Wade Halbrook had definite potential to have been one of the best ever. He was agile, could run, well coordinated. But he hated school, drank too much, ran with s rough bunch. He didn't tolerate the strict demands of coaches, and would disappear for days at a time. He had always gone his own way, and you can't do that in s team game. If he had come along 15 years later, they would have accommodated him...
Right they were smart as hell,athletic as hell and a burning desire to be great. Sadly Swede Halbrook at 7'3 held his own here against Russell, and with the right mentor, Coach, could have been a pretty good NBA Center at the time. But he like Reggie Harding had substance abuse issues,problems, and neither had much of an NBA career.
@@vernpascal1531 I don't know how much you know basketball but you appear not to really be too up on it using language like "he held his own" (WHAT COACH WOULD CHOOSE THE PLAYER WHO SCORED 18 INSTEAD OF 29?)it sounded pretty strange to me getting outacoredl at 29 to 18 is not by any means holding his own! In other words if they were playing one on one he would have been out scored by 11 points when it only takes one point to win a game so in effect he was outplayed by 11 victories so much for the statement he held his own! he did not hold his own really unwanted praise to undeserved people.... you probably think Tim Tebow and Steve Nash were a big thing too compared to other players HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! oh brother!
@Patrick J Mims to quote the words of Daffy duck your comment was stupendous! your comment was fantastic! your comment was colossal! I would go so far as to say it was MEDIOCRE! I'm sorry that your friend the dude (likely your grandpa) you felt was dissed. if you call getting facts being dissed you'll be a very mentally poor person ,everybody can learn something from somebody unfortunately it won't be you! You are not a behavioral specialist you are not a basketball analyst because you are so blind you won't even want to believe with your own eyes can see which is the statistics, the statistics are a calculation of what happened on the floor and you are so basketball warped and you can't even see the forest for the trees! or the nuances of the game or the intangibles, my simple illustration which your brain could not absorb was that each point represents a victory duh! So when you put that point on the board (a statistic) again that point could represent a victory triple duh! So those 11 points equal 11 victories(BECAUSE IT ONLY TAKES ONE POINT MORE THAN THE OTHER TEAM TO WIN GENIUS!) quadrupled DUH! have I said enough? That's the fact jack! So you better go out there and rack it stack it and you better back it! . And to quote your own words you better get your anger squeezed out of your head like the juice out of a bitter orange! You are the new defender of the stupid congratulations a knight in dirty armor!
He played for an AAU team for 5 years after graduating college, and before signing with Syracuse Nats in the NBA, where he played 2 seasons. Probably the highlight of his career would be the series against the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1960-61 first round playoffs. Swede was matched up against Wilt. Wilt outscored Swede 46-15, 32-12 and 33-7, but the Nats swept the Warriors. Then, it was onto the Eastern Conf Finals, against Russell's Celts. Swede was the Nat's backup center to Red Kerr
I read and heard that Halbrook held his own defensively against both Chamberlain and Russell, I wish there were videos of Halbrook vs. Chamberlain, Chamberlain was once quoted as saying (about Halbrook) "I actually felt sorry for him, there were times I could've stole the ball from him, there were times I could've blocked his shots that I could've blocked, but I chose not to make him look foolish, I actually eased up on him" (end quote)
@@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025 back in the early sixties the Warriors were in Philadelphia, I remember when they went to San Francisco, East Coast teams in all sports were moving out west to California. The West Coast started getting teams in Seattle, Portland, San Diego. I thought Wilt was going out West but stayed in Philly for the Sixers. The first pro b-ball game I saw was Celtics v Sixers in '67. Wilt and Russell were dominant players.
I remember when Wade played basketball for Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon. There were many pictures of him in Portland News Papers showing his size. His barber was 6 feet seven and did not have to bend over to cut Wade's hair.
I saw Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain play against each other several times in the mid to late sixties up until Bill retired. They did not disappoint, helluva rivalry. The series where the Sixers broke Boston's stranglehold on championships, '67.
Great video of pro basketball. This was long before I even new what basketball was. I was 3 years old, and we had no television, and basketball wasn't televised in my part of the country, anyway. Thanks.
@@b1j1b1 Thanks. I don't even remember watching this, or commenting on it. I must have been half asleep. A little embarrassing. It was some pretty decent B&W footage of "college basketball", back then.
