Fans wanting more 50-60 point games....

[ajnapoleon]

If these guys start gunning for 50-60 point games when not needed is that not












Stat padding ( a word I never heard of until this generation of players).....

 

[mbewane]

You've got a point (no pun intended).

I see it like this: basketball is about scoring more points than the opponent, and it's a superstars league. Simply put, people want to see stars shine and more times than not that means scoring a bunch. Right or wrong, I think we associate dominance with scoring, and even more so when that scoring comes off nice moves. That's why people still go back to Kobe's 61 points at the Garden while Lebron had a more complete 50 something game days later. No one remembers Lebron's game.

It's a bias we have towards scoring I think, IF that scoring still somewhat comes within the flow of the game. As much as he is a chucker (this is coming from a stan), a lot of Kobe's big scoring games came, crazily enuogh, within the flow of the game. The Knicks and especially Raptors didn't even feel like he was "stat-padding", he was just scoring almost every time he had the ball. If a guy is hot and gets 50 on something like 18 for 30 shooting with 3 pointers and free throws in a relatively tight game, I don't see anything wrong with it. If it's 50 on 18 for 48 shooting lol in a blowout, maybe yeah

 

[ajnapoleon]

You've got a point (no pun intended).

I see it like this: basketball is about scoring more points than the opponent, and it's a superstars league. Simply put, people want to see stars shine and more times than not that means scoring a bunch. Right or wrong, I think we associate dominance with scoring, and even more so when that scoring comes off nice moves. That's why people still go back to Kobe's 61 points at the Garden while Lebron had a more complete 50 something game days later. No one remembers Lebron's game.

It's a bias we have towards scoring I think, IF that scoring still somewhat comes within the flow of the game. As much as he is a chucker (this is coming from a stan), a lot of Kobe's big scoring games came, crazily enuogh, within the flow of the game. The Knicks and especially Raptors didn't even feel like he was "stat-padding", he was just scoring almost every time he had the ball. If a guy is hot and gets 50 on something like 18 for 30 shooting with 3 pointers and free throws in a relatively tight game, I don't see anything wrong with it. If it's 50 on 18 for 48 shooting lol in a blowout, maybe yeah

It's just funny to me it sometimes seems like people just want it to go back to one person shooting all the time. fukk the team get yours I hated that in the 90's and 2000's. I could not understand why people did not see that chucking the ball will never get you titles MJ did not chuck he was nasty with the fade away jumper but now it's like people just want you to shoot just to shoot!!!

 

[dunkman6]

I have no problem with these type of games if they're within the flow of the game (as stated above).

It's great for anyone and entertaining for the fans.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Anything over 40 points a game is supposed to be a "special occurrence. We shouldn't see this happen more than five or six times a year.

Jordan only did it 31 times, Kobe 24 and Iverson only did it 11 times. That shyt isn't supposed to happen on a regular basis and it escpecially won't happen that often now because you have so many of these players attempting to "team up" with each other.