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Mogspan wrote:I think they see the super rare combo of high IQ with freakish athleticism and overrate the former a bit, kind of like a hot girl who is rather articulate being thought of as “super smart.” I don’t know kind of a weird analogy, but you catch my drift.
rk2023 wrote:What a YouTube return it was from WCA! I think he did a great job combining the receipt-keeping along with factual, film-based evidence
CumberlandPosey wrote:i like what "mister prick" rick barry says about the state of todays game .he has some points i must admit.
besides that its just a flawless mix.many scenes i have never seen or from totally different viewpoint.what oscar does is insane!!!
would have loved to see this man in person controlling the tempo of games.
CavaliersFTW wrote:Hey thanks for sharing this here Marcin! Again, couldn't have done it without your own tremendous efforts collecting these past few years. Anyone has any questions or thoughts they want to direct towards me I'd also be happy to chime in. Otherwise I just hope anyone who watches it enjoys it
prolific passer wrote:Great vid. Wish there some on underrated greats like Cliff Hagan, Lenny Wilkens, Dave Cowens, etc.
CavaliersFTW wrote:prolific passer wrote:Great vid. Wish there some on underrated greats like Cliff Hagan, Lenny Wilkens, Dave Cowens, etc.
Cliff and Lenny I only had like 1 or 2 clips of that made the cut. Cowens more, but scattered throughout the vid.
One of the limitations I and everyone else has with that era is available content which 70sfan has done a lot for. Even with all that we've got now, it's really just like... 1% of 1% of 1% of that era. Weighted disproportionately very heavily towards the most popular teams and players of that era (Wilt, West and Baylor, Russell's Celtics, then into the early 70's Knicks, Bucks, etc). Guys like Lenny Wilkins just didn't play on big enough markets to be filmed constantly and have the film still laying around for someone to convert 60 years later and Pettit and Hagan's hawks sort of pre-date the higher quality film reels 70sfan has been able to obtain. If we ever get to stage where the NBA can ever share what it has with it's deeper archives we could do so much more. You'd see that even this video was just scratching the surface. I had more clips of those guys in low quality but I really wanted to do this video in high quality so fans can appreciate it better so I had to filter out a lot of the 480p or less stuff.
prolific passer wrote:CavaliersFTW wrote:prolific passer wrote:Great vid. Wish there some on underrated greats like Cliff Hagan, Lenny Wilkens, Dave Cowens, etc.
Cliff and Lenny I only had like 1 or 2 clips of that made the cut. Cowens more, but scattered throughout the vid.
One of the limitations I and everyone else has with that era is available content which 70sfan has done a lot for. Even with all that we've got now, it's really just like... 1% of 1% of 1% of that era. Weighted disproportionately very heavily towards the most popular teams and players of that era (Wilt, West and Baylor, Russell's Celtics, then into the early 70's Knicks, Bucks, etc). Guys like Lenny Wilkins just didn't play on big enough markets to be filmed constantly and have the film still laying around for someone to convert 60 years later and Pettit and Hagan's hawks sort of pre-date the higher quality film reels 70sfan has been able to obtain. If we ever get to stage where the NBA can ever share what it has with it's deeper archives we could do so much more. You'd see that even this video was just scratching the surface. I had more clips of those guys in low quality but I really wanted to do this video in high quality so fans can appreciate it better so I had to filter out a lot of the 480p or less stuff.
I think those late 50s to early 60s games would be fun to watch. The pace would be hard to keep up. I would like to see some of the 57 finals. Perhaps the greatest NBA finals ever.
70sFan wrote:prolific passer wrote:CavaliersFTW wrote:Cliff and Lenny I only had like 1 or 2 clips of that made the cut. Cowens more, but scattered throughout the vid.
One of the limitations I and everyone else has with that era is available content which 70sfan has done a lot for. Even with all that we've got now, it's really just like... 1% of 1% of 1% of that era. Weighted disproportionately very heavily towards the most popular teams and players of that era (Wilt, West and Baylor, Russell's Celtics, then into the early 70's Knicks, Bucks, etc). Guys like Lenny Wilkins just didn't play on big enough markets to be filmed constantly and have the film still laying around for someone to convert 60 years later and Pettit and Hagan's hawks sort of pre-date the higher quality film reels 70sfan has been able to obtain. If we ever get to stage where the NBA can ever share what it has with it's deeper archives we could do so much more. You'd see that even this video was just scratching the surface. I had more clips of those guys in low quality but I really wanted to do this video in high quality so fans can appreciate it better so I had to filter out a lot of the 480p or less stuff.
I think those late 50s to early 60s games would be fun to watch. The pace would be hard to keep up. I would like to see some of the 57 finals. Perhaps the greatest NBA finals ever.
Russell era has so many classic finals series. 1957 is up there with any other, but then there are also 1960, 1962, 1966 and of course 1969. All of these would be incredible to watch.
I mean, we probably have the most footage from 1964 finals - probably the least interesting series overall - and yet it contains so many spectacular plays and legendary moments...