Michael Adams

[SOUL]

Who is this dude? I saw a clip from an allstar game in the 90's which he was in.. also said he averaged 27/10.5 in a season.. was he any good or was that like a fluke season?

[No. 12]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... smi01.html
That was his best season.

Highlights:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxxuUcFEUPA

[Schad]

Keep in mind that his 26/10 season was with the Paul Westhead Nuggets, a team that scored 120 a night while surrendering 130.

It's really difficult to compare offensive stats from the Westhead era to any other team, because they might as well have been playing an entirely different sport...in the span of five weeks, they managed to lose five games in which they scored 140+ points. Adams was a pretty solid small guard, but that season was entirely system-dependent.

[penbeast0]

He was another of Doug Moe's scraphead acquisitions . . . players that didn't fit a traditional system but that Moe saw something in and that thrived in Denver (Adams, Lever, Schayes, Hanslick, Dunn, Cooper, Vandeweghe, etc.) . . . Can't think of any player that didn't thrive under Moe but that went elsewhere and became a top starter; they had a lot of really bad 1st round DCs in that period (I remember Moe in preseason calling the guy his GM picked but he didn't want a "fat, little, pig" ).

[Goubot]

He did have a decent season, but he had free reign to chuck and the Nuggets played at a pace 10 freaking more possessions than the second fastest team that year (16 possessions above the league average). That's a huge factor that makes it really easy to accumulate stats. I wouldn't take what he accomplished that seriously since that season was an outlier in his career and he was a complete defensive sieve.

[Goubot]

He did have a decent season, but he had free reign to chuck and the Nuggets played at a pace 10 freaking more possessions than the second fastest team that year (16 possessions above the league average). That's a huge factor that makes it really easy to accumulate stats. I wouldn't take what he accomplished that seriously since that season was an outlier in his career and he was a complete defensive sieve.

[shawngoat23]

I remember a few years ago, Allen Iverson had posted two (or three?) straight games of 40/10, which had at that point been accomplished by one player. Brent Musberger was announcing the game, and he mentioned that fact: "This has been accomplished by only one other player, the legend himself--Michael..."

I was definitely expecting him to say Jordan, but Michael Adams? Now, I know Michael Adams is a good player and everything, but true to Musberger form, he had to refer to him as a legend. That guy would make a Heat/Bucks end-of-season game sound epic.

[bluestang302]

That season was a bigtime outlier for Adams, who was basically a chucker. On that same Nuggets team, Orlando Woolridge averaged 25 a game. Woolridge, who played with Michael Jordan for his first two years and then latched onto the dynasty Lakers, was a better scorer than Adams was. Adams did average 18 a game the following year for Washington, but they were a bad team as well.

He was a fairly popular player in the early 90s because he was 5 foot 10, fast, and had a funky looking 3 point shot that he jacked up constantly.

[Blame Rasho]

Pace baby....

Think of Mighty Mouse... and that is who he was.