Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone is the day of the glandular goon who could do little more than stand beneath the basket and stuff in rebounds. Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who leads the N.B.A. in scoring with an average 37.8, stands 7 ft. 2 in., but has the speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute...
...defensive techniques. Says Cincinnati's Wayne Embry of playing against Boston's Russell: "Get Bill off the boards. I try to push him out as far as he'll go. I try to 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...
...scientific scramble of modern basketball, the intangible of confidence can be all important. Robertson astounded even his Royal teammates once this year by boldly driving right up and over Wilt Chamberlain for a shot. "If you're not confident," says Robertson, "you've got no business playing this game. That shot just won't go in." Says Schayes: "I can sense when we've got a team licked. There's a little drooping of the shoulders, a little glassy look in the eye. When you see that, you try to stomp on him and keep...
...nothing but shoot. "The kids are making shots we wouldn't even dare take," says Detroit's Coach McGuire, a crack playmaker during his career. "The science is going out of the game and it's becoming dull. Who wants to watch Wilt stuff them in? We need playmaking badly." Cousy notes wistfully: "The shooting has reached such a status that the playmaker is now unnecessary...
...Wilt Chamberlain, league scoring leader of the Philadelphia Warriors, was so harassed by Lovellette's glove-tight defense that he scored only 12 points, and was held without a field goal until the fourth quarter. He wound up with two field goals and eight free throws...