Yahoo- Word that the Villanova guard scored 105 points in a game at the Watson Basketball Classic first circulated via Twitter over the weekend. As the days passed without video evidence, confirmation from Fisher or even a reliable box score, the story has taken on an urban legend-like quality.
Fisher did indeed score 105 points in his team's 138-130 victory at Watson Gleason Playground, a performance prompted by a fan who asked him to go after the league record of 63 points held by former Cincinnati star Kenny Satterfield.
"He was determined to reach 100, but his arms from shooting threes were tired so he started going to the basket, weaving through defenders and creating 'one-and-one' situations," Stevens said. "It wasn't until the final few seconds of the game that he scored 100 points on a free throw. Then he had a steal, got fouled and hit a 3-pointer to end the game with no time on the clock."
So I'm supposed to sit here and believe that this guy had 105 points in a Summer League game? Corey Fisher supposedly hit 23 of 28 threes in a single game? This has to be a Fugazi. No doubt in my mind. Fisher, who was a McDonald's All-American in high school, once dropped 37 points on O.J. Mayo and 35 on Brandon Jennings while at Saint Patricks in New Jersey, which is all well and fine. But 105? Child please.
Patty and I were playing some pick up at BMCC on Saturday, and Patty hit like 8 of his first 9 shots including some that were absolutely absurd. The Puerto Rican guys from Queens we were playing with, one of which is trying to play ball in Europe, started calling him Steve Kerr and were absolutely SHOCKED that he didn't play college ball. Gave us street cred for days. But guess what happened after they thought Patty was good? They started double and triple teaming him everytime down the court. Kid was suffocated like a girl in one of those bondage videos.
Point I'm getting at is that Wilt scored 100 points in a NBA game because he was MUCH taller than everbody else on the court. There wasn't even a 3 point line when he hit triple digits back in the day, he just got mad boards and put backs. Fisher is 6'1", 200lbs, or more or less my size, and was a BACKUP to Scottie Reynolds at Villanova. After he hit 6 or 7 threes, any team that was inside of their mind would have two or three guys gaurding him everytime down the court. NO ONE would ever let a 6'1" guy score 105 points in a game. Not ever. It's impossible. So let's move on.
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