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Message: [QUOTE="LarryC44, post: 2985375, member: 1841"] I played against Don Foote, father of Jeff Foote who played at Cornell about 12 years ago. Don played at Niagara and was 6'11, probably about 40 at the time and hadn't been playing much based on his apparent conditioning. It was a tournament in a small church gym and his team pressed full court with him parked under the basket, blocking everything in sight. We met in the championship and surprisingly we kept it pretty close. With about 8 minutes left we broke the press and I got the ball foul line extended at the 3 point line. I pump faked hoping to get him to come out to contest so I could drive around him. He said "shoot it" so I went up for the apparent uncontested jumper. He took 3 steps and blocked my shot off the wall of the gym. As a 6'2 pf who could leap he blocked 5 or 6 of my shots. Pump faking didn't work because he really didn't need to jump. You can't teach 6'11 [/QUOTE]