Two meters and eleven, hands as a pianist, playmaker passages: history of the precursor of all unconventional talented pivots, to which US basketball would have made gold bridges. But he …
They called him “Auschwitz” because of his thinness, even more clear because they are distributed two meters and eleven of stature. There was no shortage of the meaning of the macabre to those who had been kids with him, in the time when the pounds were missing to equalize the accounts with the centimeters of development. Born in Zagreb in November 1948, net of the optimistic propaganda of the Tito regime, did not give too many kilos to anyone. The wealth of Krešimir ćosić was in the fingertips: even if the boy did not play the piano. However, he could have done it, given the rhythm of the rebounds when he walked the ball: already at the time, from defense to attack. Special in the midst of the many, good and very good, who in a Yugoslavia child as much as he blossomed in the talent in basketball almost in the same proportion with which the football flair was overbonding. With the difference that those of the groom’s ball would have won much more. In fact, the difference between the Yugoslavia of the feet and that of the hands has never been reduced, trivially, to the type of ball, but at the waste between the “I would like” of the first and the “I can” of the second; Among the pure class that has always touched the glory and the one that obtained it by letting himself be contaminated from that necessary dose of pragmatism and discipline.