My words, Klay Thompson

[Bulldog from Birth]

His 3rd quarter stat line:

9 of 9 on 3 pointers (9 3's made an NBA record for a single quarter)
13 of 13 from the floor
37 points (NBA record for a single quarter)

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015...ay-thompsons-record-breaking-37-point-quarter

 

[klong-dog]

Yeah that's stupid there. I'd say he was beyond en fuego.


Finished with 52. 11 for 15 in 3's.

 

[hatfieldms]

insane

....

 

[Hankp22]

He is awesome

He has transformed his game and is now one of the NBA elites. He has one of the quickest releases I've seen. And people think of him as a shooter, but he has now become a scorer. He can put the ball on the floor and finish.

The NBA is awesome right now. It is great to see teams like GST, ATL, Portland, MEM, and WSH at the top of their divisions. All of them play solid team basketball. There is a youth movement taking place in the league. It will be interesting to see how they hold up in the 2nd half/playoffs.

For the record, GST is paying Curry/Thomspon around a combined total of $15 million this year. Thompson's salary will increase to $15 million next year when his new deal goes into effect. With that in mind, GST will get two years out of the Curry/Thomspon combo for what the Heat will get out of only Chris Bosh.

 

[DAWG61]

He has transformed his game and is now one of the NBA elites. He has one of the quickest releases I've seen. And people think of him as a shooter, but he has now become a scorer. He can put the ball on the floor and finish.

The NBA is awesome right now. It is great to see teams like GST, ATL, Portland, MEM, and WSH at the top of their divisions. All of them play solid team basketball. There is a youth movement taking place in the league. It will be interesting to see how they hold up in the 2nd half/playoffs.

For the record, GST is paying Curry/Thomspon around a combined total of $15 million this year. Thompson's salary will increase to $15 million next year when his new deal goes into effect. With that in mind, GST will get two years out of the Curry/Thomspon combo for what the Heat will get out of only Chris Bosh.

And $10 mill less than just Kobe.

 

[57stratdawg]

He's a beast. I remeber thinking when we played him "that's the best player we'll face all year".

 

[DerHntr]

That was a thing of beauty. Definitely would have been awesome to witness it live.

 

[captain.sixpack]

Flashbacks of Shan Foster

 

[maroonwhitedawg3ddd]

Amen to the Shane Foster episode!!!

Remember watching and throwing **** all over the 17ing place....

 

[klong-dog]

Ugh sickening. Couldn't believe what I was hearing while listening to Jack. Then seeing highlights later that night, unbelievable. Most were 10-15 ft behind the 3 pt line too.

 

[Seinfeld]

There is a youth movement taking place in the league. It will be interesting to see how they hold up in the 2nd half/playoffs.

It makes me feel really old to think that guys like Kobe, KG, Zebo, and even LeBron are the old men in the league now

 

[Seinfeld]

And it also makes your realize how unbelievable good our team was that year. That was a game against a very good Vandy team(I think on the road) and it also included Foster going completely unconscious, yet we still were within inches of winning that game. Didn't it go to OT?

Seriously, that MSU squad was team that could have won the national title. 17ing Xavier

 

[DawgatAuburn]

You're off by four years. The Foster game was in 08. We did have a great team that year but in typical fashion we pissed away too many of them including losing to UGA in front of about 100 people at Georgia Tech, and ended up an 8 seed that lost to Memphis in the second round.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Most were 10-15 ft behind the 3 pt line too.

That might be exaggerating juuuuuust a bit.

 

[Seinfeld]

Ahh, that's right. It was the last year of Gordon/Rhodes. I remembered that we had been steamrolling through the schedule up to that point which made me think it was the '05 year, but we had a hell of a roster in '08 as well. Gordon, Rhodes, Varnado, Hansbrough, and Stewart... If we hadn't gotten completely hosed in the NCAAs by that little 17er, Willie Kemp, who knows how far they would have gone

 

[KurtRambis4]

To be the

best, you've got to beat the best.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

It's much easier to be the best when you don't have to play the best in the second round.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

How much of your fantasy football winnings would you bet if I told you Willie Kemp only hit one shot in the second half of that game?

 

[KurtRambis4]

Well

that's your opinion. I'm of the opinion that they're all good teams by that point, capable of beating anyone.

 

[patdog]

But you don't have to beat the best to make it to the Sweet Sixteen unless you piss away games you have no excuse losing. There's no reason that team should have been playing a top seed in the 2nd round.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I never was

much into crying about losing.

 

[patdog]

We get it. You're OK with losing to the worst team in the SEC when they had already played 45 minutes that morning. I wasn't then, and I'm still not.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Now you're just

completely straw-manning it...or just a complete swing and a miss on reading comprehension.

 

[Seinfeld]

My memory's not good enough anymore to dispute that, but I can most definitely recall him going 4-5 from downtown which was an utter anomaly for him. It also felt 14 out of 15 because none of their other players could really get anything going throughout the entire game. Without Kemp winning the random ******* award for the day, we win that game easily.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Sure, they are all good. But there's a difference in playing an elite team who is a 1 seed and a good team who is a 4 seed. To deny there is a difference in the second round is impossible.

 

[KurtRambis4]

The difference

can be so negligible on any given night, that's it's impossible to say. So many factors are involved.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Check the statistics on how often 1 seeds win at least two games in the tournament. Everyone knows they've never lost to a 16. The losses to 8/9 teams, while memorable, are very infrequent. Your odds of advancing are not good when you have to play them in the second round. Then compare that to how often 3's, 4's and 5's win at least two games. Much less often. One seeds are one seeds for a reason. They are the most elite teams in the country.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm not speaking

soley about 1 seeds.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Huh? Who are you talking about then?

 

[KurtRambis4]

I'm talking

about beating who is put in front of you. Crying about it serves no purpose.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I get it. That makes for good fanspeak and coachspeak. But "beating who is put in front of you" is more achievable when you don't piss away your seeding in the regular season.

 

[KurtRambis4]

You can call it what you want,

but it's the truth. You have to beat a top team at some point. I woukd hope our teams' goal is a little higher than just making the "sweet sixteen."

 

[Sandman.sixpack]

Incredible! Just watched the Youtube.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I'll just call it common sense.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Yes I'm glad you agree

It's common sense that you are going to have to beat who is in front of you. Keep crying, though.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

You're totally grasping. Everyone agrees you have to play who's in front of you. Everyone except you apparently also agrees that making your path as easy as possible by having a higher seed is a good thing. Funny you don't see Coach K, Pitino, Roy Williams, Calipari, Izzo and others just farting around in the regular season and being happy with an 8 seed.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Great point****

*

 

[BKCBully]

http://youtu.be/UXhlgCfQpgw

How Charles Rhodes makes money now (or whenever this video was made) is hilarious.