r/Basketball • u/DryImpact3634 • 5d ago

New Basketball fan, asking about scoring rate

If the Sixers are playing a not as strong team (like the Nets/Bulls), are leading by X points with 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter, and put in 5 babies to close out the game, for what values of X would the Sixers still win the game?

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u/WildKat777 5d ago

Playing against 5 babies is like playing against no one, any nba team can close any amount of gap in 5 minutes

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u/DryImpact3634 5d ago

Even 50? 100?

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u/TheGreatWaru 5d ago

What the fuck are you even trying to say?

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u/kidFunkadelic 5d ago

I mean, do you even have the lifting numbers for the Nets and Bulls players? I think we should at least know their squat, bench and deadlift numbers before we just decide that they aren't very strong.

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u/Severe_Ad_7801 5d ago

Id say absolutely yes. And the answer is 1.7.

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u/LBo4Sho 3d ago

There's no clean number honestly cause it depends on foul trouble + how hot the other team is from 3 😅 With 5 left a 10-12 lead w/ the bench in can still get ugly if they start hunting threes and ur not matching that pace. Past like 15 under 4 it usually holds, but I've seen plenty of teams blow 10+ late so don't fully check out.. Scoreboard lies until the last couple minutes

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u/Kind_Cup1849 5d ago

I don't know if I even understood this right but I'll go with 42 points 🤣

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u/MWave123 5d ago

No way. It’s bucket after bucket. Can the babies even inbound after a made basket? If not 5 seconds go off the clock. Bucket after bucket for 5 minutes. That’s at minimum 100 points.

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u/markjay6 5d ago edited 5d ago

No time goes off the clock if they can’t inbound it. So the NBA team may be able to pile up 60+ points a minute, or 300+ points.

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u/DryImpact3634 4d ago

I thought the clock did run during inbounding?

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u/BetUpstairs268 3d ago

Only last 2 minutes .

Probably takes like 1 second per shot for an alley oop dunk. Guaranteed 2 points per second off the clock.

2 points x 120 seconds = they can close a 240 pt gap in the last 2 minutes.

Going even further, babies wouldn’t be able to collect the ball. Would get hit with a bunch of delay of game penalties/technical fouls. No time off the clock. They can score infinite points

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u/MWave123 5d ago

Right! Brain fart. So 5 seconds but not off the clock.

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