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    http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vi...998798&cache=1

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    Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

    As I recall he once turned Walt Frazier into his personal whipping boy to the tune of 68 points.

    As hall of famers go, Maravich may be the most underrated. He was widely resented in the 70's and I think that kept him from getting the same just due that guys like Connie Hawkins and Earl monroe did.

    It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.

    Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
    Conference Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 2005
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      Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

      I prefer "Machine Gun" Marquis...

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        Pistol Pete was perhaps the biggest loser in basketball history. People talk about Marbury, Francis, and Baron Davis. They've got nothing on Pistol Pete. First of all, his legendary college career was made legendary by the fact that he made sure to go to the college where his own father was the head coach, LSU. Of course daddy is gonna let him shoot it as many times as he wants to, which led to his amazingly bloated college scoring numbers. We'll just forget the fact that he never once led LSU to the NCAA Tournament. You'd think the "best" player in college basketball history by himself would be good enough to at least lead his team to a lower seed. Nope. The "greatest" college basketball player of all-time didn't even go #1 overall in the draft, he goes #3 behind Bob Lanier (Pistons) and Rudy Tomjanovich (Rockets). Then comes his NBA career, no more daddy around to let him have his way, so of course his scoring goes way down but the losing continues....

        ATLANTA HAWKS
        70-71: 36-46 (12 fewer wins then the season before)
        71-72: 36-46
        72-73: 46-36 (career high in assists - only winning season in his first 9. how odd.)
        73-74: 35-47
        NEW ORLEANS JAZZ
        74-75: 23-59
        75-76: 38-44
        76-77: 35-47
        77-78: 39-43
        78-79: 26-56
        79-80: WAIVED!


        I'm not even gonna consider his final season, when he played 17 games with the Boston Celtics.

        Career: 314-424 (.425)

        What a winner that Pistol Pete! Wait, no he wasn't. His own teammates said he was a loser. But who cares about wins and losses, he had floppy socks and did neat tricks! Floppy socks and neat tricks are what basketball is all about!*


        *sarcasm

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          Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

          So...does that mean Jordan isn't the greatest player ever, since he didn't get drafted #1 either?

          And it's foolish to imply that it was somehow easy to get into the NCAA tournament back in Maravich's day, compared to now. If you didn't win your conference, you couldn't get in. And no, he should not have been expected to beat Kentucky all by himself.

          I sense a lot of jealousy and envy, but hey that's just me.

          You want to say he wasn't a winner? Fine, albeit he never had the talent around him to win. But to imply that he wasn't one of the best guards ever to play the game is irresponsible and ignorant. His game spoke for itself. He was as offensively gifted as any guard in NBA history.

          As for his teammates hating him, they resented his contract, which wasn't his fault.

          But yeah, the only reason why he averaged 44ppg in college is because his dad was the coach. Of course, how did I not figure out it was that simple. All you need to do to score 40+ppg is to have a green light to shoot. It's not as if you have to play against a defense, or anything...

          It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.

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            Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            So...does that mean Jordan isn't the greatest player ever, since he didn't get drafted #1 either?
            This is an ignorant statement on your part. I clearly used the fact that for his entire career he was a me-first, me-second, me-third, team-fourth loser as to why he's so massively overrated. Pointing out that was taken #3 was used only to show you that not all teams were fooled by his stat-padded college career.

            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            And it's foolish to imply that it was somehow easy to get into the NCAA tournament back in Maravich's day, compared to now. If you didn't win your conference, you couldn't get in. And no, he should not have been expected to beat Kentucky all by himself.
            There were 23-25 teams in the NCAA Tournament during Pete's college career. There were more than enough open spots for non-great teams to make it in. Of course, LSU was never even really close to making the tournament and were around .500 for most of Pete's time there.


            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            I sense a lot of jealousy and envy, but hey that's just me.
            Yes, of all the players in NBA history, I've chosen the goofy looking skinny guy who was a career loser and died almost 20 years ago to be envious of.

            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            You want to say he wasn't a winner? Fine, albeit he never had the talent around him to win. But to imply that he wasn't one of the best guards ever to play the game is irresponsible and ignorant. His game spoke for itself. He was as offensively gifted as any guard in NBA history.
            Overall, taking into account his selfish mentality and unrivaled apathy towards winning, no he wasn't that good. He was a black hole who was all about promoting himself over the well being of his teams. I don't care how gifted he was, that aforementioned fact makes it all for naught. Basketball isn't all about physical skills, just ask Stephon Marbury or Steve Francis or of course Ron Artest (btw - all 3 are already bigger winners than Pistol Pete ever was)

            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            As for his teammates hating him, they resented his contract, which wasn't his fault.
            Yeah that could be it....or.....they resented the fact that he'd rather pretend he was playing in the circus than playing an actual basketball game where the goal is to win, not see how many "ohhs & ahhs!" .you can get from the crowd.

