Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game

Shishnizzle · Post #1 » by **Shishnizzle** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 7:47 pm

I thought some of you might find this interesting. I was getting hammered with a friend last night and we started talking some basketball. He was telling me about how in Wilts 100 point game. Wilt was allowed to jump from the free throw line and dunk the ball on free throw attempts. He said no one ever talks about it when they talk about his 100 point game. I did'nt know if it was true so I did some research and found this blog. The guy who wrote it definetly has a problem with Wilt, but I thought some of you might get a kick out of ths so,
Here is a qoute from this blog
"Chamberlain 48 minutes 36 of 63 field goals, 28 of 32 free throws.(that season Chamberlain was allowed to leap from the free throw line and dunk free throws.The rule was changed the following season and he quickly became one of the worst free throwers in history)"

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/du ... _AINT_GOOD

Optimus_Steel · Post #2 » by **Optimus_Steel** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 7:55 pm

Are you **** kidding me? LOL wow. Well that makes a difference certaintly but man what a freak athlete Wilt was. What was his FT% that year that he scored 100 points?

But the guy is a total hater. Wilt was an all time great. Hater.

magicfan4life05 · Post #3 » by **magicfan4life05** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 7:58 pm

hey man you gotta post this on the general board, that's crazy

MagicFan3 · Post #4 » by **MagicFan3** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 8:01 pm

1) No one knows if this is true or not

2) If it is, then it's still amazing, perhaps even more so than before

Shishnizzle · Post #5 » by **Shishnizzle** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 8:04 pm

magicfan4life05 wrote:hey man you gotta post this on the general board, that's crazy

I have never posted on the general board, can a mod just move it over there.

Post #6 » by **Devin 1L** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 8:07 pm

I don't know if I buy that.

Glancing through that blog, that guy definitely has some issues with Wilt.

Don't get me wrong, I can't prove otherwise. I wasn't there and I've never seen it, so he could be completely right.

I have heard about Wilt's ability to do that, but I don't recall hearing that he was actually doing it in games, (or at least this one).

Like I said, I can't prove otherwise, but that guy's blog just sounds like someone trying his might to bash Wilt and proving himself right with "I was there, were you?"

Where's Willis at?

I'm pretty sure he spent quite a bit of time researching Wilt. While he obviously wasn't actually there, I'm sure he could share some of what he came up with.

Shishnizzle · Post #7 » by **Shishnizzle** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 8:14 pm

I put it on the general board. Gotta love cut copy and paste.

Post #8 » by **craig01** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 9:05 pm

I doubt that is true.

That's a 15' leap.......

Unfortunately that game was never taped.

AdamTheGreek · Post #9 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 9:53 pm

I'm 90% certain it was allowable and he did do it.

Post #10 » by **UCFJayBird** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:02 pm

This guy is an idiot. I assure you, Wilt was NOT allowed to do this. He did it in practices joking around, but neither college, nor the NBA, would allow him to do it.

First off, this guy says they changed it the year after he scored the 100 point game. That was in March of 1962, Wilt's THIRD SEASON. So this guy is basically saying Wilt had 3 years where he could jump from the FT line and dunk it on his free throws, and that's why he went 28/32 that game. If that were the case, don't you think Wilt would've had a much higher FT percentage those first 3 years?

Wilt's first three years his FT percentages were .582, .504, .613. Yes, that year was Wilt's best FT percentage for a season, but the following season when the apposed rule change went into effect, he shot .593, so close to the same.

I've done tons of research on Wilt, as he is my favorite player of all-time. I believe him to the the GOAT. Now, obviously this makes me biased. But at least I make sense.

Also there is audio tape out there I believe of the game, don't you think the announcers would've mentioned Wilt was leaping from the FT line? He went to the line 32 times, don't you think they would've said "There goes Wilt, leaping on his FTs again" or ANYTHING?

edit: just to let those not checking the general board, lj4mvp posted before me that they changed that rule in the NBA before Wilt joined because he was dunking them in high school.

N4U|Redux · Post #11 » by **N4U|Redux** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:16 pm

AdamTheGreek wrote:I'm 90% certain it was allowable and he did do it.

