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[QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 5028298, member: 11804"]
Two great ballplayers.  6'4" Hagan was the shortest NBA center in my memory, but a great one who could hook with either hand.  And 6'9" Pettit was a great jump-shooting forward on the same team.  Go figure.  Pettit, one of my early favorite players, seemingly played with a very calm demeanor.  But once I remember he really lost his temper in a Hawks-Celtics game.  Pettit's foul shot was very slow and deliberate, balancing the ball in the palm of his outstretched right arm before letting it go.  One time, as he was going through this slow ritual, K.C. Jones decided to walk across the lane from one side to the other, right in front of Pettit, totally disrupting his concentration.  Pettit slammed the ball against the floor, turned his back and walked away.  . . .  The only other center of similar dimensions as Hagan I recall was a guy named Phil Dinardo, who played for Mitchell Field on the Air Force Worldwide Basketball Championship team in 1960.  Also 6'4" (with much taller forwards Jerry Vayda and George Mehaffey), who could also hook with either hand.
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