I saw games like this as a kid, it was great to see Pete live in action. He's the best to me from that era. Everybody went wild when Pete would make shots to win the game. I miss those days.
@@jamesvickers9476 horse shit! He was no different than the blacks like Jordan etc that took the majority of the shots. Go back under your rock pissant hater.
Announcer 1 Not many can shoot off the dribble as good as Pistol Pete. Announcer 2 Not many can shoot anyway as good as Pistol Pete One of the best men to have ever touched a basket ball.
B O B Spelled backwards That’s not Bill Russell (even though he used to do it too)... It’s Stu Lantz; also an ex-player, and known commentator for the Lakers.
I get your perspective. At the start of the 2012-13 season, Daryl Morey, then GM of the Rockets, starting running the team strictly based on analytics. The Holy Grail was effective field goal %, eFG%. What it really meant was 3-pt% was the key to winning. Maybe that was when running post plays disappeared from the game. My interest in the NBA started to fade when LeBron went to the Heat in 2010, then fell off even more when the Warriors took the 3-pt obsession to several titles. There were too many times during the 2019 finals when the tallest player on the court for both the Raptors and Warriors was 6'7". There's something fundamentally wrong with that. I do miss the days before the 3-pointer, when teams would average over 110 pts. per game w/o it.
Nobody will ever break that record. Everyone goes pro early, so that record will likely stay forever. Back when basketball was life, unlike all these greedy ass kids wants to go pro fast.
Maravich scored 30 this game.. the first of a 5 game stretch where he averaged 30.6 a game. During the 5th game of that he injured his knee (Against Buffalo on Jan. 31st) and was never the same player again.
@@williegordon7899 I agree, but he's chucking them up there and making at a very good percentage of them, he's the only player that I know that is guarded once he cross the half court line that's ( RESPECT)
I grew up playing in that era and modeled my game after Maravich in every respect. I even mastered the pass with the right hand to bring it all the way around the front of your body and back behind you to the player to your right. On several occasions It made everyone facing you to jump to their left while you dumped it behind to the player for a layup. I made that play but one time in a pickup game...and they called walking. So I went back out and demonstrated the pass again to show that there was no infraction. "That can't be legal," someone said. And that was 1/1000th of the magic of Pete Maravich.
With my sorry teammates back in the 90's whenever I'd do a no look pass or otherwise clever pass, I'd just end up hitting my teammates in the face with the ball because we didn't practice our plays and they hadn't played enough in general, let alone with me to know to watch the ball and your defender and know the ball may come to you at any moment, especially if you're at the basket. Rather than try and work that into our team game I just handicapped my passing so they were all telegraphed and so had to only make safe passes, not even bullet passes, because they'd just peg the teammates. But, it was just church ball so didn't amount to much. I would rent VHS tapes from the library that would teach me fundamentals and some advanced dribbling and passing moves and the like, sure was fun playing pickup with friends that we all knew our playing styles though.
ponchai allen 🔫 pistols knees took a beating in 78/79 with the Jazz. 79/80 was pet's final season in Boston & Larry LEGENDS' 1st! At least Pete went back to LOUISIANA 2 play where his college career started in 66: BATON ROUGE, LSU!
He actually was in decline Barry, if you'll notice the knee brace; A year ago he severely injured his knee, popping a tendon and missing the rest of the year. Oh, he could still show flashes of brilliance, but just two years prior, he led the league in scoring I believe. He was amazing.
John Flanagan I think you’ve got your years mixed up... This game is from the 1977-78 season, Maravich led the league in scoring just a year before it. And Pete was having one of his best seasons in 1978, with the Jazz at some point finally getting it together, also with the play of Truck Robinson who was All-NBA that year... but then Pete’s knee gave up on him (like you’ve said), he missed the rest of the season, and was never quite the same ever again, ending his prime then and there (while still relatively young). The Jazz were on a 10-game winning streak before Pete’s injury (this being one of those games), and he still played a few more games a couple of months afterwards. For the 1978 season, the Jazz were 26-24 in the 50 games Pistol Pete played in... they finished with a 39-43 record.
2:32 Watch it at 0.25 speed. That's exactly what MJ did all day. Even the first jab and move based on the new position the jab provided. Notice here, Pete's left thigh did not move up after he planted his left foot. Squat to shoot directly without any extra time and energy to adjust. MJ was the only one I saw. Now I found Pete did this as well and before MJ. This move is very hard, but lethal. Most players have to bring their thigh lower again to adjust for their shooting, which costs time and energy. And probably stability. What a player! Thank you for uploading this.
@@iiTzLurks Both Walt Bellamy and Walt Hazard both state that he and the 'others' had no trouble with Pete, its how the management handled it. There Rules for Pete, rules for everyone else. Its complicated but the issue Pete faced were sown before he even played for the Hawks. You should read his auto biography.
