Ben Wallace career high 23 pts in Raptor's Loss

[cdif911]

I saw this one on NBA tv today and was surprised; I know Wallace is limited offensively, but for a guy who has played in nearly 1000 games, you'd think he'd have come up with more than 23 at least once...

[BballTim]

I saw this one on NBA tv today and was surprised; I know Wallace is limited offensively, but for a guy who has played in nearly 1000 games, you'd think he'd have come up with more than 23 at least once...

  I'd have thought he'd had more than that against the Celts. I can recall him having a couple of good games against us a few years back.

[cdif911]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

[PosImpos]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

Statistically, if any player throws it up there enough times it's going to go in at some point.

[housecall]

Sad part about it is they lost the game after leading by 25 at one time.

[cdif911]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

Statistically, if any player throws it up there enough times it's going to go in at some point.

actually his 1st attempt of the season

all told 56 total attempts in his career and he's made 6

[PosImpos]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

Statistically, if any player throws it up there enough times it's going to go in at some point.

actually his 1st attempt of the season

all told 56 total attempts in his career and he's made 6

Just because it's the 1st attempt of the season doesn't mean it's not affected by the same principle.

Apparently he's a 10% career 3 point shooter.  I'm guessing he's basically wide open every time he takes one.  I would tend to guess that most players in the NBA, when left wide open, would hit at least 10% of their 3's.

[cdif911]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

Statistically, if any player throws it up there enough times it's going to go in at some point.

actually his 1st attempt of the season

all told 56 total attempts in his career and he's made 6

Just because it's the 1st attempt of the season doesn't mean it's not affected by the same principle.

Apparently he's a 10% career 3 point shooter.  I'm guessing he's basically wide open every time he takes one.  I would tend to guess that most players in the NBA, when left wide open, would hit at least 10% of their 3's.

I'd guess most are actually with the shot clock winding down and being forced to shoot...the man has no range or form...6 out of 56 is higher than I'd expect =)

[greenpride32]

I saw this one on NBA tv today and was surprised; I know Wallace is limited offensively, but for a guy who has played in nearly 1000 games, you'd think he'd have come up with more than 23 at least once...

I guess you haven't really seen the guy shoot the ball that much; he's a terrible scorer.  I'm assuming he got lots of layups, tap-ins, and flushes.

[cdif911]

I saw this one on NBA tv today and was surprised; I know Wallace is limited offensively, but for a guy who has played in nearly 1000 games, you'd think he'd have come up with more than 23 at least once...

I guess you haven't really seen the guy shoot the ball that much; he's a terrible scorer.  I'm assuming he got lots of layups, tap-ins, and flushes.

oh obviously he's a terrible scorer, but over the course of 1000 games you'd think he'd have one where he manages 30 - I'm a terrible scorer and I've put in 25 before, and I haven't played nearly 1000 games in my life (:

[CeltsRoxfan]

The reason they lost is because of the official dumbass coach known as Kuester  . And I agree you would probably expect Big Ben to have a higher career high then that. If you watched the game, then you would notice how the offense flowed so well with T-mac at the point. He was also hot and scored 6 pts straight including this alley oop:
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As you can see Mac still has superb court vision and at times can get himself scoring. He even got big ben that 3. Kuester should have played Mac more than just the first half, Stuckey isn't good at running an offense.

[pearljammer10]

His career high is 23 after playing how many seasons?? 15 or 16? thats just crazy...

[BigAlTheFuture]

I saw this one on NBA tv today and was surprised; I know Wallace is limited offensively, but for a guy who has played in nearly 1000 games, you'd think he'd have come up with more than 23 at least once...

  I'd have thought he'd had more than that against the Celts. I can recall him having a couple of good games against us a few years back.

He attempted a career high 21 FGA in 2007 against Boston compared to his 13 FGA against the Raptors. But, only had 19 points against us. So his 23 points against the Raptors really was his career high.

[PosImpos]

he also apparantly hit a 3 in the game which is crazy

Statistically, if any player throws it up there enough times it's going to go in at some point.

actually his 1st attempt of the season

all told 56 total attempts in his career and he's made 6

Just because it's the 1st attempt of the season doesn't mean it's not affected by the same principle.

Apparently he's a 10% career 3 point shooter.  I'm guessing he's basically wide open every time he takes one.  I would tend to guess that most players in the NBA, when left wide open, would hit at least 10% of their 3's.

I'd guess most are actually with the shot clock winding down and being forced to shoot...the man has no range or form...6 out of 56 is higher than I'd expect =)

I agree with you, I'm surprised he hits any at all, but players hit running half court shots with very little form all the time, so I figure it's probably kinda like that when he takes a three....if you heave the ball at the rim enough times it'll go in sometimes.  Ben can't be a much worse 3 point shooter than I am, and I would probably manage close to 10% of wide open uncontested shots from NBA 3 point range...if I practiced, that is.  Haha.

[LooseCannon]

I think this was the fourth 20-point regular season game of his career.  He's had three 20-point games in the playoffs.  His playoff career high is 29 in a 2005 game against Philly.

As for 3-point shooting.  One of the worst I could find was an 80s guard-forward for Chicago named Gene Banks, who was 2-46 for his career.  His 0-19 season is the third-most attempts without a make in a season.  #2 is Magic Johnson going 0-21 in 82-83.  Tom Garrick holds the record of 0-22 as part of a 5-60 career.