Comment that stated that that (in this video) each team had one man nearest the basket on free throws is correct. However, two seasons later, the lanes were widened from 6-feet to 12-feet and the defensive team had men nearest the basket on both sides of the free throw land on all free throw attempts. This change went all the way down to high school and junior high.
Check the championship game against Iowa in Russell's senior year to see the 12 foot lane. Russell and USF came out of nowhere in his junior year, and Russell dominated like no one before. With whites running the NCAA and the other college teams coached by whites, the rule seemed to be a logical and welcome way to neutralize "big men," starting with Russell's senior season. It made no difference, since USF went 29-0 the next year. The rule was called the Russell Rule for a long time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g-oH99UWPWc.html
Those underhand granny free throws, I remember when they still shot them like that in the mid sixties, some players but not all, it became fewer snd fewer as time went by.
State colleges were slow to gain university status. When I went to Michigan State in the 1980s, the power plant smokestack still had "MSC" on the side.
In the mid-to-late 50s as the jump shot swept through basketball, shooting FTs underhand started to be ridiculed as sissy. Mikan shot his FTs underhand. Russell probably should have (his NBA career FT pct was a mediocre 56 percent)
the best individual statistics go in this EXACT order the #1 rebounding and #2 shotblocking for legend bill russell and my favorite things did do and/or PROBABLY will go in this EXACT order the #1 really really HIGH overall greatness/quality #2 rebounding #3 shotblocking and #4 the center position previously being played by bill russell
I calculated a rough statistics for Swede and Kerr vs Wilt for 1961 playoffs with the help of my available data. Does anyone have exact numbers? I have calculated this: Wilt 48 mpg, 45/96 FGs, 21/38 FTs, 37 ppg, 23 rpg, 2 apg, 3,3 fpg. Kerr: 9/28 FGs, 6/7 FTs, 22,8 mpg, 8 ppg, 11,1 rpg, 1 apg, 2,5 fpg, Swede: 15/25 FGs, 8/13 FTs, 24 mpg, 12,7 ppg, 16,3 rpg, 1,6 apg, 2,6 fpg. Red and Ker combined 24/53 FGs, 14/20 FTs, 20,7 ppg, 27,4 rpg, 2,6 apg and 5,1 fpg. I have calculated that Wilt reached 48,3 % (PP%) of points he would have, if he made all the shots, Kerr and Swede made 49,4 % of potential points while scoring 16,3 points less than Wilt. Wilt's team mates reached 38 % of potential points. That is 10 % less than Wilt. He got outrebounded by the two and slightly outassisted. They commited more fouls and I suspect that Wilt had many blocks. So basically Wilt outplayed 2 centers who could give all they got for half a game each. Swede did very well in his minutes. But let's face it. Swede was a great rebounder when given a chance to play and Kerr was a very good center himself. It was 2 vs 1 and Wilt still came out on top of this center battle. Swede shot horribly against Boston though. Russell raped Kerr and especially Swede in 1961 playoff series. Granted Boston was well rested compared to Syracuse, but still. Here is the data for the series. 1961 playoffs: Boston vs Syracuse. Russell: 40/94 fgs and 23/39 fts (45,4 PP%), 31 rpg, 45,8 mpg, 5,2 apg, 2,2 fpg, 20,6 ppg Johny Kerr: 21/60 fgs, 10/16 fts, 13,2 ppg, 28 mpg, 3,4 apg, 2,2 fpg, 10,6 ppg Swede Hallbrook: 11/47 fgs and 5/8 fts, reb 12+?+2+?+14= 6,8 rpg predicted by average calculation, 20mpg, 1,4 apg, 2,6 fpg, 5,8 ppg Kerr + Swede: total 32/107 fgs and 15/24 fts, 33,2 PP %, 15,8 ppg, 48,4 mpg, 4,8 apg, 20 rpg, 4,8 fpg. I would love to have more info.
How clueless can you be??? The centers in the 1960s were bigger than today. Bellamy was 6'11" and black. Thurmond was ^'11" and black. Beaty was 6'9" and black. Harding was 7'0" and black. Reed was 6'10" and black. Watch this and LEARN: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wm1-jzpr_hU.html
Kareem ain't event the hook shot he just made it his signature go to move, players were using the hook shot from basketball's inception, Alcindor called it the sky hook.
