Jimmy Chitwood

It's like the final game in Hoosiers, when Jimmy Chitwood hits 88 shots in a row to bring Hickory back to a 40-40 tie. Fucking a. - XMASTIME

This being the 25th anniversary of Hoosiers, I'm looking forward to tons of articles about it throughout March Madness, and good one is the statistical value of the single greatest athlete of all time, Jimmy Chitwood:

The first thing to notice is that Hickory's commitment to defense might be even worse than its commitment to diversity: the team's Defensive Rating was 133.16, or about 20 points per 100 possessions worse than the worst defense in NBA history. However, Hickory more than made up for it with an Offensive Rating of 155.08. To put that in perspective, if a team shot three-pointers on every possession and made half of them, their rating would be 150. And three-pointers didn't even exist back in Jimmy's day, and neither did a foul limit — violations not in the act of shooting resulted in only one free throw, followed by the fouling team getting the ball back. This means that the Huskers' opponents would have been better off fouling every time — by at least 55 points per 100 possessions...This makes Jimmy worth about 112 points over the course of an entire game in which each team had 100 possessions. You don't need me to put that in perspective, though I'll note that no NBA player is currently worth more than 20 points using the same metric.