Channel surfing on Tuesday night, I decided to spend a little time at NBA TV and catch the highlights of the Trail Blazers/Jazz game, won by the Blazers in Utah by a score of 97-89.
The team looked good in a place the franchise has traditionally never done very well at, but as it was apparently Heritage Week on NBA TV, the hosts of the show introduced another segment of highlights after that game, the latter coming from a January 8, 1978 game in Portland between the Blazers and the then-New Orleans Jazz, won by the Blazers 122-100. Besides the usual sickening feeling that one gets around these parts from watching that well-coached team perform, in comparison with some of the massive collection of underachieving players that had been performing up until the last couple of years, there was Pete Maravich in his prime, a wizard with the ball and a true thrill to watch play.
Being as I used to be a huge basketball junkie back then (heck, I was even a fan of the American Basketball Association, and still regret to this day the fact that the Blazers traded away Moses Malone), I was shocked that I had never seen the play that made me sit upright; a 60-foot underhanded pass from the right of the key down the court to a streaking Gail Goodrich in the paint, for a perfect layup just ahead of an effort to block the shot by Maurice Lucas. As the excellent mix video shows, Pistol Pete had made that move before, it's right before the Blazer highlight at about 5:50 mark of the video, almost near the end. Still, this video is really worth viewing, in spite of some of the horrible uniforms that teams had back then, such as those by the Atlanta Hawks, where Maravich first played (pic above).
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