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...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...
Boston's Bill. Boston's basketball pros have long boasted most of the best players in the N.B.A.; now they fit together into the best team. The deadpan fakery and ballet-ball handling of Bob Cousy are as spectacular as ever. Under the backboards, muscular Jim Loscutoff, once of the University of Oregon, is throwing his weight (225 lbs.) around with bruising efficiency. The soft, high-arcing long shots of quiet Bill Sharman are hitting so often that he is now being called one of the greatest set-shot marksmen in the history of the game...