Wow! I did not know Pistol Pete took nearly twice as many shots per game as Caitlin Clark. And, you're right, her assist numbers are off the charts.
They're both all-time greats. No reason to denigrate either.
For Pete’s sake
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Wow! I did not know Pistol Pete took nearly twice as many shots per game as Caitlin Clark. And, you're right, her assist numbers are off the charts.
They're both all-time greats. No reason to denigrate either.
Ah, your State of the Onion add dress … as coherent as anyone could expect these days.
The OP doesn’t act. It says what it says in Plain’s English. How many reports bothered to mention Pete’s average or give his story? Ever seen anyone score like that? Except for Wilt off court?
In this case, the origin of the apples-to-oranges comparison was Century City, Fox HQ in LA, because BTN and all other Fox Sports networks suddenly went nuts over that fruity notion.
I just thought I’d pitch in and help those poor folks, using the 44 points per game vs. 28 to illustrate what people watching games could expect from each while also calling attention to our own scorers on the NCAA’s all-time list. I still much prefer Mount and Stephanie White. Or Wooden and Peck. Or Joe Barry and Ukari. Or Glenn and the Katies. Or Zach and MaChelle. Our pup likes Brittany. And, of course, Big Dog. And then we have our own Half-Court Pistol Purdue Pete.
Where did anyone say Caitlin Clark isn’t good? Where did anyone compare man vs. girl abilities? Where’s anyone trying to wear a wife-beater shirt? Besides during warmup drills?
The point is total points vs. scoring -- as in 44-28 in points per game -- an illustration for the many who never got to see Pete play as to why even the NBA still refers to him as one of the game’s greatest showmen … regardless of idiotic concepts of eras. The best players play the best players.
And, for the record, LSU had losing seasons in 11 of the 13 years before Pete Maravich arrived, going 6-20 and 3-23 in the two seasons before he played varsity, so he literally shot the Tigers back into respectability with records of 14-12, 13-13 and 22-10 as a senior, winning his record contract.
He also averaged 6.4 rebounds and 5.1 assists for his college career and impacted LSU to the point that it immediately built the 13,215-seat LSU Assembly Center, opened in 1972 and renamed the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in 1988 just after his death.
His crowd-pleasing play established him as one of the sport’s all-time icons, yet many here have missed the point of seeing why. Here’s what the NBA shows …
She's brought a lot of attention to the women's game. I've never seen such coverage of a woman basketball player as she was reaching the records. Awfully good for their game. Indiana is lucky to be in the position to get her. She's gonna be the steph curry of wnba.
I watched Austin Carr go for around 60 at Butler years ago. Pete was special...quite a showman and ball handler . Some of his passing was unbelievable...
she is an excellent women's player. From what I understand (I haven't calculated it) you can take two of the women's basketballs and pass both through the rim side by side. You can't with a men's ball, there isn't as much extra room for error She is outstanding in the women's game. You can't compare the two and we shouldn't have to do that.
Good for Caitlin Clark - she is a tremendously gifted player and can do much more than shoot/score......great for the women's game to get more attention and focus. Doesn't change what Pete Maravich did or accomplished or tarnish, IMHO, how gifted and tented a player he was......I get that we have to filter more these days due to the sheer volume from technology.....comes with the territory.
And because TJ mentioned him.....Austin Carr's career was unfortunately derailed with a couple of severe knee/leg injuries. Went to his basketball camp a couple of years - a great experience, and he was wonderful to the "campers." Will always have a soft spot for AC.
Carry on, folks.....TGIF.
Austin, Collis and Catlett (sp?) were three tough players back then...Good for Caitlin Clark - she is a tremendously gifted player and can do much more than shoot/score......great for the women's game to get more attention and focus. Doesn't change what Pete Maravich did or accomplished or tarnish, IMHO, how gifted and tented a player he was......I get that we have to filter more these days due to the sheer volume from technology.....comes with the territory.
And because TJ mentioned him.....Austin Carr's career was unfortunately derailed with a couple of severe knee/leg injuries. Went to his basketball camp a couple of years - a great experience, and he was wonderful to the "campers." Will always have a soft spot for AC.
Carry on, folks.....TGIF.
people are going to think a few of us are old.
We aren't old...we just have a large database of information at our disposal
Sid. As in Vicious.
Austin Carr, Collis Jones, Sid Catlett, Jackie Meehan and John Pleick ended UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in January 1971 with the headline “Awesome Austin Is Exhaustin’” Court Storm.
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Oops. The 89-82 game in 1971 was when Austin scored 46 as Danny Nee’s Irish ended a 19-game win streak, but it was UCLA’s last loss before an 88-game winning streak that Digger Phelps’ Irish ended 71-70 in January 1974 with John Shumate, Gary Brokaw, Dwight Clay, Adrian Dantley and Gary Novak against Wooden’s Bruins featuring Bill Walton, Keith Wilkes and East Chicago’s Pete Trgovich.
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The WNBA plays a much better form of basketball.
Notre Dame ended UCLA's record 88-win streak in '74 - led by John Shumate and Gary Brokaw (with a freshman Adrian Dantley chipping in)....ND scored the last 12 points in the final 3 and half minutes to win 71-70, its only lead of the game. I remember watching that game after a Saturday basketball practice....Walton had a great look at the end to still win it after the Bruins let it slip away. Dick Enberg called the game.
The '71 game (with Austin Carr pouring in 46) ended a 19-game streak (UCLA's only loss that season) and a 46-game non-conference streak. Ironically, after this loss, UCLA's 88-game streak started the very next game.
Dick Enberg, great announcer. Later, you always knew it was big game when he and Al were doing a game.
Did tennis and golf, too, along with baseball, basketball, and football......"Oh My!"
Enberg, Scully, and Summerall were the best I ever heard, among many other very good ones.
to explain some subtle differences that may be missed for understanding of men with the bigger ball and women with the smaller ball. Someone could take the differences and then compare or reflect on it and say if they were meant to compare then why the smaller ball and realize there isn't a comparison and then draw conclusions that a so so high school team of boys could beat a college team of women, but I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to "contrast" rather than "compare" the differences in so few of areas
Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were really good , Bill Flemming was good too
Chris Schenkel - Purdue class of 1945.....one of the pioneers of modern broadcasting....and glassworks.
