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...every basketball coach, both in the N.B.A. and among the amateurs, is to find the player who combines all the talents required by the modern game: scoring, playmaking, rebounding and defending. In the N.B.A.'s 1961 season, no player comes closer to fulfilling that ideal of the complete courtman than the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar Robertson, 22, a lithe (6 ft. 4½ in.. 200 lbs.) Negro guard who was famed in college, as he is in the N.B.A...
...better shooters on the squad is Greg Loser, a 5 ft. 11 in. back-courtman from Belmont, Mass. Loser, a probable starter at guard, has a variety of shots from the outside including a patented, springing, jump-shot. Perhaps the best marksman on the squad is 6 ft. 2 in. Bill Richling, from St. Albans, N.Y. Richling, who will start at one of the guards, is a co-alumnus of Andrew Jackson High along with the Celtics' Bob Cousy. The slender Richling jump-shoots, scores on driving layups and rebounds well from his backcourt position...
Hungry for the taste of victory, the Crimson will have a face one of the East's top teams, a power-packed Bruin machine led by Captain Grimshaw, Bach, McCullough, and Quinn. Bach, a rugged six-foot-two center, is called the best courtman, in New England by Brown coach Rip Engall...
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