So has Devin Booker's 70 point game been remembered, or forgotten as stat padding?

[KOBE]

That is literally what they did for Wilt to get 100. LOL
You do that you need to break the record though, so nah no one will remember it

Pretty sure the other team was fouling Wilt to try to stop him from scoring.

I don't remember there was some shyt about it, but it wasn't all that bad.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Kobe had a lot of meaningless points in that game but that was forgotten. He was in there jacking shots long after the Raptors waved the white flag.

A lot? Kobe scored 11 points with 4:28 to go in the fourth after putting the Lakers up by 15.

 

[David_TheMan]

Pretty sure the other team was fouling Wilt to try to stop him from scoring.

I don't remember there was some shyt about it, but it wasn't all that bad.

The Truth Behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-Point Game

"From accounts of how it went down, the Warriors spent almost the entire fourth quarter fouling to get the ball back and force-feeding Chamberlain the ball," writes CBS Sports' Royce Young. "New York coach Eddie Donovan said, 'The game was a farce. They would foul us and we would foul them.' Chamberlain's shot attempts by quarter: 14, 12, 16, 21. You think in a blowout in today's game that a team would keeping feeding their star like that?"

It's one thing for the opposing team to employ a Hack-a-Wilt strategy.

After all, Chamberlain was one of the worst free-throw shooters the NBA has ever seen—he shot 51.1 percent from the line on 11.4 attempts per game for his career—and it's a serious aberration that he was able to knock down 28 of his 32 attempts from the charity stripe that night. More power to him for converting when the odds were against him.

"Hell, I'm the world's worst foul-shooter, and I hit 28 of 32 free throws that night—87.5 percent," Chamberlain wrote in Wilt. "That just shows that anyone can get lucky. Just check the box scores over a few months; some really weak players will have fantastic games."

It's different for a player's teammates to foul the other team during a blowout, all with the intent of running up an individual's scoring total. That's when things become farcical, as Donovan mentioned in Young's quote.

The fouls just piled up as the game got increasingly ridiculous. Both teams were intentionally getting refs to blow whistles, and the Knicks were doing everything possible to run the clock out before Wilt got to triple digits.

 

[intra vires]

Kobe had a lot of meaningless points in that game but that was forgotten. He was in there jacking shots long after the Raptors waved the white flag.

That's a fair assessment. It did become more of a spectacle after awhile.

Still though, the effort began with him trying to win the game. Wilt's team was already up early and the Suns didn't have enough time to come back when they started feeding Booker.

They definitely could have pulled him though, like they did against vs the Mavs.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Lmao the funniest thing about that struggle 60 was either befgire or after when he was saying what he's be able to do on a team where he could shoot at will

He said if he shot 40 times a game he'd get 90 points

 

[Super Cheech]

Stat padding, forgot all about it until now.

 

[KOBE]

Kobe had a lot of meaningless points in that game but that was forgotten. He was in there jacking shots long after the Raptors waved the white flag.

Ya that's how it played out even though Kobe had 60 against the Mavs and sat out the 4th because they didn't need him anymore.

You're always rewriting the narrative.

 

[waltthizzney]

A lot? Kobe scored 11 points with 4:28 to go in the fourth after putting the Lakers up by 15.

were you watching the game live? cuz i was, they were getting blown out going into the 3rd

 

[Dwight Howard]

The way I look at it. Romo v. Peyton back in 2013 I think. One of Romos best games, threw for 500 yds and 5 yes. Cowboys fans remember this performance but none of us really feel comfortable celebrating cause it ended in a loss. After games boys fans were pissed as well as the players. But it's funny cause Suns fans celebrated the accomplishment despite the L. Just tells you the competitive nature difference between the leagues. 70 points is amazing but they loss. The point of the game is to win, not to score 70 points.

 

[Dwight Howard]

Kobe had a lot of meaningless points in that game but that was forgotten. He was in there jacking shots long after the Raptors waved the white flag.

Lakers were up 6 going into the 4th. Kobe had 53 points by that point. They outscored the raptors 31-19 in the 4th. The game was withing single digits until the 5 minute park in the 4th. You're wrong.

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

Kobe had a lot of meaningless points in that game but that was forgotten. He was in there jacking shots long after the Raptors waved the white flag.

Lakers were down majority of that game. Kobe had to score to bring them back cause nobody else could. Those extra points were to keep the Raptors away cause until a certain point, Toronto were still in the game in the middle of the 4th. If he chose to throw on a "unnecessary" points, it's because he earned it and the lakers needed it. Booker and em were just unnecessary towards the end of that game

 

[Rocket Scientist]

People have short memories these days plus Devin Booker isn't known among casual fan as Kobe,Bron,Melo,Klay is.

 

[Box Factory]

The way I look at it. Romo v. Peyton back in 2013 I think. One of Romos best games, threw for 500 yds and 5 yes. Cowboys fans remember this performance but none of us really feel comfortable celebrating cause it ended in a loss. After games boys fans were pissed as well as the players. But it's funny cause Suns fans celebrated the accomplishment despite the L. Just tells you the competitive nature difference between the leagues. 70 points is amazing but they loss. The point of the game is to win, not to score 70 points.

I'll always remember that game as Romo solidifying himself as arguably the biggest choke artist ever by doing what he always did in big moments

 

[Rigby.]

Klay's 60 in 3 quarters >>>>>>>>>> this fraudulence

Klay probably would’ve at least dropped 90 in that game, he was only getting hotter and I forgot the squad they were playing, but they looked totally defeated by the 2nd

 

[Rigby.]

He said if he shot 40 times a game he'd get 90 points

Him saying that during that time span, his shooting prime, wasn’t the most ridiculous thing of all time

Providing that he could at least get some respectable free throw points along with it