Pistol never lost 18 straight games like T-Quit
McGrady: 2-time NBA scoring champ, 7-time All Star, First Team All-NBA twice, Second Team All-NBA three times, Third Team All-NBA twice. Famously never made it out of the first round on an active roster.
Both were/are nothing more than super cargo.
Maravich: led the league in scoring once, All-NBA first team twice, All-NBA second team twice, 5-time NBA All Star. Was a reserve on the 79-80 Celtics that advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, the only time he played on a team that won a playoff series.
Your opinion is duly noted.
And Pistol never won 22 straight like T-Mac.....
umm cmon pistol pete was ridiculous with his showman ship and is a name to remember. I doubt we'l be remember tmac unless something changes.
They're both tragic figures in some ways. You could argue Maravich was stuck on crummy teams in New Orleans, whereas McGrady's teams blew a 2-game series lead THREE times.
You could also say that Maravich's addition to the Hawks with his contract and Great White Hope Status threw off their chemistry and he couldn't integrate his game into an NBA context.
Maravich was near suicide (his mom had went past the near part) after the Celtics rang in '81. Bird had begged him to come back.
He had well-do ented mental problems, but there's nothing to suggest that he cared one way or the other about what the Celtics did after he retired.
You have T-Mac in his prime up against Pistol Pete in his prime, T-Mac dominates.
In College Ball it would be no compe ion.............
I read it somewhere.
Well that's good enough for me. He retired because he hated Bill Fitch and didn't think it was worth sitting on the bench to collect a ring that he didn't earn. He hardly played at all in the ECF against the Sixers in 1980.
Maravich is also an NBA icon, whereas T-Mac is not.
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