            Originally posted by Kstat View Post
            But yeah, the only reason why he averaged 44ppg in college is because his dad was the coach. Of course, how did I not figure out it was that simple. All you need to do to score 40+ppg is to have a green light to shoot. It's not as if you have to play against a defense, or anything...
            To discard the fact that his father gave him the green light to put up an unheard of number of shots per game is simply goofy, and you know it. And yes, any reasonably talented basketball player can put up big scoring numbers if they're taking half their teams shots, as Pistol Pete did. He shot sub-par FG%'s against sub-par college defenses his entire career. That's not that impressive.

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              Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

              thanks for posting that. that's the first time i have seen alot of his clips, some of the stuff he did is amazing!

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                Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                Originally posted by PacersFan83 View Post
                There were 23-25 teams in the NCAA Tournament during Pete's college career. There were more than enough open spots for non-great teams to make it in.

                You obviously don't know much about the history of the NCAA tournament. You had to WIN your conference to make it in, period, prior to 1975.

                THERE WERE NO AT-LARGE TEAMS AT ALL.

                If you were a top 5 team in the country but if you finished behind ANY other conference opponent, you went to the NIT or went home. The 20+ teams were champions of the then 20+ conferences (before conference mega-mergers) and about 15 of them were podunks.

                Under the rules of that day were in place now, this season only one Big Ten team between Ohio State and Wisconsin would even make the field.

                Yes, there were times when top 5 teams failed to make the tournament because of this. In the ACC in particular, they have always had a conference tournament and some great teams stayed home.

                In 1973-1974, IU shared the Big Ten Title with Michigan and were a top 10 team. They barely lost a one-game playoff two days after the regular season ended to Michigan and missed the NCAA. They played in and won a short-lived tournament featuring second-place teams from all of the conferences, the CCA. This tournament disbanded the next year, when the NCAA finally allowed at-large teams.

                Of course today almost as often as not the overall NCAA champion was not a conference champion.

                You are right that he didn't win much. In those days LSU's basketball program had roughly the stature of Penn State's or Northwestern's hoops programs today. That is, nobody paid any attention to them since they were always an easy win and never got any decent recruits outside of a 20 mile radius surrounding Baton Rouge. He was then drafted onto badly run and perennial-losing NBA teams. At the very end he became a Celtic. Unfortunately his knees were shot and they did not then have the surgical techniques to help him keep playing.
                The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).

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                  Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                  PS I was lucky enough as about a 6 year old to see a few of his games in college. Living in southern Indiana, the Louisville station channel 3 carried SEC games every Saturday all afternoon.

                  Actually seeing Pete Maravich and also seeing Rick Mount play (best shooter to ever play college ball) got me hooked on basketball before I was even in grade school.
                  The poster "pacertom" since this forum began (and before!). I changed my name here to "Slick Pinkham" in honor of the imaginary player That Bobby "Slick" Leonard picked late in the 1971 ABA draft (true story!).

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                    Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                    Originally posted by PacersFan83 View Post
                    This is an ignorant statement on your part. I clearly used the fact that for his entire career he was a me-first, me-second, me-third, team-fourth loser as to why he's so massively overrated. Pointing out that was taken #3 was used only to show you that not all teams were fooled by his stat-padded college career.



                    There were 23-25 teams in the NCAA Tournament during Pete's college career. There were more than enough open spots for non-great teams to make it in. Of course, LSU was never even really close to making the tournament and were around .500 for most of Pete's time there.



                    Yes, of all the players in NBA history, I've chosen the goofy looking skinny guy who was a career loser and died almost 20 years ago to be envious of.



                    Overall, taking into account his selfish mentality and unrivaled apathy towards winning, no he wasn't that good. He was a black hole who was all about promoting himself over the well being of his teams. I don't care how gifted he was, that aforementioned fact makes it all for naught. Basketball isn't all about physical skills, just ask Stephon Marbury or Steve Francis or of course Ron Artest (btw - all 3 are already bigger winners than Pistol Pete ever was)



                    Yeah that could be it....or.....they resented the fact that he'd rather pretend he was playing in the circus than playing an actual basketball game where the goal is to win, not see how many "ohhs & ahhs!" .you can get from the crowd.



                    To discard the fact that his father gave him the green light to put up an unheard of number of shots per game is simply goofy, and you know it. And yes, any reasonably talented basketball player can put up big scoring numbers if they're taking half their teams shots, as Pistol Pete did. He shot sub-par FG%'s against sub-par college defenses his entire career. That's not that impressive.


                    quoteBasketball isn't all about physical skills,

                    I suppose this is the reason that players like Steve Alford or Damon B. or any number of IU players never made an imprint in the NBA. Come on, the NBA is all about physical skills, without them, players will not even get a toe in the door. Why the hate for Pistol Pete? He worked as hard as any player in basketball to hone his skills and to make it to the big stage. I don't think that today's NBA stars would actually sleep with a basketball and carry it everywhere, like Pete did. I find your critizism of Pete misguided.

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                      Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                      To put "Pistol Pete" in perspective: One of the premier guards and ballhandlers of all time, Isiah Thomas, said that Pete was the best ballhandler in all of baketball, period. He was an absolute magician with the ball.

