Showing posts with label Pat Reilly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pat Reilly. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The Nuggets are really, really bad at Defense .... and a random fact about Pat Reilly.

When you score 100+ points in five straight games and lose all of them, that's a bad sign... however it's far from unprecedented


I ran a query on Basketball Reference and found that the largest number of consecutive 100+ point scoring outputs without a win was the 1967-68 San Diego Rockets (they didn't move to Houston until the 1971-72 season), who  lost 15 straight games to end the season (including a 156-114 blowout against the Baltimore Bullets). Keep in mind there was no 3 pt line back then, which makes the scoring outputs all the more impressive.

Another fun fact about that Rockets team was that they had a rookie guard by the name of Pat Reilly who averaged 8 points in 16 minutes per game.

The record for most consecutive 110 + point allowed games in the 2000s is the 2007-08 Sonics who did it for 10 straight games. The overall record is the Cincinnati Royals for 31 straight games between the 1969-70 and 1970-71 seasons.