Zitat von Bill Simmons (in einem A. Davis Artikel vor kurzem, der auch lesenswert ist: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/...vis-new-orleans-pelicans-stats-boogie-cousins )
"I mentioned on Monday’s Ringer NBA Show that if the NBA created a stat called “Holy Fucking Shit Games” to commemorate victories fueled by one player utterly eviscerating his opponent, Davis would have the highest number this season. Multiple listeners suggested Basketball-Reference’s game score as a way to figure it out. After some trial and error, I made 36.0 the cutoff, with the wrinkle that it had to be a WINNING evisceration. Only 36 HFS Games qualified. Your current leaders:
Anthony Davis, 7
James Harden, 5
Stephen Curry, 3
Nobody else has more than two. I kept digging. Basketball-Reference keeps track of every game score since the 1983–84 season, also known as The Basketball Jesus’s First MVP Season. You won’t believe this, but Michael Jordan holds the “Most HFS Games in One Year” record. The rest of our leaders:
15 — Michael Jordan (1988)
11 — Michael Jordan (1987)
10 — David Robinson (1994)
9 — Charles Barkley (1989)
9 — Michael Jordan (1990, 1993)
8 — Kobe Bryant (2007)
7 — Larry Bird (1985, 1987)
7 — Patrick Ewing (1990)
7 — LeBron James (2010)
7 — Stephen Curry (2016)
7 — Anthony Davis (2018)
Quick tangent: I enjoyed this admittedly random list because (a) it cements MJ’s already unassailable GOAT résumé (sorry, LeBron); (b) gives Larry Legend a win over Magic (let’s gooooooo!); (c) ignores The Mail Fraud, Karl Malone (read my book for my details); (d) pays proper homage to ’89 Barkley (who truly missed his calling as a League Pass/Basketball Twitter God), ’90 Ewing (sneaky great), ’94 Robinson (a fantasy hoops behemoth) and ’16 Curry (immortal for those first 25 games); and (e) provides a little historical perspective to Davis’s season. His night-to-night ceiling ranks higher than any power forward since Barkley’s Philly run. It’s higher than 2007 Dirk, 2004 KG, 2001 C-Webb, or any Duncan season — and by the way, Duncan is the greatest power forward ever."
"I mentioned on Monday’s Ringer NBA Show that if the NBA created a stat called “Holy Fucking Shit Games” to commemorate victories fueled by one player utterly eviscerating his opponent, Davis would have the highest number this season. Multiple listeners suggested Basketball-Reference’s game score as a way to figure it out. After some trial and error, I made 36.0 the cutoff, with the wrinkle that it had to be a WINNING evisceration. Only 36 HFS Games qualified. Your current leaders:
Anthony Davis, 7
James Harden, 5
Stephen Curry, 3
Nobody else has more than two. I kept digging. Basketball-Reference keeps track of every game score since the 1983–84 season, also known as The Basketball Jesus’s First MVP Season. You won’t believe this, but Michael Jordan holds the “Most HFS Games in One Year” record. The rest of our leaders:
15 — Michael Jordan (1988)
11 — Michael Jordan (1987)
10 — David Robinson (1994)
9 — Charles Barkley (1989)
9 — Michael Jordan (1990, 1993)
8 — Kobe Bryant (2007)
7 — Larry Bird (1985, 1987)
7 — Patrick Ewing (1990)
7 — LeBron James (2010)
7 — Stephen Curry (2016)
7 — Anthony Davis (2018)
Quick tangent: I enjoyed this admittedly random list because (a) it cements MJ’s already unassailable GOAT résumé (sorry, LeBron); (b) gives Larry Legend a win over Magic (let’s gooooooo!); (c) ignores The Mail Fraud, Karl Malone (read my book for my details); (d) pays proper homage to ’89 Barkley (who truly missed his calling as a League Pass/Basketball Twitter God), ’90 Ewing (sneaky great), ’94 Robinson (a fantasy hoops behemoth) and ’16 Curry (immortal for those first 25 games); and (e) provides a little historical perspective to Davis’s season. His night-to-night ceiling ranks higher than any power forward since Barkley’s Philly run. It’s higher than 2007 Dirk, 2004 KG, 2001 C-Webb, or any Duncan season — and by the way, Duncan is the greatest power forward ever."