@@iiTzLurks I knew of him as the basket ball player but what really got my attention was in life, he was a born again Christian. He and Steve McQueen are my two idols and they were born again Christians. Cheers!
The ball dribbling of Pete was like a string attached to a yo yo...he had such control of the ball, all those years, minutes of practice, so fun to watch Great seeing Dick Schaap, one of the best 👍
TSmithDesign1 I've always said that Magic Johnson was the first player I remember palming the ball so much and it being accepted by the refs! Watch the way he dribbles as opposed to Larry Bird's dribbling!
Thanks for mentioning that! People talk about about Kyrie and all these players that are so good in handling the ball but they for get to realize that they would of never even have made it in the early 90's without getting called for traveling . AND1 destroyed the game as well. Imagine Pistol was allowed to dribble like they do now. He would of averaged 60 a game lol
@@rondy702 Agree 100% with the dribbling observations. Magic made it de facto legal to palm it on the spin move because the league wanted the show to go on. Magic was great, but some of his ball handling and slamming into the defender moves were ugly and looked out of control. See G5 vs Houston 1986.
This was VERY nice to see. Pistol Pete is a guy who time seemed to have forgotten. The only thing Marbury has in common with Pistol is that they played the same sport. Remember, this was 1970's ball (I can remember him playing HORSE & NO ONE could beat him). The funny thing is that there was no 3 point line in this era. Imagine his scoring stats if there was one. Thanks for posting.
The greatest all around player I've seen is Oscar Robertson. Without the 3-point shot to spread out the defenses, he mastered getting the ball close to the rim and hitting shots with Wilt, Russell, Nate the Great, Bellamy, and other serious big men reaching up to try and swat it away. He didn't palm and take early first steps like Jordan, and he could play inside like Magic and Lebron in a pinch. He also had a decent but not great supporting cast, mostly Lucas. He excelled for a long time and his averaging a triple double for a season was much harder than Westbrook, given the disadvantages previously noted.
Jordan's early first step (walk) and him palming the ball (carrying) and you left out the elbow hook and spin.They had three reasons to blow the whistle and never did.Basketballs TV'S ratings were dieing they need a superstar.Who better than the guy that hit the game winner for North Carolina.That won them the college championship.Jordan was cut by his high school coach the first year he tried out for the team.He would have never won a championship if not for Scotty backing him up.Also had Rodman the best rebounder in the game.
Unfortunately that was the case. He was having another excellent year and the Jazz were hot (10 in a row) right at the time of the injury. This was before knee surgeries were what they are today.
You know what I find Intresting about this Footage is Pete Maravich and Gail Goodrich Playing together. Goodrich had a nice Buzzard beater by the way. Also Future Celtic Coach Chris Ford in his playing days
One of greatest lefty shooters big man ever in nba history Patrick Ewing didn't get a ring; legendary nba & college basketball player: ❤ big Bob lanear too my hero
He was playing his best this season just before he injured his knee. N.O had run off 10 wins in a row, then crashed after Pete got hurt and just finished out of the playoffs a bit under .500.
Yes, I believe he was the most skilled player ever. If he would have been in the same situation as Michael Jordan, catered to and encouraged to be the best he could be, he would have been a more skilled, less athletic version of what Michael was. Unfortunately he was not encouraged because many disliked his style, so he was forced onto bad teams and had to support too much of the load to become considered one of the best ever. He is very undervalued to this day.
Wow you come thru in the clutch again 1avardac. Amazing footage of The Pistol. You are The King Of utube when it comes to Maravich I Always look foward to your work, Thank you.
Maravich was the hotshot of a super crop, a cording to the cover of Sports Illustrated. He came into the league with Dan Issel, Bob Lanier, and the last guy slips my mind. Who on Earth would you draft #1, given those choices?!!!
Great recall. Still easily one of the greatest college drafts in history. All time greats AND deep! Nate Archibald & Calvin Murphy were 2nd round picks!
Well I will agree with you when it comes to dribbling. Iverson was exceptional with dribbling skills. But when it comes down to a NBA game, Hardaway was still a better ball handler and made smarter decisions. In a street ball game I will take Iverson but in an organized game, give me the smarter ball handler to win games. John Havlicek quoted in 2010 that Pete Maravich was the greatest ball handler he had ever seen. And Hondo has seen some greats
. Coupla things about Pistol Pete......why did I think he was short? Was it possibly that he was somewhat short back when he entered LSU ?? For some strange reason, I always think of him as a short little runt.....but I went and looked it up after watching this, and 6' 5" CERTAINLY is NO runt !! Also, COMPLETELY forgot about that (somewhat) unorthodox shooting stance for free throws. Anybody know anything about that (where, or how he developed it.....anything ?). Finally, so clear to me that when he got to one of his 'spots', and got a completely uncontested jump shot off, the guy was pretty much "money", every single time! What an effortless, beautiful shot !! And I know he was a LEGENDARY 'gym rat', especially in his youth, but it makes me wonder exactly how many shots he took in his entire lifetime, prior to his early demise........wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was in the MILLIONS, by the end !! R.I.P. Pete....those of us who remember watching you, still remember just how special you were, and will NEVER forget it !! Thanks for the memories... .
