Yep, those games were the very first thing I looked up. I remember once when that other African player was in camp with us (last name began with a B...around '03) there was an argument that he was Dream was just as raw as him when Dream came into the league. DaDakota said, Dream could only dunk his first few years and I was trying to get people to remember these games against the Lakers. He destroyed them. Not the Dreamshake, yet, but the turnaround baseline was unstoppable. 2nd season. He would have had more than 30 in the last game, but Riley sent Kupchak out to get in a fight with Akeem and take him out of the game. I vividly remember after game 3 Riley saying, "We didn't realize he was this good. We are going to have to change something." Glad these boxscores are now on the internet.
Earl Cureton booked 34 minutes and couldn't break double digits in that cherry-pick fest? And Bill Hanzlik....really? 2 points? in 36 minutes?
If they did find that Wilt didn't score 100 then Kobe would be the all time leader...don't think people could deal with that lol.
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yeah, it kills me that people think dream came into his own in the early nineties. no homeboy, he just took to next level. watch those lakers series games on classic also
One guy fouled out in 13 minutes. 4 Nuggets players also fouled out. Looks like Detroit lost at the charity stripe.
Doug Moe and Paul Westhead had very similar styles--all offense, no defense. I read on TV Tropes that Doug Moe literally had his Nuggets walk off the court rather than play D in one game...apparently it was his way of protesting something. Protesting what, I don't know--I can't even find confirmation that this walk-out even took place. Does anyone here know? As for Westhead...go watch "The Guru of Go" from ESPN's 30-for-30 series. It explains his extremely fast-paced style very, very well. Apparently he developed it after watching some games in Puerto Rico, which are almost as fast. It goes something like this, every single game: Get the ball across halfcourt within three seconds. Shoot it within seven. Never, ever, EVER call time-out. Force at least 25 turnovers. Take at least 100 shots. In practices, make your players run with drag-chutes behind them to build up running strength. (If I remember correctly, he was the first basketball coach to do this, and many coaches have since copied this part of the system.) There are more parts than this, but those are what I can recall off the top of my head. I would have loved to see the two coaches face each other, but I don't think they ever did. They may not have played D, but MAN, their teams were a LOT of fun to watch. Whenever a Westhead or Doug Moe-coached team was on ESPN Classic, I made it a point to sit down and watch...at least, until that channel got moved to a DirecTV channel package I don't subscribe to. Of course, you need just the right players to do this, which he had at Loyola Marymount, but not in the NBA...for example, the 1989-90 Denver Nuggets (Doug Moe had left by then) averaged 119.9 points per game...and finished 20-62. Ouch. Incidentally, Paul Westhead is the only basketball coach ever to win titles in both the NBA and WNBA...granted, his NBA championship was with the 1979-80 Lakers, which was before he started using his infamous breakneck-speed system, but still, the distinction is his.
