I missed a whole lot more [than I got]. I did. Let a guy go straight out of high school but make the team that signs him pay for his education. “I think great wins are when you win on the road. But I recruited enough players that I figured, well, one guy is going to want to come. We'll deliver the latest big news to you!). Any time you win a big game that’s a big moment,” Driesell said. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. "We talked every day, literally," Vergara said. I don’t know if there’s any one moment [that stands out].”, On his Hall of Fame induction: “It was great. So they should do something like that now.”, On if the 1974 team was the best team he ever had: “No. “I coached for 41 years, I won 786 games, plus I won 100 high school games. 1 player in the country [when I was coaching]. Be in the know. Malone was averaging 24.4 points and 11.8 rebounds per game and Catledge adding 12.6 points and 6.8 … I didn’t just recruit the McMillens and Elmores and stuff like that,” Driesell said. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. While the 76ers try to stay afloat, Malone and Catledge have revitalized the Bullets.
The former Maryland coach had fielded multiple questions about landing specific players, retelling stories about Moses Malone and Albert King for probably the thousandth time, and so midway through answering yet another recruiting questions from the hosts, he pivoted. Well, there’s 68 teams that get in. Vergara lives in Hopewell. So rather than be late for the start of the game, Moses Malone did what he always did …. © 2015 The Associated Press. The same way he drove his Bronco — up and over and through anything in its path — was the same way he played basketball. I wanted Moses to get an education so I made him put it in his contract that for every college credit that he passed he got $5,000 or $20,000, I can’t remember, but it was a lot of money that he got because I wanted him to get his degree. Most all my players, about 95 percent of them, have their degrees today.
Like the one about how he was lost in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and trying to find his way to McCaskey High School for a basketball game. He knew where the goal was and went directly there. “I didn’t really know the No. So rather than be late for the start of the game, Moses Malone did what he always did … He took the shortest route to his destination. And that’s how it always was with Moses. They'd keep you there.". He couldn’t quit.
When you coach, all your credit goes to your players because all you do is tell them what to do, hopefully.”, On recruiting Albert King, who was rated above Magic Johnson in high school: “I love Albert. Not long after that promise, Moses was lured away from the University of Maryland by the ABA’s Utah Stars when the GM laid out thousands of dollars in cash on the only table in his home. Back then I couldn’t talk [Maryland] into guaranteeing that they would pay for [his education] but had he kept going to summer school he would’ve got his education free. He was a great kid and he was a pleasure to recruit, really. “Any time you sign a great player that’s a big moment. There’s another story about Moses that he confirmed for me when I was barely a teenager and hanging around the Sixers’ training camp at Franklin & Marshall College.
Love ended up with 53 straight double-doubles, surpassing Moses.
Add in the fact that Moses was covered with a drenching sweat seconds after the opening tip, and it added to the image of a guy busting it out there. Recently, Kevin Love, the big man for the Cavaliers, brought Moses’ name back into the spotlight a bit. "He's so quiet," said Driesell, "The first time I talked with him I tried to draw him out by asking him where he got so good. ", "One guy about 6-8.
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