Michael Jordan is a fraud

[tlance]

Yes and all the Trumpies are saying is it's possible to rig an election. Same mindset.

LOL.

In this case?

Doesn’t even have to be rigged. Could be a mistake.

You ever kept an official basketball scorebook?

each player has 1 line in the book. Scorekeeper writes in 2 for every bucket on their line. Circles for every FT attempt that get slashed through on the makes.

Well, those lines don’t have that much space. You run out of room when a player scores that much. His totals going to run over into other columns.

Really easy to miscount.

 

[msgkings322]

LOL.

In this case?

Doesn’t even have to be rigged. Could be a mistake.

You ever kept an official basketball scorebook?

each player has 1 line in the book. Scorekeeper writes in 2 for every bucket on their line. Circles for every FT attempt that get slashed through on the makes.

Well, those lines don’t have that much space. You run out of room when a player scores that much. His totals going to run over into other columns.

Really easy to miscount.

Okey doke

 

[tlance]

Okey doke

You saying it not even possible for 1 guy to get it wrong is honestly pretty crazy.

 

[msgkings322]

You saying it not even possible for 1 guy to get it wrong is honestly pretty crazy.

I didn't say it was impossible

 

[tlance]

I didn't say it was impossible

Um….

You said it was dumb for me to question whether or not the 100 was legit.

When all I ever said was that I had reason to be skeptical. Not that I think it wasn’t legit.

So yeah, you kind of did.

Bulls stat guys fudging those stats in the 80s and 90s is way crazier with all the eyeballs on those Bulls games.

How many people were there for Wilt’s 100 game? 1000?

Whatever it was, doesn’t compare to a TV audience.

 

[msgkings322]

Um….

You said it was dumb for me to question whether or not the 100 was legit.

It is

When all I ever said was that I had reason to be skeptical. Not that I think it wasn’t legit.

OK, it's less dumb to be skeptical but still pretty conspiratorial

So yeah, you kind of did.

No

Bulls stat guys fudging those stats in the 80s and 90s is way crazier with all the eyeballs on those Bulls games.

How many people were there for Wilt’s 100 game? 1000?

Whatever it was, doesn’t compare to a TV audience.

This matters so little and here we are still discussing. The chances Wilt scored less than 100 points that day is so tiny as to be meaningless to me.

 

[rmilia1]

MJ is still an all time great

But he IS the most overrated defender of all time

Barely top 150 all time in defensive rating and that's with spending the majority of his career guarding the oppositions 2nd or 3rd option

 

[tlance]

It is

OK, it's less dumb to be skeptical but still pretty conspiratorial

No

This matters so little and here we are still discussing. The chances Wilt scored less than 100 points that day is so tiny as to be meaningless to me.

Great.

I’m skeptical and you aren’t.

Calling me dumb for being skeptical is dumb.

Time to move on.

 

[YourFriendGannon]

That is a wild story.

Yet another advantage for players of past eras.

Much harder to inflate stats today.

Memphis' home scorekeeping was accused of this in the middle of the season in which Jaren Jackson won dPOY. I guess it became a big deal because of the fact Jackson was the Vegas frontrunner for the award at the time.