Congrats Durant...

Noonskadoodle · Post #1 » by **Noonskadoodle** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:52 am

on becoming NBA's youngest scoring champ, and I am sure you will be winning more throughout your career.

orl1724 · Post #2 » by **orl1724** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:04 am

And helping my friends team beat me in fantasy.

doct3r dr3 · Post #3 » by **doct3r dr3** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:07 am

pistons_own · Post #4 » by **pistons_own** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:23 am

doct3r dr3 wrote:

one of my fav gifs of all time haha

irie · Post #5 » by **irie** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 4:26 am

well deserved

Clangus · Post #6 » by **Clangus** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:38 am

CONGRATS

Mamba Venom · Post #7 » by **Mamba Venom** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:21 am

Amazing

RunMCR · Post #8 » by **RunMCR** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:25 am

meh. not impressed

lebron could get it if he wanted to

Hawaii · Post #9 » by **Hawaii** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:27 am

Good for Durant, his stock is on the rise, and I hope he gets more in the future!

dballislife · Post #10 » by **dballislife** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:05 am

thats what u get for sitting out lebron

joyner82 · Post #11 » by **joyner82** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:51 am

dballislife wrote:thats what u get for sitting out lebron

LeBron really had no chance..Durant's averaged 36 over his last 9 games

Durant is flat out the best scorer since Jordan and he's only 21..if you watched the game tonight you could see why

mysticbb · Post #12 » by **mysticbb** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:20 am

A very impressive scoring season by Durant. Not only scored he the most points, but his scoring efficiency is really impressive as well. Before the season I said that I can see Durant scoring 30 ppg on 50/40/90 at some point in his career. This season he has 30.2 ppg 48/36/90.

joyner82 wrote:LeBron really had no chance..

38.5 ppg over the 4 games he sat out. I would say James had a chance, if he would have pushed it. In 2006 he had a 9 game stretch with 38.6 ppg (the Cavs went 8-1 in those 9 games). In 2008 he had a 4 game stretch with 41 ppg (3-1 record). Saying that James had no chance is bs.

joyner82 wrote:Durant's averaged 36 over his last 9 games

It was 34.9 ppg over those 9 games. Which is impressive alone. No idea why you need to increase that to 36. Not the first time that you exaggerated numbers for Durant.

Post #13 » by **tsherkin** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:45 am

Hell of a season from Durant. Extremely impressive. Here's to a long and interesting playoff series for OKC.

Diggity Dave · Post #14 » by **Diggity Dave** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:16 pm

Congrats Durant and OKC fans. My second favorite team, but damn, do they need new uniforms. Give these kids some style.

Hobo4President · Post #15 » by **Hobo4President** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:40 pm

joyner82 wrote:
dballislife wrote:thats what u get for sitting out lebron

LeBron really had no chance..Durant's averaged 36 over his last 9 games

Durant is flat out the best scorer since Jordan and he's only 21..if you watched the game tonight you could see why

Umm, I would rather have Melo scoring for me, and people forget at the same age as Durant Lebron averaged 31.4 points on a higher shooting percentage, all while taking less freethrows. Yes Durant is a good scorer, but look at it in perspective. He still needs to improve his post game and his mid-range J, which statistically is horrible.

Anyway, congratulations Durant, going to be one of the top scorers in the league for many more years!

joyner82 · Post #16 » by **joyner82** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:52 pm

Hobo4President wrote:
joyner82 wrote:
dballislife wrote:thats what u get for sitting out lebron

LeBron really had no chance..Durant's averaged 36 over his last 9 games

Durant is flat out the best scorer since Jordan and he's only 21..if you watched the game tonight you could see why

Umm, I would rather have Melo scoring for me, and people forget at the same age as Durant Lebron averaged 31.4 points on a higher shooting percentage, all while taking less freethrows. Yes Durant is a good scorer, but look at it in perspective. He still needs to improve his post game and his mid-range J, which statistically is horrible.

Anyway, congratulations Durant, going to be one of the top scorers in the league for many more years!

LOL, LeBron did NOT shoot higher percentages and never has.

LeBron averaged 31.4 while taking 23.1 FGA per game 48/34/74
Durant just averaged 30.1 on 20.3 FGA 48/37/90

LeBron had a TS% of 56.4%
Durant had a TS% of 60.7%

Only 4 other players in NBA history have averaged 30+ ppg with a TS>60% in a season
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, and Adrian Dantley. Durant is the 5th to join the group and by far the youngest at 21; Kareem was 24.

LeBron until this year had never had a season anywhere close the efficiency Durant displayed this season and this year he still trailed him by .3%.

Rendezvous · Post #17 » by **Rendezvous** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:56 pm

Congrats

Left Side Drive · Post #18 » by **Left Side Drive** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:07 pm

Best player in the league in 5 years.

mysticbb · Post #19 » by **mysticbb** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:19 pm

joyner82 wrote:
Hobo4President wrote:Umm, I would rather have Melo scoring for me, and people forget at the same age as Durant Lebron averaged 31.4 points on a higher shooting percentage, all while taking less freethrows.

LOL, LeBron did NOT shoot higher percentages and never has.

To be precise James had indeed the higher shooting percentage. He made 48% of his shots, while Durant "only" 47.6%. ;)

Anyway, scoring efficiency (in that case TS%) matters more. 21 yr Durant beats out 21yr James in terms of scoring efficiency.

joyner82 · Post #20 » by **joyner82** » Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:47 pm

mysticbb wrote:
To be precise James had indeed the higher shooting percentage. He made 48% of his shots, while Durant "only" 47.6%.

Anyway, scoring efficiency (in that case TS%) matters more. 21 yr Durant beats out 21yr James in terms of scoring efficiency.

He said percentages meaning plural not singular..../facepalm
This would imply FG/3P/FT

Anyway, scoring efficiency (in that case TS%) matters more. 21 yr Durant beats out 19,20,21,22,23,24,25 yr James in terms of scoring efficiency.