That Kobe game is horrendous bro holy shit

Harden Bam Kobe

Love the concept but your formula needs updating. Based on this, you are saying bam had the second worst game but his efficiency is way better. This punishes people who have missed more shots but doesn’t account how many more they made.

To add to this, how is a ²⁰⁄₄₃ game worse than a ¹²⁄₃₈ game? Doesn’t make sense logically.

I am sad I only have one upvote to give this.

Does the Houston Rockets team count as one player? 27 missed threes is just pure offensive terrorism

Really creative idea OP. My only tweak would be an offset for higher point totals, since huge scoring games naturally come with more shots, misses, FTs, and turnovers.

Maybe subtract 0.25 for every point above 40. Otherwise, at a certain point the stat starts measuring volume as much as basketball terrorism.

Lamelo making it on the list with only 5 FTAs is ethical basketball terrorism

Prime Harden had to be one of the worst watches in the history of the sport

What if you subtract points scored from the total terrorism score? Bam’s 83 doesn’t sound so bad that way

so missed 3 is same as turnover? fun list regardless

and yet the math thinks it is.

you mean the formula you picked all the weights for? this is statistical terrorism! treating a linear equation like a black box genie oracle from the underworld

If your suffered through the highlights of that Bam game, it was an actual crime against civilized culture. Absolute terrorism in the second half. That first quarter was an all timer tho.

this is the off-season content people pray for

whew im glad that cade game made it. impressive stuff in a way, but lol. i really can’t believe he took that many shots.

Box plus/minus? 🤢

Basketball terrorism score? 😎

I don’t know why, but “+10 for losing the game” made me laugh

Warms my heart to see Embiid isn’t on the list

When I was a kid, I remember watching Michael Jordan in a playoff game against the Heat where he scored 29 points, but went 9-35 from the field and 0-8 from three. It was the first time that I understood how even if a player scores a lot of points, he isn’t necessarily helping his team.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199705260MIA.html

I was expecting to see Melo on this list. I’m very disappointed.

The formula is wrong because you aren’t comparing total misses to total attempts.

You have Bam’s 43 attempts, 83 points and 23 misses ranks higher than Russ games where he missed a similar number of shots but scores less than half as many points.

FG% exists for a reason - use it.

Cade should have stopped at 29 missed FG’s, out of respect for Kobe.

This is the exact content I come to this sub in the offseason for, absolute cinema. That harden 50 piece in a loss was certainly a moment in time

Not bad. But these player-game outcomes are still too good. There should be a small negative coefficient on points scored. To me, ¹⁄₂₀ with 5 TOV in a 3 point loss is max terrorism, not Bam Adebayo going for 83.

Kobe Bryant final game. 50 points on 50 FGA. Rest of the points were FTs. A true chuck job that everyone hails as some crazy accomplishment. Give any star 50 FGA and watch them cook.

Calling Bam and Kobe both basketball terrorists is the type of nuanced controversy that the mainstream media is too afraid to broach. 👏

Maybe it would be better to do based on shooting percentages (but weighted / scaled by number of attempts). Bam’s game seems like the odd one out as his splits aren’t awful, he just had an insane number of attempted shots

Amazing Giannis 12 turnover ⁷⁄₁₈ and ¹⁵⁄₂₁ FT game didn’t make the list

Doesn’t qualify because he didn’t hit 30 points, but I have to mention the game where James Harden scored 27 points on ²⁄₉ FGs lol

If any of you watched games, you would’ve hated traffic cone chucker Kobe.

bam had 43 FT attempts? What the fuck even happened in that game how is that possible lmao

Ben Simmons would get like 25 when they were fouling him every possession on purpose

before even getting to the results I thought “Harden has to be on here”

But who has the highest scoring single season?

I think the formula needs work. Bam’s game was not terrible efficiency-wise. He missed a lot of shots because he took a lot of shots. He did better in every way than Westbrook’s #6 game but was penalized because of shots taken.

First things I thought of when I saw this were Kobe’s final game, Bam and various James Harden games in Houston and damn, I was pretty dead on lol.

I really thought there would be more Iverson here

Wilt’s 100 point game would have a 105 BTS, and they didn’t even track turnovers or have a three point line back then

This is what r/nba is for

Already knew harden would be at the top lol. He had so many games with horrible shooting % +million fts+tons of turnovers.

This is awesome lmao. ¹⁷⁄₄₇ is fucking insane.

¹⁴⁄₄₅ is incredible, i love it

I love hate this.

God thank you so much for this post lol.

And I knew I’d see Iverson on that list.

We need to track this all season every season. Because it’s my least favorite kind of game to watch.

James Harden gets called a basketball terrorist I upvote.

I wonder who would have the highest average in NBA history. Probably Harden still?

First thought after reading the title was “Harden”.

Thread did not disappoint.

no sga on the list better adjust the parameters if you want engagement.

no sga on the list better adjust the parameters if you want engagement.

IIRC the #3 game is known to Spurs fans as the Lonnie Walker game.

3 of these are in consecutive months by Harden. Pretty impressive run to end 2019 and begin 2020.

God, the day we all started thinking only pretty basketball was good basketball was a dark one for the sport.

I love a fucking rock fight. I love the game. If it’s intense and competitive, that’s all I care about.

3 Harden games in one season to the surprise of nobody.

Off-season content is really peaking this week. First the Half LeBron post then this, we are blessed.

Get this person a hedge fund to manage ASAP

¹⁷⁄₄₇ shooting is obscenely hilarious

I dont even know how that happens in a game. how do you get up that many shots lmao?

I feel as if you are going to penalize for turnovers, you should count assists as well.

Thought Kobe would have a few more up here. Dude was a certified brick layer for most of his prime. But he shot a lot so he got a lot of points, and that’s all his brain dead fans care about.

Seeing the words ‘Basketball Terrorism’ without seeing the name Scott Foster next to it is unusual

Call it the Kobe quotient

You can critique the methodology but tbh every name on this list feels correct. So I’m gonna give this a Good Job OP.

Creative concept but your formula is hot ass. Bam scored 83 on decent efficiency and won the game. Having that as your #2 basketball terrorism game invalidates your entire list for me.

Not Kobe’s last game man come on 😭

Surprised Shai didn’t make this list lol

More proof of how fucking fraudulent Bam’s bullshit was.

Gonna interpret these results to mean that God started COVID after seeing Harden play 3 of the craziest games ever