Amazing shooting night for Lebron. 62 points is very very hard. Makes me contemplate Kobe's 82 and think wtf. For my money, the greatest individual single game feat ever. (I consider wilts 100 pts 2nd based on level of opponent he was playing)
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Jordan never scored 62 in a regulation game FWIW, his high was 61 as well. Scoring 60+ without OT, let alone 81, is incredible.
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MJ got to 61 twice in regulation I believe. In his 69 pt game he had 61 at the end of regulation, and scored 8 more in OT. He also had 18 rebounds and 6 assists in that game.
MJ scored 61 or more 5 times, four were OT games, though like I said, his 69 point effort was 61 points at the end of regulation.
My favorite high scoring game though has to be David Robinson winning the scoring title against Shaq with a 71 point performance.
Note for the kids here. LeBron wouldn't be the first dominant player to not win MVP in years he was clearly the most valuable player in the game should Durant win the award this year (and assuming most people would still pick LeBron over Durant). It's happened many times, especially when a player has such a long and dominant stretch.
There also seems to be a need to define "hater". Few disrespect his game in any way at this point just shy of naming him GOAT. If a "hater" is anyone who doesn't cheer for the guy...why does the world have to like a certain player? Especially playing in a city where the locals are generally averse to sports. I suspect it's the second, who gives a flying crap. I have absolutely no desire for the rest of the world to cheer for ISU if they don't want to, not sure why so many LeBron fans need people to like him.
There also seems to be a need to define "hater". Few disrespect his game in any way at this point just shy of naming him GOAT. If a "hater" is anyone who doesn't cheer for the guy...why does the world have to like a certain player? Especially playing in a city where the locals are generally averse to sports. I suspect it's the second, who gives a flying crap. I have absolutely no desire for the rest of the world to cheer for ISU if they don't want to, not sure why so many LeBron fans need people to like him.
If LeBron can retool his game to be more of a low block player as he gets older, and stays healthy, he could easily be statistical GOAT even if there's still likely an argument about who was the greatest per year played, in their prime, or whatever. Look at what Jordan and Kobe did late in their careers becoming more post up players. LeBron has that athleticism and so much more size, he could potentially not even have much of a drop off as he gets older.
Completely agree. He is so athletically talented I could see him being effective very late in his career.
Yes, I was wondering if anyone would remember that robinson scoring deal. I am a huge 90's bball nerd. So I was about 12 at the time and was a hugggge shaq fan. We didnt have cable or internet so I wouldnt know what happend in games until NBA inside stuff was on on saturday or if I happened to see a paper. So I knew for sure that shaq had won the scoring title and was soooo happy. A few days later I heard about Robinsons 70+ points and feeling very sad.
You cant discuss Lebron with Lebron fans. I dont care for Durant, not because I think he sucks, becuase I dont like his team. However, if you say something about him, his fans dont lose their **** like Lebron fans do. They are just like Jordan fans, if you dont love love love him then you are a troll and a hater and blah blah blah. Its like if someone says I hate kobe but I respect his game, I say neat, I dont lose it.
I posted a thread about lebron breaking his nose and all the fanboys came flying in calling me a bad person for talking about an injury. Really?
Very possible, but he'll have to show more willingness to go down low and bang on the block. We've seen him move to the low post a couple times in recent history, but a commentator (JVG, I believe) called him out for being capable in the low block but only going there if he absolutely had to.
I posted about this exact thing a page or two ago. Voter fatigue exists. That's why Barkley and Malone each stole one from Jordan in the 90s. People just get tired of the same guy winning again and again.
The other weird thing is, it's a regular season reward. Rose truly deserved it for the regular season when he was the best player on the best team, playoffs was a different story. Most thought LeBron was actually the MVP as he beat Chicago and clearly outplayed Rose...but then LeBron had the largest statistical collapse in Finals history. If they voted after the season Dirk would have won MVP easily over LeBron that year and the pundits were wrong. So you never really know.
Its the only real black mark on an otherwise insanely amazing career. You can chose to talk goat and bring it up, or you can ignore it and never talk about lbj as goat, but you can't talk goat and ignore it as you like to do.
I've never made the argument that he's the greatest ever, I've always said it was too early in his career to define his legacy.
Giving you benefit of the doubt, but there are other people in the world who talk about it and you don't like a simple fact brought up about your bf. you were basically who I was talking about. In the last few posts I go on about what an epic player he is but you need people to like him and bring up no negatives.
I honestly don't care how other people feel about him. Who someone else roots for, or likes, is of no importance to me.
I've never changed my position. I was never the one who was obsessed with "bandwagon" fans.
I still think KD should win the MVP as of right now. His stats are slightly ahead of LBJ, and his team has the same record, and a better seed in a more difficult conference. It could change, but if OKC ends up with the one seed in the west, I think he should get it.