DT could jump too and he was only 6'4" https://youtu.be/E1VE3OyngcE
When I saw him trip on Phil Spence's shoulder in 74, I thought I'd never seen anyone up get so high https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pTe_AkrVSc
Compared to Zion, it was pedestrian.
Westwood folklore has it that volleyball icon Karch Kiraly was once seen putting a quarter on top of one of the backboards in Pauley Pavilion, and none of the UCLA basketball players could get it.
David was craaaazy athletic. Maybe the greatest hops ever seen on a basketball court. I remember watching him when I was in middle school in the 80’s and he was making a comeback with Seattle. I was so excited to see him back on the court and playing at a high level. Sadly,it only lasted about a year before he fell from grace again. I was so bummed out that he couldn’t sustain it.
Does anybody else find it hilarious that Zion doesn’t jump at all when he shoots threes? The guy has a 45 inch vertical and can hit his head on the backboard, but he shoots threes like a 70 year old man at the Y with arthritis.
I will not claim to have been there...but I do remember where I was. Scary. DT was pretty much loved by all fans....
Ironically, Norman Sloan had driven through my parent's driveway (it connected one street with another) - earlier that season....looking for his lost retriever...it was so funny, it happened right after the Norm Sloan TV Show had come on (recorded obviously). I felt like being in the Twilight Zone...