Word: goon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brilliant as Lucas is on the court, Ohio State is no one-man team. As a squad, it epitomizes the current trend in basketball away from the spindle-shanked hotshot and the gawky goon, toward towering, robust and superbly coordinated players who can run at top speed all night. Says New York University's Basketball Coach Lou Rossini: "Every man on that first five has a shot-a good shot-at making the pros...
...Gone Goon. Basketball's offensive revolution has sent scores skyrocketing, until it now requires an average of 122 points to win an N.B.A. game. As the game has changed, so have the players. Teams once depended on three or four scorers; now every man on the floor can go over 20 points a game, the old yardstick of success. Says Los Angeles Lakers' Coach Fred Schaus, himself a pro only a few years ago: "It's incredible, but it's true that today's N.B.A. man, an average man, would have been a great star...
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...
...fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...
...GOON SHOW--Humor from...