Word: loscutoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Coach Alex Hannum. The Warriors retaliated enthusiastically, won the third game 115-91. The referees were blowing their whistles like riot cops. But big-time basketball is both hard-nosed and tricky, and the refs did not see half of it. The secret, explained Boston's Jim Loscutoff, is sneaky hands: "The idea is to stop your opponent from gaining momentum. You can't actually grab him; you feel and let go, feel and let go, and when he starts to cut, you feel him a little longer." By the time the fourth game ended (the Celtics...
...stool to threaten the Warriors' giant Wilt Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in.). Boston's Carl Braun and Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly President Maurice Podoloff slapped fines on five players...
Given this leeway, rival centers struggle for position in their own private wrestling matches under the basket. Boston's barrel-chested Jim Loscutoff is respected for his skill at disconcerting a jump shooter by jabbing him in the ribs with a massive forefinger. New Boy Robertson is already an expert at putting a hand on his man's hip and 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...
Spoiled by Success. As if all this were not enough, the Celtics have the finest bench in basketball. Even the loss of Hatchetman Jim Loscutoff (6 ft. 5 in., 230 lbs.) with a back injury has not slowed the team. Negro Guards K. C. Jones (6 ft. 1 in., 202 lbs.) and Sam Jones (6 ft. 4 in., 198 lbs.) can move the ball nearly as well as Cousy and Sharman. The Celtics' only faults: lack of talented height to back up Bill Russell and creeping old age (Cousy is 31, Loscutoff 30, Ramsey...