>>> I still don't get it how he got so many boards. We was 6'8" (maybe), 220, and so skinny his nickname was Worm. But any rebound he could get near was somehow his. He could go up for one and if he didn't get it go straight back up again without bending his knees.
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>>One word for rebounding.........Positioning, positioning, positioning.
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>>Actually, 2 words. Add HEART. Sell your body to fight for position and you become a great rebounder.
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>True. Charles Barkley was another one. The round mound of rebound, they called him. He was listed at 6'5" and that was giving him an inch or two. The year the Suns played the Bulls in the finals I bumped into him in downtown Chicago, surrounded by a merry group of men and women, and we was my height, which is 6'3". Charles is one of my favorite people in the world. He's funny and he doesn't pull the punches. He's nobody's clown and only a fool would take him for one. One night on a halftime show he went without a breath from how good Shane Battier is at weak side help to the foolishness of black kids who don't value an education. A prince among us.
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>Mostly from his playing days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvvSI2DRvF0I recently read "I may be wrong, but I doubt it" and was quite impressed. I was actually going to cite his comments there about rebounding but didn't have the book readily at hand.
Also impressive is his candor.
"How can you be a Republican? Republicans favor the rich."
"Ma............I'm rich"
