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1996 NBA Top 50 Superstar Series, ranked thirty-seventh!
He is the champion center of the Green Army Celtics, the quality teammate of "Thief" John Havlicek, and the hidden head of the Green Army's second crown in 76 years.
Media Review: Coones doesn't have as many flashes of brilliance as superstars. Instead, Coons' stability, excellent style, unselfishness, technical versatility, and dynamism made him one of the best and most respected centers in NBA history.
In his 11-year career, he has scored 13,516 points (17.6 points per game) and 10,444 rebounds (13.6 per game).
During this period, he retired twice, entered the playoffs in 2011, and played in a total of 89 playoff games (averaging 18.9 points and 14.4 rebounds per game).
In six All-Star Games, he averaged 12.7 points and 13.5 rebounds per game.
A two-time cup-win, he helped the Celtics win the championship twice, won the NBA's MVP in the 1972–73 season, and was inducted into the Nye Smith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
Dave Coughs was born On October 25, 1948 in Newport, Kentucky, USA as a center/power forward. Selected by the Boston Celtics in round 14 in the 1970 NBA Draft,
Honors: Rookie of the Year in the NBA, 2 NBA Championships (1974; 1976), NBA Regular Season MVP in 1973, NBA All-Second Team (1973; 1975–76), NBA All-Defensive First Team (1976), NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1975; 1980), NBA All-Star Team (1972–78), NBA All-Star MVP in 1973.
At the end of the 1982–83 season, he announced his retirement.
Throughout his 11-year career, from the perspective of posterity, the data is not excellent, and the honor is not prominent among many superstars.
As the media commented at the time, his role on the field is far from being reflected in statistics and honors.
An underrated megaloman
Background: In the 80s, there were two basketball leagues in the United States, one aba (founded in 1967 and merged into the NBA in 1976), and the other an NBA.
The NBA's internal line is not competitive, objective reasons: the ABA has diverted a lot of superstars, especially the interior line: locomotive Gilmore, McGinnis, DeIsel, Mel Daniels and so on.
Throughout the NBA center competition in the 80s, only Abdul-Jabbar was a superstar who dominated the list and harvested personal honors.
Reed fell early in the early '80s, and Walton, like Rose, was reimbursed for his injuries before he reached his peak.
In the NBA where Coones is located, the main competitors for a long time, in addition to the sky hook, are McAdoo (strong offensive and weak defensive), Unseld (defensive strong offensive weakness), Bob Lanier (both offensive and defensive, but the team's record is not good).
Most fans in the modern era are often reluctant to understand history when comparing historical players, and will only form a subjective impression through the comparison of honors.
Seeing that Coons's career is only 3 second teams, not even one, plus there is no big news on and off the field, it is a properly overrated player.
If we look deeply into his honor, we will find that he took the mvp that year, but why didn't he even have a bout?
Isn't it strange that a student who gets the Five Good Student Awards does not get the title of Three Good Students?
The data shows that he has entered the MVP ranking 5 times, namely 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th,
The problem was that it was the players who selected the MVP at the time, and it was the media who selected the best team.
In 1973, he won the MVP, but the media reporter voted for Tiangou Jabbar. But in terms of record, the Green Army is 68 wins (first in the league) and the Bucks are 60 wins (second in the league). Cowens only scored second.
The year he took MVP, the MVP was McAdoo and took over a lineup of centers. But the Green Army was 60 wins (first in the league) and McAdoo's Braves (the predecessor of the Clippers) were 49 wins (third in the league). Cowens is still in second place.
He took MVP for the third year, MVP was Jabbar and second was McAdoo. But that year, the Kai team was 54 wins (second in the league), the first was Barry's Warriors with 59 wins, and the Lakers were 40 wins (ninth in the league).
This is a famous event in Tiangou, not entering the playoffs but getting MVP + a while, which is unimaginable today. The Braves are 46 wins (fifth in the league). This year he overpowered McAdoo in the All-NBA team.
Therefore, Coones had a very good record advantage that year, and won 3 firsts.
He also had an MVP fourth, and it just so happened that the three in front of him were all centers: Skyhook, McAdoo, and Bob Ranier, so he didn't make it to the best team at all.
The '80s were the domain of interior centers and an era of quality interiors, with competitiveness cut in half despite the diversion of two leagues. But even so, Coönes's NBA center position is still star-studded and fiercely competitive.
Why did Cowens retire halfway?
After winning the '76 championship, bishop traded his inside side, All-Star power forward Paul Silas (who was the head coach at bobcats about a decade ago) to the Pistons to return Curtisrow, who was 6 years younger than Silas and had just made an All-Star last season.
, an extremely emotional player, was so angry that he gambled and announced his retirement and ran to drive a taxi.
Cowens was only 28 years old. When he came back half a season later, it was a noticeable decline. Coones's age is full of hope of transitioning to the year of the first crown of the big bird and still play an important role, he is 1 and a half years younger than Tiangou.
Cowens' winning contribution
He's completely underrated,
Now when it comes to the green army in the mid-80s, they often only know the thief - John Havlicek, thinking that the green army won two championships in the 80s, and the thieves were the bosses. In fact, the second crown Cowens is the absolute top boss.
The Thief was 35 years old when he won the second championship, averaging 17.0 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game in the regular season (the team averaged fourth in points per game).
He averaged 13.2 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game in the playoffs (the team averaged fourth-best points per game).
The thief of the second crown, not even the core of the team, can only be regarded as a starting force + locker room spiritual leader.
That year, was the first of the four regular playoff teams, winning the second team, the first defense and the MVP third of the regular season that year.
Although the Thief is also considered a second team and a first defense, but that is because the position competition is not as fierce as the center, the Thief MVP ranking is only 24, almost equal to not entering the list.
Joe White, who won the FMVP, did not enter the best team, and the MVP ranking was only 20.
In the Second Championship Finals, Coones averaged 20.5 points, 16.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game, shooting 52.1%, and Jojo White 21.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists, shooting 43.9%. In terms of performance, is not worse at all than Joe White.
If Jojo White gave it to him because he scored slightly higher, he valued offense, it's interesting that for the next three seasons after that year, the FMVP gave the second-highest-scoring player in the championship team.
The old Walton, who averaged 18.5 points per game in 1977, was first Maurice Lucas (19.7 points).
Unseld, who gave 9.0 points (you read that right) in 1978, was First Hayes (20.7 points).
In the honor judging of the 1980s, the FMVP, who had fewer judges, a small sample size, and no criteria and impression streams to vote, did not negate Cowens' status as the top boss of the second crown. If Cowens is a little bit luckier, it would be 3 first-team +MVP+FMVP instead of the current 3 second-team+MVP.
We judge a player's play, and no honor can define or negate a player. While an unobjective evaluation will have no real impact on the players, we are all writers of history bit by bit.
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