1948-49 St. Louis Bombers Statistics

Basketball Association of America (BAA)
Team Record: 29-31
Finishing 4th in the BAA's Western Division
Postseason: 0-2 Lost division semifinals
Division Semifinals - Lost to Rochester Royals 2-0
Coach: Grady Lewis (29-31)
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

1948-49 St. Louis Bombers Roster
1948-49 St. Louis Bombers Results

The St. Louis Bombers of the Basketball Association of America ended the 1948-49 season with a record of 29 wins and 31 losses, finishing fourth in the BAA's Western Division. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-2.

The Bombers racked up 4,547 points and yielded 4,765. Belus Smawley scored a team-best 914 points for St. Louis, while John Logan netted 12 or more per game, too. John Logan dished out 276 assists for the squad.

Grady Lewis coached the team. The 1948-49 St. Louis Bombers lost in the division semifinals.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Ast	PF	Pts
Belus Smawley	G-F	59	946	352			281	210	183	145	914
John Logan	G	57	816	282			302	239	276	191	803
Red Rocha	C-F	58	574	223			211	162	157	251	608
Ariel Maughan	F	55	650	206			285	184	99	134	596
Easy Parham	F-G	60	404	124			172	96	151	134	344
Don Putman	G	59	330	98			97	52	140	132	248
Otto Schnellbacher	F-G	20	162	59			79	55	45	61	173
Coulby Gunther	F	32	181	57			71	45	33	64	159
Grady Lewis	F-C	34	137	53			70	42	37	104	148
Bill Roberts	C	22	155	52			44	35	28	77	139
Buddy O'Grady	G	30	176	52			46	34	43	36	138
Don Martin	C-F	37	161	50			45	29	21	101	129
D.C. Wilcutt	G	22	51	18			18	15	31	9	51
Bill Miller	F	14	49	16			11	7	12	15	39
Giff Roux	F-C	19	44	11			17	15	11	12	37
Bob O'Brien	F-C	8	18	5			18	7	1	11	17
Lonnie Eggleston	G	2	4	1			3	2	1	3	4
Totals		588	4858	1659	0	0	1770	1229	1269	1480	4547

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	FG%	FT%	Ast	PF	Pts
Belus Smawley	G-F	59	37.2	74.7	3.1	2.5	15.5
John Logan	G	57	34.6	79.1	4.8	3.4	14.1
Red Rocha	C-F	58	38.9	76.8	2.7	4.3	10.5
Ariel Maughan	F	55	31.7	64.6	1.8	2.4	10.8
Easy Parham	F-G	60	30.7	55.8	2.5	2.2	5.7
Don Putman	G	59	29.7	53.6	2.4	2.2	4.2
Otto Schnellbacher	F-G	20	36.4	69.6	2.3	3.1	8.7
Coulby Gunther	F	32	31.5	63.4	1.0	2.0	5.0
Grady Lewis	F-C	34	38.7	60.0	1.1	3.1	4.4
Bill Roberts	C	22	33.5	79.5	1.3	3.5	6.3
Buddy O'Grady	G	30	29.5	73.9	1.4	1.2	4.6
Don Martin	C-F	37	31.1	64.4	0.6	2.7	3.5
D.C. Wilcutt	G	22	35.3	83.3	1.4	0.4	2.3
Bill Miller	F	14	32.7	63.6	0.9	1.1	2.8
Giff Roux	F-C	19	25.0	88.2	0.6	0.6	1.9
Bob O'Brien	F-C	8	27.8	38.9	0.1	1.4	2.1
Lonnie Eggleston	G	2	25.0	66.7	0.5	1.5	2.0
Averages		588	34.1	69.4	2.2	2.5	7.7

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Ast	PF	Pts
Red Rocha	C-F	2	36	16			5	4	6	6	36
Bill Roberts	C	2	29	10			5	2	2	10	22
John Logan	G	2	23	7			9	6	8	10	20
Otto Schnellbacher	F-G	2	20	6			12	6	6	9	18
Easy Parham	F-G	2	13	5			0	0	6	6	10
Belus Smawley	G-F	2	12	5			0	0	0	4	10
D.C. Wilcutt	G	2	7	3			0	0	4	2	6
Don Putman	G	2	11	2			3	0	4	6	4
Ariel Maughan	F	2	6	0			3	2	3	3	2
Coulby Gunther	F	1	1	0			0	0	0	0	0
Bill Miller	F	1	0	0			2	0	0	0	0
Totals		20	158	54	0	0	39	20	39	56	128

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	FG%	FT%	Ast	PF	Pts
Red Rocha	C-F	2	44.4	80.0	3.0	3.0	18.0
Bill Roberts	C	2	34.5	40.0	1.0	5.0	11.0
John Logan	G	2	30.4	66.7	4.0	5.0	10.0
Otto Schnellbacher	F-G	2	30.0	50.0	3.0	4.5	9.0
Easy Parham	F-G	2	38.5		3.0	3.0	5.0
Belus Smawley	G-F	2	41.7		0.0	2.0	5.0
D.C. Wilcutt	G	2	42.9		2.0	1.0	3.0
Don Putman	G	2	18.2	0.0	2.0	3.0	2.0
Ariel Maughan	F	2	0.0	66.7	1.5	1.5	1.0
Coulby Gunther	F	1	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0
Bill Miller	F	1		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		588	34.2	51.3	2.0	2.8	6.4