Just looking at the box score for the Raptors-Warriors game...after 3 quarters, Hakeem has 9 blocks already...and 10 rebounds...if he blocks one more and makes three baskets in the last quarter...he will have a triple double!!
Hakeem finished with 9 (he had 6 blocks in the 3rd quarter alone) but the Raptors broke the blocks record with 24..... wow.
"Twenty-four blocks?" Golden State's Antawn Jamison said. "Are you kidding me? I know we missed a lot of layups, but man! I know for sure that Hakeem didn't have nine. He can't even get up now. I'm surprised as anybody."
They played one of the worst teams what do you expect?..lets see marc jackson really does not care to be on the team so why should he care. Try getting those blocks with shaq.
I taped this game, and in watching it again ... the scoring on blocks is total BS. There is no way the Raptors had 24 blocks -- you'd have to be generous to give them credit for 12 to 15. Apparently, the "official" scorer decided to credit the Raptors with a block every time the Warriors missed a shot within 10 feet of the rim. Think I'm kidding? The Warriors missed 61 shots total. Of those, roughly 30 were midrange or perimeter jump shots, none of which were blocked. So that only leaves about 30 possible blocked shots. If anyone's really curious, I'll take another look over the weekend and chart the W's misses.
OK, here's the update. In real life, the Raptors had 10 clear blocks, of which Hakeem had 2. The rest ... well, you know how when a defensive player causes a shot to miss by challenging it, and the announcer says, "He deserves credit for a block there"? The scorer in this game gave them credit for blocks. The Warriors get a lot of offensive rebounds, and especially since most of them are by Fortson and Jamison (both around 6'7" to 6'9") under the rim, they throw up a lot of wild putbacks against bigger people. Hakeem reasonably influenced up to 7 of those, and that's where the rest of his blocks came from. In a few cases, you could make an argument that the shot missed so badly Hakeem must have grazed or deflected the ball (or, if you're a cynical W's fan, fouled the shooter ) -- so I could see a generous scorer giving Hakeem 5 blocks. Nine blocks is really stretching it, though at least I could identify the shots that he probably got credit for blocking. And the 3 blocks for Antonio Davis were totally legit, as were the 3 for Tracy Murray (who reached in as players were going up) and 1 for Jerome Williams. Vince Carter's 3 blocks, however, were fiction -- again, he got credit for making guys miss by challenging shots. And by the fourth quarter, the scorer was in full stat-padding mode, crediting Keon Clark or Eric Montross with blocks whenever the man they were guarding missed. Clark had zero blocks (not 3), and Montross one (not 2).
Hey man, it's in the books. Hakeem had 9 blocks and it doesn't matter what really happened anymore. The truth is in the boxscore now. Haha!
Another 9 block game and he'll leap over: 7. Chris Mihm 9. Adonal Foyle 10. Pau Gasol 10. Michael Olowokandi
Hakeem had three or four steals last night against the Kings... Good to see that he still has a bit of defense left in him.
A blurb that was mentioned in local articles on last night's Warriors game: My guess is Hakeem's 9 "blocks" remained intact, along with Carter's 3, and the NBA took away the 4 nonexistent blocks I noted for Montross and Keon Clark.
Toronto still has the record, their own record was broken, the previous one was last year vs. Atlanta
