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With the score knotted at 1-1, Sue Abkowitz rifled home a shot at 10:35 following a fast break and Harvard never looked back. Barely three minutes later Carrie Cunningham upped the margin to 3-1 with the first of her two goals...
...Though Cunningham was a former 76er star-his career was cut short two years ago by a knee injury-his qualifications as a coach were unimpressive. "I never coached a day in my life," he says. "But basketball goes through cycles. When I came in, they were looking for college coaches. Now it's younger coaches who can possibly communicate and understand the players a little better." While Shue remained aloof from his players, Cunningham, who is only 34 and had played with or against most of his new charges, was already one of the boys. Says McGinnis: "Billy...
...76ers also responded to the fact that Cunningham coaches with the same intensity that marked his brilliant playing career (in eleven years with the pros he averaged 20.8 points a game). He rants so fervently on the sidelines that he is frequently rapped with technical fouls. In one recent game, Billy C. pulled off a shoe and pounded the floor á la Khrushchev to express...
...combination of on-court lion and off-court lamb soothed the Sixers' savage breasts. The team won 16 of its first 18 games under Cunningham and ran away with the Atlantic division of the Eastern Conference. Trade-me talk has diminished, and playing time-and scoring-is now more evenly distributed than under Shue. The top three scorers-McGinnis, Erving and Collins-are all averaging close to 20 points a game. A running team that likes to roughhouse its way to the basket, Philadelphia still often has trouble working set plays, although Cunningham has his men passing the ball...
...N.B.A. championship, the 76ers will have to play with all the verve, unselfishness-and Philadelphia brotherly love-that Billy Cunningham has been trying to instill in his supersensitive superstars since becoming coach. His bully boys could be unbeatable. Says Dr. J, who is not known for hyperbole: "We're a very good basketball team that sometimes plays up to its potential, and then it's frightening how good...