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Legend says he's still shooting free throws and still hasn't missed

His ego was so big back in the day that to this day, the only rational reason that was ever given for Cousy and the Royals trading Oscar Robertson was that Cousy feared Oscar would break his record. The Royals/Kings have been shit ever since, save for a three-year stretch capped off by getting screwed

I'm not sure why, but that story choked me up a little.

@@CinemaDemocratica Closest he came to missing was the first shot, damn impressive.

@@SethKasso …that assertion is wildly inaccurate…there was no record to be broken…Cousy saw the offensive was not working with Robertson and as coach, needed to make a change. He may or may not have been right but it was his decision to make….that decision was questioned by Robertson fans but Oscar actually benefitted by the trade. Cooz was a outstanding student of the game but he was not vindictive…

@@SethKasso fake history commie liar

eazi, My late uncle Jimmy who was a big fan of basketball and who followed the Celtics as a little boy back during the infancy of the NBA told me a story where Red Auerbach was vying for another player during the draft that involved the young Bob Cousy. Not sure if it was done by the lottery system that we have today but Auerbach did not get this one player that he was really hoping for and instead he was dealt Bob Cousy. Auerbach pissed as hell seeing that he was being dealt Cousy threw his draft sheet down and said "God Dammit I didn't want this guy" Well as they say the "Rest is History". Just thought you might appreciate this TRUE STORY on the LEGEND BOB COUSY. Cheers

Same thing happened to me. Broke my left wrist when I was 15 and became a right handed shooter for the rest of my life. Gained the ability to do things with the ball with both hands once I healed. To this day I am left handed but shoot right handed.

Interesting. I used to box when i was a kid. Hurt my left knee once and decided i felt more comfortable with it farthest away from my opponent. Planned on only fighting southpaw for a few days until my knee stopped hurting. I got so used to my power hand being closest to my opponent that i never went righty again.

Somebody tell this to that 🤡 JJ Reddick. He was very disrespectful of Cousy just the other day. Skills and are skills and Cousy clear has fundamental skill at a supreme level.

Go watch his highlights he shot left handed running hook shots like it was nothing

You know most nba players shoot 90% + practice rt? It’s the pressure of the game, the bright lights, the fatigue. You sound like somebody new to basketball.

@@JCMthebrand please, I'd crossover you effortlessly and drain a 3 in ya face the same way prime Cousy would dribble around you for an easy layup🤣

Reddick is really cocky and wrong for disrespecting the players of the past generations

@@JCMthebrand u missed the point

@@JCMthebrand nah. It's easy to see who's putting his work simply as a function of his mechanics.

Right, well he would suck now...oh wait, he wouldn't...

In a dress shirt and pants, hitting shot after shot with no breaks, in his late 60s. Yeah he play a little.

@@matts4240 He would only suck now because he's 95. ;-)

@@matts4240 don't forget the shoes. Your feet are where your shot starts. He's in leather soled shoes with wooden heels that have brads tacked into them. He's probably slipping on that hardwood floor.

​@@MaybeDHitHim Red Auerbach would say it's all in the fundamentals. Cousy's form here is perfect, even if it's old time and easy to swat. He's gonna sink the rock every single time because he's trained his body to do that perfectly from that distance to a point where it's scientifically and statistically reliable. It's incredible. That's something that's been lost when the old school form stopped being used.

Bird is documented to have done similar shooting when he was coaching the Pacers - and as President of the club for many years after that. Not sure if he was still doing it at 66, but likely.

Bruce…agreed…COOZ didn’t need to be concerned with being high scorer…

I think that was 10 in a row with the last one left handed, unbelievable.

It was in 93 actually. The film was released in 94.

That is how good pros/legends are. Its a combo of talent and hard work.

I thought I read somewhere online it was 32?

@@RiM2540 I read 32 as well, either way amazing.

Cousy in interview said it was 21. Or maybe the lefty at the end was 22.

And Shaq missed 15/16

I read that as Ben Simmons at first with a look on my face like I smelled some piss

He even did it with his off hand!!

I think its more impressive that it was Scripted...

@@FLASK904 - How many takes would they have to do with anyone else to make that line work?

Wilt went 28-32 in Hershey once.

Wow that's a game I wouldn't want to see.

An absolute menace in his day.

That was a 4 overtime game. I was wondering how he shot so many free throws.

"Look at Cousy, man, so inspirational." -Joel Embiid

Makes sense, funny thing is he was about an 80% free throw shooter in his playing days so that's pretty good even for him lol

@@jamespuso1627 There's a vid of steph curry making 100+ 3s in a row in practice but his career is 40%. Pressure and a crowd is always way more important than just practicing.

No one forgot

@@trendybistro It's also likely a fake video.

​@@willshad No, not fake. I remember it was one of the topics of conversation when they promo'd the movie on talk shows back when it was made and everyone confirmed Cousy really made the shots. Including Nolte.

Larry Bird had a video explaining his shot, and how it's important not to crank the ball too far. Still didn't miss. Some men can't help but remind us that basketball is still a child's game at heart.

Cousy's shooting style is really a vestige of the one-hand push shot of the 1940s before the jump shot came in. Hank Luisetti of Stanford in the 1930s was the first one to shoot running one-handers which were the ancestor of today's jump shot. Before that, players mostly shot two-hand set shots.

