MYTHBUSTERS: Jeff Sabin 20 Point Club

A lot of chatter has been going on lately in PCTI. With it comes a lot of humor, analysis, and jabs. When Jeff Sabin opens his mouth (does a blog), you can expect a couple things: 1) Claims that his team can do a variety of things and 2) jabs at the other team that, while he may try to do with some humor, usually comes across personal. His latest post did not fail to deliver these tendencies. I don’t need to break down the sarcastic slights he sent our teams’ way. Let’s look at a claim that he made of his team (and not the “they have a bunch of guys who are mean assholes” either).

 “I know, right? That team sucks. I mean, all they really have is 5 guys who can get you 20 points in any game.”

I am not sure if he is exaggerating, trying to be funny, or actually believes this. If you look at the statement as if it is something that could happen, then yes, they have 5 guys who can get you 20 points in any game. In fact they have 8 guys that can do this. So does our team. If someone decides, “fuck it I am shooting every time I touch the ball and not coming out unless I am forces out.” Then I think anyone has the ability to get to 20 points. The problem is, we aren’t playing at the Y and we are doing what we can to win. At first I thought, "let me look up who in PCTI has scored 20 points in a game." Once I got started, I also wanted to see what the impact on their team was as far as winning and losing goes.

Some interesting findings: there has been 9 people who have score 20 or more points in a game in PCTI. 21 times has someone score 20+ points. Each team this year has 4 players that have gone for 20+. The overall W/L record for the teams that have had a player score 20+ is 12-9 (there were games where both teams had a player score 20+).

So below is a chart that shows all the 20 point games in PCTI history and tells you A) the player B) the point total C) which year and game of PCTI it was in and D) if the player’s team won.

Player	Points		PCTI	Game
Joe Thompson	30	W	3	4
Ben Wilson	29	L	1	2
Ben Wilson	27	L	2	1
Brent Carney	26	L	1	3
Brent Carney	26	L	1	4
Mike Hite	26	W	1	6
Josh Pitto	25	L	2	3
Brent Carney	24	L	2	5
Jeff Sabin	24	L	3	1
Anthony Hopkins	23	W	2	2
Joe Thompson	23	W	1	2
Mike Hite	22	W	1	3
Josh Pitto	22	W	1	1
Michael Beasley	21	L	3	4
Ben Wilson	21	W	2	5
Jeff Sabin	21	L	3	3
Josh Stephen	21	W	1	4
Josh Stephen	21	W	2	4
Josh Stephen	21	W	3	3
Josh Stephen	20	W	2	6
Josh Stephen	20	W	3	2

And just because it makes their team look bad, win loss record by each person:

Player	Wins	Loss
Michael Beasley	0	1
Anthony Hopkins	1	0
Josh Pitto	1	1
Mike Hite	2	0
Jeff Sabin	0	2
Joe Thompson	2	0
Ben Wilson	1	2
Brent Carney	0	3
Josh Stephens	5	0

You could dig even deeper and see how efficient each player was getting their 20 points, but in the end it will come down to who can not only score but also rebound, pass, and defend. Hopefully Team Vision Board just relies on all their guys that can drop 20 points whenever they want.