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Post by Wormtown Railers Fan on Jul 31, 2022 12:57:22 GMT -5
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 31, 2022 13:09:39 GMT -5
At least Cousy got in his apologies before Russell passed on.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 31, 2022 15:19:03 GMT -5
More that a basketball player, he was a very interesting man— always seemed that he was a very smart man to me .
R.I.P.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 31, 2022 16:12:43 GMT -5
The only player who had a comparably seismic impact on his sport and team was Babe Ruth.
Well-known, but worth repeating . . . In winner-take-all championship games (college, Olympic, professional), Bill Russell's teams were 21-0.
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Post by Tom on Jul 31, 2022 21:05:37 GMT -5
Bill Russell walked off the court a loser in 1967 and his sophomore year in college. Hands down the GOAT
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 1, 2022 17:12:06 GMT -5
The only player who had a comparably seismic impact on his sport and team was Babe Ruth.
Well-known, but worth repeating . . . In winner-take-all championship games (college, Olympic, professional), Bill Russell's teams were 21-0.
Along with teammate Frank Robinson, Russ (as Cousy calls him) was a two time high school State basketball champion at his Oakland, CA H.S. so you can add two more to the 21. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 1, 2022 17:33:48 GMT -5
Bill Russell walked off the court a loser in 1967 and his sophomore year in college. Hands down the GOAT So, he didn't walk off a court at the end of a season as a loser with KC Jones on his team very often. KC was a winner. Even as a head coach it looked like the assistants were running the show and then the team would respond to win the championship. When KC retired from the Celtics (he received a brand new Cadillac at KC Jones night at Boston Garden and Bill Russell presented him with a chauffers cap to go with it) he was hired by Brandeis University in the fall of 1967 and he led the Judges to their first winning season in a long time. Can you imagine if Holy Cross with it's basketball cache and resources at that time compared to Brandeis, had hired KC instead of high school coach Jack Donahue, how far he could have led the Crusaders? |
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