In the movie "The Pistol - the Birth of a Legend" he is the "little" one because he's a 13 year old kid playing with 18-19 year olds. Maybe that's where your impression comes from. As far as his free throw shooting technique, it definitely evolved over the years. Pete was not afraid to try different approaches, experiment and see what worked best for him.
Pistol Petes Game flow and court awareness was simply like no other person in his day. All his passes and shots were part of his game flow and he dictated that flow.
The next coach after Pete's dad, Dale Brown, went back and charted the college 3 piont line on all the games Pete played and figured Pete would have averaged over 57 points a game if thry had it in those days.
@@edb6690 It would have been more because if he knew it was going to be three instead of two he would have shot from the three point line.More like 67 and a couple championships.
Best of all time. Best shooter, best ball handler, best passer, best ball-stealer, best court awareness, best innovator-gamechanger, best crowd pleaser. Good rebounder, shot-follow-upper, decent on defense. Retired at 32 due to injuries. Playing (his entire life) with a heart issue that would kill him at age 40. Beat that.
I played golf one day in Scottsdale with Bob Lanier- Really nice guy and even taller than me- Girl in the pro shop asked if we played on the same team !
Growing up in Los Angeles in the early 70s I was a big Jerry West and Gail Goodrich fan. Nice to see Gail here. He had a nice comeback season after being injured the year before. It's too bad that Maravich went down.. otherwise the Jazz might have made the playoffs that year.
@auskott C'mon, man. Great shooter and passer at 6'5". Defenders couldn't take the ball away from him on breaks without fouling. He'd definitely dominate.
@@williamguzman9118 You have to be pretty ignorant to not realize how good a young Pete Maravich would probably be in today's game. He was money from three point range, before there was even a three point line. His ball-handling drills were practiced by the entire next generation, and they are the backbone of today's drills. His passing was phenomenal even by today's standards. Today's game is basically Maravich personified, all offense and bad defense. The comparison to Nash is pretty good too, since Nash was also not so great on the defensive side of the ball, though Pete was more of a shooter and less of a passer.
Thank You for posting ! Great video... Maravich was a Freak and SO much fun to watch... Is that a young Bob Costas on play by play ..I think so. he is as good an announcer as Pistol was a player..
Pistol Pete: The NBA's all-time leader in three point percentage at 67 percent. Of course, he only took 15 shots during the first season of the trey in the NBA (1979-80) and made 10 and then retired. And Schaap got it wrong at the end of this video 7:38 when he said Pete played for Boston the following season. Pistol played another season with the Jazz (1978-79) then played another partial season for New Orleans/Utah (just moved) in 1979-80 prior to his acquisition by the Celtics. He teamed up with rookie Larry Bird for a handful of games (and playoff games) prior to retirement. Legend.
Pretty wild that the Pistol sets up for his free throws with his off (left) foot well back of the line. There is no way you can argue that he isn't balanced, because he was a brilliant shooter and ball-handler. Listening to Bob Costas loving himself in this video is a little more than I care to enjoy.
Never noticed before how flat his free throws were - yet tended to put the ball up high when shooting form the field. Cd do it all, his passing still different class
I loved the movie about Maravich and how his dad would take him to watch the black teams play because he wanted him to see the fast pace and the style that would become the future of the NBA.
Pete would easily be a top ten player in today’s watered down league with or without no hand checking, ball carrying, traveling and excessive three pointers.
I didn't know Gail Goodrich and Maravich played in the same backcourt. I knew Goodrich was a good scorer who shared a backcourt with Jerry West. Bob Lanier was a big man with a soft touch. He did an ad about the two biggest feats in b ball. Lanier was famous for having, I believe, a size 22 foot.
yep, he was with CBS for a few years after the ABA folded (he was the radio pbp man for the st. louis team) before getting hired by NBC. i also think he did some PBP for the bulls during this time.
@chiladin Tim Hardaway wasn't a great ball handler, he just good at faking out his dribbling switch. Iverson was a great ball handler. Pete Maravich was a great offensive player, I rate hiim 10, ball handling 10, his defense, rebounding were garbage though. Maravich is comparable to Kobe, and Jordan in offensive skills, but Maravich didn't have, or use the strength of Jordan. Maravich was a better long range shooter though. Maravich was a modern basketball player before there was any back then.
Watched a lot of games with Big Bob at center and Bing at PG. Never could get past the great teams but still fun to watch. George Trapp, Bad News Barnes. Bought tickets off of Bob's Dad, great memories. Always a big fight when the Bulls would come to town, Bob Love. Oh Man Cobo Hall. People forget Bob won the One on One competition show they put on.
