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The guy can really score when he stays involved the entire time he's in. In my opinion every play should run through him. That's when we're at our best and give our selves the best chance to score.
 
maxiep said:
Only 50? Yawn.
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Only three straight games with at least 8 made threes? Something no one else except Steph Curry has ever done in NBA history? Only the three best consecutive games by a Blazers player in franchise history? Snooze. Wake me when something exciting happens.
 
He will eventually have a 70-point game I think. Out of all modern players I think he's the most likely to match Kobe's 81-point effort, though it's still very unlikely,
 
Sarni said:
He will eventually have a 70-point game I think. Out of all modern players I think he's the most likely to match Kobe's 81-point effort, though it's still very unlikely,
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Booker. He's already had a 70, and he was just 20 at the time.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Booker. He's already had a 70, and he was just 20 at the time.
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I don't recall watching Booker's 70 point game, but in Kobe's 81 point game against Toronto was literally a joke as Toronto didn't play defense on him and it was worse than an all star game defense. Lakers spoon fed him almost every point. Lillards game last night and against GS was all done in the flow of the game
 
BrianFromWA said:
Maybe this is buried somewhere in the game threads, but Dame now is #10 in NBA history with his 8th 50-point game...more than Steph, Durant, 'Nique, Maravich, Westbrook, West, Bird...

1 Wilt Chamberlain 118
2 Michael Jordan 31
3 Kobe Bryant 25
4 James Harden 23
5 Elgin Baylor 17
6 Rick Barry 14
7 LeBron James 12
8 Allen Iverson 11
9 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 10
10 Dame/Bernard King 8

I mean, he keeps playing like this, he may be #7 by the end of the season... ;)
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OMG, look at Wilt Chamberlain and there was no three point shot when he played. He once got 100 points in a game with only two point shots and free throws. Probably the GOAT.
 
blazerkor said:
The guy can really score when he stays involved the entire time he's in. In my opinion every play should run through him. That's when we're at our best and give our selves the best chance to score.
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I remember the days in here when guys were calling for us to trade him.
There was another dunce in another forum who claimed that anyone who said he was gonna be better than Kyrie Irving were stupid. Sly knows who he is or should I say was.
 
It’s kind of amazing Dame doesn’t have a triple double.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Booker. He's already had a 70, and he was just 20 at the time.
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I don't know, he's only scored above 50 three times total. Not discounting his 70 point game, but that was more of an aberration than the norm. Damian has scored over 50, 3 times this year alone.
 
Lanny said:
OMG, look at Wilt Chamberlain and there was no three point shot when he played. He once got 100 points in a game with only two point shots and free throws. Probably the GOAT.
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There was 8 teams in the NBA back then, the great high school teams now are better. The NBA finals weren't televised. Wilt's stats are extremely misleading.

An NBA player scoring 60 now is more impressive than Wilt getting 100.
 
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.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
There was 8 teams in the NBA back then, the great high school teams now are better.
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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

WesleyMatthews said:
Wilt's stats are extremely misleading.

An NBA player scoring 60 now is more impressive than Wilt getting 100.
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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
 
handiman said:
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]...
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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.
 
wizenheimer said:
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
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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.



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lawai'a said:
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.
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Doubt it. I don't think he could hit the three balls. ;)
 
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.
 
BrianFromWA said:
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.
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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.
 
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