Unfortunately for Pistol Pete, it's a team game. Somebody should have told him that when he was playing the team as a whole might have fared better.

Just curious but how many of you that have made a comment so far, ever really saw Maravich actually play a game live for LSU? I mean he graduated from LSU in 1970. The man was awesome and could do things with a basketball that only a few today can do. If the three point shot was allowed then, my oh my I can't even think how many the points the man would score. Also remember in his freshmen year you couldn't play varsity basketball, you had to play for the freshmen squad and the points he scored during that year aren't added to his varsity totals. He could and did pass, but if you don't have anyone else on the team, well....

 

BTW I mean no disrespect in asking my question...

Just curious but how many of you that have made a comment so far, ever really saw Maravich actually play a game live for LSU? I mean he graduated from LSU in 1970. The man was awesome and could do things with a basketball that only a few today can do. If the three point shot was allowed then, my oh my I can't even think how many the points the man would score. Also remember in his freshmen year you couldn't play varsity basketball, you had to play for the freshmen squad and the points he scored during that year aren't added to his varsity totals. He could and did pass, but if you don't have anyone else on the team, well....

 

BTW I mean no disrespect in asking my question...

:thumb: I agree. Maravich was not a bad team player. He averaged 44.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 5.1 assists for his career at LSU and the team only won 3 games the season before his career began.

 

In the NBA, Maravich averaged 23.6 ppg, 5.3 apg, and 4.1 rpg. But the really amazing thing, IMO, was that he did all that with a defective heart that could have killed him at any time.

The Pistol may have been the greatest Collegiate guard of all time! The only challenger that comes to my mind is the Big O. He didnt score with Pistol, but what an allaround game!

Unfortunately for Pistol Pete, it's a team game. Somebody should have told him that when he was playing the team as a whole might have fared better.

 

The team fared pretty good his senior year and he turned around a program that was awful. He averaged 6.2 assists per game his senior year and is known as much for his passing as his shooting (a little bit of a showboat but...).

Interesting article about Pistol Pete in the Ashland paper today.

 

http://www.dailyindependent.com/localsports/local_story_017224448.html

Shooting 38 times to score 44 a game with no 3-point line on average is impressive. I read an estimate that Maravich would have averaged 57 points a game had the 3-point rule been in effect during his college career.

 

Maybe but not necessarily, if the three point line was in effect, it may have resulted in more three point attempts resulting in a lower shooting percentage, also less two point attempts which would have been higher percentage. Also, with less two point attempts, there probably would have been less free throws taken which are extremely high percentage. But, who knows for sure.

 

Perhaps with a three point line Pete may not have developed the ball handling and passing skills to the level that he did. With the three point line you hear of players shooting 200-300 shots per day. Would Pete have fell into the glory of the three point shot?? I understand that he would practice his passing skills endlessly bouncing the ball against a wall. He was one of a kind!!:thumb:

Maybe but not necessarily, if the three point line was in effect, it may have resulted in more three point attempts resulting in a lower shooting percentage, also less two point attempts which would have been higher percentage. Also, with less two point attempts, there probably would have been less free throws taken which are extremely high percentage. But, who knows for sure.

 

Perhaps with a three point line Pete may not have developed the ball handling and passing skills to the level that he did. With the three point line you hear of players shooting 200-300 shots per day. Would Pete have fell into the glory of the three point shot?? I understand that he would practice his passing skills endlessly bouncing the ball against a wall. He was one of a kind!!:thumb:

 

Not really following much of your logic with this agrument but Pete routinely shot from 20-25 feet with NO three-point line. If anything, the defenses would have been different. Why defend a guy shooting from 25 feet when it counts the same as a lay-up? Defenses now focus on the three-point line because it is "the great equalizer". For the record, Pete played with the three-point line for only one season--his last in the NBA, in which he played sparingly--and shot 10 for 15 for 66.7%.

Meeks took 22 shots and scored 54 points. He didn't force anything, he simply made everything...

 

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That's the most amazing stat of all to me...roughly 2.5 points per shot attempt. That's incredible.

I am sure that you can go back and find a box score in which Pistol Pete had the same productivity if not better than meeks performance. Remember Pete averaged this for 28 games his senior year, not one snap shot game.

 

For the record, my dad guarded him to an average of 50 points a game his two times defending The Pistol. He as some amazing stories. From being on a dead sprint down the sideline and heaving a hook shot right before he gets to the baseline, to crossing the ten second line, killing his dribble and shooting a 35 footer flat footed with the ball over his head in a passing position.

Also said on a 3 on 1 fast break, he witnessed Pete make greatest pass he has ever seen (Dad was the one man back) pretty cool stuff. For those who saw and/or played against him, there is no doubt who the greatest college basketball player is/was.

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That's the most amazing stat of all to me...roughly 2.5 points per shot attempt. That's incredible.

 

Meeks shot an unbelieveable percentage in this particular game but that stat (point per shot attempt) is typically pretty meaningless. The Woodside kid who scored 60 points earlier this season averaged 2 points per shot attempt but shot less than 50% from the field and shot 35 free throws.