6 The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, January 24, 1980
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By NORMAN CANNADA
Staff Writer
DURHAM There's no doubt Jack Marin
enjoys a competitive atmosphere.
Marin, 35, was an All-America basketball
player for Duke in the mid-1960s. During three
seasons in Durham, Marin led the Blue Devils to
the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and
NCAA Final Four twice. He went on to the
National Basketball Association and enjoyed a .
successful 1.1-year career with four professional
clubs.
Now Marin is attempting to switch courts, so to
speak, and begin a new career as a trial lawyer.
"I miss the competitiveness of basketball, and
that's one reason I became interested in law," said
Marin, a third-year student at Duke School of
Law. A lawyer has very definite victories and
defeats just like a basketball team."
I'm particularly miffed at the
Duke student body. They're
usually counterproductive in
what they do anyway. You just
don't incite a guy like Mike
O'Koren, because he'll turn it on
you everytime.
Jack Marin
Marin played with the Blue Devils from 1963
1966, earning All-America mention once and All
ACC honors twice. Duke advanced to the Final
Four during his sophomore and senior seasons,
but Marin remembers the second championship
year better.
"We had had a mediocre season at least for
the way Duke had been playing at that time the
year before (1965), and lost to State in the ACC
finals. In 1966, we came back and put it all
together."
The 1 966 season was also the first year in which
North Carolina Coach Dean Smith used the
Four-Corners offense a lot in conference play.
The Blue Devils got their biggest scare from the
Tar Heels that year in the tournament finals as
Smith's slow-down tactics resulted in a 21-20
Duke win.
"They should have just called us ahead of time
and said 4hey, we only want to play three-minute
halves with you tonight,' and we could have set the
clocks back for them," Marin said. "It was a good
, tactic on Dean's part, but, if they had gone to the
Eastern Regionals instead of us, it would have
been a crime. We were a much superior team."
" That low-scoring game is one reason Marin said
he wants to see the 30-second clock introduced in
college basketball.
"Sometimes 1 can see holding the ball outside to
get the other team to come out of its zone defense,
but this deep freeze is just silly. You ask anybody
in the NBA, and they'll tell you that 30 seconds is
plenty of time to get a shot off.
Marin was not the only Blue Devil to be named
to an All-America team in 1966. Bob Verga, a year
younger than Marin, also received national
honors. Verga repeated as an All-America in
1967.
"It was an interesting situation because the
press didn't think that Verga and I got along. That
wasn't true, but we didn't show a lot of emotion
about it either."
After he ended his Duke career Marin was
drafted by the Baltimore Bullets in the fifth round
of the pro draft. Marin played with the Bullets for
six seasons and had his last five NBA years
divided between Chicago, Buffalo and Houston.
"The players were so much better in the NBA
(than college, but 1 guess the most surprising
thing I saw when 1 first got there was players
smoking and drinking beer in the lockerroom.
That seems to have somewhat ceased now,
though."
One of Marin's teammates in Baltimore was
Gus Johnson, who was shattering backboards
long before Philadelphia 76crV center Darryl
Dawkins made the news for breaking two
backboards earlier in this season.
"Gus used to break two every year, and he could
do it with one hand. It's kind of scary and a little
miss the competitiveness of
basketball, and that's one reason
I became interested in law. A
lawyer has very definite victories
and defeats just like a basketball
team.
Jack Marin
rough on the backboard, but I've never known
anyone to get hurt from it. 1 think right now that
Darryl just has a good publicity stunt."
In addition to attending law school, Marin has
worked on his golf game. His handicap fluctuates
between three and scratch.
"1 used to be obsessed with golf. Now I've made
a couple of adjustments in my game, and I've
found that 1 can improve my play as if I were
playing everyday."
Another hobby that occupies his time is a love
for automobiles. At present, Marin owns a
Datsua 280Z, a Maserati and two Cadillacs a
convertible and a Seville.
"I don't know why I like cars so much, but I've
always wanted to own a lot of cars. I especially
love, sports cars."
Marin manages to see many of Duke's
basketball games in Cameron Indoor Stadium,
and says he sees several differences from his
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collegiate years, especially in the behavior of
Duke fans.
"I'm particularly miffed at the Duke student
body. They're usually counterproductive in what
they do anyway. You just don't incite a guy like
Mike O'Koren, .because he'll turn it on you
every time."
Marin views the balance of the ACC and the
movement to more of an inside game as two of the
biggest changes since his Duke playing days.
"It used to be that if you were dominant, you
were really dominant, but now any team can win
on any given night.
"There's also more of an inside game now, and
that makes for better field goal percentages. If a
player hits three, four, five or six shots from the
outside, now he's considered hot, whereas eight,
nine and 10 shots were considered hot in my day.
The players now are more interested in getting the
ball inside."
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