Devin Booker just hung 70 on the Celtics edit: highlights in OP

[2Quik4UHoes]

No one will care - stat-padding has become cool. Blame Kobe - he started the trend of "individual numbers in random-ass regular season games define your legacy, so pad your ass off to get there." Westbrook has just picked up the mantle and Booker is following in their footsteps. Who cares how many shots it took, how your team did, what you did on defense. ALL that matters are three individual numbers on the box score for that one game. Booker could take 40 shots each in the next five games, lose all five without breaking 40 once, and no one will care. They'll just yell, "He got 70!"

Hell, he must be 7/8 as good as now, right?

Kobe wasn't a stat-padder like a LeBron or Harden is. Kobe went on scoring binges to win the game, not to have big scoring nights. It's rare he'd go on a binge like that and not get the win. Yall Kobe hatin nikkaz gave Trumpset the blueprint for this fake news shyt.

 

[Brief Keef]

but but Marcus Smart is a lockdown defender!

Full highlights:

celtic fans was cheering for this nikka that's why Isiah was salty

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

this gives me vibes of the Terrence Ross 50 point game

incredible performance but not ready to crown the player just yet

If you've watched Booker all year, you knew something like this was brewing.

He has three 28+point scoring quarters this year.


Him flashing and blacking out is no fluke.


You'll never see Terrence Ross go for 50 again.


But I guarantee you Booker will have multiple 50 point games...easy.


He scored 28 points in a HALF A QUARTER against the Bucks.


If it wasn't for halftime, Klay Thompson's record for points in a quarter was going down that night.


He just has that psycho mutant/super berserk black out mode.


That's not Terrence Ross......Corey Brewer....


The Gumption/talent/audacity to score 70's not in them.


We talking 70, not 50......70.....20 more.

 

[010101]

lil ghoul got more in store
doubt dev the duppy if you want
he will haunt you

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[010101]

1v5 it's beautiful chucker gang every shots a good shot keep shooting*

 

[Rigby.]

You don't realize it is absolute idiocy to call a fukking Devin Booker game nearly the "Greatest Game in NBA History" solely because of reaching arbitrary stat totals?

When guys stop playing basketball, stop trying to make the best play, and start just trying to take more shots or force an assist or a rebound because it will get them to some arbitrary "perfect" number, it fukks with the game. I love all-around games. I love guys who fill up the box score. I hate when people start ignoring defense to chase rebounds, start making the wrong plays to chase assists or shots, or start acting like an arbitrary "10" matters more than the rest of the game.

When you playing on the street, do you count your assists and rebounds and make a big deal when you hit 10?

If triple-doubles matter so much, why not?







Exactly.






And who is that?

I'm on record saying the current era is the best in history, so you got the wrong man on that front.

Who is enjoying excellent basketball play, who praises good offense AND good defense, who talks about making the best play every time down....

And who is staring at the box score waiting to see whether someone hits "10" or not?







I love how you need to reach to find one game where Lebron fought for a rebound to chase a total.

Now, how many games could I find Kobe stealing how many shots from his teammates to pad his scoring total?

Lebron might have forced a rebound in a game here and there. Kobe forced half-a-dozen shots in hundreds of games.


When I hear Lebron stans defining Lebron's legacy, I virtually NEVER hear them bragging about individual stats from a regular-season game. They talk about MVPs, playoffs, series wins, career stats, epic clutch performances, etc.

But when Kobe stans are defining Kobe's legacy, it always comes back to 81, 60, other regular-season single-game scoring totals, and Shaq's rings. That's the whole thing.

Bringing up street ball was retarded, but whatever. Damn near everything in this game is based around arbitrary numbers - numbers that look appealing to the beholder. Triple doubles always looked amazing, they just happened at a far lower rate so there was less championing them. A 2 guard that was the only scoring factor getting 70 points as well as 10 and 10 is going to look impressive, that showed that he did everything he could to not only get buckets, but elevate his team. And that sensation could probably be gained by just looking at him having 7 & 6, but the sensation is immortalized at having the triple double. The same way having 9 blocks isn't the same as having 10. The same way having 49 points isn't the same as having 50. Both are massively impressive, but humans naturally create peaks of accomplishments in every aspect of life, and the number 10 (and above) is that peak in basketball

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

woke up this morning saw the headline and thought that shyt was a typo

I knew this mofo was gonna be a beast but I def didn't see 70

 

[intruder]

D-Wade told everyone this kid would be special

 

[The G.O.D II]

 

[The_Third_Man]

wow just wow

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Sun's fouling to get Booker more points is pathetic though

Ahh great to have some context, I wouldn't watch that piece of shyt team play even if they had Jordan and Lebron on the team

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Mexican excellence

Mexicano el muchacho tambien



Definitely claiming book as the best Mexican basketball player

 

[GetInTheTruck]

He'll drop a 100 on the Knicks.

 

[Tha_Mac]

You guys keep talking about how they lost when MJ scoring 63 points in a loss in the playoffs isn't constantly talked about as one of the greatest performances of all time.

That's becuz it was the playoffs bro. Celtics was the big bad wolves of the NBA at that time and a young 2nd year player coming off a broken foot during the season drops 63 on them. It was a high stakes game. Yea it was the 1st round but still it was best of 5 then, that one game meant a lot.

Booker drops 70 in late March for a 50 loss team who are playing for nothing. And them being so giddy in the locker room pics shows how much the game meant to them.....nothing.

You think MJ was posing or all smiles in the locker room after losing to the Celtics despite dropping 63 in a playoff game?

 

[Trece]

THIS GUY IS SO MAD THAT A 20 YEAR OLD IS A BETTER SCORER THAN LEBRON HAS EVER BEEN LMFAO

Bron has always struggled to put up high numbers.. that 61 point game was ugly AF.. was watching it like