Basketball: Do the Stats Tell the Story?

[DGS49]

Bam Adebayo scores 83, second-most points in NBA history

Bam Adebayo scored the most points since Wilt Chamberlain's iconic 100-point game in 1962 as the Heat star went for 83 points in a blowout win over the Wizards.

www.espn.com

OK, so this is the big story from yesterday...dude scored a shit-load of points. HOWEVER...

Look at the stats line: 20/43 from the field and 7/22 from behind the arc.

As far as I'm concerned, all that scoring didn't even help his team. He just took the shots that others could have, and made fewer than they would have. If you score bigly like that, you MUST have a high percentage of made shots, otherwise it's just a matter of being a ball-hog. He didn't even make half of his shots. And 7/22 from 3-point range? No thanks. 33% is the "Mendoza Line" for three pointers, and he didn't even do that.

This is a tainted performance. Ball Hog CIty.

 

[pknopp]

I was wondering how anyone was left. You would have thought they would all have fouled out.

One would think someone might have said "stop fouling him".

 

[Eman623]

Adebayo's final numbers: 20-of-43 from the field, 36-of-43 from the foul line, 7-for-22 from 3-point range.

Am i missing something? That adds up to 97 points, not 83.

 

[pknopp]

Adebayo's final numbers: 20-of-43 from the field, 36-of-43 from the foul line, 7-for-22 from 3-point range.

Am i missing something? That adds up to 97 points, not 83.

They count the three's in with FG. He was 7 for 22 from 3 and 13 for 21 from 2.

 

[rightwinger]

Adebayo's final numbers: 20-of-43 from the field, 36-of-43 from the foul line, 7-for-22 from 3-point range. It was a stat line unlike any other in NBA history.

None of those numbers indicate he was having a career night

Who goes to the foul line 43 times?

 

[Meister]

36-43 from the foul line was damn impressive by itself.
An NBA record to be sure.

 

[IM2]

Bam Adebayo scores 83, second-most points in NBA history

Bam Adebayo scored the most points since Wilt Chamberlain's iconic 100-point game in 1962 as the Heat star went for 83 points in a blowout win over the Wizards.

www.espn.com

OK, so this is the big story from yesterday...dude scored a shit-load of points. HOWEVER...

Look at the stats line: 20/43 from the field and 7/22 from behind the arc.

As far as I'm concerned, all that scoring didn't even help his team. He just took the shots that others could have, and made fewer than they would have. If you score bigly like that, you MUST have a high percentage of made shots, otherwise it's just a matter of being a ball-hog. He didn't even make half of his shots. And 7/22 from 3-point range? No thanks. 33% is the "Mendoza Line" for three pointers, and he didn't even do that.

This is a tainted performance. Ball Hog CIty.

Wrong. 83 points is 83 points. Thats a hell of an accomplishment.

 

[rightwinger]

Wrong. 83 points is 83 points. Thats a hell of an accomplishment.

On 86 shots

 

[IM2]

On 86 shots

So?