad, so he didn't have to worry about that.

 

[riverman]

He was the guy we white midwestern kids got basketball hope from...I was amazed by his game as well as Wilt's but Pete just looked like us...a skinny white kid. He had a beautiful game.

 

[Hoopguru]

I remember when he went to the Celtics and Bird was a rook, Pete would get on Bird at times for not passing out of double teams. Bird in his typical manner told Pete if you were any good why they double teaming me.

 

[julius]

I wish I'd been able to watch more of him than just the clips we get now.

Was he the best college player ever? 57pts per game?!

One of my favorite movies

I remember that movie.

 

[crandc]

I remember when he went to the Celtics and Bird was a rook, Pete would get on Bird at times for not passing out of double teams. Bird in his typical manner told Pete if you were any good why they double teaming me.

They were both pretty damn good.

 

[Hoopguru]

They were both pretty damn good.

absolutely, both were great! Pistol was I think only 41 when he passed. Way too young....

 

[cheesehoff]

Kareem would be my pick with all the championships too.
I saw him a couple of times at the MC. Very flashy with the handle, but so was jwill.

He was what JWill aspired to be.

 

[cheesehoff]

One of my favorite memories of high school basketball was at the state tournament my senior year at The Pit. The guy who did radio for all the games called me Pistol Pete. What made it so great was that PP was my dad's all time favorite and when my dad came outside and played me when I was a kid, he would try to imitate him...usually unsuccessfully.

 

[Phatguysrule]

absolutely, both were great! Pistol was I think only 41 when he passed. Way too young....

https://pediatricheartspecialists.c...all-player-ever-had-a-congenital-heart-defect

Maravich’s autopsy revealed a stunning finding. Pistol Pete was actually born with a congenital heart defect. He had a single right coronary artery (see image below). Almost everyone is born with two coronary arteries, a left and a right one. The left coronary artery divides into the circumflex and left anterior descending. It supplies blood to the left ventricle, which is the stronger and more critical of the two ventricles.

Amazingly, Pistol Pete was born without a left coronary artery. He had a single right coronary artery that wrapped all the way around his heart. At the time of his death his heart was massively enlarged and scarred secondary to long-standing chronic oxygen deprivation. Pathologists were shocked that he lived as long as he did.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

Sad - read today that Pistol Pete's youngest son died last year. Sounds like it was also a heart defect. He was about two years older than his Dad.

 

[KingSpeed]

Maravich was years ahead of the game. God only knows how many points he would have averaged had the 3 point shoot existed back then (hell, even the dunk was illegal back in college then). He was doing things with the ball that are pretty ubiquitous these days, but Maravich is the guy who "invented" them.....or at least made them mainstream. I still remember either his junior or senior year, they were in the playoffs, they had a fast break going, Maravich was dribbling full tilt boogie down the floor. His teammate was leading the break but Maravich's defender was on him like a well fitting suit and had the passing lane blocked. Or so he thought......Maravich (again at full speed) passed the wall between his legs AND the defenders legs while both were in mid stride, hitting his teammate with a perfectly placed pass for an easy lay up. That shit just did not happen at ANY level of basketball back then. The crowd went crazy and the network must have replayed it a dozen times. Awesome stuff....at least to a 14 year old. He went #4 in one of the best NBA drafts of all time. Arguably (sorry Bob Lanier) he probably would have gone #1 but every team (but Atlanta) was scared shitless of what his price tag was going to be. Despite being #4, he got far and away the largest contract for its time ($2M....the ABA was still in existence and causing bidding wars) and everyone was sure it was the end of the NBA. The guy was pure ass entertainment on the floor. He was White Chocolate before Jason Williams's dad ever had his first ejaculation.

JWill’s Dad had never masturbated before?

 

[Terkish]

Maravich was years ahead of the game. God only knows how many points he would have averaged had the 3 point shoot existed back then (hell, even the dunk was illegal back in college then). He was doing things with the ball that are pretty ubiquitous these days, but Maravich is the guy who "invented" them.....or at least made them mainstream. I still remember either his junior or senior year, they were in the playoffs, they had a fast break going, Maravich was dribbling full tilt boogie down the floor. His teammate was leading the break but Maravich's defender was on him like a well fitting suit and had the passing lane blocked. Or so he thought......Maravich (again at full speed) passed the wall between his legs AND the defenders legs while both were in mid stride, hitting his teammate with a perfectly placed pass for an easy lay up. That shit just did not happen at ANY level of basketball back then. The crowd went crazy and the network must have replayed it a dozen times. Awesome stuff....at least to a 14 year old. He went #4 in one of the best NBA drafts of all time. Arguably (sorry Bob Lanier) he probably would have gone #1 but every team (but Atlanta) was scared shitless of what his price tag was going to be. Despite being #4, he got far and away the largest contract for its time ($2M....the ABA was still in existence and causing bidding wars) and everyone was sure it was the end of the NBA. The guy was pure ass entertainment on the floor. He was White Chocolate before Jason Williams's dad ever had his first ejaculation.

Isn't Pure Ass Entertainment one of @THE HCP's nicknames?

 

[THE HCP]

Isn't Pure Ass Entertainment one of @THE HCP's nicknames?

Well played homie!

 

[PCmor7]

Maravich was years ahead of the game. God only knows how many points he would have averaged had the 3 point shoot existed back then (hell, even the dunk was illegal back in college then). He was doing things with the ball that are pretty ubiquitous these days, but Maravich is the guy who "invented" them.....or at least made them mainstream. I still remember either his junior or senior year, they were in the playoffs, they had a fast break going, Maravich was dribbling full tilt boogie down the floor. His teammate was leading the break but Maravich's defender was on him like a well fitting suit and had the passing lane blocked. Or so he thought......Maravich (again at full speed) passed the wall between his legs AND the defenders legs while both were in mid stride, hitting his teammate with a perfectly placed pass for an easy lay up. That shit just did not happen at ANY level of basketball back then. The crowd went crazy and the network must have replayed it a dozen times. Awesome stuff....at least to a 14 year old. He went #4 in one of the best NBA drafts of all time. Arguably (sorry Bob Lanier) he probably would have gone #1 but every team (but Atlanta) was scared shitless of what his price tag was going to be. Despite being #4, he got far and away the largest contract for its time ($2M....the ABA was still in existence and causing bidding wars) and everyone was sure it was the end of the NBA. The guy was pure ass entertainment on the floor. He was White Chocolate before Jason Williams's dad ever had his first ejaculation.

Someone got hold of old shot charts and watched old tapes. I think that's where they concluded if the 3-pt shot was around when he was scoring 40 ppg in college it would have been 57 today.