He sure was. At that point, he was the top all around player in the game.

Not enough of a market

maybe in future

slip bravo:)braves was good team

@slip satch yes bob mcadoo is also good shooter

@slip satch yes one of the best shooter

Yeah Nelson was an interesting player too . He never looked like an athlete. But he was so damn smart a Wiley veteran with a high basketball I q... No wonder he became a great head coach.. Good shooter and decent rebounder... I don't care what era it is I'd have him try out for any team I coached

Yes, its a myth that the NBA is more popular now in and was dead in the 70s. There is a bigger television and national audience- and a lot more casual fans- but in the cities themselves, in the arenas, they were full and the fans were excited. Its all perspective- you can't be any more excited than these fans were in Buffalo for the playoffs- the fans in the arenas now with all the extra entertainment (to keep them excited?) aren't any more enthusiastic now than they were then. There's just a larger national audience now.

@@dmichael100 you are Soo right

Yeah they left buffalo but they always had big crowds up in buffalo... A great sports town

@@manny4552 Well in all actuality, the dropoff in attendance began after the merger when McAdoo and many of the players from this playoff team were traded away. The 77 and 78 seasons did not have good attendance but ownership should have given it more of a chance. Buffalo proved that if you put a competitive team on the floor the fans would support it. But they would not brave the snow and cold for a mediocre club.

@@dmichael100 well your right.. they traded Jim macmillan away and gar heard and Moses Malone.. Adrian dantley Billy knight Ernie d Jack marin John shumate bob macadoo bob Weiss were all jettisoned out of buffalo pretty quickly... I forget what years Nate Archibald was there

I think Marin was an all-star when with bullets, I remember him tho, damn good player

McAdoo was unstoppable back then but I'd luv to see Havlicek's 43point game, at 34

@@wilsonstone935 yes he was

@@wilsonstone935 I saw a few clips of havliceks career high 53 point game on KZfaq recently but I can't find the video again yet

Manny -yeah, the year before, I heard heinsohn say that despite being one if not the smallest average team, they outrebounded the entire league by 3-4 a game

@@wilsonstone935 yes sir hi I'm back around

Yes, -1 of the many differences between then and now, not the least of which was they also actually played defense and set plays instead of standing around 3point land -tho easy to get layups now if want , nobody in the paint anymore like the dominant centers of the 70s

Your right

Oscar was a shell of himself; Game 7 was the nail in the coffin for him.

They also changed their strategy on jabber for game 7, double teaming him making it harder to get him the ball, worked great 1st half and frustrating for the bucks, I think it was cousys idea and heinsohn asked Havlicek, their leading scorer, to play decoy for most of game, brave strategies but worked

Loss 3-4 v. 1974 BOS 33/12/5/1/2 on 55% TS 14/26 FGM (52%) + 5/7 FTM (69%) per game *For that series alone he ranked…* *MP: 1st (+15 Hondo)* *PTS: 1st (+43 Hondo)* *TREB: 1st (+16 Cowens)* *OREB: 1st (+2 Cowens)* *DREB: 1st (+14 Cowens)* *AST: 3rd (-20 Oscar, -9 JoJo)* *STL: 6th (-10 Chaney, -9 Hondo, -7 JoJo, -4 Cowens & Silas, -3 Dandridge)* *BLK: 1st (+13 Chaney)* *FGM: 1st (+25 Hondo)* *FGA: 1st (+17 Hondo)* *FTM: 2nd (-7 Hondo)* *FTA: 1st (+2 Hondo)*

Yes

That's exactly what it says- you can see no one else has more than 5. Obviously a clock operator error there.