I think it's a bit funny too since it seems he was consciously trying to get it once he found out how close he was.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3889674 [rquoter] Had the triple-double stood, it would have been the first 50-point game in a triple-double since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1975. [/rquoter] I'm going to go out on a limb and say that LeBron will pick up at least one of those before his career ends. I'll go a little further down that limb and say he'll pick one up before the season ends.
You know, as impressive as his performance was that night, you could tell he wanted to top Kobe's performance in some way or another. I mean, from the getgo you could tell he was gunning for it. For me, that kinda took away from the moment.
What exactly is wrong with trying to get it? Did you forget Hakeem Olajuwon's quad double? Remember that 10th assist? Was Hakeem hilarious too?
If you watch enough LeBron, you'd realize he goes for it every time he laces up his sneakers. What's wrong with that?
it's not like you can top 60 just by letting it come to you. the fact that it was lebron, a superstar, going after kobe, a superstar, just a few nights later in the most famous arena in basketball is what made it so cool. watching great players show their greatness on demand is something basketball more than just about any other sport gives us a chance to see. how will lebron's official career statistics look based on this ruling? the league took away hakeem's first quadruple-double (or did they find an extra assist later and not let it count?) and it doesn't count as an official quadruple-double but his career stats actually count the assist and his career game log officially shows that game with 10 assists. that's always seemed weird to me. of course, hakeem somehow got the actual quadruple-double just a few weeks later. march 1990 was a crazy statistical month for hakeem.
he very well may not but this is already the 3rd time he's had at least 50/8/8. the odds would seem to be that he does it at some point, especially now that you would think there would be extra motivation after having this one taken away.
I just went back and actually checked out the box scores for every game that month. If you ever forget for even a minute how good Hakeem was, just look at those box scores. He averaged damn near 8 blocks a game for the whole month!
Reminds me of the initial Lebron vs Carmelo thing. When Lebron had a big game you could almost bet next time out Carmelo would get around 90% or more of his scoring total.
the fact that Lebron Triple double was taken away was bull****. He had a triple double but the stupid officials gave the last rebound to wallace instead.
I remember Clyde was one assist shy of a quadruple double as a Rocket. At the last second he tried hail marying a full court pass hoping someone could throw a basket in but it didn't happen...I was definetley rooting for him though and I'm sure every other Rocket fan was too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-double
who cares, he will get plenty more chances to get it at the garden once he signs with NY in 2010. Heck, with D'antoni's system, I bet he could get a triple-triple
the way i remember it, he actually had about 4 chances to get it. he kept passing to people for jumpers but no one could hit one of the four and he was stuck at 9 assists. weird to get the steals but not the assists.