Maravich the forgotten superstar who would still rule today.
Pete dribbled the right way and still got fancier than anybody in league history. Nice to see a game without carrying in every dribble.
Maravich did that with one coronary artery,,,,, almost unbelievable!
Maravich only played one season with the three-point shot. He hit 10-of-15.
I saw games like this as a kid, it was great to see Pete live in action. He's the best to me from that era. Everybody went wild when Pete would make shots to win the game. I miss those days.
pete was the living proof that a 6'5 dont have to dunk in order to be dominating...
the skills he had... the finesse... its absolutely amazing!
The ball hog that he was
@@jamesvickers9476 horse shit! He was no different than the blacks like Jordan etc that took the majority of the shots. Go back under your rock pissant hater.
@@jamesvickers9476 like Curry, Harden, Jordan, Kobe, etc, etc
Announcer 1 Not many can shoot off the dribble as good as Pistol Pete.
Announcer 2 Not many can shoot anyway as good as Pistol Pete
One of the best men to have ever touched a basket ball.
B O B Spelled backwards That’s not Bill Russell (even though he used to do it too)... It’s Stu Lantz; also an ex-player, and known commentator for the Lakers.
@@BasketballJones48021 yes
Pistol Pete, incredible talent, one of my all-time FAVORITES!!!
Pete and his superb skills were so entertaining.
Pistol was poetry in motion with the ball in his hands. Total freak. He was also a scoring machine. Few could match his skills.
Apologies to lovers of today's NBA, but I find today's NBA almost unwatchable, as opposed to this, which is mesmerizing.
Yes, it was real frkn basketball! -those old game's are beautiful
Pete Rossetti he was light years ahead of everyone dont tell me about harden or even curry I think everyone who passes has seen him somewhere
Back then they were artists
True. It was the love of the game that drove players to play back then and now it's the love of China money.
I get your perspective. At the start of the 2012-13 season, Daryl Morey, then GM of the Rockets, starting running the team strictly based on analytics. The Holy Grail was effective field goal %, eFG%. What it really meant was 3-pt% was the key to winning. Maybe that was when running post plays disappeared from the game. My interest in the NBA started to fade when LeBron went to the Heat in 2010, then fell off even more when the Warriors took the 3-pt obsession to several titles. There were too many times during the 2019 finals when the tallest player on the court for both the Raptors and Warriors was 6'7". There's something fundamentally wrong with that. I do miss the days before the 3-pointer, when teams would average over 110 pts. per game w/o it.
the pistol owns a scoring record in college that can. never be broken ...what a talent he was.
and he did it in three years (not four) , without the three point shot and before there was a shot clock and minus a Left coronary artery
Nobody will ever break that record. Everyone goes pro early, so that record will likely stay forever. Back when basketball was life, unlike all these greedy ass kids wants to go pro fast.
@@christopherlyons3789 true. Sadly today, if a kid stays 4 yrs, people figure he probably isn't that great to begin with.
Maravich scored 30 this game.. the first of a 5 game stretch where he averaged 30.6 a game. During the 5th game of that he injured his knee (Against Buffalo on Jan. 31st) and was never the same player again.
yep was wearing a knee bandage here, already looking omionous
remember Bill Walton before his injury vs after.
Maravich, the greatest ball-handler in N.B.A. history.
Right after bob cousy
Nope.
Pistol Pete marivich basketball magician 🎩
Connie Hawkins was a great basketball handler too
@Hoops Historian bib sounds better than bob lol
The greatest of all time by far--he was so far ahead of his time and the best shooter and dribbler EVER!!!
Not!
A better shooter than steph curry, NO FUCKING WAY.
Aaron James is Lebron's dad.
@@travisholly3797 Curry is playing in a no defense chucking up 3 pointers era.
@@williegordon7899 I agree, but he's chucking them up there and making at a very good percentage of them, he's the only player that I know that is guarded once he cross the half court line that's ( RESPECT)
Holy shit. Slick Watts! . And that arena and the floor design were cool AF
Basketball greatness. Maravich
simply put pete was the greatest college player ever, and top 5 all time ball handler
"Hold my beer." - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
@@ShaunPhillipsAV pistol was in a league of his own in college. Lew al was great as was his equal at ucla, Bill Walton. But pistol was the greatest.
Pete was and is the all time greatest. No one else even close. I concluded that as I watched him at LSU when he was a Freshman. He proved me right.
True
"Pistol Pete" Greatest show on Earth!!!!
I grew up playing in that era and modeled my game after Maravich in every respect. I even mastered the pass with the right hand to bring it all the way around the front of your body and back behind you to the player to your right. On several occasions It made everyone facing you to jump to their left while you dumped it behind to the player for a layup. I made that play but one time in a pickup game...and they called walking. So I went back out and demonstrated the pass again to show that there was no infraction. "That can't be legal," someone said. And that was 1/1000th of the magic of Pete Maravich.
