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...taken our '74 and '76 teams," adds John Havlicek, the retired god. "They're much better. But the '60s teams--they'd have to play them." For that matter, the Celtics still have to play the Rockets, though with two to five games left in the tournament, Coach Bill Fitch was already invoking General Custer, and 7-ft. 4- in. Ralph Sampson, who caught an elbow instead of a break, had a seam of sorrowful stitches sewn along one cheek. "It's been so long since our team has had the bottom drop out," said Fitch. "The best basketball doesn...
Three middle stops in Houston represent an oasis all right, but having coached the Celtics to a championship four years ago, Fitch had a special * perspective on both teams and seemed to be finding scant comfort in so much local knowledge. "When that little picture machine of his goes off," he said of Bird, "he's in a world of his own. (Fitch used to like to call Bird "Kodak.") That little voice starts talking to him. He's in his backyard again. He's playing by himself." The image delighted Fitch, but only for a moment...
Fate had permitted Sampson to be present to perform miracles. The Rockets' star recruit of three years ago has been overshadowed by Houston's other "twin tower," Akeem Olajuwon, for most of the playoffs and much of the season. Down the stretch, Houston Coach Bill Fitch usually went to Olajuwon for the crucial baskets...
...There was a man guarding him him from behind and a man guarding him in front and he only had one second to get the shot off, so it wasn't real pretty," Fitch said...
...When Fitch's labor was through, he had delivered a bouncing baby teddy. "I'm trying to decide if I should name it after his mother," says Petrone, experimenting with "Dougy Bear...