By now, Pete's game had become the subject of some discussion among league officials. Coming down full stride on the break, he had a move whereby he would wave his hand over the ball, then tip it with the other hand in the opposite direction. It looked, in the most literal sense, like a magic trick. Such apparent impossibility moved a ref to blow his whistle, signaling a traveling violation.
"How can you make that call?" said an outraged Pete. "You've never even seen that move."
In fact, the call became the subject of an SEC officials' meeting. The refs examined the tape until, at long last, they had to shake their heads in grudging agreement with the kid: He might be right.
Suddenly, calling LSU games had become a complicated proposition. Guys like McCarthy wanted to work only with experienced partners. If you were teamed with a guy who hadn't been around, he might go into shock seeing Pete for the first time.
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In preparation for the game, Tulane coach Tom Nissalke had spent a great deal of time studying films. His shot charts indicated that Pete went right 90 percent of the time. The best way to play him, Nissalke concluded, was to force him the other way. "Make him go left," Nissalke kept hollering from the sidelines. "He can't go left."
Pete went left for 52 points and 8 assists that night. But his line doesn't begin to tell the story. "I've never seen a righthanded player throw a lefthanded behind-the-back bounce pass going full speed on a two-on-one fast break -- and hit the outside man in stride for a layup," wrote the States-Item's Peter Finney.
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The story appeared under the headline "Greenies Are Believers," though some of the Tulane players remained unconvinced. "I remember looking at the films after the game," says Arthurs. "Pete had a move where he got out on the break and dribbled between his legs and then behind his back. We made the coach replay it again and again and again because no one believed he actually did it."
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It was the kind of move that prompted Bud Johnson to wonder. Every so often, Pete would do something he had never done before. On those occasions, Bud would ask, "Hey Pete, how come I never saw you practice that one."
"Oh yes I have," Pete would say. "Many times."
"When?"
"In my head."
In my head.
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He deployed his players to prevent the first pass. As the ball was being inbounded, the Vols were already swarming around Pete. "We cut off the pass to him," says Mears. "That stopped him from running. His father was highly upset with me."
As a sophomore Pete averaged 19 points against Tennessee -- but 45.8 against everyone else.
Nash ist zwar auch ein Fall für sich, aber er ist gegenüber Dirk sicherlich das kleinere "Übel". Aber diese Diskussion hatten wir ja schon gefühlte 20000-Mal. Wobei wir uns einig sind, das Nowitzki klar unterbewertet und unterschätzt wird. 
