65 points by guess who?

anyone?

same guy that scored 81

What are you talking about?

well if he got 81 then why is 65 worthy of a fucking thread?

59 percent shooting for one! and a win!

what??????

so they lost when he shot 81? whatever team this is you are talking about, they must suck.

Is this worthy of a thread?

enjoy it while it's up

http://dewsaw.com/sports/

Did he elbow anyone in the process of scoring 65?

yep, like every other player... but he didn't shove JKidd out of bounds with the ball like Diesel and not get suspended

mario lemiux? oh, i figured you were talking about some basketball player? yeah, mario rocks.

who said they lost?

where's the respect... come on

i stopped watching a while ago when i saw that they were trailing..i was thinking it was an inevitable 8-games skid...i didn't expect that they would win. :D

I just found that site I posted. I think they archive the games, so you might want to download it! I was half watching and thinking the same thing. I'm glad I left it on. One man team.... They should just give the ball to him everytime...

Yeah it was a great performance, too bad these seem few and far between for him this year. The reason they've been losing so much the second half of the season is because they have been giving him the ball every time. If he was passing the ball more like the first half they wouldn't be slumping. He's only shooting 46% and is 3rd in the league in turnovers per game. They'll be lucky to hold onto the 8th spot for the playoffs.

No he's still passing, until tonight and I'm glad he didn't tonight, that's why they won. They have been in a slump due to injuries to 3 starters and more. When you have 3 starters not playing and when your team generally sucks, you are going to lose. Without Kobe the entire team would be the worst in the league at full health. Well Odom was playing like an All Star till he got hurt and they were in the top 5 in the league then. I'm hoping they get the 7th seed, because they match up well against the Suns and I want to see a repeat of last year's 1st round with my two favorite teams.

Hollinger Stats = Player Efficiency
RNK Player GP Min FG% FT% TS% Ast TO Usg ORR DRR Reb PER
1 Dwyane Wade, MIA 46 38.9 .494 .816 .589 21.6 11.5 32.6 3.2 11.1 7.2 29.96
2 Dirk Nowitzki, DAL 62 36.9 .499 .900 .605 13.4 8.2 26.8 5.7 25.3 15.6 28.48
3 Yao Ming, HOU 33 33.6 .512 .861 .594 8.1 14.1 30.5 7.3 24.3 15.8 26.23
4 Tim Duncan, SAS 65 34.5 .535 .647 .570 14.2 12.1 25.6 9.9 27.0 18.7 25.43
5 Kevin Garnett, MIN 62 39.6 .482 .833 .552 15.4 9.3 25.5 8.0 29.7 19.2 25.40
6 Kobe Bryant, LAL 60 39.9 .458 .863 .580 16.5 10.1 30.2 2.8 14.0 8.5 25.10
7 LeBron James, CLE 62 40.8 .484 .682 .558 17.4 9.6 29.5 2.9 16.4 9.5 25.01
8 Manu Ginobili, SAS 60 27.7 .467 .855 .611 17.7 11.2 25.8 4.0 14.9 9.6 24.68
9 Carlos Boozer, UTH 56 35.1 .564 .688 .591 12.7 10.9 24.4 11.1 28.9 20.1 24.25
10 Steve Nash, PHO 58 35.7 .529 .888 .653 38.7 12.5 24.1 1.5 9.1 5.5 24.20
11 Gilbert Arenas, WAS 63 40.5 .419 .848 .565 16.7 9.8 29.7 2.5 11.3 6.8 23.82
12 Amare Stoudemire, PHO 64 33.1 .584 .795 .650 4.9 14.1 22.2 10.9 22.8 17.1

The Player Efficiency Rating (PER) is a rating of a player's per-minute productivity.

To generate it, I created formulas -- which I've outlined in tortuous detail in "Pro Basketball Forecast" -- that return a value for each of a player's accomplishments. That includes positive accomplishments, such as field goals, free throws, 3-pointers, assists, rebounds, blocks and steals, and negative ones, such as missed shots, turnovers and personal fouls.

Two important things to remember about PER is that it's per-minute and pace-adjusted. It's a per-minute measure because that allows us to compare, say, Drew Gooden to Donyell Marshall, even though there is a wide disparity in the minutes they played. I also adjust each player's rating for his team's pace, so that players on a slow-paced team like Indiana aren't penalized just because their team's games have fewer possessions than those of a fast-paced team such as Phoenix.

Bear in mind that this rating is not the final, once-and-for-all answer for a player's accomplishments during the season. This is especially true for players such as Bruce Bowen and Trenton Hassell who are defensive specialists but don't get many blocks or steals. What PER can do, however, is summarize a player's statistical accomplishments in a single number. That allows us to unify the disparate data on each player that we try to track in our heads (e.g., Danny Fortson: great rebounder, high-percentage shooter, turnover machine, fouls like crazy, etc.) so that we can move on to evaluating what might be missing from the stats.

I set the league average in PER to 15.00 every season.

Among players who played at least 500 minutes in 2005-06, the highest rating was Dirk Nowitzki's 28.20. The lowest was Jim Jackson's 3.01.

"PER" RANKINGS 2005-06 (minimum: 500 min.)
Top 10 PER Bottom 10 PER
Dirk Nowitzki 28.20 Jim Jackson 3.01
LeBron James 28.17 Ryan Bowen 3.97
Kobe Bryant 28.11 Rafael Araujo 4.51

Yeah he is passing slightly more this year(1 assist per game), but his scoring average is down 6 pts. They have had injuries this year, but they also had a bunch last year. Yeah i'm hoping they play the Suns in the first round cause my Sun's tickets will fetch top dollar as the Laker games here in Phx are always hot. They'll have a tough last month as there's a bunch of teams nipping on their heels. I just got back from watching the Pistons blow out the Suns. Suns better step it up or they'll slide to the 3rd spot.

Would be a great series. I hope it happens and I hope Odom, Kwame and Luke are healthy.

I hope it happens and they aren't healthy Last year was too close for comfort.

ha ha yeah... I hope the Lakers win this time!