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...players seem to be able to do whatever is necessary," says Los Angeles Laker Coach Bill Sharman. Those words may well qualify as the classic understatement of the 1971 sports season...
...answer is Bill Sharman, the Lakers' new, no-nonsense coach. Unlike his three predecessors, Sharman learned the game on the hardwood courts of the N.B.A., where he was an eight-time All-Star guard with the Boston Celtics during their late-1950s glory days. After coaching the Utah Stars to the championship of the American Basketball Association last year, Sharman was hired away for a reported $75,000 a year to work similar miracles in Southern California. His tactics were simple: stressing defense, the fast break and "running, running, running," he transformed the team into a Los Angeles version...
...early as mid-September, when most other N.B.A. teams were just beginning to loosen up for the coming season, Sharman was already putting his team through long punishing workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...
...average, and West is leading the league in assists. The biggest change, however, has been in the play of Chamberlain, the moody, taciturn giant whose uneven performance in the past has earned him such derisive nicknames as "Big Musty" and "The Load." Now, coaxed into a different role by Sharman, he is recognized as team captain. In the Lakers' new offense, Chamberlain's chief duties consist of raking in the rebounds and then, like some king-size quarterback, firing bullet passes to the streaking guards downcourt. Shooting less and enjoying it more (his point average has dropped from...
This year's "A" team consisted of ten skiers. Other women who contributed largely to the team scoring totals were Harriet Bering, Nancy Cochran, Sharman Haley, Tamsin Venn, and Juliet Bradley...