Stef Gussies Up for WNBA

[grizz36]

Let me join the DATING GAME. I was/ am an admirer of Bob Cousey starting while he played at BC. I think he was every little guys idol who played basketball. He could do things with the ball that amazed me, legal and illegal. He was truly amazing. He coached BC for a while.
But, I still love Cousey, Moriah Jefferson took what he and other great Point guards up about 10 notches.

Maybe you ought to change that to HC. Couz played his college ball at Holy Cross.

 

[CocoHusky]

Let me join the DATING GAME. I was/ am an admirer of Bob Cousey starting while he played at BC. I think he was every little guys idol who played basketball. He could do things with the ball that amazed me, legal and illegal. He was truly amazing. He coached BC for a while.
But, I still love Cousey, Moriah Jefferson took what he and other great Point guards up about 10 notches.

I hate to be contrarian but Bob Cousy ( No e) played at Holy Cross not BC. The only reason I know this is because there is/was a statue of him outside the gym on the Holy Cross when I took my daughter n a recruiting visit.

 

[bags27]

Though far from a Celtics fan as a kid, I idolized Cooz. I wore black low cut Chuck Taylors with Kelly green laces and practiced standing like Cooz--hands on hips, right leg out a little, head down. Never perfected his no-look pass or his running set shot, but I had the right color shoe laces...

 

[bags27]

I hate to be contrarian but Bob Cousy ( No e) played at Holy Cross not BC. The only reason I know this is because there is/was a statue of him outside the gym on the Holy Cross when I took my daughter n a recruiting visit.View attachment 13479

It's not accurate: he's not palming the ball!

 

[BISweet]

I hate to be contrarian but Bob Cousy ( No e) played at Holy Cross not BC. The only reason I know this is because there is/was a statue of him outside the gym on the Holy Cross when I took my daughter n a recruiting visit.

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You are correct as usual---even when UC men were playing Holy Cross I had a tendency to mix up HC with BC I guess if you see one Catholic you've seen them all. My HC/BC does not deny his abilities on the court. I too liked Yale's Tony LaVelle (sp) his hook shot got lots of HS kids hooked on shooting that way. I don't know if he invented it but he did for a lot of Connecticut kids. There were kids in the old Yankee Conf that I hated to see come to town, some guy from UMass call Julius something--he must have study medicine because he became known as Dr J, in Philly. Wes, Corley, Bobby Boyd, Thompson, lots of fun in the old field house. I don't intend to write to him or put his name on an award--so as long as my writing Cousey made some think of Bob of HS/Cletics/BC (coaching) I got my point across, didn't I??

 

[BISweet]

Maybe you ought to change that to HC. Couz played his college ball at Holy Cross.

See the response to cocohusky--it applies.

 

[Striper69]

But isn't that when palming happens most, when you take that final step (and dribble) before the drive? Palming (carrying the ball) is of course almost never called today, and that has changed the game....for better and worse. It's made it a lot easier to get that first explosive step and allowed players (maybe starting with the inimitable Dr. J) to do amazing things while elevated. It's also made playing man-to-man defense a lot harder. A more exciting game, but, like the 3 point shot, it further stretches the defense which, certainly in the men's game, has generally speaking (exceptions like the Spurs) made for sloppier basketball.

Ha ha...you didn't read what I posted? I said started a drive. You can do whatever you want to start dribbling.