Watch Pistol Pete college highlights if you really want to see some wizardry! 44.3 avg per game. He is still the all-time leading scorer and they would let freshman play during his time and no 3 point line!
A piece of interesting trivia. During a game in his final season Pete Maverick came to the time out huddle and told a rookie teammate that even though he made it, he shouldn't be taking shots like his last one. This was because he was being double teamed. The rookie replied to pistol, "if you were any damn good I wouldn't be getting double teamed"! I only bring this up to give you an idea of why you should review the trash talking of Larry Bird (the rookie Pete was talking to)!
He also played against the Knicks in 1977 and scored 68 points without the three-point shot. He also fouled out on a very questionable offensive foul with about 8 or 9 minutes to go. Who knows how many he would have scored.
This really does not showcase Pete's talents. Watch his 68 point game against the NY Knicks when there was no three point line, or his Ultimate College Mix Tape. Subbed.
Watch his college highlights at LSU. His father was the coach and he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and it was phenomenal!! If you think these passes are good, check out the LSU stuff. All the while he scored 44 points a game.
Pistol Pete was offered $1 million contract, the richest ever by the Harlem Globe trotters…. A lot of the players in the league, including his own team thought he was too flashy because they didn’t understand the brilliance of his innovations…. He single-handedly put people in the seats…
Pete Maravich was a real, true phenom in every sense of the word. He was something pro basketball had never seen before and will never see again, there's just no one who could match his style and dedication. For the same reason, he was something college basketball had never seen before and never saw again. He was 40 years ahead of his time and created Showtime Basketball. Many Hall of Fame NBA players admit that they stole his moves. When he graduated college the Harlem Globetrotters offered him a one-year $1,000,000 contract to play with them. He would have been the first white member of the team in its history. But Pete Maravich was a tragic and tortured soul who was systematically pushed by his father Press, a former NBA player and college coach, to be the star his father never could have been. Press wanted to live his life through Pete's. But Pete was not perfect. He was a very poor defensive player and because he always played on teams where he was the primary scoring threat and his teams never went to a playoff or title game. I think you should react to one of the documentaries of his life to see what he went through as a child, a teenager and a man, and how that made for a very unhappy life for him. He only played 10 seasons due to injury and had many personal issues during his pro career and after, mostly to problems with alcohol. He turned his life around and was in a good place until he passed away after a game of pickup basketball in 1988 at the age of 40 years old due to heart failure from a defect he had been born with. he once made a comment that he would be dead by the age of 40 and die on a basketball court. I saw him play several times and he was astounding. Later in his life, LSU coach Dale Brown charted every one of Pete's college career shots to include the three-point shot and determined that Pete would have scored between 54 and 57 points per game over his 3 year college career. And despite what the players of today's NBA say, no one could have guarded him. He wasn't some 6'1" guard, he was 6'5" at a minimum and was very fluid and mobile. he may not have been speed fast, but he was smooth-fast and that is even better. And he was dedicated to being the best guard ever with a passion you do not see anymore. His life was just about basketball and entertaining the fans.
And the Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy College, the player who tried to beat his overall points record played for five years in college, had the three-point shot and played 83 games more the Pistol Pete did and his father, who was the coach, was begging to be entered in a post-season tournament so his son could break the record. They whined that no one wanted to let them in because no one wanted to let them break the record, lol. First of all the record would be meaningless, as there would a great big asterisk next to it. Antoine Davis felt he got cheated, but of what ? His record would not have meant anything. Detroit Mercy was in a very low tier college league and did not play against top-class NCAA teams. It was just a selfish attempt to get publicity. No one will ever break this record, it's an impossibility in today's NCAA. And Pete did it in only 3 years at LSU because freshmen could not play varsity basketball then.
@@FUBAR1986 And it's funny that when Pete was on the freshman team, everyone came to that game and left when the varsity played. I think the freshman team was 17-3, something like that, and the varsity was 5-22.
