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Gone is the day of the glandular goon who could do little more than stand beneath the basket and stuff in rebounds. Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who leads the N.B.A. in scoring with an average 37.8, stands 7 ft. 2 in., but has the speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute...
Complete Courtmen. Yet such are the demands of modern basketball that each of these players has a flaw, however slight. Chamberlain, Baylor and Pettit are less than superior as playmakers. Boston's Russell is an erratic scorer. Not only is the short Cousy no rebounder, but he is no great shakes on defense-despite his flashy interceptions...
...Russell: "Get Bill off the boards. I try to push him out as far as he'll go. I try to bump him out with my thighs and forearms. You can't push Wilt out. He's too strong." Says Russell on defending against Chamberlain: "Make him take that fall-away shot of his-it takes him away from the backboard." Says Twyman about Baylor, one of the great stars in the history of basketball. "Play him tight at the beginning of the game. Your whole object in life after he gets the ball is to block...
...scientific scramble of modern basketball, the intangible of confidence can be all important. Robertson astounded even his Royal teammates once this year by boldly driving right up and over Wilt Chamberlain for a shot. "If you're not confident," says Robertson, "you've got no business playing this game. That shot just won't go in." Says Schayes: "I can sense when we've got a team licked. There's a little drooping of the shoulders, a little glassy look in the eye. When you see that, you try to stomp on him and keep...
PERHAPS the most successful court painter of all time was Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velásquez. He had servants and slaves, was a palace chamberlain and a knight of the noble Order of Santiago. His sovereign, King Philip IV of Spain, thought so highly of him that he even consented to pose for him between battles at the front. But royal favorite though he was, Velásquez won greatness by his own unaffected naturalism. "I should prefer," he once said, "to be the leading painter of what are considered common subjects than the second best...