83 points.



Whoa

Lol already seeing some people calling out shooting 43 FTs as some sort of detrimental statement. 83 points is insane

83 points playing unethical hoops.

Head Ninja In Charge said:

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83 points playing unethical hoops.

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The only way to get up to an absurd point total is to play unethical hoops just as Kobe and Wilt did.

Head Ninja In Charge said:

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83 points playing unethical hoops.

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The only thing unethical was the Wizards' interpretation of what "defense' is supposed to look like.

Pretty sure the University of Arizona would have beaten them last night.

Kobe - 28 FG on 60% shooting including 7 threes.

Wilt - 36 FG on 57% shooting (no threes obviously)

Bam - 20 FG with 7 of them being threes, 46% from the field. Twice as many points from FT line as the other two.


One of these is very obviously not like the others. And I would say Kobe by far was the most impressive of the three because his performance was actually needed to comeback and win.

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flashplayer said:

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Kobe - 28 FG on 60% shooting including 7 threes.

Wilt - 36 FG on 57% shooting (no threes obviously)

Bam - 20 FG with 7 of them being threes, 46% from the field. Twice as many points from FT line as the other two.


One of these is very obviously not like the others. And I would say Kobe by far was the most impressive of the three because his performance was actually needed to comeback and win.

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Wilt's has to be the most impressive because of the FT shooting.
He was 28 of 32 that night (.875). He shot .511 from the FT line for his entire career, and only got above .600 one season, which happened to be the year he set the record.

If you make Wilt a 70% FT shooter for his career, , he would have scored 2,251 more points and would be 4th all-time in scoring instead of 9th.

flashplayer said:

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Kobe - 28 FG on 60% shooting including 7 threes.

Wilt - 36 FG on 57% shooting (no threes obviously)

Bam - 20 FG with 7 of them being threes, 46% from the field. Twice as many points from FT line as the other two.


One of these is very obviously not like the others. And I would say Kobe by far was the most impressive of the three because his performance was actually needed to comeback and win.

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I think this is a bad take. If scoring 83 was easily achievable we'd have a bunch of bozos do it.

What kind of sucks for Bam is that he was legitimately out of his mind for about 75% of the game, playing the best single game he's ever had. But the 4th quarter got real weird because the Heat were force feeding Bam and the Wizards were trapping him and gunking up the game because they didn't want to let him keep scoring. I wish the Wizards would have just played it straight.

Also, Bam's always been an unselfish player, so it's kind of cool that for one night with pretty much all their other stars out the Heat let him be the offensive alpha.

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Wilt Chamberlain 100

Bam Adebayo 83

Kobe Bryant 81

Wilt Chamberlain 78

Wilt Chamberlain (2x) | Luka Doncic | David Thompson 73

Wilt Chamberlain 72

Elgin Baylor | Damian Lillard | Donovan Mitchell | David Robinson 71

Devin Booker | Wilt Chamberlain | Joel Embiid 70

Michael Jordan 69

Wilt Chamberlain | Pete Maravich 68

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