With my sorry teammates back in the 90's whenever I'd do a no look pass or otherwise clever pass, I'd just end up hitting my teammates in the face with the ball because we didn't practice our plays and they hadn't played enough in general, let alone with me to know to watch the ball and your defender and know the ball may come to you at any moment, especially if you're at the basket. Rather than try and work that into our team game I just handicapped my passing so they were all telegraphed and so had to only make safe passes, not even bullet passes, because they'd just peg the teammates. But, it was just church ball so didn't amount to much. I would rent VHS tapes from the library that would teach me fundamentals and some advanced dribbling and passing moves and the like, sure was fun playing pickup with friends that we all knew our playing styles though.
@@Player_Review Yep...I recall the same.
His jump shot is beautiful.
Damn, so wish the Pistol had won an NBA title.. RIP Pete..
@Life Deucelow ...had he played one more year he would have won one with the Celtics
ponchai allen 🔫 pistols knees took a beating in 78/79 with the Jazz. 79/80 was pet's final season in Boston & Larry LEGENDS' 1st! At least Pete went back to LOUISIANA 2 play where his college career started in 66: BATON ROUGE, LSU!
At this point Maravich basically was a force of nature -
He actually was in decline Barry, if you'll notice the knee brace; A year ago he severely injured his knee, popping a tendon and missing the rest of the year. Oh, he could still show flashes of brilliance, but just two years prior, he led the league in scoring I believe. He was amazing.
John Flanagan
I think you’ve got your years mixed up... This game is from the 1977-78 season, Maravich led the league in scoring just a year before it. And Pete was having one of his best seasons in 1978, with the Jazz at some point finally getting it together, also with the play of Truck Robinson who was All-NBA that year... but then Pete’s knee gave up on him (like you’ve said), he missed the rest of the season, and was never quite the same ever again, ending his prime then and there (while still relatively young). The Jazz were on a 10-game winning streak before Pete’s injury (this being one of those games), and he still played a few more games a couple of months afterwards. For the 1978 season, the Jazz were 26-24 in the 50 games Pistol Pete played in... they finished with a 39-43 record.
Thanks 1avardac! This is a great Christmas gift. I was at that game as a ball boy. You just don't see anyone as fun to watch as Pete.
2:32 Watch it at 0.25 speed. That's exactly what MJ did all day. Even the first jab and move based on the new position the jab provided. Notice here, Pete's left thigh did not move up after he planted his left foot.
Squat to shoot directly without any extra time and energy to adjust. MJ was the only one I saw. Now I found Pete did this as well and before MJ.
This move is very hard, but lethal. Most players have to bring their thigh lower again to adjust for their shooting, which costs time and energy. And probably stability.
What a player!
Thank you for uploading this.
Maravich is still the finest showman ever. Not the most successful but still its most fundamentally sound and quite honestly, ahead of his time.
Sadly his team was the problem
@@iiTzLurks Both Walt Bellamy and Walt Hazard both state that he and the 'others' had no trouble with Pete, its how the management handled it. There Rules for Pete, rules for everyone else. Its complicated but the issue Pete faced were sown before he even played for the Hawks. You should read his auto biography.
@@Dbusdriver71 oh I read everything about him I've I already know don't worry
@@iiTzLurks I knew of him as the basket ball player but what really got my attention was in life, he was a born again Christian. He and Steve McQueen are my two idols and they were born again Christians. Cheers!
No one more exciting on the fast break than Pistol.
What about Jason Williams?
+Nathaniel Walker Close, but I got to go with Pistol because he was the original.
And a much better shooter
Jason kidd: magic 🎩 Johnson; Isiah Thomas; Ricky Green; etc etc
You know what? That 9 minutes was more entertaining than all NBA ring and pony shows combined since 1993,
The ball dribbling of Pete was like a string attached to a yo yo...he had such control of the ball, all those years, minutes of practice, so fun to watch
Great seeing Dick Schaap, one of the best 👍
What most don't realize is that Pete was a legit 6'5" and played at a time where centers 6'8 - 6'10. They'll never be another like him.
There were slot of 6 11 and 7 feet guys in petes era too
Real dribbling - not the carrying and palming that has sadly altered the game beginning in the mid 80's in the early days of Jordan's career.
TSmithDesign1
I've always said that Magic Johnson was the first player I remember palming the ball so much and it being accepted by the refs! Watch the way he dribbles as opposed to Larry Bird's dribbling!
Started with Magic and intensified with Iverson
Thanks for mentioning that! People talk about about Kyrie and all these players that are so good in handling the ball but they for get to realize that they would of never even have made it in the early 90's without getting called for traveling . AND1 destroyed the game as well.
