Which is the better performance, Trevor Booker’s 36 or Wilt’s 100? Let’s take a look at the facts.
Wilt was playing against players so inferior to himself that an apt comparison would be Trevor playing against a middle-school girl’s B team. Advantage: Booker.
Trevor played in a packed arena brimming with playoff-like intensity, while Wilt was able to relax in front of 4000 or so passed-out drunkards in a ratty gym in rural Pennsylvania. Advantage: Booker.
The rims in Wilt’s game were loosened so that he would hit more of his free-throws; Trevor, on the other hand, had to suffer normal NBA rims while missing his foul shots. Advantage: Booker.
Wilt scored 100 points, which is a lot more than Trevor’s 36 in terms of straight up integer arithmetic. Tentative advantage: Wilt.
Trevor took his shots in the flow of the offense, yielding to his teammates when needed. Wilt, displaying total selfishness, chucked his way to his total, while, in the process, destroying the integrity of the game, maybe forever. Advantage: Booker
DownToBuck gets to make highlights of Booker’s scoring output, due to the cameras in every NBA arena. He is denied the ability to make highlights of Wilt’s performance, because Wilt confiscated the footage at the behest of Nike. Advantage: Booker.
I don’t even need to count up the totals here; The facts on display clearly show that Trevor Booker’s career-high performance is vastly superior to Wilt’s “untouchable” 100.
Can you dig it, sucka?