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Jun 17, 2021
2:48:45pm
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James Anderson
offensively Anderson was a smaller version of Mark Eaton. I remember watching Eaton play his rookie year with the Jazz. He caught the ball on the right side of the key in the low post and turned to shoot over a much smaller player. He shot a flat, line-drive shot (absolutely no arch at all) that hit high off the left side of the backboard near the upper left corner with a thud. I remember wondering what the heck the Jazz coaches were thinking picking him in the draft.

Interesting side note on Eaton...Eaton was really discouraged after college ball with his lack of playing time at UCLA. At a summer pickup game, Wilt Chamberlain saw his frustration, and encouraged Eaton to focus on protecting the basket, getting rebounds, and passing the ball to quicker guards, rather than trying to compete with smaller, quicker players in scoring. Eaton cited Chamberlain's advice as the turning point in his basketball career.

Pretty cool mentoring by Wilt helped produce a 2 time NBA DPOY, the NBA's all-time leader in blocks per game (when he retired he was 2nd all-time in total blocks behind Abdul-Jabbar) and set a single season record for blocks per game in 1984-85.
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