Imagine Pistol was allowed to dribble like they do now. He would of averaged 60 a game lol
@@rondy702 Agree 100% with the dribbling observations. Magic made it de facto legal to palm it on the spin move because the league wanted the show to go on. Magic was great, but some of his ball handling and slamming into the defender moves were ugly and looked out of control. See G5 vs Houston 1986.
handling and slamming into the defender moves looked ugly and out of control. See 4th qtr G5 vs Houston 1986 wcf.
Maravich would make a lotta money today.
This was VERY nice to see. Pistol Pete is a guy who time seemed to have forgotten. The only thing Marbury has in common with Pistol is that they played the same sport. Remember, this was 1970's ball (I can remember him playing HORSE & NO ONE could beat him). The funny thing is that there was no 3 point line in this era. Imagine his scoring stats if there was one. Thanks for posting.
The greatest all around player I've seen is Oscar Robertson. Without the 3-point shot to spread out the defenses, he mastered getting the ball close to the rim and hitting shots with Wilt, Russell, Nate the Great, Bellamy, and other serious big men reaching up to try and swat it away. He didn't palm and take early first steps like Jordan, and he could play inside like Magic and Lebron in a pinch. He also had a decent but not great supporting cast, mostly Lucas. He excelled for a long time and his averaging a triple double for a season was much harder than Westbrook, given the disadvantages previously noted.
You old school guys and yall fantacys west brook would kill your slow no athletic no defence era
You old guys fantacys west brook would kill yall slow no defence soft not athletic era
Jordan's early first step (walk) and him palming the ball (carrying) and you left out the elbow hook and spin.They had three reasons to blow the whistle and never did.Basketballs TV'S ratings were dieing they need a superstar.Who better than the guy that hit the game winner for North Carolina.That won them the college championship.Jordan was cut by his high school coach the first year he tried out for the team.He would have never won a championship if not for Scotty backing him up.Also had Rodman the best rebounder in the game.
Unfortunately that was the case. He was having another excellent year and the Jazz were hot (10 in a row) right at the time of the injury. This was before knee surgeries were what they are today.
best shooter and passer I've ever seen. He had eyes in the back of his head
This play alone is worth the price of admission: 1:36
Pete was an average defender, but good rebounder. He led all guards in rebounding once. I think in 77'.
You know what I find Intresting about this Footage is Pete Maravich and Gail Goodrich Playing together. Goodrich had a nice Buzzard beater by the way. Also Future Celtic Coach Chris Ford in his playing days
pistol was way ahead of his time
Pete had an unusual foul shooting technique and used almost a line drive ( little arc ) on the ball, very good at it of course.
yep, he did the the still pose and high ball most do now,. A little step and hit the shot, nice and quick, didnt milk it
he was a scoring machine !!
Wow, Chris Ford and ML Carr, pre-Celtics.
I notice the Pistol doesn't palm the ball the way players do today. In Pete's day palming the ball was illegal.
Maravich was overall the best player in the history of the game.
I really liked Bob Lanier! He was GREAT, on & off the court! I really would've liked to see him win an NBA TITLE! He really deserved it!
Lanier was great too.
One of greatest lefty shooters big man ever in nba history Patrick Ewing didn't get a ring; legendary nba & college basketball player: ❤ big Bob lanear too my hero
Pete Maravich was most likely the best overall player to have ever played the game of basketball.
He was playing his best this season just before he injured his knee. N.O had run off 10 wins in a row, then crashed after Pete got hurt and just finished out of the playoffs a bit under .500.
Yes, I believe he was the most skilled player ever. If he would have been in the same situation as Michael Jordan, catered to and encouraged to be the best he could be, he would have been a more skilled, less athletic version of what Michael was.
Unfortunately he was not encouraged because many disliked his style, so he was forced onto bad teams and had to support too much of the load to become considered one of the best ever. He is very undervalued to this day.
@@athletesedge5073 Completely agree. Early Jordan on the Bulls during the Magic and Bird era reminded me so much of Pete's entire career.
Who are u his cousin lol
U must be his son lol
if pete maravich is still alive and playing in the NBA today im sure he will win the skill challenge
Especially horse competition
He was a deadly acuruate machine
Bob Lanier said "Maravich had some brother in him" 😄
This sounds like Bob Costas. If that's him, he was probably only 7 years old when he announced this game. Youngest play-by-play ever.
Wow you come thru in the clutch again 1avardac. Amazing footage of The Pistol. You are The King Of utube when it comes to Maravich I Always look foward to your work, Thank you.
Maravich was the hotshot of a super crop, a cording to the cover of Sports Illustrated. He came into the league with Dan Issel, Bob Lanier, and the last guy slips my mind. Who on Earth would you draft #1, given those choices?!!!
Great recall. Still easily one of the greatest college drafts in history. All time greats AND deep!
Nate Archibald & Calvin Murphy were 2nd round picks!
Dave Cowens won Rookie of the Year that year.
These guys in the old days were such great passers
Let's make this clear - there has only been ONE passer in the history of the NBA like Pistol Pete...they all didn't pass like him.
