Quarter way into season

A bit of a holy sh!t scoring game by Klay Thompson there. At 60 points, equal 56th best single player scoring game in history and done it with just 30 minutes of game time (in fact, he was benched the entire of the 4th quarter, it was his night, why? I get not wanting to risk losing star players to injury when you are that far in front but it's not like GSW are short of talent if they do get an injury... maybe he went cold). He earnt it with his shooting figures. But he didn't do much of anything else, especially defensively.

On average, Klay Thompson is actually shooting slightly more than either Curry or Durant.

EDIT: He is, in fact, the only player with 60 points or more in a single game with a 2 before the minutes played at 29 (not 30; I probably rounded it up). There are 7 who played less than 40 minutes. This includes 11 players who scored 60, so 67 games in total. The most significant other points per minute players seems to be George "Iceman" Gervin at 63 in 33 minutes of play in 1978, Kobe Bryant at 62 in 32:53 in 2005 and Karl "the Mailman" Malone with 61 in 33 minutes of play in 1991. Of course, this is processing off sight. Wilt Chamberlain's 100 in 48 minutes of play be marginally better than Thompson's per minute and there could be others. At least in terms of shooting and scoring (maybe not passing), Klay most resembles "Pistol" Pete Maravich to me (whose career high was 68 in 43 minutes in 1977). It is often speculated Maravich's scoring would have been through the roof if they had the 3 point line back then, so in some respects I think we see what Maravich might have done with Klay Thompson. If Klay were on his own team, he'd probably be an easy 30 ppg player.

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Russell Westbrooks 22 assist, 26 point and 11 rebound game is probably the triple double of the season. He didn't turn over the ball too excessively like normal going about 4:1 assist to turnover ratio at 5 turnovers. He wasn't the most efficient from the field like Durant was in his teams 45 point thumping of Portland yesterday, but he was above his normal grade and decent for a 26 point outing. (That Chris Paul 20:0 assist game the other week was phenomenal as well.)

It is looking increasingly likely that he's not about to slow down and may get that Oscar Robertson triple double average across season record. Whether or not he deserves it, I don't know. We will never know as we don't have official numbers for turnovers and steals for Oscar, but he was a 5% better shooter at a time when shooting numbers were lower. It is likely he is earning far more rebounds than the Big O did so on the balance if he can continue this up for a few more games (about 50 or so ) he could be a historical rival.

I think Oklahoma City has been lucky to have gotten the win-loss they have so far. I won't be surprised if the tide changes... They're probably about the same as Oscar's Cincinatti Royals, .500 bound. Even if he gets Oscar Robertson's record, I think so far the MVP is Durant.

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8 games since Stephen Curry last shot better than 50.0% and only once in the last 16 games and a lot of those times his shooting was bad. Given a season ago greater than 1 in every 2 games would see him shoot better than 50%, he has certainly nosed dived since I started this thread. The trend is for quality players to improve their shooting efficiency the tighter a roster gets, but whereas there has been some improvement in Durant's figures (who has also tended to drop off in recent games) Curry's has gone in the opposite direction. IMO, Curry was probably a 1 amazing season only player, and certainly no Jordan. There is no indication he has going to get any better by the end of the season.

Probably good fortune they picked up Durant. Without Durant changing the dynamic, I don't think Curry would have replicated his 2015-16 season. 2016-17 so far seems to resemble his 2015-16 playoffs form. I think Durant came in at just the right time to make them a phenomenal team for another season.

Also, Russell Westbrook on average is slowing down, and I have my doubts he'll sustain his triple double before the seasons end. Especially if his shooting actually improves, as I presume he is rebounding a lot of his own misses.

EDIT: Benching Klay Thompson for the 4th quarter in his 60 point game may have protected him from injury, but it also blew a chance for him to boost his self-esteem and probably realize his potential.

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Russell Westbrook got a quadruple double: 21 pts, 11 rebounds, 12 assists... and 10 turnovers!  (There are actually allegedly only 7 with turnovers recorded in history, I gather since 1978? I think when individual turnovers were first recorded. 3 of them have been this season: 2 for Westbrook and 1 for Harden.)

Stephen Curry has had .500 or more shooting from 3 of the last 4 games, but nothing sensational. Nothing as over the mark than he dropped below it in the one game he didn't (.381). He's got a lot of fixing up to do. Right now, he is a slightly better player than Kyrie Irving, no match for Durant or James.

Cover up: http://www.geocities.ws/rotafan/video.html

Another quadruple double on turnovers for Westbrook! He's on a roll (or at least the ball is, from his hands)! Maybe he can average a quadruple double by the end of the season?

Durant at 40 points at 80% shooting should have been entitled to a 60+ point game by his teammates.

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About bloody time Steph Curry had a slightly good shooting game fitting the legend, and that the big 3 of the team were all fired up, albeit against an enfeebled LA Clippers. Still, Durant showed off Curry in terms of efficiency again, and Curry will need a lot more of this to even be in the discussion of MVP anything. Probably the only game this season where they showed what they could be when they're all on target!

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201701280GSW.html

As I don't get the visuals, maybe Curry is getting more punitive defence than Durant?

Cover up: http://www.geocities.ws/rotafan/video.html (in short: 7:23 and 18:43)

Draymond Green had an insane game a couple of days ago:

12 rebounds, 10 assists (2 turnovers, 5:1 ratio), 10 steals, 5 blocks, and 4 points. A triple double off steals, just 6 points from a quadruple double and very nearly his second 5x5.

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