Normally we do one video for dail for our Tube Gold but today we’re doing David Thompson and discussing his vertical.
The legend about Thompson was that he could take a dollar off the top of the backboard and leave change.
That was myth of course but when you watch this video, his hand is pretty close to the top of the backboard more than once.
You get another idea from this block of Bill Walton in 1974.
And finally, here’s the play from 1974 where Thompson tried to jump over Pitt’s Billy Knight to block a shot.