Well I will agree with you when it comes to dribbling. Iverson was exceptional with dribbling skills. But when it comes down to a NBA game, Hardaway was still a better ball handler and made smarter decisions. In a street ball game I will take Iverson but in an organized game, give me the smarter ball handler to win games. John Havlicek quoted in 2010 that Pete Maravich was the greatest ball handler he had ever seen. And Hondo has seen some greats
Sounds like a young Bob Costa with the play-by-play...
Dave Powers You are right he got his start in the ABA!!!!!
Bob Costas and Stu Lantz.
Wow. Maravich *and* Goodrich together.
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Coupla things about Pistol Pete......why did I think he was short? Was it possibly that he was somewhat short back when he entered LSU ??
For some strange reason, I always think of him as a short little runt.....but I went and looked it up after watching this, and 6' 5" CERTAINLY is NO runt !!
Also, COMPLETELY forgot about that (somewhat) unorthodox shooting stance for free throws. Anybody know anything about that (where, or how he developed it.....anything ?).
Finally, so clear to me that when he got to one of his 'spots', and got a completely uncontested jump shot off, the guy was pretty much "money", every single time! What an effortless, beautiful shot !!
And I know he was a LEGENDARY 'gym rat', especially in his youth, but it makes me wonder exactly how many shots he took in his entire lifetime, prior to his early demise........wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was in the MILLIONS, by the end !!
R.I.P. Pete....those of us who remember watching you, still remember just how special you were, and will NEVER forget it !!
Thanks for the memories...
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In the movie "The Pistol - the Birth of a Legend" he is the "little" one because he's a 13 year old kid playing with 18-19 year olds. Maybe that's where your impression comes from. As far as his free throw shooting technique, it definitely evolved over the years. Pete was not afraid to try different approaches, experiment and see what worked best for him.
Mark Demos Maravich of course grew to be 6'5 200
I do know from that documentary that when he was a freshman playing varsity high school ball he was 5'0" tall.
Pistol Petes Game flow and court awareness was simply like no other person in his day. All his passes and shots were part of his game flow and he dictated that flow.
By far the best of all time
Great video thank you
Pistol Pete was deadly with his passes and dribbling. Everyone knew he could shoot from anywhere, but his ball movement was deadly
I wonder how many points Pistol Pete would have scored if they had the 3 point line back when he played??
The next coach after Pete's dad, Dale Brown, went back and charted the college 3 piont line on all the games Pete played and figured Pete would have averaged over 57 points a game if thry had it in those days.
@@edb6690 It would have been more because if he knew it was going to be three instead of two he would have shot from the three point line.More like 67 and a couple championships.
Best of all time. Best shooter, best ball handler, best passer, best ball-stealer, best court awareness, best innovator-gamechanger, best crowd pleaser. Good rebounder, shot-follow-upper, decent on defense. Retired at 32 due to injuries. Playing (his entire life) with a heart issue that would kill him at age 40. Beat that.
Jordan, Steph Curry, Magic Johnson
And don't forget Kareem & Kyrie. Beat That😉👍
I played golf one day in Scottsdale with Bob Lanier- Really nice guy and even taller than me- Girl in the pro shop asked if we played on the same team !
Growing up in Los Angeles in the early 70s I was a big Jerry West and Gail Goodrich fan. Nice to see Gail here. He had a nice comeback season after being injured the year before. It's too bad that Maravich went down.. otherwise the Jazz might have made the playoffs that year.
Almost certainly would have. They were very hot when Pete went down
Maravich was the best !
What a ball handler ! Besides a shooter.
Maravich was Steve Nash before there was Steve Nash....only better. Pistol would be a dominant force in today's game.
@auskott C'mon, man. Great shooter and passer at 6'5". Defenders couldn't take the ball away from him on breaks without fouling. He'd definitely dominate.
Stop dreaming
@@williamguzman9118 You have to be pretty ignorant to not realize how good a young Pete Maravich would probably be in today's game. He was money from three point range, before there was even a three point line. His ball-handling drills were practiced by the entire next generation, and they are the backbone of today's drills. His passing was phenomenal even by today's standards. Today's game is basically Maravich personified, all offense and bad defense. The comparison to Nash is pretty good too, since Nash was also not so great on the defensive side of the ball, though Pete was more of a shooter and less of a passer.
Thank You for posting ! Great video... Maravich was a Freak and SO much fun to watch...
Is that a young Bob Costas on play by play ..I think so. he is as good an announcer as Pistol was a player..
I do as well. Bob has certainly stood the test of time and has been superb in all sports he has partaken in.
3 second violation called 😂😂😂😂😂 That a Joke today
Great seeing John Shumate!!
