Wilt Chamberlain- Only player ever with a Quintuple-Double

[2legit]

If Wilt accomplished those feats in 2022, his 53 Points would be the 7th best Points performance in the season. His assists total would be the 47th best of th year. His Rebounds, Blocks, and Steals would be the #1 performance of the year in those categories. Imagine accomplishing all of that in One game.

Every time I look at Wilt's stats and can't believe he was a real human being. His feats are so outrageous that people have a tendency to downplay him. If he averaged 40 PPG instead of 50 PPG, people would call him the GOAT. He averaged 50 PPG and now people try to downplay his legacy.

 

[Sccit]

BLOCKING 24 SHOTS IN 1 GAME IS LOWKEY MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN SCORING 100 POINTS

 

[Monsanto]

A majority of his blocks weren't even recorded through his career too.

Truly the GOAT basketball player.

 

[Jcotton1]

All these OGs had game where u wanna admit it or not even the cacs.

 

[OsO]

24 blocks cot damn

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

It was actually a sextuple-double. Afterwards he took 69 women back to his room.

 

[Remote]

It was actually a sextuple-double. Afterwards he took 69 women back to his room.

 

[Po pimp]

They didn’t record blocks or steals back then, so how do we know this is true? Nate Thurmond is the first player on record to record a quadruple-double

 

[Professor Emeritus]

They didn’t record blocks or steals back then, so how do we know this is true? Nate Thurmond is the first player on record to record a quadruple-double

Some staff guy on the Sixers claims its true. It's considered suspect but we really don't know.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

If Wilt accomplished those feats in 2022, his 53 Points would be the 7th best Points performance in the season. His assists total would be the 47th best of th year. His Rebounds, Blocks, and Steals would be the #1 performance of the year in those categories. Imagine accomplishing all of that in One game.

Saying, "if he accomplished those feats in 2022" doesn't make sense though. Because of the pace and minutes it wouldn't be even physically possible to do the same thing today. Last year we had a pace of 98. In the slow late 1990s the pace was in the low 90s. In the fast break 80s the pace was all the way up around 110. But in Wilt's era, the pace was something well over 120. And playing 48 minutes on top of that, it's as if he played 50% more possessions than today's players would play.


To look at another game that year...

Lenny Wilkens had 30 points, 12 rebounds, and 13 assists
Joe Caldwell had 30 points, 13 rebounds, and 6 assists
Bill Bridges had 24 points, 11 rebounds, and 4 assists
Paul Silas had 19 points and 15 rebounds
Zelmo Beaty had 12 points, 11 rebounds, and 6 assists
dikk Snyder had 12 points and 3 rebounds
Gene Tormohlen had 8 points, 11 rebounds, and 2 assists

They all played for the same team.

Imagine having a game in this era where SIX players on the same team hit double-digit rebounds on the same night. Nowadays we rarely ever even get 3.

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[pez]

All of Wilt's numbers are cartoonishly outrageous. It's easy to doubt them all. But the verified numbers are cartoonishly high so the unverified numbers I sort of believe it. Everything else about him was insane. 50 ppg/season? That doesn't make sense but it happened.

 

[El Guapo]

Wilt's probably the only player where you could put random ridiculous stats in their box score and I would automatically believe it Everyone else is a "Let me look that up if that's real"

 

[2legit]

All of Wilt's numbers are cartoonishly outrageous. It's easy to doubt them all. But the verified numbers are cartoonishly high so the unverified numbers I sort of believe it. Everyone else about him was insane. 50 ppg? That doesn't make sense but it happened.

No one wants to believe that Wilt could block 20 shots and get 10 steals in a game. They didn't record those stats back in the day.

Thought experiment: What if they didn't collect individual player points and rebounds back then too. If the statkeeper told you that Wilt scored 100 points in a game, a lot of yall wouldn't believe it. Yall would say its another lie in a long line of Wilt myths. The nerdy statheads would say that Wilt's Philly team scored 169 points in that game. It's impossible for Wilt to account more than half of that total. If he told you Wilt had 50 rebounds in a game, they would think it's a lie. But, we can verify Wilt's outrageous Points and Rebounds totals. I see no reason to believe Wilt couldn't block 20 shots in a game.

 

[Flex Grossman]

How trash does your team have to be to get their shot blocked 24 times by the same dude? Imagine dude already has 20 blocks and your 6’ white guard runs in to shoot another two hand set layup

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]