Antoine Davis/Pete Maravich scoring title

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jtipto10 said:
Gotta be honest, I've read this five times and still have no clue what this means
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Sorry. Maravich's dad was his coach too and he was the only decent player on LSU's team in the early 1970s. Oh and "@" is a lazy form of about.
 
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livefaith said:
Sorry. Maravich's dad was his coach too and he was the only decent player on LSU's team in the early 1970s. Oh and "@" is a lazy form of about.
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So one would think that he scored all those points despite being double and triple teamed?
 
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CINCYVOL said:
Tell me you don’t know what you are talking about without telling me you don’t know what you are talking about.
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I watched him play in person. Did you? Numbers don't lie. He was a chucker. I've never understood Vol fans defending him. King was a MUCH better college basketball player than Maravich.
 
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dovervolz said:
Pete didn't have the benefit of the 3 point shot
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Pete had the benefit of literally getting to shoot the ball 54 times a game in an era of very high scoring basketball every where. As a team, we shot 63 total shots ft/fg combined in the win over Kansas. That shows how LSU played then.

All they did was run up and down the floor with Pete trying tons of shots an impossible to catch passes that people blamed his team for not catching.

Allan Houston is second all time in scoring in SEC history, he finished about 800 points behind Maravich. Maravich missed almost as many shots in 3 years as Houston attempted in four.

Maravich is lionized for literally being everything wrong about a team sport. Ballhog, coach's son who was allowed to do whatever he wanted without any repercussions and with no thought to actual wins and losses.
 
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omghulkhands said:
You believe Pete Maravich is the greatest basketball player of all-time?
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From end to end, yes. That is as a ball handler, passer, shooter combination. But the greatest basketball player of all time, no. It’s really hard to judge him on a comparative basis for reasons pointed out above-unrestricted shooting green light, dad as coach, only good player on his team, so a lot of the load on his shoulders. I think in the game today, if he were playing and my team was throwing in the ball under the other teams goal down by one or two points, there is no player that I’d rather have bring the ball up the court than Pete Maravich. Bernard King would be in the running for best all time collegiate player.
 
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Kas232323 said:
Should the NCAA really count stats as records for players getting to play 5 full years during Covid era? I think this is crazy but wonder what you guys believe to be fair. Davis is 3 points short of Pistol Pete and now lobbying to play in the CBI tourney basically so he can break the record.
How could anyone realistically lay claim to a career record when they know they had an extra 30+ games in a 5th season?
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No
 
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VolArmy74 said:
I hope he breaks it. It's basically the record that's been held forever because no one else in NCAA history was allowed to play how Pete was. He took 54 combined shots/ft per game and was a low percentage chucker the whole time. There's been a lot of people that if you gave them that many shots and didn't really care about wins vs losses, who could have scored how Pete did. Jackson as LSU averaged 30 a game on about half the shot attempts it took for Pete to average 44.
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More like 38 shots per game. He shot just below 44% his career.
 
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We're talking like this is just unique to college basketball. It's the same issue with records in football.
 
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We have famous games where players scored 40-50 at SAC or TBA. Bernard 1st game, Tony White night, Jody Meeks(infamous) 50+. What's hard to wrap your head around concerning Pistol Pete is that he AVERAGED this for a career!

My father was not an NBA fan. But he took my mother all the way to NO just for 1 chance to watch Pete play a regular season game for the Jazz. Seems like he scored 42 iirc in that one, even in the League! Unreal. On another level. Taken from us too soon.
 
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