Pistol Pete: The NBA's all-time leader in three point percentage at 67 percent. Of course, he only took 15 shots during the first season of the trey in the NBA (1979-80) and made 10 and then retired. And Schaap got it wrong at the end of this video 7:38 when he said Pete played for Boston the following season. Pistol played another season with the Jazz (1978-79) then played another partial season for New Orleans/Utah (just moved) in 1979-80 prior to his acquisition by the Celtics. He teamed up with rookie Larry Bird for a handful of games (and playoff games) prior to retirement. Legend.
When pistol was in a zone,he was fun to watch.
Pretty wild that the Pistol sets up for his free throws with his off (left) foot well back of the line. There is no way you can argue that he isn't balanced, because he was a brilliant shooter and ball-handler. Listening to Bob Costas loving himself in this video is a little more than I care to enjoy.
Never noticed before how flat his free throws were - yet tended to put the ball up high when shooting form the field. Cd do it all, his passing still different class
"or the red if you're watching in color" wow...glad I didn't live when there wasn't color TV lol
I loved the movie about Maravich and how his dad would take him to watch the black teams play because he wanted him to see the fast pace and the style that would become the future of the NBA.
You know history he tells everyone about in interviews , he idolized the globetrotters & connie Hawkins
The old elbow tap! Used that one many times against big guys. Kept them honest in my eyes. lol
Pete would easily be a top ten player in today’s watered down league with or without no hand checking, ball carrying, traveling and excessive three pointers.
interesting seeing basketball in the '70s but who is the announcer...I might be wrong but he sounds like Bob Costas...RIP Pete Maravich and Bob Lanier
I believe it is Costas
how much would The pistol make today if he was coming out of college now at 21 years old?
Marvelous Pistol Pete, Bob Lanier etc :)
I didn't know Gail Goodrich and Maravich played in the same backcourt. I knew Goodrich was a good scorer who shared a backcourt with Jerry West. Bob Lanier was a big man with a soft touch. He did an ad about the two biggest feats in b ball. Lanier was famous for having, I believe, a size 22 foot.
Like with Truck, Pete and Gail didn't play together long (after Pete's knee injury).
Big Bob could ball one of the best shooting Bigs besides his 22'S HOF
Lanier is an all time great no doubt. Cowens and Big Bob were 2 of the few worthy opponents to challenge Kareem in the 70's.
Hey kid ,tell your old manTry dragging LanierAnd Walton up-and-down the court!
yep, he was with CBS for a few years after the ABA folded (he was the radio pbp man for the st. louis team) before getting hired by NBC. i also think he did some PBP for the bulls during this time.
Bob Costas gem ...
'Slick Watts will put on his head band to keep the skin out of his eyes'.
the pistol.
thats my dad! proud daughter
Jimmy Rooney bob lanier
Cool
Bob lanier best shooting big man ever, he used yo play for the detroit piston i went to his basketball camp you have a brother too he went to the camp
@@kahoridior ...the pride of St Bonaventure !
Bob Costas was twelve years old when he called this game.
1-Would love to see Pete in today's game.
2-His FT form is smart; no chance to freak out, just get up there and go, plus let the legs help.
Bob Costas announcing...and remember...Maravich avg 44.2 WITHOUT a 3 pt line...with one would've been over 50
Was just going to say... definitely Bob Costas, who did regional CBS NBA games in 1978.
man it seems like we're finding new maravich games all of a sudden.
Pistol Pete had "game"!
❤Bob lanear; maybe greatest big shooter of center of nba; pistol Pete marivich basketball magician 🎩
Pistol was so great, today’s game you have guys palming the ball if Pistol could do that he would have been unstoppable even more
BOB LANIER IN 1976 TENNIS SHOES WERE ON THE FREEDOM TRAIN AS THE LARGETS FEET IN THE NBA SIZE 24!!!
@chiladin Tim Hardaway wasn't a great ball handler, he just good at faking out his dribbling switch. Iverson was a great ball handler. Pete Maravich was a great offensive player, I rate hiim 10, ball handling 10, his defense, rebounding were garbage though. Maravich is comparable to Kobe, and Jordan in offensive skills, but Maravich didn't have, or use the strength of Jordan. Maravich was a better long range shooter though. Maravich was a modern basketball player before there was any back then.
They didn't pump iron like the guys now. They all could have been stronger. Even a string-bean like Porzingus has muscular shoulders now.
Lot of pressure on Detroit to draft Maravich but they went with Lanier. When it was all said and done they made the right choice
Watched a lot of games with Big Bob at center and Bing at PG. Never could get past the great teams but still fun to watch. George Trapp, Bad News Barnes.
Bought tickets off of Bob's Dad, great memories. Always a big fight when the Bulls would come to town, Bob Love. Oh Man Cobo Hall. People forget Bob won the One on One competition show they put on.
@libertatus That's not true, the commentator alongside Costas was not Snapper Jones. It's actually Stu Lantz who now is the Lakers color commentator.
Pistol Pete straight humiliated the opposing teams defenses and made other players question their own skills every time they played against him