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...Royals (he is too small for forward), Robertson has taken charge of the Royals, with the tacit backing of Coach Charley Wolf, just as he automatically has run every one of his teams from the seventh grade on. Robertson has learned to work in close tandem with Jack Twyman (6 ft. 6 in., 210 lbs.), the team's only other established star, but he does not hesitate to turn his sharp tongue on a veteran who has made a bonehead play. Says Cousy: "Robertson acts as though he's been in this league for ten years...
...bump him out with my thighs and forearms. You can't push Wilt out. He's too strong." Says Russell on defending against Chamberlain: "Make him take that fall-away shot of his-it takes him away from the backboard." Says Twyman about Baylor, one of the great stars in the history of basketball. "Play him tight at the beginning of the game. Your whole object in life after he gets the ball is to block him off, give him the outside shot." Says Syracuse's Coach Alex Hannum about Pettit: "Keep him off the offensive board...
...driving for a layup. In one celebrated case of bridging, the Celtics' Bob Harris broke the left wrist of Schayes in 1954. Bridging is now rare, as is the unprovoked, intentional foul calculated to injure. "If a guy belts me on a legitimate play, fine and dandy," says Twyman. "I'll belt him down at the other end. But if a guy is dirty, really dirty, he's out to lunch. He can't watch the 80 players in this league all at once...
Last year, without Robertson, the Royals merely fed the ball to high-scoring Jack Twyman, finished with only 19 victories for the sorriest record in the N.B.A. With Robertson, this year's Royals won five of their first six games to take first place in the Western Division. Not only is Robertson averaging 27.9 points to lead the team, but his playmaking has given the Royals a balanced attack. Even so, Robertson frets about making mistakes against the pros: "I have a big ways to go, but I hope to get there before the season ends." In the eyes...
...Soft Touches. Without the massive Stokes (6 ft. 7 in., 235 Ibs.). Twyman has to carry so much of the Royals' load that he shoots all night long, has become what the pros call a "trigger."' But help is coming; next year Cincinnati will get Oscar (''Big O") Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 Ibs.), the talented senior at the University of Cincinnati, who again this year is leading the college scorers (40.7 points a game), has a feather-soft touch...