Comments on: BBR Mailbag: Fewest Points by a Team’s Leading Scorer in a Game http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Nick http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067&cpage=1#comment-17566 Wed, 26 May 2010 00:49:23 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067#comment-17566 Weird box score. Is there any particular reason Johnson only played 14 minutes? The guy hadn't missed a shot.

]]> By: MCT http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067&cpage=1#comment-17530 Mon, 24 May 2010 17:42:43 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067#comment-17530 A variation on this question: the Playoff Records section NBA Guide has a category for fewest players scoring 10 or more points in a game. It indicates that the record is one, so there has never been a playoff game in NBA history where a team failed to have at least one player in double figures (the Guide isn't always crystal clear on this point, but this may be limited to the post-shot clock era). Unfortunately, the section of the Guide with regular season records does not have this category, so it can't tell us anything about what may have happened in the regular season before the point where box score coverage on this site picks up (1986-87).

According to the Guide, there have been eleven occasions where a team has had only one double-digit scorer in a playoff game. Eight of these were between 1998 and 2004. The other three were the Warriors against the Lakers, April 21, 1973; the Suns against the Kansas City Kings, April 8, 1981; and the Jazz against the Spurs, April 28, 1994. The '98 Jazz are the only team to do it in the playoffs more than once in the same year, as well as the only team to do it in a Finals game.

]]> By: Ryan. http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067&cpage=1#comment-17519 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:57:26 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=6067#comment-17519 Sorry to keep posting these partially worthless questions Neil, but are you able to sort by largest drop in percentage? I imagine it makes quite a difference and is rather relative to their general production. Mad Max figures to be far less productive on average in comparison to Anthony.

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