just viewed the lefthanders speech upon his induction into the basketball hall of fame. as a guy who was along for most of his ride, he is 86 now and has a walker, fun to listen to his reminiscing about his jobs, players, coaches, records and reinforced the fact that the guy has no filter. recall his stint at newport news high school where he won 57 straight games at one point and the stories/myths about julie conn gym where it was said that visiting point guards would be dribbling up the court and the ball would bounce out of bounds in certain places whereas the typhoon players always avoided those same spots. amazing what he did at davidson, 900 male students, high, very high academics even then and he had top 10 teams there. moses was there and lefty said he loves that guy and that if he had played for him, had him signed, instead of going to the aba right out of high school, he would have been sitting here a long time ago and he probably is right. not sure he coached many teams which i liked but because of the tidewater connection, kind of pulled for him. his terps opened the ROBINS CENTER and his terps were the opponent for UR's first ever post-season game. a very colorful guy, bigger than life, difficult to see him with a walker but still there mentally and was fun and interesting speech. really happy that he made it to the hall before passing.
