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se Tt ag! mp: honest conviction that we nlay better basketball in the East,

. Before: those of you west’ of the Big Muddy start’ slinging those rocks at my

window, “let me insert a word of oxnionation. It is iy opinion’ that if’ the

Western boys were taught the. i Bins vue of nlay, they: vould ne. swell nigh

unbeatable. _

aa le gag outstanding contribution * lostern: basketball ployers to’ ghoir
“sleeker, if ‘slower, brethren in ‘the - Stiaed is the one hand: shot. When used by

a tall nlaver. (and when a Western cooch ‘gets’s olayer under 6 igi -he. farns
him out. to the’ chess: team)’, ‘this shot is avsoltutely unstormak le. The great-

.. 8st ‘exponent. df the shot (nerely because he yracticctk: throwing - it thousands
hen? thousands of tines) Was” that dark visaged SCOURZE * fron ‘Stanford, Hank

i Erase thie!

. Fefore the invasion ‘of the Palo Ante Indice, I taught my boys never

..toa shoot for the: “vrisket- with one haad unless they were directly ‘under. the

“hoon... The nenalty” for. ‘heaving the ‘ball wildly was being withdrawn frou the

game and ‘relegated: to the bench, Along: Cale. iuisett and boom. went ee

Long Island winning streak. a

; 0 I told my bovs after the. gone thet Thiaotts had- just aad a Motil

 nizht, but that the - way wo’ wore “Lyinz thé gna waa the right way.

2 foe might have kent thei convinced,’ excent that Stanford came back the

next. year, and once aged’ ‘an Let. U. winning “streak ras’ just-a memory. After

that second evening of proof: there was no'sensé in trying ito ae Sain: away the

one hand shot). So we nicked it mw and used it.

In return, We have seén'a fow. ‘of the Western teams: bake our ek | show

method of offense and ack it in. their: bags: ‘atong ¥ with their: sweat shirts,

sneakers, aud knoe susrds. :

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_baskatball is. the soort that Gesorves the hs What other pastas can

ay WOESS* (a) that it is ‘the only ‘snort which’ Amo rica, originated, and- vb) that
it has 20 000; 000 mLayers sand &0, 900 , 000: neid ‘admissions onnually#r

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