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Old 03-16-2013, 02:49 AM   #9
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Default Re: willis reed plays a few minutes seriously injured with 2 baskets. get all the credit

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shooting mid range

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6kIu34Qsc&t=24m50s

Difficult angle shot on the baseline. Not too many could hit this one over Russell.




Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership From the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner - Bill Russell

When I played against Oscar Robertson, for example, I thought for a while that he had 360-degree vision. He seemed to know where everyone on the court was at all times; he could thread a pass through the eye of a needle, through a football scrimmage of bodies. But he didn't really have 360-degree vision at all; he had this peculiar ability great athletes have to focus. Where an ordinary player would see whatever was in front of him and whatever his peripheral vision took in, a player like Oscar would be able to eliminate everything between him and the player he wanted to pass to or the area where he had to get to shoot or set up a play. His vision then narrowed like a laser beam. Within that beam he could slow down or speed up the action as need demanded. But then everything outside that beam wasn't visible to him! I realized his great seeing power made him blind! And that allowed me to work invisibly against him. I could move into these blind zones and attack the ball or the player without being seen.





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