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Buffalo Braves Coach Jack Ramsay is an incorrigible optimist. At the beginning of this season, following three years of famine for his expansion team, Ramsay had hopes for a veritable feast: nothing less than 42 victories, double last year's total. With Rookie Ernie DiGregorio the best-known player on the team, Ramsay's goal seemed laughable...
Italian Leprechaun. The Braves are the most improbable club in many years to make the playoffs. Their star center, Bob McAdoo, is a fingernail-biting acrophobiac who played with erratic brilliance in his first year but is leading the N.B.A. in scoring in his second. Guard Ernie DiGregorio, barely 6 ft., looks like an Italian leprechaun more suited to racking balls in a pool hall than leading the league in assists. Forward Jim McMillian, the guiding spirit of the team, is a thoughtful graduate from Columbia University, hardly a major source of basketball talent. Two other steady performers, Forward Garfield...
...Basketball Robber. Donovan wasted little time putting Snyder's frozen-food fortune (Freezer Queen Foods Inc.) to work. During his first three years he drafted, and quickly signed to contracts each worth $2 million plus, Elmore Smith, McAdoo and DiGregorio. With McAdoo out of position his first year as a forward, Donovan traded Smith to the Lakers in exchange for McMillian. Subsequently, McAdoo blossomed into a topflight, mobile center. Heard, also picked up in a trade, gave the Braves the third member of a whippet-quick front line. Yet Donovan was still not satisfied. In January, "the basketball robber...
...persuaded Ramsay to set aside any notions of turning his team into a top defensive club. "I've had to alter my theories on defense," he says. "To be defensive, you need a physically tough center and toughness at other positions. We can't be tough with DiGregorio at guard and McAdoo at center. Instead, we outrun and outshoot our opponents." When that is not working, Ramsay outyells them. He is the champion head rubber and tantrum thrower in the N.B.A., collecting. an average of one technical foul every other game...
...Celtics should run all over Buffalo in their series, but league-leading scorer Bob MacAdoo will blind the Celts with his shooting. Buffalo's Ernie "No D" Digregorio will be tragically victimized by either Chaney or White...