Wei Qi its just video for a .movienor something or

JStarStar00 bob cousy had a jump shot

My father as a kid was on a Boys Club team that won the New England Championship. Their coach was Charles "Stretch" Murphy who played at Purdue before there was an NBA and then was the local Boys Club Director. To show the kids that they shouldn't miss free throws because you are always 15 ft. away and the hoop is always 10 ft. high no matter where you play, he had the kids blindfold him. He made 10 out of 10 free throws.

Lebron and current NBA superstars would annihilate him and his old era of white small crusty racist men...

Real (& knowledgeable) fans haven’t forgot Cousy’s greatness … or maybe it’s just that I’m old af 😀

Shaq would have said I can dunk I don’t need to worry about free throws. 😂🤣

@@f430ferrari5 Cousy got 6 rings

@@chipschannel9494 my comment about Shaq was a “knock” on him. Shaq is a very good example when certain things come easy or naturally then they focus on that and rely on it if sufficient enough. Shaq never worked hard enough in developing other parts of his game. If he did he probably could have won 10 titles. The worst for Shaq was when he used to “throw” free throws. 😂🤣. He used to launch then from the right side of his head. Horrible technique. He at least switched to where he was shooting from above his head (center) but he used to “flick” the ball up there. Sometimes line drive. No arc. Since Shaq had big hands Magic Johnson used to mimick a “push” style for Shaq. He never listened. Always some excuse. I make them when it counts. The issue was mental. Late in close games Shaq would shy away from getting the ball because he didn’t want to get fouled. Kobe took most of the clutch shots and free throws. Kobe said he always worked on the fundamentals because he wasn’t gifted athletically as others when like in junior high.

Even though Shaq's a demonrat and a Freemason and I'm not a fan of his anymore because of those facts.. He made them when he had to..

Shaq showed up to shoot the film, but missed it by a year.

Imagine being that close to greatness.

Bs, your lying on the internet

Pfft a plumber

​@@ipods36👈😠 You'll be lying in the gutter, son.

ipods36...Why should he lie . He's anonymous on this site .

"Never f*ck with the old man in a young man's game"

Cousy was a far better all around player than Maravich….AND, his team nearly always WON!

@@johnmitchell9180 Cousy won an NCAA title and 6 NBA rings, Pistol Pete didn't win jack at LSU thanks to his overbearing father and never won a ring either.

@@johnmitchell9180Cousy didn’t win a championship until Bill Russell arrived. Hmm, must be a coincidence, right? Just as stupid as saying Pistol wasn’t a winner, right? If only Pistol had better teammates.

Those plumbers played 82 games a year in Chuck Taylors and practiced in community college gymasiums. Let's see today's stars do that for a month, much less an entire career.

@@mc76 I was being sarcastic to JJ Reddick's dumb comments about players in the 1960s

Just curious, why did they need him to miss? What difference would it have made to the scene? And, he couldn't even miss on purpose? Lol

@@username-zj9id If I had to guess, its so Nick Nolte's character could get a chance to shoot. Since Cousey never misses, Nolte couldn't get his turn before the scene played out.

Cousy, shot 37% from the field over his career. If you want to say he was a great passer, fine. But let's not say "can't miss."

He is considered the first mediatic star of the NBA

That's actually pretty interesting.

GreenBigTicket Mediatic?

+Jonathan Akerele Mediatic...

What's Mediatic?

Cousy had the old school "push shot". It's like a floater, but from standing. Very few players use it anymore, especially from the free throw line.

Ivanohe Martin funny thing he missed 14 out of 15

He's still at the line trying to make one.

Do you see the brick wall in the background?

See all those dents in the rim and backboard, that's his scene🤣

I thought about him during this scene

Both of redrick's hands are on LeBron's dick

I guarantee you he can and I.domt know him

Now Redick works for Lebron. How embarrassing for him.

Redick is an idiot

can't wait for bobs part 2

Meeee lol

@@nicolasmartins5601 Already out

a fellow BCBCFTTA member!

Cousy was insightful when he called a game.

Same for a lot of us. I guarantee you that a lot of young players who watched this movie back then had absolutely no idea who he is.

100% agree, a memorable scene. Nolte's astonished don't you ever miss and Cousy's subsequent laugh unscripted but left in.

And will do

So was that improved as well? Was it on a commentary or something?

It was a documentary of UCLA and Wooden/Gilbert

Shaq wasn't 30 then smh

@@dakidfromknowhere765 exactly. Shaq was about 20.

Cyrusislikeawsome he tried to miss but muscle memory wouldn't let him

Nolte's don't you ever miss line was unscripted but left in the movie

Cousy went to Andrew Jackson HS in NYC and then Holy Cross.

French was his family language, so he also has a little Gallic lisp.

Lives 2 miles from me. In Worcester Massachusetts

No, the first would have been George Mikan - but Bob DID win MVP the year Bill Russell entered the league (but Bill only played part of the year that year, Olympics tied him up for the first third or so of the season).

@@bricefleckenstein9666 Funny story about that. Tom Heinsohn of the Celtics won Rookie of The Year that year and Russell walked up to him and said "you should give me half of that ROY money". Heinsohn started laughing but then realized Russell was NOT joking.🤣

@@KHayes666 That's also the event that caused Bill to decide that the only stat that mattered was wins, and the only acolade championships. He has stated a few times that he felt "robbed" on that ROY decision - and on occasional other later "acolade" decisions (but not the MVP he lost to West, even BILL thought that one was earned in full).

Exactly

Hoosiers would complete the podium imho