In a discussion of the Pistons loss at Chicago earlier this month, a certain poster claimed (http://www.pistonsforum.com/january-2007/5467-chicago-jan-6-8-30pm-5.html#post67677) that Will Blalock had served up a linescore that was so wretched, it was unique in NBA history:

Please name another NBA player in history who played 18+ minutes and had turnovers > to the sum of all his other stats (points + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks).

I have reason to believe that this is the only time it has EVER happened. If that is indeed the case, then I must declare Will Blalock to have officially played the worst game in the history of organized basketball last Saturday against the Bulls.

Sadly, this feat turned out to be not so rare, as subsequent posters pointed out. Sorry, Will.

Along these lines, I just ran across another definition of bad play: to be statistically invisible. This is from the Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/175191):

NBA TRILLIONAIRES: When an end-of-the-bench guy gets in a blowout for a minute, and doesn't record a shot, rebound, assist or point, his boxscore line is known as "one trillion," a one followed by nine zeroes.

Imagine how it looked to Chicago's Chris Duhon when he recorded an unheard of 10 trillion against the Utah Jazz.

Yep, 10 minutes of nothing. No shots, no fouls, no rebounds, no assists, nada. Of course, Duhon's shooting 39 per cent from the field and had made just two of his last 30 shots so maybe it's not surprising. What else isn't surprising is that he's been replaced in the rotation by rookie Thabo Sefolosha.


Here's the boxscore (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=270120004) from that game.

Duhon hasn't been able to throw the ball down and hit the floor lately.

how bout Jeff Foster on saturday? we all know he is in there for his rebounding but this line was weird.

MIN - 21
FG 0-0
3PT 0-0
FT 0-0
PTS - 0
REB - 12
AST - 0
STL - 0
BLK - 0
TO - 0
PF - 4

Now that is an unusual stat line!

And just to continue the discussion at the end of the Bulls game thread, the guys at yahoo sports have this Eddy Curry line thing going which is pretty funny.

Not quite as bad as the trillionaire stats but here it is anyway.

The Eddy Curry Line was originally established to put a spotlight on how truly anemic Curry's overall fantasy line is. The standard: a player must average more turnovers than assists, steals, and blocks combined – in order to qualify, a player must have appeared in at least half of his team's games and averaged at least 25 minutes of playing time.

Yahoo! Sports - Fantasy - The Big Picture: Shaq's Back (http://fantasysports.yahoo.com/analysis/news?slug=mb-bigpic_011907&prov=yhoo&type=lgns&league=fantasy/nba)

Scroll right down to the bottom to see this years current 'leaders'. Notice that Chauncey is 2nd in the league conversely. But this is mostly due to his awesome ast/TO ratio, and not because he gets lots of steals and blocks. But still nice.

This is a great thread.

The "Eddy Curry line" is another pretty good reason to not trade for Zach Randolph.

And the Foster game was amazingly weird. What a one dimensional player. At least he was doing something though.

'10 Trillion' by Duhon is pretty amazing too.


This all makes our starting 5 seem really boring with their balanced stat lines.

In an overtime loss to the Cavs today, Big Ben did a bunch of things that show up in the stats. He played 48 minutes, grabbed 14 rebounds, had 3 assists, 2 blocks, a steal, a turnover, and two fouls. He also went 2-4 from the line. But from the field: 0-0. That's 48 minutes with no shot attempts.

Didn't Kobe do something like this once as some kind of protest?

unusual stats. OSU playing Florida for the championship in both major sports in the same year. Unfortunately it appears Florida is going to sweep. :yellowprison:

In an overtime loss to the Cavs today, Big Ben did a bunch of things that show up in the stats. He played 48 minutes, grabbed 14 rebounds, had 3 assists, 2 blocks, a steal, a turnover, and two fouls. He also went 2-4 from the line. But from the field: 0-0. That's 48 minutes with no shot attempts.

Didn't Kobe do something like this once as some kind of protest?

I think thats called the Michael Curry line. :laugh: