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Date Posted: 19:03:41 07/06/04 Tue
Author: sader1970
Subject: Re: Ron Teixeira
In reply to: sader1970 's message, "Re: Ron Teixeira - sader 1970" on 17:34:06 07/01/04 Thu

There have been multiple MSGs over the years. The UCLA game was NOT the first at a "new" MSG.

I, too, recall that HC had a quick, very short lead over the then #2 team in the country. I also recall our guards, in particular, outplaying All Americans Hill Street Blues Warren and Lucius Allen because we breezed through their full court press and scored more points. I also recall Keith ready to mix it up with Alcindor and, to use a hockey theme, I was of the impression that Keith would have been happy to have been ejected from the game if he took Alcindor with him. Big Lew was just too big. He scored at will over Hochstein because as tough as Keith was, he just didn't have the height to stop the Alcindor "Sky-hook" (precious few players did whether in college or the pros). If you recall the papers the next day, big Lew was quoted as really perplexed and disapponted by all the boos he got in his "hometown" game. Guess he wasn't smart enough to realize those boos were coming from hundreds of Crusader fans who made the trek from Worcester.

The bottom line to the game was that every time HC made the game close, the Bruins were able to get the ball into Alcindor who popped a short hook shot over Hochstein. Though I don't have the stats, I'm sure that if someone could find them, Alcindor scored more points than the winning differential. We lost by 23 but Alcindor had something in excess of 30 points and maybe closer to 35. I don't recall Keith scoring much at all. That's why, all the talk at the time was how angry we were that Ron T. didn't play and wasn't even on the team. No one thought he would have outplayed Lew but almost to a person, people who saw the game and knew Ron's potential felt he would have held Alcondor's scoring down and probably would have scored more than Keith.

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