Pete Maravich Character Analysis

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Journal 4A
“Pistol” The Life of Pete Maravich By Mark Kriegel
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“Pistol” Pete Maravich is the highest scorer in College basketball history he had 3,667 points in his four year career at LSU. In the middle portion of the book it started talking about Pete’s middle school and high school basketball memories and his great achievements. The next portion of the book spoke about Pete’s college offers and his tough decision to choose which one to attend. Another part of the book really got into the life of Pete’s brother Ronnie. Finally the last part of the book I read spoke about Pete’s legendary College basketball career. After going over this portion of the book it was easy to connect with Pete’s …show more content…

Pete is widely known one of the greatest college basketball players of all time. I will evaluate his greatness in college basketball. This quote shows how deft he was in college: “Pete exceeded the 60 point mark 3 times his Junior season”(Kriegel 167). That is extraordinary for a college player to do that. You rarely hear of a college basketball player scoring that many points in a game especially not three times in a single season. This incident shows just how dominant Pete was at LSU all of his years there. These prolific scoring outbursts is probably why he is the leading scorer for college basketball of all time. I have evaluated from this paragraph that Pistol pete was most definitely the best scorer in NCAA history but also in some people's eyes one of the best college basketball players of all time.

After reading this journal you can most definitely see I connected with Pete’s pressures as a basketball player, questioned Ronnie’s actions in high school, and evaluated how great Pete was in college. Pete had a very unique basketball history whether it was in high school or in college he was just an out of this world basketball specimen.

Works Cited
Kriegel, Mark. Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich. New York: Free, 2007. Print.

On this journal I think I deserve a 9 out of 10. There are many reason on why I think I deserve that score one of them being I think I made some major grammar fixes compared to last weeks journal. Another reason I think I deserve that score is I think I made some significant changes with the ways I am using the reading strategies in my

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