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the crazy stat that proves what an alien he was

In the list of players who we would have liked them to be able to travel in time to be a little less “too far ahead of their time for their own good”, Pete Maravich comes out on top. The trajectory of “Pistol Pete” and his tragic end did not help him be remembered as much as his talent allowed him.

The virtuoso Pete Maravich is still often referred to with passion by some of his contemporaries, but we still probably do not realize how strong the former Jazz and Hawks player was.

In the video that follows, Bill Walton, who is not the last of the idiots and uneducated when it comes to basketball, praises Maravich. Above all, he evokes what he told former LSU coach Dale Brown, who coached Pistol Pete in college.

Pete Maravich, a virtuoso born too early and gone too quickly

Brown calculated what his stats would have been if there had been the three-point line. As a reminder, the best scorer in NCAA history was averaging 44.2 pts over three years (at the time, freshmen were playing another championship).

We don’t know if you’re ready, but Brown calculated that Pete Maravich would have turned 13 three-pointers per game… which means that many more average points. Total which makes absolutely no sense (if indeed his real average has one): 57 points per game over three years.

Completely implausible. There were the stats, which could have been crazy in another era, but also his technique, which would not have made him ridiculous if he played today among the artists of the moment.

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