re: Will Burrow reach Maravich status at LSU?

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Hard to think a Durant or Curry couldn’t put up similar numbers if they were in Pete’s college situation

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Steph Curry was at a smaller school, he was the only gun on the team. He had a 3 pt line and a shot clock forcing teams to not hold possessions. He didn't approach Pete.

Chris Jackson had a shot clock and 3 pt line at LSU, and nobody around him his freshman year. Averaged over 30, had games in the 50's. He remains the best college player I've ever seen live.
Averaged over a dozen less a game than Pete.

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And can you imagine what Joe Burrow's stats would be if Jimmy Burrow was the head coach, let Joe throw on every down and never took him out in the 4th quarter?

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Can you imagine what Pete’s stats would have been with a shot clock and a 3-pt line AND decent teammates. He went to a final 4. Yes the NIT was a separate Tournament and people declined to go to the NCAA tournament then like Marquette.

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Great players make the people around them better players. Name all the players Pete made better.

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Pete also had 425 assist in 3 years you dumbass. Nearly 200 his senior season and scored a whopping 1381 points. Where the hell do people like you hide? Oh wait, you probably think LeBron is better than MJ. Go watch The Last Dance

Do you understand the HYPE that was Pistol Pete? Do you know many NBA players including Chris Paul admitted to watching his ball handling videos?

Joe didn’t call the defense. Pretty sure y’all saw one drafted in the first round AND BEEN saying on here how Stingley would be a top 10 pick THIS YEAR MAYBE EVEN TOP 5. Especially after all those all American first round picks said “he was the best db they faced all season. And how Delpit AND Fulton should have gone in the first round.

Of course Joe made the receivers catch better and run better routes and the coaches with those drills didn’t have shite to do with it? Like the new goggles and the opening and closing the door drills. He also made Jefferson run that 4.4 and Marshall be able to go get balls?

Again, he was great. Pete was in a different stratosphere to the FREAKING CELEBRITY LEVEL IN COLLEGE!
He was LeBron James hype for you kids but better.

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Steph Curry was at a smaller school, he was the only gun on the team. He had a 3 pt line and a shot clock forcing teams to not hold possessions. He didn't approach Pete.

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And despite being the only gun at a smaller school, he took his team to the elite 8. Maybe because his team’s goal was winning and not simply accumulating points for one guy.

Joe Burrow is the most successful athlete in LSU history. He is the best player at his position of all time.

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The talent evaluators in the NFL had Burrow rated as the best player in college. NBA evaluators had Maravich rated as the 3rd best player in the 1970 NBA draft behind Bob Lanier and Rudy Tomjanovich.

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Are either those a Top 50 of all time? NO.

Here is talent for your dumbass and those dumbass people you thought WHEN CENTERS / BIG MEN DOMINATED THE LEAGUE YOU frickING MORON.

Maravich ended up receiving the richest contract ever offered a college player at the time to sign with the Atlanta Hawks

So fricking stupid...

I think Pistol, Burrow both deserve a statue along with Cannon. The greatest scorer of all time, and 2 Heisman winners. Pretty remarkable feats. If Orgeron wins another Natty, he would deserve one as well.

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Joe Burrow is the most successful athlete in LSU history. He is the best player at his position of all time.

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This is true, but Pistol Pete is the only LSU player to fill arenas where LSU fans and opponents came just to see him.
In that era LSU basketball was nothing if not for Pete.

Let's just all be happy they were both Tigers. Burrow had a season that won't soon be matched. As for Pete, no one will eva handle the rock like he could. And his scoring record still stands...half century later. With the 3 point line. Let that simmer...

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Lanier is in both the college hall of fame and the NBA hall of fame and was an 8 time all star. Tomjanovich was a 5 time NBA all star. Maravich was a 5 time NBA All Star.

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And again for that time they the offenses were built for big men.
AgaiN, NEITHER player were NBA All Time Top 50 selections.

Lanier pkayed 14 seasons BtW. I actually was alive and had a family in the 70’s.

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Someone up thread mentioned that Maravich was the best player in collegiate basketball history. I would rate both Kareem Jabbar and Bill Walton higher.

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No they weren’t. Walton and Jabbar happen to play for a powerhouse and the single greatest college (and probably all time at any level) coach in the history of basketball. Listen to Bill Walton talk about Pete and you will hear the same thing that others have said, they never saw anything like him before or since. will tell you how great Pete was. He would own the NBA today- I promise you. He was unstoppable until they would beat him up. The game today fits his style to a tee. Black players hated him and everyone wanted to beat him up- athlete was a shite load of dirty play then. No touch fouls for damn sure.

Jabbar was a center and taller than everyone else. Great player but not nearly as good as Wilt. If you would have said Wilt, then probably. Not Jordan either. Not in college.

If you threw up Oscar Robertson, we could then talk. The difference was Oscar was great.
Pete’s stat line his senior year:
1391 points and 192 assists in one season WITHOUT A SHOT CLOCK OR THREE POINT LINE.
LSU was so limited on talent when he got there it wasn’t funny. Still went 20-8 his senior year.

How I judge greatness? They guy with the ball and everybody knows he will have it in his hands and there’s nothing you can do no matter the double or triple teams.

tigger1
In the words of Mark Kriegel, author of "Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich" on the game against Georgia in Athens that you referenced: "In Athens, Georgia, where there really hadn't been too many basketball fans before Pete came to the SEC. At the end of his junior year, last game, he scores 25 of the last 29 points in regulation time to put the game into an overtime period. He is magical in the first overtime. Then the game goes into a second overtime. He is even more magical in the second overtime.

What happens is something that has never happened before. The fans in Athens, Georgia, START BOOING THE HOME TEAM AND CHEERING FOR PETE as the final seconds wind down. And as they count off the seconds, he tosses up a 35-foot hook shot, without really looking at the basket. And of course, it splashes right through the net. And THE GEORGIA FANS CARRY HIM OFF THE COURT. That was Pete Maravich."