Wilt Chamberlain's 1961-1962 Game-by-Game stats

[D-Wade316]

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[magnax1]

Nice find.

[Kblaze8855]

12/31? 13/38? 53 shots and 15fts to score 51 points? For a guy who the league couldnt stand up to? As ive said before....Wilt should have likely been a lot more physical. Cant be going 13/38 or 12/31with his physical advantages. Comes a point you have to put aside perception of you and just bang on someone.

[D-Wade316]

Nice find.

Thanks. Was reading some of the posts in APBRmetric then unexpectedly found a link leading to Wilt's 1961-1962 campaign.

[D-Wade316]

12/31? 13/38? 53 shots and 15fts to score 51 points? For a guy who the league couldnt stand up to? As ive said before....Wilt should have likely been a lot more physical. Cant be going 13/38 or 12/31with his physical advantages. Comes a point you have to put aside perception of you and just bang on someone.

Someone would have shot him dead.

[DevilsAssassin]

[Lebron23]

Nice statsline.

[magnax1]

12/31? 13/38? 53 shots and 15fts to score 51 points? For a guy who the league couldnt stand up to? As ive said before....Wilt should have likely been a lot more physical. Cant be going 13/38 or 12/31with his physical advantages. Comes a point you have to put aside perception of you and just bang on someone.

Well he did nearly lead the league in FG%. It's not really fair to pick out a couple games, as everyone tends to have some bad ones.
His stats vs Boston look pretty awful though (at least comparatively)

[32Dayz]

Damn... he must have taken 3500+ shots that season.

Impressive stamina if anything.

Would really like to be able watch some games from that season to see the level of effort he put in on the defensive end also.
(Find it a bit odd how few fouls he averaged)

If he really shot that much while also being good defensively I'd be very impressed.

[Kblaze8855]

Well he did nearly lead the league in FG%. It's not really fair to pick out a couple games, as everyone tends to have some bad ones.
His stats vs Boston look pretty awful though (at least comparatively)

If I remember correctly he shot like 50% that year. Considering his 27 rebounds a game...how much of it had to be quick rebounds and putbacks? we see a lot of that in every game he plays.

Minus his gimme layups/dunks which were no doubt substantial....for him to shoot as low as 50%...he had to be shooting in the 40s if not 30s on shots he just set out to create.

That is hard to accept s the best he could possibly perform. Too many times ive seen him just get up for a posession or two and blow by guys for dunks or power over a guy for a layup. Then go back to fingerrolls and such. And this is later in his career before he stopped shooting jumpers.

He had to be throwing up some garbage(relative to what he could get) to possibly make only half his shots when hes probably getting 10 offensive rebounds a night and 4-5 dunks off them.

[D-Wade316]

If I remember correctly he shot like 50% that year. Considering his 27 rebounds a game...how much of it had to be quick rebounds and putbacks? we see a lot of that in every game he plays.

Minus his gimme layups/dunks which were no doubt substantial....for him to shoot as low as 50%...he had to be shooting in the 40s if not 30s on shots he just set out to create.

That is hard to accept s the best he could possibly perform. Too many times ive seen him just get up for a posession or two and blow by guys for dunks or power over a guy for a layup. Then go back to fingerrolls and such. And this is later in his career before he stopped shooting jumpers.

He had to be throwing up some garbage(relative to what he could get) to possibly make only half his shots when hes probably getting 10 offensive rebounds a night and 4-5 dunks off them.

Yeah. Shot selection during that era was horrible. He did improve on that as his career continued.

[magnax1]

If I remember correctly he shot like 50% that year. Considering his 27 rebounds a game...how much of it had to be quick rebounds and putbacks? we see a lot of that in every game he plays.

Minus his gimme layups/dunks which were no doubt substantial....for him to shoot as low as 50%...he had to be shooting in the 40s if not 30s on shots he just set out to create.

That is hard to accept s the best he could possibly perform. Too many times ive seen him just get up for a posession or two and blow by guys for dunks or power over a guy for a layup. Then go back to fingerrolls and such. And this is later in his career before he stopped shooting jumpers.

He had to be throwing up some garbage(relative to what he could get) to possibly make only half his shots when hes probably getting 10 offensive rebounds a night and 4-5 dunks off them.

I get what you're saying, but he nearly lead the league in FG%. What more do you want? I agree, he probably could've taken a few less shots and worked for different shots and raised his FG%, but really if you take away those easy shots under the basket, or put backs for almost any superstar ever, and their FG% would probably be hovering around the low 40s high 30s too.

[32Dayz]

Thats one of my biggest issues with Wilt and why I find it hard to say just how skilled/fluid/smooth he was as a Post-Scorer.

To have that big of a size/height/length advantage and regularly be shooting such bad %'s just baffles me.

[D-Wade316]

During that year, the entire league shot 42.6fg%. Bellamy lead the league in fg% at 51.9%. 50.5% at that time is very impressive.

[alanLA92]

That's Domination.