PCTI's Best 25 Individual Games, 1-5

As a follow-up to the top 10 best PCTI series performances of the past 8 years, here is a top 25 list of best individual games ever. If you feel like I omitted one of your best individual games, please know that there were some VERY difficult cuts and I’ll just say RESPECT.

 

5) BC – PCTI 1 (Lexington), game 4: Here we are in the top 5. Honest to God, some of these games I am about to introduce are just stunning. And some of them are made all the better given the context surrounding these particular performances. For example, BC slapped up 26 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 steal, while shooting 9-14 FGAs and 8-10 FTAs. He also scored 1.86 PPS and posted an enormous Productivity metric of 48. Now place of all of that incredible production in the setting of the iconic “Cramp Game” from PCTI 1 and you begin to understand just how legendary this output was. Players were quite literally begging to come out of the game, while others were forced out with cramping and dehydration. Keep in mind this was our FOURTH game of the same day, which sounds completely and wholly unattractive at this point in my career. But there’s BC, just producing away like the Big Engine that Could. It’s surprising to me that he didn’t earn his BEAST moniker in this game. I don’t want to say much else except that this should always be regarded as one of the most legendary performances in PCTI’s history.   

 

4) Ben – PCTI 1 (Lexington), game 2: Continuing in the same thread as BC’s performance above, Ben announced very early in his PCTI career what is possible in terms of individual performances, posting 29 points, 7 rebounds, 11-16 FGAs, and a brilliant 7-10 3FGAs. His 91% EFG and 1.81 PPS are personal bests. You also have to factor in that the particular gym we played at in Lexington had no air conditioning, bent rims, and a blue area surrounding the court that was quite literally tackling players. This performance really shines as one of the all-time great offensive outputs, and helped Ben to an All-Tournament selection. It’s blowing my mind right now that there are 3 better performances coming up.  

 

3) Beas – PCTI 5 (Denver), game 4: This was Beas’, and just about anybody else for that matter, high watermark for both production and efficiency. 29 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, while shooting 11-15 FGAs and 4-6 3FGAs. It’s hard to imagine a more efficient and productive game than this, given 87% EFG and 1.93 PPS. He also scored his personal best in the Productivity metric with 49. For context, there have only been 3 better outputs in Productivity in PCTI’s illustrious history. What a brutally dominant individual performance in a close-out victory for his team that also propelled them to the coveted “Sweep Team” category. Simply a sublime performance.   

 

2) JT – PCTI 3 (Dallas), game 4: I watched this game the other day. It was hard to take your eyes off of The Show as he made the second half of game 4 his personal playground. 30 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, and ZERO turnovers as he dispatched the Kittens and got the better an off-season feud with Sabin. He went 10-15 FGAs with 9-14 3FGAs, producing an EFG of 97% and 2.00 PPS. He also earned his single-best Productivity output with 56, which is the second highest mark all-time by any player. He had 2 separate stretches in the second half of this game where he hit 3 consecutive 3-pointers in something close to 90 seconds. This is not only the only performance in PCTI history to break the 30-point scoring plateau, but it is perhaps the signature performance from arguably PCTI’s best team of all-time. This game propelled Joe to an MVP award and also the captaincy for PCTI IV. Absolutely remarkable.  

 

1) BC – PCTI 1 (Lexington), game 3: In what may rightfully be remembered as PCTI’s perfect game, BC posted 26 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 block, and ZERO turnovers, while shooting 9-13 FGAs, 2-2 3FGAs, and 6-7 FTAs. It is hard to overstate how perfect this game was. Not just an EFG of 77% and 2.00 PPS, but this is the single greatest Productivity score in PCTI’s history with a score of 57. Given the current group of players and teams that are being created in PCTI, it is equally difficult to think that someone will out-produce this game as the best of all-time. This is also the only game in PCTI’s history in which a player eclipsed the 30-point barrier in the EFFICIENCY category, which is a much harsher metric to judge performance. Absolutely magnificent in every way, and hard to think that this game will ever be supplanted as number 1.  

 

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