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Predictably, the audience was as interested in Boston Garden as the rest of the world combined. When pressed, Auerbach said the two greatest Celtics teams were the Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman squad and the Jones boys team, both featuring William Russell at center...
George Sikowski (Cole Stevens), mayor of the town, faces an uphill re-election fight, and Phil Romano (Charles Laquidera, a WBCN dj) who inherited his father's strip-mining business isn't sure that he shouldn't back George's Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan...
...coaching experience, but coming as he does from a long tradition of ex-Celtics who have successfully switched to coaching, this is less of a handicap than it might appear at first glance. Ex-Celtics have a tendency to become outstanding coaches, the most notable being Bill Russell, Bill Sharman, Tom Heinsohn and Bob Cousy, all of whom are now coaching in the NBA. Sanders comes highly recommended, according to Watson, by "a number of prominent people" in the Boston area, including Celtics General Manager Arnold "Red" Auerbach, the winningest coach in NBA history. According to Watson, Auerbach told Harvard...
...example, with muscular simplicity: he leaned against the giant like a buttress. The result is not dirty or even roughhouse play but what the players like to call a "physical game"-the practice of deftly throwing your weight around to keep your opponent "honest." As Laker Coach Bill Sharman summed up the series: "Their defense really stopped our running game cold...
...Knick strategy worked to improbable perfection in the first game against Los Angeles. "We knew what they were going to do," sighed West, "and they did it." Added Coach Sharman: "Wilt made an effort to go out on Lucas, but he wasn't quite fast enough and he got caught lots of times in no man's land." That not only left Pivotman Lucas free to score well from the outside, but it also opened up the lane for his teammates. Chamberlain was seldom able to get into position to clear the boards and toss his football-like...