HeartBreakKid wrote:TheXgasm wrote:HeartBreakKid wrote:in a blow out.
Exactly, and this is why the 70-pt game was trash. The NBA has a blowout almost every day, and this is why you see a ton of these crap 70 point games in those blowouts all the time, because it's super easy to score 70 in a blowout. It's a pretty common thing because it's all trash-time basketball and so even the worst NBA players have scored 70 (or at least 65!) in blowouts, it happens basically every freaking day and everyone needs to calm down about this trash chucker with the awful haircut and dumb name.
I don't understand what you're arguing, that 70 point games happen very rarely? I mean Devin Booker got super hot, sure - but throwing saying he's better than Frank because of a
one 70 point game is dumb because thats all it was - one really great game. It's as dumb as when people say Kobe Bryant > because he scored 81 points. There are other reasons in Devin Bookers favor than a total outlier game.
And the reason why it is worth noting it is a blow out because if you watch the game, it's really obvious that
A) The Celtics are barely trying, because it's a blow out.
B) Devin Booker is pretty much just hitting absurd shots that he would not be able to duplicate, hence why he's never done anything like that since. It's called getting hot.
Just because the statement isn't totally sucking Devin Booker's dick doesn't mean I am trying to tarnish his legacy here. He scored a 70 point points in a meaningless game, that really doesn't say much about how good Devin Booker was - because frankly, he wasn't a good player last year as are many players his age. Devin Booker has had a career high than many more other players, does that mean he's automatically better than anyone who's never scored 70 points - the whole "he dropped 70 points" is a really dumb point.
While I agree with you on the premise that the 70 pt game is an outlier and shouldn't be a main reason that Booker is better than Kaminsky, I don't have the time to see if Kaminsky put together a stretch of 3 or 4 games that totaled 70 pts. I'm not going to totally dismiss it as trash or that it happens all the time or everyday. I'm sure that TheXgasm must have been heavy with sarcasm, but forgot to use the sarcasm font. Only in 2K do blowouts and 65+ pt games happen every day. In fact, only 2 times has a player scored 60 or more in a game last season and only done 6 times in the last 10 years.
To your 2 points:
A) Of course the Celtics were trying to stop Booker from putting big numbers on them. Everyone has an ego in the league, they cared. It didn't matter which "Defensive stopper" they put on him, Smart, Crowder, anyone. No one was stopping Booker that night, he was scoring at will in variety of ways.
B) Your premise that he can't hit the shots he was hitting again is absurd, since those shots are all in his arsenal and he uses them regularly. This is why he has scored at least 30 pts, 21 times before turning 21 yrs old. Also, you give proof that he can't do it because he hasn't done it since is laughable. How many games has there been since that game? How many current players, not just Booker, have hit 60 pts since? Nobody goes for that type of points regularly, and even the best players to ever play would be proud to be in the 60 pt club.
Booker wasn't as efficient last year, play as good of defense, get as many boards, or assist on as many scores as people who look at numbers think he should as a 20 yr old, but that didn't mean he was a bad player last year. Like I've said many times, Booker is far better this year and anyone saying otherwise is just parroting some nonsense and really don't know. What are realistic expectations for a 20 yr old 2nd year player that was thrust(probably prematurely) into the #1 scoring option on a team?
