Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 3786219, member: 7874"] Thanks to playing against Moses. "yet (Olajuwon) never lost sight of Malone's primary lesson. "Do the work," said Hakeem." I do like this Malone quote: "Ain't no secrets about playing basketball. Who wants the ball more? Who wants the shot? Who wants the rebound? Go get it." "After nearly a year of banging heads and elbows, trading pushes and shoves, giving and taking lessons, the teenager took the ball in his hands, spun toward the basket and slammed it home with a force that rattled the backboard and sent Moses Malone sprawling onto the worn wooden floor. "Offensive foul," barked out the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player from flat on his back. "C'mon, Mo!" the gangly 19-year-old, then known as Akeem Olajuwon, replied through his Nigerian accent. "Be a mon!" "Oh Lordy," NBA veteran Robert Reid remembered years later. "The place got real quiet. It was on that play, at that minute, when a lot of us stood there and wondered, 'What do we have here?' " "They were opposite sides of the same coin. Where Malone would bump and grind and wear down an opponent with his sheer physical play and relentless pursuit of the ball, Olajuwon wore opponents out with an array of spins, fakes, double- and triple-pumps that were more varied and colorful than a painter's palette." [URL unfurl="true"]http://archive.nba.com/2015/news/features/fran_blinebury/09/13/moses-malone-hakeem-olajuwon-fran-blinebury-feature/index.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,486

Messages: 4,398,169

Members: 10,212

Latest member: MurrDog