LeBron: "If I get 37 shots in a game, I'm going to put up 60, 70. Easy."

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James scored 39 points on only 18 shots, Wade's night included a career-best eight steals, and the Heat held off the Dallas Mavericks 110-104 Friday night.

"You give me 37 shots in a game, I'll have 60, 70," James said. "I had 40 tonight on 18 shots. If I get 37 shots in a game, I'm going to put up 60. Easy."


Thing is, the odds of seeing James shoot 37 times in a game -- like Rudy Gay did earlier this week in setting the NBA high so far this season -- are quite slim. His career-high is 36. He's only taken 30 or more shots twice since joining the Heat; both of those came in regular-season losses.

"He understands the main thing being the main thing," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He wants to win more than anything."

James had never scored more than 38 when taking 18 or fewer shots, and missed just four times on Friday.
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He probably could...but who cares about "if"s?
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Then score 60, 70 nikka. No good just talking about it.

Yes we all know you prioritise 'winning the game' over everything else. But if you gonna come out and say it's easy to put up those numbers then do it.

ol' i can do it but i don't want do it ass nikka :camby:
 
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Primetime21 said:
Shooting 61% from the field, 37 shots put him at about 45 points on field goals alone. Say he were to meet his averages on 3 pointers and free throws then he's easily in the neighborhood of 60 points. Let the usual crybabies do their thing
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Who's saying he couldn't?

The point is why did he even say this when he more than likely won't do it? Plus he wouldn't have the same %s if he were to attempt a 60, 70 point game, so you can't be applying that logic.
 
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Gil Scott-Heroin said:
Then score 60, 70 nikka. No good just talking about it.

Yes we all know you prioritise 'winning the game' over everything else. But if you gonna come out and say it's easy to put up those numbers then do it.

ol' i can do it but i don't want do it ass nikka :camby:
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There's just no point. This isn't 2K. Lebron was a scoring champion back in Cleveland and that crap got him nowhere.

People would just call him a stat padder anyway.
 
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Primetime21 said:
Shooting 61% from the field, 37 shots put him at about 45 points on field goals alone. Say he were to meet his averages on 3 pointers and free throws then he's easily in the neighborhood of 60 points. Let the usual crybabies do their thing
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But the first 20 and the last 20 shots are going to feel a lot different. Arms get tired and sore, and the body starts to fatigue. I'm not saying it ain't possible, but there are other factors.
 
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Draje said:
There's just no point. This isn't 2K. Lebron was a scoring champion back in Cleveland and that crap got him nowhere.

People would just call him a stat padder anyway.
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:what:

If there's no point then why even say 'I can score 60,70 easy'? I mean anybody with any sense isn't gonna hold it against him if he doesn't have a 60,70 point game to his resume at the end of his career. There's absolutely no point in even saying it if he's not gonna do it.
 
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