“I am doing history” It is an expression that in recent years has lost some relevance and meaning with database access. Night after night in the NBA “breaks” a Record or pick up a line statistics unusual. However, there are some cases where something truly unique is done, something, in short, historical. AND Damian Lillard He got it on Sunday, February 26, 2023 by scoring 71 points.
A performance that left many very rich details, both analytically and numerically. Therefore, it is time to highlight some facts, statistics and keys to Lillard’s offensive performance against Houston Rockets.
7️⃣1️⃣ POINTS
Yes, yes, you read that right
DAMIAN LILLARD scored 7️⃣1️⃣ points for the Rockets pic.twitter.com/Q0odIFrorU
— Sportingnewses Spain 🇪🇸 (@sportingnewses) February 27, 2023
Third player with most games +60 points
With the 71 points What Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard has accomplished is putting his name on a particularly historic podium, one occupied by two of the best in scoring. The star added his own fifth meeting surpassed 60 goals in his entire career, thus surpassing Michael Jordan (4) and James Harden (4).
Who is ahead? As we said before, two legends as they were Wilt Chamberlain with 32 games and Kobe Bryant with 6.
| pos. | Player | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | withering chamberlain | 32 |
| 2 | Kobe Bryant | 6 |
| 3 | Damian Lillard | 5 |
| 4 | James Harden Michael Jordan | 4 |
| 5 | Elgin Baylor | 3 |
Third most productive performance +70 points
Accumulating more than 70 points is already remarkable, which has only happened indoors 11 cases throughout NBA history, including Lillard’s.
However, it’s not the same to reach that number after playing three overtimes, like Wilt Chamberlain in 1961, or after a single overtime, like Donovan Mitchell this 2023. The higher the volume of minutes, the more options to score high It’s pure logic. Hence what he has done give me to be so remarkable
And it is that the star scored 71 goals in just 39 minutes of play, which is equivalent to producing 1.82 points for every minute played. That number again puts him behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 2.08 PPM when he scored 100 points in 48 minutes and Kobe Bryant’s 1.92 PPM when he hit 81 in 42 minutes.
THE MOMENT.
With this basket DAMIAN LILLARD reached 7️⃣1️⃣ points
historic day at #NBA pic.twitter.com/LcbyeD5vSr
— Sportingnewses Spain 🇪🇸 (@sportingnewses) February 27, 2023
The most effective match +70 points
Although the success rate of field goals (57.9%) He is only good enough to be the 10th best among those who scored 70 points or more, the advanced statistics say something else about his game Damian Lillard. The point guard connected for 39 points thanks to his 3-pointers (13 of 22) and added a flawless 14 of 14 from the free throw line.
With these discs this is not strange give me have achieved a an amazing 80.4% true shooting percentage (real shot), a metric that gives a value closer to boot accuracy under the current parameters. This means that a triple and a free throw carry more weight than a two action, for example.
So, Lillard tops 78.9% of real shot which Mitchell got last January or 78% of David Thompson in 1978 when the triple jump was not established in the NBA.
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Second most three-point game in history
Damian Lillard was close to writing his name in another chapter of NBA history as noted in the previous point. The Blazers figure hit an amazing streak of 13 of 22 in triples, which equates to an excellent accuracy of 59.1%. That record for outside shots is the second-highest mark of all time, just one shot away from tying the record for Klay Thompson at age 14 on October 29, 2018.
give me It wasn’t as efficient as Stephen Curry in 2016 and Zach LaVine in 2019 when they shot 13-of-17, but Lillard is still good in the secondary.
| pos. | Player | Date | scored three points | Try triple |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clay Thompson | October 29, 2018 | 14 | 24 |
| 2 | Stephen Curry | November 7, 2016 | 13 | 17 |
| 2 | Zach LaVine | November 23, 2019 | 13 | 17 |
| 2 | Damian Lillard | February 26, 2023 | 13 | 22 |
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