Richard Washington and AC Green attended the same high school, Benson Polytechnic high school in Portland and were coached by the legendary Dick Gray. I remember seeing a game at Wilson high school in Portland in maybes 1973 if memory serves seeing John wooden in the stands scouting Richard Washington. I guess he was impressed !
A lot of talent on that court and no one and dones... Marques, Goose, Robey, Grevey, Washington but the best player on the court was Dave Meyers, absolute stud. You get the feeling for how Wooden strung together the titles through the years even when he didn't have Kareem or Walton... Meyers the senior All-American, solid role players in Trgovich, McCarter, Drollinger and some super sophomores in Marques and Richard Washington...
I hated UCLA as a kid because I thought they kidnapped Patty Hearst. I later found out it wasn't the basketball team that kidnapped her but something called SLA.
I was ten years old. My sisters wanted to watch something else on our one television so I crawled underneath my parent's four poster bed with a blanket & my little radio and enjoyed that amazing game with Caywood.
