Gail Goodrich

In case you missed it, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 108-105 Friday to take a 2-1 lead in their NBA Western Conference playoff series.

Gail Goodrich sank two baskets and two free throws in the final minute and a half as the Lakers took command after the teams had traded the lead 28 times.

The New York Nets hope to regain their composure Saturday when they go against the Virginia Squires in the second game of their best-of-seven ABA Eastern Division Finals.

The Nets were beaten 138-91 in Thursday night's opener in Norfolk, Virginia.

Very important ball game for Los Angeles to win, not only obviously because they broke that long losing streak in Milwaukee, but because they do have the home court advantage.

And that means that the pressure at the moment is on Milwaukee.

Gail Goodrich wound up with 30 points for the Lakers.

Jim McMillan added 27 for Los Angeles.

The Blazers shot 50% from the field.

And it's not exactly Jerry West and Gail Goodrich or the Splash Brothers or Monroe and Frazier.

It's John Morant in basketball rehab, Drew Holliday's 36, and Dame was so banged up he didn't play last year.

And they lit the Lakers up.

To match his jersey.

I do have Gail Goodrich on here, so we might as well take that since you.

Yep, got it.

Okay, so how many

They were 38-44, okay? But they had a backcourt that they thought would be dynamic.

It was Pete Maravich and Gail Goodrich.

But, you know, Gail got hurt, and, you know, it just wasn't the same.

And actually, they finished 35-47 that year, 38-44 the year before.

However, to retain Malone, they had to forfeit their number one pick in the 77 draft.

So they decided, okay, we're not going to keep the Malone pick and we're going to retain that pick.

Then they packaged that pick with the Lakers to get Gail Goodrich and the Lakers 1978 first round pick.

But the Lakers get the Jazz's first round pick in 77, 78, and 79.

And just looking farther back, who are some of the great backcourts of all time? You've got Steph Curry, Klay Thompson.

Thomas and Dumars from the Pistons Magic Johnson Byron Scott Tony Parker Manu Ginobili Jerry West Gail Goodrich I mean these are some of the great backcourts of all time if you were just to go off one game the game against Miami and, and the mellow would jump into this conversation.

Clearly it's just one game.

We need to see a larger sample size.

They kept those guys to splash rush.

Those guys should have been Gail Goodrich and Jerry West.

They should have played the rest of their careers together.

They were impossible to defend.

And that's one of my excitements about this era.

And the Lakers really got hollowed out in over the last decade plus of just losing a lot of like, who are the brilliant basketball people? within this and one of the ways that manifested with the lakers is they were always sort of a step ahead of like realizing what part of the system you could gain for so for example gail goodrich like when you lost a free agent back then you would get a first round pick from that team as a result and it was like it was like very verboten like oh you let this really good point guard walk in free agency to another team you can keep him under the rules at the time it's like no but then we end up getting is that the one that turned into magic or was that worthy no that was magic i

believe worthy worthy was the ted stepien worthy was the ted stepien

Where there was the step in was a trade with Cleveland, right? Where another example where it was like, no, we understood that, hey, you can trade these players and then get future capital.

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Uh, uh, Gail Goodrich, but good, good job.

Good job.

All right.