Favorite Dr J story. Had a good friend that played on USNA basketball team. They were playing a game in either Norfolk, or Virginia Beach. They were walking into the arena with their gear, in uniform. Now remember other than David Robinson, USNA b-ball players are not all that tall. Anyway, before they knew it, they were walking in beside Dr J. They struck up a conversation and the midshipmen thought this was pretty cool. Dr J asked what they were there for, and they said, "We are playing here this evening." Dr J responded, "What band are you with?" A bit deflating I would say, but also pretty damn funny.
Even moreso in college than the NBA. Two facts about Pete's LSU career that have always blown me away: he averaged 44 points a game in his career without the benefit of the 3, and in just 3 years, he put up point totals that no one in the era of 4-year eligibility has even approached. Some freak of nature may come along and break 44.3ppg, but 3,667 career points is permanent.
My favorite Truck Robinson story, since he was mentioned in the thread; When he was negotiating his free agent deal with the Jazz, the GM at the time suggested they break for dinner, and offered to take Truck to Antoine's in the Quarter. Truck had different taste, he wanted to go to Popeye's. They finished up his deal while Truck polished off a 24-piece box.
Chris Jackson was on course to break the record if he had stayed four years, but he went pro after his sophomore year. Nobody that good is going to stay four years anymore.
I found this gem on some forum. I guess this guy doesn't know that Pistol wasn't allowed to play as a freshman. what records did Chris break that Pistol set? I have followed Chris Jackson from day one. I can and will back up by saying that Chris Jackson is the best college shooting guard and also the best NBA shooting guard either game has ever seen. Take us all the way back to the Dale Brown days. Chris Jackson broke most every record “the Pistol” set at LSU. Heard of Shaq? Didn’t hear about him when Chris Jackson was at LSU(sophmore year). Search Google Videos to Refresh your memory. The Best Shooting Guard the Game has ever seen.
Jackson was great in college... once a generation great, and had the best freshman year of anyone I have ever seen play, but he was never a Pistol Peat. Jackson averaged 30 and 28 in his two years. He could have come close to the record over a four year career, but his average would have had to increase. A dude that can hit 9 three pointers in a game and never misses a free throw is going to drop some buckets.
Only recently heard the story of my dad taking me to a Jazz game before I could walk to make sure I had seen Pete play in person. I do remember watching him and Meadowlark Lemon play for "The Shooting Stars" years later at the Cajundome. When Chris Jackson was a freshman, he did pretty well in his first few games and I remember asking my dad if he thought he would average 20 ppg. His response was, "Well, he's only a freshman and hasn't played very good competition yet. Somewhere around 13 ppg is more realistic". That night he scored 50+ against Florida in a nationally televised game and my dad told me that 20 ppg was indeed realistic. A few weeks later, we got a lab mix puppy and I named him "CJ". A few months later (after Jackson's freshman year), I was at a health club in Lafayette (Red's) with only a couple of other kids in the gym on a Saturday morning. Chris Jackson walks in by himself and starts shooting at a goal. We knew who he was and one of the kids asks Chris if he can dunk. Chris says "Let me warm up for a few minutes and I'll do a few dunks for you". He proceeded to do some creative dunks that I had no idea was possible for him as he was barely 6 feet tall. He was in the NBA dunk contest years later but didn't do well from what I remember.
Last night this was on ........... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102674/ An who was that guy Murrell Garland?
Murrell "Boots" Garland was a legendary track coach at Baton Rouge High in the 1960's & 70'. He later went to be an assistant coach at LSU. He was a terrific sprints coach and later became a consultant for sprinters, NFL teams etc. His abilities were nationally recognized. He was also quite a character and man about town..if you know what I mean