                      Sure he didn't win much in college or the pros but he did more for the NBA then most players who won much more. He was the innovator of many moves plus, the no-look pass, the cross-over dribble, the behind the back pass, etc. (Actually Cousy was the originator of some of these passes but he was a robot compared to Pete).

                      He never was surrounded with much talent so he was the SHOW. Very few players ever probably put in as many hours in the gym as he.

                      I didn't care for him in college because he did shoot a lot because of his dad but I learned to appreciate his skills in the NBA even if he wasn't on a lot of winning teams.
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                        Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                        Originally posted by pacertom View Post
                        You obviously don't know much about the history of the NCAA tournament. You had to WIN your conference to make it in, period, prior to 1975.

                        THERE WERE NO AT-LARGE TEAMS AT ALL.

                        If you were a top 5 team in the country but if you finished behind ANY other conference opponent, you went to the NIT or went home. The 20+ teams were champions of the then 20+ conferences (before conference mega-mergers) and about 15 of them were podunks.

                        Under the rules of that day were in place now, this season only one Big Ten team between Ohio State and Wisconsin would even make the field.

                        Yes, there were times when top 5 teams failed to make the tournament because of this. In the ACC in particular, they have always had a conference tournament and some great teams stayed home.

                        In 1973-1974, IU shared the Big Ten Title with Michigan and were a top 10 team. They barely lost a one-game playoff two days after the regular season ended to Michigan and missed the NCAA. They played in and won a short-lived tournament featuring second-place teams from all of the conferences, the CCA. This tournament disbanded the next year, when the NCAA finally allowed at-large teams.

                        Of course today almost as often as not the overall NCAA champion was not a conference champion.

                        You are right that he didn't win much. In those days LSU's basketball program had roughly the stature of Penn State's or Northwestern's hoops programs today. That is, nobody paid any attention to them since they were always an easy win and never got any decent recruits outside of a 20 mile radius surrounding Baton Rouge. He was then drafted onto badly run and perennial-losing NBA teams. At the very end he became a Celtic. Unfortunately his knees were shot and they did not then have the surgical techniques to help him keep playing.



                        Of course, my memories of Pete are filtered through a kid's mentality, but I was a big fan of Pete. That reminds me, I have a Psitol Pete basketball card hidden in my attic somewhere. I'm going to have to find it and see if ti has any value.

                        I'm with roferr on this. I, for one, aren't going to respond to what appears to be a well written troll post. Pete was amazing.
                        Hey! What're you kicking me for? You want me to ask? All right, I'll ask! Ma'am, where do the high school girls hang out in this town?

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                          Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                          Originally posted by PacersFan83 View Post
                          This is an ignorant statement on your part. I clearly used the fact that for his entire career he was a me-first, me-second, me-third, team-fourth loser as to why he's so massively overrated. Pointing out that was taken #3 was used only to show you that not all teams were fooled by his stat-padded college career.



                          There were 23-25 teams in the NCAA Tournament during Pete's college career. There were more than enough open spots for non-great teams to make it in. Of course, LSU was never even really close to making the tournament and were around .500 for most of Pete's time there.



                          Yes, of all the players in NBA history, I've chosen the goofy looking skinny guy who was a career loser and died almost 20 years ago to be envious of.



                          Overall, taking into account his selfish mentality and unrivaled apathy towards winning, no he wasn't that good. He was a black hole who was all about promoting himself over the well being of his teams. I don't care how gifted he was, that aforementioned fact makes it all for naught. Basketball isn't all about physical skills, just ask Stephon Marbury or Steve Francis or of course Ron Artest (btw - all 3 are already bigger winners than Pistol Pete ever was)



                          Yeah that could be it....or.....they resented the fact that he'd rather pretend he was playing in the circus than playing an actual basketball game where the goal is to win, not see how many "ohhs & ahhs!" .you can get from the crowd.



                          To discard the fact that his father gave him the green light to put up an unheard of number of shots per game is simply goofy, and you know it. And yes, any reasonably talented basketball player can put up big scoring numbers if they're taking half their teams shots, as Pistol Pete did. He shot sub-par FG%'s against sub-par college defenses his entire career. That's not that impressive.

                          Drink up.

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                            Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                            I have not seen so many games with Pete, he was very fun to watch tho(especially if u was a fan in that time / era).
                            He was original, he was the first one with so many tricks, he was ahead of his time with his style and thats about it.......................... nothing more, nothing less.

                            If you took away his "magic ballhandling skills" then i dont think he would even be remembered today, well not as famous as today. He is/was not underrated or overrated, but only remembered and respected as THE "inventor"... he took a hard job, that job which you would be hated for from your teammates/coaches in that time & era but at the other end being very famous later for pushing the NBA to another level.

                            Think if there was no guys like Pistol Pete and that basketball would still be the same as in the 60s - 70s, we would today be SHOT for dribbling the ball between the legs in a game?

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                              Re: Pistol Pete - you guys should have seen him

                              He was amazing to watch. If he were my son he would have been shooting his a55 off too.
                              The best exercise of the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.

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