Not to keep harping on 1 game, but I found this interesting.....

Rodney Stuckey's 40-point performance against Chicago on Tuesday was even more special in the context of his starting experience. He was just the third player in the past 25 years to score 40 or more points in 12 or fewer career starts. Michael Jordan had a 45-point game against San Antonio in his ninth career start and Ledell Eackles, playing for the Washington Bullets, scored 40 against New Jersey in 1990 during his 12th start. Stuckey made his 13th career start on Friday.

- Yahoo! Sports

But Stuckey should have been starting a long time ago, but still impressive.

Who could forget Ledell Eackles?

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Originally posted by Swettz:
Who could forget Ledell Eackles?

Darn right

but who was that Jordan guy?

It is definitely impressive. Of the few games I have actually seen this season, I was glad I saw that one.

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Originally posted by swift_carlos:
but who was that Jordan guy?

Beats me...

Jordan was a bust but if Stuckey could be half as good as Eackles I'll be thrilled!!!

I hear he has a son playing college ball. Maybe in the draft? ......

that would be both hillarious if mj's kid ended up being drafted and ended up playing his whole career with det .. man that would be flippin sweet lol

I love Stuck and his Chicago game was sweet.

But, he was guarded by short guards, and took it to the rack (his specialty) against a weak frontline even if they had Drew Gooden (which they didn't.) And AI left the game with a groin problem. Talk about the stars lining up for him.

It reminds me of David Lee's 19 boards against Detroit when he was the only player from either team that was regularly even NEAR the basket.

Anywho...Stuckey was flat-out SPOSDA get 40 on Chicago. I like his other great games where he gets like 17 points and 9 assists and 2 steals against something worthy.

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Originally posted by coolness:

Anywho...Stuckey was flat-out SPOSDA get 40 on Chicago. I like his other great games where he gets like 17 points and 9 assists and 2 steals against something worthy.

No one is really SPOSDA get 40 points, even the GREAT Ronald Murray has only ever scored 31 points in a game on 11 of 23 shooting, Stuckey got his 40 on only one more attempt 15-24. Makes you think, you would have figured it would have tooken Murray at the very least 40 attempts to get 30 points.

what does flip murray have to do with stuck droppin 40

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Originally posted by Yugo Thug:
what does flip murray have to do with stuck droppin 40

see the reply above and read it, Ronald Murray is so called a "better" player then Stuckey but he hasn't come close to dropping 40 points

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Originally posted by BEASTS OF THE EAST:
that would be both hillarious if mj's kid ended up being drafted and ended up playing his whole career with det .. man that would be flippin sweet lol

I was talking about Eackles Jr, but I suppose if we could get both, we'd be set for the next decade...

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Originally posted by Iverson Sucks:
No one is really SPOSDA get 40 points,

Okay, okay, okay. He was SPOSDA get 30, but he had a great game.

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Originally posted by Iverson Sucks:
even the GREAT Ronald Murray has only ever scored 31 points in a game on 11 of 23 shooting, Stuckey got his 40 on only one more attempt 15-24. Makes you think, you would have figured it would have tooken Murray at the very least 40 attempts to get 30 points.

Little math problem there, but we can agree that FlipM is GREAT.

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Originally posted by coolness:

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Originally posted by Iverson Sucks:
No one is really SPOSDA get 40 points,

Okay, okay, okay. He was SPOSDA get 30, but he had a great game.

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Originally posted by Iverson Sucks:
even the GREAT Ronald Murray has only ever scored 31 points in a game on 11 of 23 shooting, Stuckey got his 40 on only one more attempt 15-24. Makes you think, you would have figured it would have tooken Murray at the very least 40 attempts to get 30 points.

Little math problem there, but we can agree that FlipM is GREAT.

Math problem?

Stuckey got 40 points on 15 of 24 shooting
Murray got 31 points on 11 of 23 shooting.

Stuckey attempted 24 shots, Murray 23, Stuckey attempted one more shot then Murray. 24-23 is one more shot attempt.

You would have figured it would have taken Murray something like 11 of 40 shooting (28%) to get his 31 points since 11 0f 23 is too high of a shooting percentage for (48%) Murray.

I hope that makes it more clear?

Iverson Sucks,

31 points on 23 shot attempts does not convert to 30 points on 40 shot attempts.

This is an odd experience for me. Twice in the last few weeks, sb has tried to check me here on elementary math. It is strange. Maybe you are the same person? It was General Iverson Custer or something like that.
You and him = brush up on elementary math.

coolness

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Originally posted by coolness:
Iverson Sucks,

31 points on 23 shot attempts does not convert to 31 points on 40 shot attempts.

I guess the point you don't understand is that Murray scored 31 points, he shot and made 11 out of 23 of his attempts. But at no time did I state or include how many free throws makes or how many of his made baskets were three pointers.

When Murray scored his career high 31 points he shot 11 out of 23 (48% shooting) from the field. That is 22 points, the other 9 points came from either free throws or 3 point baskets made. I don't have the box score from that game so I can't tell you how many free throws or three point baskets made were made.

The point I was trying to make that you didn't get was Murray shot 11 of 23 48% with nine points coming from three point or free throws made. You would have figured it would have taken Murray something like 11 of 40 shooting (28%) to get his 31 points. That means he would have missed an additional 17 shots lowing his shooting percentage to 28% (closer to his norm), still making 11 (22 points) with the additional 9 coming from either three point baskets or free throws made. I guess I can break it down for you even more. Please explain to me what you don't understand since as you said it is elementary math.

field goals attempted/made + three point baskets + free throws = total number of points scored.

Example if some shoots 5 out of 10 that would be 10 points, if they shoot 2 for 2 from three point you would add another 2 points, that brings you to 12 points. If that made 6 free throws you would add another 6 points bringing the total to 18 points scored for the game. You can score more points in a game then field goals made.

I hope you understand, again I hope that makes it more clear?

Stuckey scored his 40 points on 15 of 24 shooting, that is 30 points, he made one three point basket so that takes it to 31 points, he also made 9 free throws for a total of 40 points. It is pretty basic math when you break it down for those who don't understand.

As you can now see it does convert, the more attempts you make with less baskets made lowers your shooting percentage. You can be 2 for 50 (4%), both being three pointers made and make all 24 of you free throw attempts (100%) and score 30 points or you can be 2 of 2 (100%) both being three point baskets made and make all of your 24 free throw attempts (100%) and score 30 points. Both ways it is 6 + 24 = 30, both ways they convert. It isn't how well you shoot it is total number of baskets made 2 point and 3 point + free throws made. They all total to the number of points scored in a game.

Get it?

I sure don't get what you are trying to prove. Maybe if I understood that I would understand your math. Until then....

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Originally posted by Dr. Evil:
I sure don't get what you are trying to prove. Maybe if I understood that I would understand your math. Until then....

Thought it was just me.