Blazers have 17 games to go in Lillard's 6th season. Here are some of his career stats: 10,433 Points 2,820 Assists To get to 11,000 points by end of season, he needs to average 33.4 PPG To get to 3,000 assists by end of season, he needs to average 10.6 APG These seem unlikely, but I was wondering if any could tell me how to do a basketball-reference (or other) search to find out how many players in the past 30 years have achieved 10,500 Points 2,800 Assists by the end of their 6th year? (see my signature pic below)
http://bkref.com/tiny/8vihZ How to do this search: Go to Play Index and select Player Season Finder, then click on "Combined Seasons", set the year of player's career to First thru 6th, set your PTS and AST values, and hit GET RESULTS. Here's that search with slightly lowered points to show where Dame is so far... http://bkref.com/tiny/LpWHH
Fun facts: Dame has the fewest turnovers, fewest personal fouls, and has shot the fewest FT's, though he has the best FT% of them. He's made this landmark combo of stats in the fewest minutes, on the fewest shots (not surprising given the three-point shot in the 2010's). Dame is not least among these giants.
Couple interesting things there... 3rd in TS% on that list behind Jordan and Kareem. Many of those guys missed more 2pt shots than Dame has taken.
Also Dame only player in the top 5 to start every game he has played in. What 1 game did LeBron not start?
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200712110CLE.html First game back after missing five games; maybe an injury?
Same thing caught my eye http://journalstar.com/sports/lebro...cle_fb75d3c7-4066-5f8b-9327-0386d2f14480.html
That is quite a list to be a part of for sure. Props to him. Side note.....when do you think The Big O Oscar Robertson will make it into the Hall of Fame? I mean the only think holding him out is all those TRIPLE DOUBLES he got right?
I predict he will be enshrined in 1980. But, it's called the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Winning. All of those triple doubles never helped his team win a championship. The year he won a ring was with Kareem. Oscar averaged 19.4/5.7/8.2 that year, far removed from his individual glory days of 30.8/12.5/11.4. In the first six years of his career, when he was putting up those gaudy numbers, his team only advanced to the playoffs twice, never even making the finals, let alone winning. It's possible for someone to be a great player, but someone else to be even greater. That's my take on Lillard and Westbrook. When all is said and done, Westbrook will have the more gaudy stats, but Lillard will be regarded as the better player. BNM
Cute post. The only part I liked though was the end. It will be interesting to see after they are retired where they stand vs each other. Some might put Russ ahead because he got to a FINALS. I am of the mind that he had more talent around him is why. But I am one of the few who don’t use rings as a way to judge a players greatness or not. Stockton and Barkley don’t have any, but Adam Morrison does.
