touch around the basket was uncanny especially showing in the non-dunk era. He also was light years ahead mentally on the court. Dick Vitale said he was the best center ever in college including better than Lou Alcindor. He thoroughly outplayed Kareem Abdul Jabbar the year that Portland beat the Lakers in the playoffs and then whipped on Julius Irving's 76ers in the finals. The foot issues killed him and he was not helped by Portland shooting him up with pain killers the next year.