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Quote of the Week vol. 270: Meet the Pass
by, Chris Sinagoga | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 4:00PM
Chris Sinagoga | Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 4:00PM "I can't tell you how many games I've seen lost because somebody didn't meet the pass."
- Coach Speedy
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This is the worst play in Detroit sports history.
I was not alive for it but when my dad let me watch NBA Superstars when I was 5 he could not avoid me asking questions. In addition to puncturing an artery in every Pistons fan, "The Bird Play" also violated one of the most basic principles in all of basketball: Meet the Pass.
Isiah Thomas has claimed a few different things about this sequence, but mainly he just admits that he panicked; he saw Bill Laimbeer open and threw it to him as fast as he could. Was it a bad pass? Yes. Was it Isiah's fault? Yes. Who lost the game? Isiah, Laimbeer, and the rest of the Pistons, not just Isiah.
Instead of waiting for the pass to come to him, Laimbeer needed to jump towards the ball to bail his teammate out. Then after the fact he could tell Isiah what he did wrong on their plane ride to The Forum in sunny Los Angeles. As the sole inspiration for the classic video game Combat Basketball, Laimbeer was perfectly capable of this. Unfortunately for those who despise seeing Bill Walton smile, it didn't happen.
Meet the pass for your teammate, on the court and off.
