Superstar scorers who are great three-point shooters have the best chance to equal/surpass Kobe Bryant's 81 (no one's ever getting Chamberlain's 100, the game is too different). So that would include, to me, Lillard, Curry...maybe Thompson, considering his 60+ game and 37 point quarter (in a different game). I'm not sure I'd call him a superstar, but he can get as hot as anyone in the league. Harden isn't a great three-point shooter, but he's such a determined scorer who can get hot from three, he has to be considered one of the top contenders to post an 80+ point game.
I could see Trae Young doing it. He might be the most conscious-less shooter ever. Give him 100 shots and he's sure to hit 80 [points]...
that's a crock. The Celtics or the Warriors or the Knicks would have destroyed a high school team, and for that matter would have destroyed a college team by the way, there were 9 teams and that meant Wilt had to face Bill Russell 12 times....and Darrell Imhoff 10 times...and Red Kerr 10 times. 4 years after his 50-point-a-game season, there were 12 teams and opposing C's were Russell, Nate Thurmond, Clyde Lee, Imhoff, Walt Bellamy, Zelmo Beatty, Leroy Ellis. 3 years after that, Jabbar, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Willis Reed, Dave Cowens, and Tom Boerwinkle were in the league as well. It was the age of C's and Wilt dominated it this kind bunk is always pumped out about Wilt....people working OT trying to convince other people that Wilt had no competition in the paint or because it was a different era it means it was less than the current NBA. Yeah, it was definitely a different era. There was no 3-point line to space the floor and keep defense from collapsing. That was the days of no-blood-no-foul and there were no illegal defense calls then. Not only was Wilt going against other talented big men just about every night, it was legal to put 2 or 3 guys on him when he didn't have the ball, and have all kinds of contact that would be illegal today. He was grabbed and held and pushed and bodied all game long, and yeah, he gave as good as he got, but the thing is he got played physical in a manner that would make players like Embiid and Jokic and KAT cry for mama Wilt was great enough that at 31 he averaged 24pts, 24rebs, and 9 asts. At 36 he averaged 13 & 19 while shooting 73% from the floor. And some people always point to the higher pace the NBA played at back then. It was higher but what they ignore is that in order for Wilt to post the numbers he did he had to run the floor at that higher pace and he did for 45 minutes a game by the way, if you normalize pace between Wilt's team when he scored 100 and Milwaukee this season, for instance, Wilt scores 80 points. And if you normalized that season to today, he averages 40.4 points and 20.6 rebounds
Well, the Hawks have basically designed everything around him to make a point he's the next Steph and thus they didn't blew that Doncic pick.
probably the strongest athlete in basketball, bench pressed 465lbs at age 59, reported vertical well over 40" (he claimed between 46"-48"), 4.6 forty yard dash, champion high jumper and 440 track and field athlete, really did grab quarters off of top of back board. all in his prime at 7' and 250lbs. played at 290-300 when a champion on the lakers towards the end of his career. skilled fade-away and the awesome finger roll, he would surely be a candidate to score 81pts. even in today's NBA. '
some truth that. was worse at free throws than shaq. the week he scored 100 pts.in the game he averaged 73pts/game for 4 games and scored over 60 in each one. once had 55 rebounds in a game against bill russell and the celtics.
To put more of Dame's last couple of weeks in perspective (not just the WCPoW week)... 40.1 points, 8.6 assists, 4.7 rebounds, 1.1 steals and 3.0 turnovers (along with 5.9 3PMs) in 39.3 minutes over last seven games (ESPN Fantasy stat). As has been brought up in other threads, Kobe is the only one* (non-Wilt division) to score 50 4 in a row, starting with his record 65-burger against us. 65, 50, 60, 50, then fell off with "only" 43.
Kinda makes me mad that Terry ran Dame into the ground during his 47-point game then took him out before he had a chance to get 50.
35.4% of Dame's made fg's are 3 pointers. If we use this as a guide to map that on Petries' game - On both 1/20/73 and on 3/17/73, Petrie made 19 fgs: - 19 x .354 = 6.7 - approx 7 of those 19 made fgs would have been a 3 pointer. (instead of a 2) - 51 + 7 = 58 points Petrie also had games of: - 46 on 3/19/71. -- 14 fg x 0.354 = 5.0 -- 46 + 5 = 51 points - 43 on 3/20/74. -- 20 fg x 0.354 = 7.1 -- 43 + 7 = 50 points
I watched Wilt square off against Russell on TV. It was too long ago to recall whether the finals were televised or not but if the regular season games got televised why wouldn't the finals be televised? Sure teams today are better but given the talent that was out there Wilt was the best. And had he had the other players to grow up with I feel confident he would have developed into something even more amazing. By the way, future Blazer Darrall Imhoff guarded Wilt the night he scored 100 points.
Bernard King is who I've been thinking about while Dame has been on this tear. He was one of my favorite players.
I watched the game where Rick Barry scored 64 against the Blazers. His teammates were literally passing up open layups, even fast break layups, to give him the ball so he could score on us. I was just a kid and it pissed me off so much he was my most hated player LOL
I posted this in the game thread, but I figured I'd put it here too since this is easier to find, and apparently this 50+ game thing is an ongoing event. Since Dame's numbers are out of this world this season, I thought I'd put it into perspective and compare them to Steph Curry: Keep in mind that we're looking at a single season for Dame (2019-20) and these graphs are pulling Curry's peak data from different years. Dame's not quite to the Steph Curry level, but it sure is a damn fun comparison!
I think you put Dame on Golden state instead of curry they don’t miss a beat. The question is can steph do what lillard has done in Portland?
