You're correct sir and you have won the Grand Prize... Great Great Great Guy.... I met him a couple of times... He told us the story about this guy who challenged him to a 1 on 1 game.. He played him with his left hand and then the guy wanted to put money on the game and he switched to his right hand.... T_Man
Trivia : He was actually the 2nd point forward the Rockets had. Who was first? :grin: Interestingly enough, I think Del Harris once said the term "point forward" originated with the Rockets.
Before my time but Rick Barry is my guess. Anyway, I wore the high socks as a kid because of Robert Reid. He was huge against Magic in '86 as others have mentioned. Good memories!
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/steve_aschburner/12/15/point-forward/ ----------------------------------------- "Rick was one of the great passers of all time as a forward," said Del Harris, an assistant on Tom Nissalke's staff then. "We worked him with [Calvin] Murphy and Mike Newlin, neither of whom was true point guards -- they were scorers. A lot of the stuff we ran, the guards would get it up the floor and then Rick would break into the middle, above the circle, get the ball, and then the main movement would begin. "He would sort it out. He would make the plays. He was realy the first guy to be utilized in that role very heavily. But there was no name attached to it." -----------------------------------------
