Keep them doggies moving...Thursday 10/10
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Nice hit 4C...just like the great Phil Ford would do back in the day!!I hopped aboard...
The Four Corners...was that the early 70's?
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You are in the right neighborhood. My fav all time Tar Heel. Remember watching him play in high school...unguardable...Rocky Mount High School. UNC from 1974-78...#2 pick in 1978 draft to Kansas City Kings. I think Butch Lee was #1 if I recall. In great part due to the four corners, the shot clock was introduced 8 years later after his graduation. In 1979 Duke and UNC played to a 7-0 first half barn burner in Durham. The Heels took 2 shots in 1H...both air balls...lol
I have a quick, boring story to tell about the 4-corners. lol
Way back in 1977 (3 years after graduating from High School) I played on an "adult" basketball team, made up
of former classmates who most of us never played HS basketball, (but buddy, we could drink beer! lol). This was in a City League, with something like 8 teams. Somehow, we made it to the finals, and we had to play a team made up of guys who won the Regional Championship from our High School and went to the State Tourney, the year before. These guys were sophomores the year we were seniors, from the same High School. We decided, the only way we had a chance to beat them, was to play "the 4-corners" and reduce the game down to just a few plays. The game came down to the last play and we had possession. After a time out, we ran a play for our best player to take a shot at the buzzer, but instead...he passed the frickin ball to me with 3 or 4 seconds left on the clock. So...after pissing my pants, I threw the ball at the basket and somehow it went in! We won...6-4!! To this day (almost 50 years later) I'm still known by some as "Lucky Chuckie!" Of course, after the game...we all went and got "shit-faced" at the local pub. The 4-corners! 😁
Love it!! Lucky Chuckie with the winning basket. Perhaps I should swap out Phil's avatar for yours! Let's get busy today...Lost PSU and K State by the nub yesterday...more steam! Enjoy the rest of the weekend CD.
