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...from rival players and coaches. Says Cousy himself: "Robertson is the best of his kind ever to come into the league." Says the Detroit Pistons' Coach Dick McGuire: "Oscar is better than Cousy ever was; Oscar is the finest player in basketball." Says Boston's sharpshooting Tommy Heinsohn: "He knows all the phases of the game-passing, shooting, rebounding. If he couldn't pass, you could play him differently, but if you double-team him for a second, you gamble. That calls for a pass, and he'll pass...
...swinging himself around his rival. (Says Schayes: "Someone is going to grab that arm some day and throw Robertson into the third row.") St. Louis' hulking Clyde Lovellette daintily holds his man by the seam of his pants. Sums up Boston's Heinsohn: "You've got to know where the referee...
...finest outside shot in the game (19.3-point average). If the defense presses Cousy and Sharman, the Celtics open up the center for the drives of two tough corner men: Frank Ramsey (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) and crew-cut Tommy Heinsohn (6 ft. 7 in., 220 lbs.), who averages 21.5 points despite a flat-trajectory shot that makes purists wince...
...deciding game in the Boston Garden last week, Celtic Coach Red Auerbach's carefully devised playoff plans began to fall apart. Muscleman Jim Loscutoff and Rookie Tom Heinsohn could not seem to work the double pickoff play that was meant to give Sharpshooter Bill Sharman (TIME, Dec. 31) time and space in which to sink his shots. St. Louis' stringy little veteran. Slater Martin, was sticking to Celtic Bob Cousy like an overanxious bill collector. The slickest ball-handler in the game. Cousy shook himself loose and scored from the floor only twice in 20 tries...
...ball, they set up their plays neatly, fed the ball to burly (6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs.) Forward Togo Palazzi, who scored 20 points for the evening, wound up as the winner of the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. Off the boards, spring-legged Center Tom Heinsohn (6 ft. 6 in.) consistently outjumped Duquesne's defensive giants, Dick Ricketts (6 ft. 7½ in.) and Jim Tucker (6 ft. 7½ in.), and as he warmed up, Heinsohn began to score as well...