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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4590050, member: 1969"] I may have went a little too "hot" in my "hot" take. No doubt he is an all time college great player. I just have a hard time when people call him the greatest college player ever based on his crazy scoring stats. He made his team better... I am not arguing that. He was a great player. But the team could have probably been even better if he didn't play so selfishly He was a wizard driving to the basket and in transition, but also took many low efficiency long 2's. May have been acceptable today when a lower % shot is rewarded with 3 points, but not back then. Opposing coaches would happily let him take those shots. He's a career 44%. That efficiency was not particularly impressive for that era -- not that it was bad either. As for citing a few games where he shot better than the rest of the team, why don't you look at entire seasons in terms of how he shot compared to the team. That information is readily available and can be easily calculated. The differences are significant 1968 : Pete 42%, Rest of Team 52% 1969: Pete 44%, Rest of Team 52% 1970: Pete 45%, Rest of Team 52% Of course the rest of the team shooting will benefit from one player taking the majority of the half court shots, such that their shots are weighted to garbage / transition types. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/louisiana-state/men/1970.html[/URL] LSU SEC Records: 67: 1-17 (pre-Pete) 68: 8-10 69: 7-11 70: 13-5 71: 10-8 (after Pete) He made the team better. But if he was the greatest player in college basketball history he should have made his team much better -- and the team should have been much worse after he left. If you look at the LSU teams they basically replaced that entire 67 team, and only played sophomore in 68. The only reason he ever played on a team over .500 in conference was because LSU brought in a few good sophomores in his last year that helped the team still be pretty good after he left. The team didn't take a huge fall after he left. It took a fall no doubt, but not a fall worthy of losing the "greatest college player ever". [/QUOTE]

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