Players never seem to score 50 in a game anymore...

[Infinite Llamas]

From 2000-01 until 2008-09, 50 points was scored on 81 occasions (18 alone in 06-07)

From 2009-10 on, there have been only 9 instances.

I can't speak for everybody, but there has always been a great appeal to the 50 point game. And then I think back to times when Willie Burton/Dana Barros/Tracy Murray reached the feat and how exciting it was. Trading cards used to have "50 point club" subsets. Just something special about that number, I suppose...

Now, seemingly, amny of the players who could score 50 are stuck on super teams (Kobe, Durant, Lebron, Carmelo), so there's never really the need to go out and score 50 to carry a game, like you'd see with T-Mac, AI, Arenas. And I understand that basketball is a team sport, but there's always been soemthing exciting about those great individual games that forever stand out.

2012-12 has one 50-point game. Is the 50-point game nearly extinct?

[vinceWin]

Durant will start dropping 50 point games like nothing in two years.

[bledredwine]

in all fairness,

you had people like Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing who had smooth offensive games. All of them had automatic post-up games.

The only truly finess offensive players right now are Lebron, Kobe, Melo, KD.... and only 3 of the 4 are in their prime, aka really able to hit 50. Out of those, only 2 have a post game.

[justinian]

I remember the days of Agent Zero dropping 50 and Jamison dropping huge digits in GSW too

[justinian]

in all fairness,

you had people like Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing who had smooth offensive games. All of them had automatic post-up games.

The only truly finess offensive players right now are Lebron, Kobe, Melo, KD.... and only 3 of the 4 are in their prime, aka really able to hit 50. Out of those, only 2 have a post game.

Add LaMarcus Aldridge, the guy can be a scoring machine, if he is assertive enough. Pure finess

[minifang]

Answer: super teams; the talent and scoring is distributed.

I can see Irving and Melo going for 50.

[Sn0wman]

Durant will start dropping 50 point games after Westbrook gets traded.

[Minge]

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[tsherkin]

Add LaMarcus Aldridge, the guy can be a scoring machine, if he is assertive enough. Pure finess

Puke, no thanks. He is too deeply entrenched in mediocrity as a scorer to justify the volume necessary for 50 points.

[bledredwine]

in all fairness,

you had people like Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing who had smooth offensive games. All of them had automatic post-up games.

The only truly finess offensive players right now are Lebron, Kobe, Melo, KD.... and only 3 of the 4 are in their prime, aka really able to hit 50. Out of those, only 2 have a post game.

Add LaMarcus Aldridge, the guy can be a scoring machine, if he is assertive enough. Pure finess

uh... LaMarcus is great and I respect him a lot,

but a 50 point scorer? He is not.

Heck, he barely averages 20.

[justinian]

in all fairness,

you had people like Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing who had smooth offensive games. All of them had automatic post-up games.

The only truly finess offensive players right now are Lebron, Kobe, Melo, KD.... and only 3 of the 4 are in their prime, aka really able to hit 50. Out of those, only 2 have a post game.

Add LaMarcus Aldridge, the guy can be a scoring machine, if he is assertive enough. Pure finess

uh... LaMarcus is great and I respect him a lot,

but a 50 point scorer? He is not.

Heck, he barely averages 20.

Off by some ..yes
Points: 42 on February 7, 2011 against the Chicago Bulls.

[bledredwine]

“Superteams” don’t require 50 point scorers, according to the Media.

Even Lebron's had only 9 50 point games in his career.

That's not a lot considering he's the best in the league. Of course he will have less on the Heat now that he has plenty of help alongside Bosh/Allen/Wade and co.

[StyLeD]

To score that much you have to be in a close game where one player shoulders the load against another team. Teams have realized that this 1v5 hero ball doesn't work. Guys like Allen Iverson and Tmac just don't exist anymore.

[bledredwine]

To score that much you have to be in a close game where one player shoulders the load against another team. Teams have realized that this 1v5 hero ball doesn't work. Guys like Allen Iverson and Tmac just don't exist anymore.

You're kidding right? Now, ISO ball is more popular than it's ever been. I guarantee that passes per possession is less now than it used to be.

[kasino]

Idk that's really strange but I can see Harden or Irving doing it a couple of times as they are on teams with little offensive talent