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Pistol Pete Maravich played his NCAA basketball at Louisiana State University (LSU) before being chosen with the number three overall pick in the 1970 NBA Draft. Pistol Pete Maravich in his prime is often considered the best shooter in college basketball history. There have been a multitude of particular basketball players in the comparatively short history of the game and the global involvement as well as overall increase in popularity has spurred more outstanding natural abilities and qualities in the past twenty years than arguably the summation of all the outstanding hoopsters that came before. While the debate over who is the best at shooting buckets will never be definitively resolved galore younger fans not intimate with the body of work Pistol Pete put up are unmindful to the fact that his name without doubt or question deserves to be in the speech if not distinctively at the top of the list of best shooters in the history of college and professional basketball. The fact that Maravich passed from physical life from an untimely heart attack in 1988 at the age of 40 makes him even further got rid of from the youth culture that primarily consumes basketball. Pistol Pete was born Peter Press Maravich in 1947. As the son of a former professional player turned basketball coach fundamental principle were instilled in Pete from an early age. The Pennsylvania native at long last moved to South Carolina (while his father served as the head basketball coach at Clemson University) where he excelled at high school basketball and garnered the nickname Pistol for his shot release that involved pulling the ball up from his hip like a cowboy in wild west pistol shootout. After finishing his prep career in Raleigh, North Carolina Pistol Pete joined the LSU Tigers where his father was coaching at the time. The scholarship offer Pete received to play at LSU was by no stretch of the imagination a handout from his father as Pistol speedily proved by scoring 50 points, dishing out 11 assists, and pulling down 14 rebounds in his very basi game as a freshman. Over his three year college career Pistol Pete averaged an astounding 44.2 points per game for the duration of a span from 1968-1970 when he led the NCAA in scoring each of those three years. The 6’5″ guard accomplished the majority of his scoring with outside shooting and all of those points were accumulated before the implantation of the three point line. Years later LSU head coach Dale Brown reviewed game tapes and ascertained that had a three point line been in place when Pistol Pete played Pete would have averaged an astounding 13 three pointers per game which would have boosted his intermediate points per game from an amazing 44 per game to an unbelievable 57 points per game. In 2005 ESPNU (ESPN subsidiary that specializes in college sports) named Pistol Pete Maravich as the biggest college basketball player of all-time – closely solely based on his unbelievable outside shooting ability. |