UCFJayBird wrote:I assure you, Wilt was NOT allowed to do this.

Post #12 » by **Devin 1L** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:25 pm

n0tforyou wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Looks like the Knights need to square off in a battle to the death.

Post #13 » by **UCFJayBird** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:38 pm

i'm on the left.

Shishnizzle · Post #14 » by **Shishnizzle** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:38 pm

Well my friend said that he did do it, and I was'nt sure, so I looked for something about it and was able to find it. Like I said I don't know for sure, but the fact that I was able to find something to prove my friends word on this, lends credability to the charge for me. I will have to ask my friend agian, did he actually see this.

I just talked to him and he said that just by looking at his free throw % in that game that he was probally doing it in that game but there is no film on it and it had been known that he was doing it and they did change the rules after that season. The only way to know is to talk to someone who was at that game.

Post #15 » by **Devin 1L** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:46 pm

NumeroUn0 wrote:Well my friend said that he did do it, and I was'nt sure, so I looked for something about it and was able to find it. Like I said I don't know for sure, but the fact that I was able to find something to prove my friends word on this, lends credability to the charge for me. I will have to ask my friend agian, did he actually see this.

I just talked to him and he said that just by looking at his free throw % in that game that he was probally doing it in that game but there is no film on it and it had been known that he was doing it and they did change the rules after that season. The only way to know is to talk to someone who was at that game.

I also read that Wilt had...well, nevermind.

On a serious note, it's easy to see how these things emerge and get twisted.

For one, it's such an amazing feat that it's hard to believe.

Secondly, "I was getting hammered with a friend last night and we started talking some basketball." :-)

Post #16 » by **UCFJayBird** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:46 pm

You found one guy, who is blatantly trashing Wilt in his "blog" and has no proof to back it up himself other than his own "word" that he saw him play. There's a poster on the general board, we'll see if he sees it and posts, but he's seen Wilt play and can testify to it.

Don't you think if Wilt HAD done this there'd be more talk about it? like i said, there's audio from the game in which the announcers make no comments about something like this going on. I've failed to see a single quote from someone who was at the game say he did this in a NBA game or a college game EVER.

From what I remember reading when I researched him a few years ago, was that he could do it, but the rules prohibited him from doing it before he got into the NBA.

Oh yea, and you said looking at his FT% for that game, but what about for the SEASON. If he could do it that game, he could do it EVERY game. They wouldn't allow him to do it just one night. It's not like that one night his brain clicked and he said "hey i'll dunk it from here this game" and than they changed it the next day.

I'm sure if we look hard enough we can find a game where Shaq shot like 90% from the FT line too.

Last Guardian · Post #17 » by **Last Guardian** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:48 pm

Wilt was a scrub who slept with a bunch of women and wanted to fight Ali.

Shishnizzle · Post #18 » by **Shishnizzle** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 10:59 pm

Because of Chamberlain's height and offensive prowess, NCAA administrators instituted several rules changes to limit his impact. The most important new regulation was offensive goaltending. Under the new rules players could no longer guide the ball in or out of the basket by touching it while it was in the space directly above the rim. Other rules prohibited lobbing the ball over the backboard from behind it (so that a teammate could catch and dunk the ball), and taking a running leap from the free-throw line to make a layup during foul shots. Both had been favorite plays of Chamberlain.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761 ... _Wilt.html

Post #19 » by **UCFJayBird** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 11:02 pm

and your point is what? That is the NCAA, college. He scored 100 points in an NBA game. Second, it doesn't say WHEN those rules were put in place. They were likely changed before Wilt got to college based on what he did in high school (in which I can believe he did dunk from the FT line). Yes, Wilt caused those changes, but it doesn't say if they were done because he was doing it, or if they were to make sure he didn't do it on that level.

drsd · Post #20 » by **drsd** » Sat Feb 2, 2008 11:09 pm

If this was routinely done in game, somebody would have a photograph. I have never seen such a clip, and thus do not believe that it was done. This point is beyond the 100 point game itself.