Remembering Bill Walton | Colin Cowherd + Jason Timpf
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Colin Cowherd & ‘Hoops Tonight’ host Jason Timpf talk about the life of Bill Walton and the legacy of his NBA career with the Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Clippers, and Boston Celtics.
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I went to High School with Bill and his brothers. Bill spent so many hours in the gym that he had a key. The Rockets (ABA at the time) would come down to the Helix gym and Bill would let them in and they would have pick up games. Coach pushed Bill to focus on defense and passing because he was so much bigger than other teams and dunking was not allowed in high school and college at the time so he really developed shooting and banking shots. Saw every game he played in school and we had a back up center who was 6'10" and never got to play much. The JV center was 6'9" and there was no room on the varsity team until he was a senior and Wilbert Olinde followed him (and went on the UCLA as well). They were a very nice family and this loss hits me hard but I send my blessing to the family.
Had you ever seen him upset?
Smart people are, "closet-anthropologists," but that level of love for humanity is never far removed from pain.
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He seemed like he loved everyone, he probably loved everything?
He played past the ankle-pain and it became knee-pain.
He played past the knee-pain and it became back-pain.
Nevermind injury impacting his legacy among the greats...
He stopped playing and lived the rest of his life in pain...but he would probably never tell?
Fair thee well.
Rip
Bill Walton
Thanks for the tribute, Colin. RIP Bill Walton. 🙏🏽
Great man great heart ❤️ great passion! Thank you for my life
His jumper was iconic...who shoots like that....classic
Colin , I think an unfair slight to the offensive efficiency of that '77 Blazers team...Walton was key with his incredible passing ability as a center in those days, but the cuts shooting accuracy, and movement of Bobby Gross, Lionel Hollins, Maurice Lucas, Lloyd Neal , LARRY Steele,etc made them a beautiful machine offensively to watch!! Much better than iso pick and role and bombing 3's as today 🙄.. love your stuff Colin , but look at old tape!! RIP Bill..one of best Blazers of all time, no doubt !!
Robbie Benson ultimate role player!
Walton played a little like Wes Unsel.
Henry Steele?
Henry Steele!!! Robby Benson was on that team! Up your ass with a red-hot poker!
You've lead a incredible life when you start as a shy, stuttering basketball player who becomes a HOF player. However, more people know him is a HOF broadcaster whose acts of kindness are so numerous they cannot be counted. The human race lost a really good person.
Larry Steele
I understand that negativity easily grips the intellectual, but ya could have done this segment without the, "frat-man."
When healthy, Walton was a better player than Kareem.
Loved them both, saw both at their peaks, and I'd have to disagree. Walton was better at some things (assisting, outlet passing, although Kareem was closer than some think), and Kareem was better at other things (but Walton was closer also on Kareem's strengths, in rebounding and blocking). When they met up in the WCF, both in peak form, I (and probably all Blazer fans) were terrified of Kareem. Maurice Lucas helped on Kareem, and the Blazer guards were much younger and quicker than the Lakers guards. Kareem outplayed Walton that series (except trailing him by 2 assists per game).
@@phillipschuman4307 I think Walton excelled at making his whole team better. Kareem had more physical skills, although Walton was actually extremely quick and could jump, and if he tried harder could have been as good a rebounder as Walton. In the book "On the Road With the Portland Trailblazers" Wilt is quoted as saying Walton was more skilled than Jabbar. But, the two are close for sure.