2016-17 Running NBA Thread

Kobe and his no-fucks-about-anything-but-scoring ... must've forgotten about the 9 times he made 1st Team All-Defense.

 

Kobe took 17 fewer shots and 12 fewer free throws in his 81-pointer than Wilt did in his 100-pointer. There was plenty of wiggle room for him to have gotten to 100.

 

Kobe averaged 4.7 assists per game over his career. That doesn't make him the team player of all time, but it does indicate he occasionally did give some kind of teeny tiny fuck about something besides scoring.

Edit: He had 2 assists in the 81 game, so he did get rid of it a couple times, even if only by accident.

 

The way the Warriors play, I could see Curry getting hot enough to get to 50 by halftime one night ... but I don't see them putting him out to go bombs away with a 25-point fourth-quarter lead.

There's also the matter of the pre-programmed rest that superstars get in the second quarter and again in the second half.

 

Yeah, when Wilt got 100, he played every minute of every game all season ( except for one game when he got thrown out in the third quarter).

 

So we need an inveterate gunner on a team with nothing to play for who's not so valuable that his team won't run him into the ground?

 

FWIW, the number one reason 100 points will never happen again is because 1962--the league's ultimate anomaly season-will never happen again.

Every single bizarr0-world statistical record that came from that season oughta come with a fat asterisk next to it. They were playing something vastly different, and immensely more conducive to stat compilation, from what NBA basketball has evolved into today.

 

One of the weird things about Wilt's game was he took 63 shots, but there was somehow still time for three Knicks (Geurin, Buckner and Naulls) to score 30-plus, and the four other Philly starters to score in double figures.

It was worse than All-Star Game defense.

 

Plus Philly apparently spent much of the fourth quarter intentionally fouling and stopping the clock at every opportunity for no purpose other than to try to get Wilt to 100. There's conveniently no footage of the game, but the accounts I've read of it all suggest it was quite the farce.

 

Supposedly the Knicks were also trying to foul players other than Wilt any time they got the ball.

 

Watch any NBA (or for that matter college) video from the 1970s and before and your first reaction will be, "my God, they just come down and shoot."

If a guy dribbled down and he had a 12-17 foot jumper, he shot it.