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    Separating fact from fiction about Corey Fisher's 105-point game

    By Jeff Eisenberg

    In an era of cell phone cameras, YouTube clips and more cable sports networks than you could ever watch, it's virtually impossible for any significant athletic performance to go undocumented.

    Amazingly enough, however, video proof of Corey Fisher's shooting barrage in a New York City summer league game on Saturday night still hasn't surfaced.

    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.

    One report suggested Fisher scored 72 points in the second half. Another said he hit 23 of 28 3-pointers. There were even initially accounts that the man defending Fisher was Toronto Raptors guard Jose Calderon, though those appear to be false.

    How much if any of the rest of the story is true remains shrouded in mystery because Fisher hasn't divulged much information on Twitter, and so far he hasn't returned a message left for him on his cell phone. As a result, here's what I can corroborate based on conversations or emails with Watson Basketball Classic director Lionel Saunders, eyewitness Kenneth Stevens and BangLee Takenouchi, captain of the team Fisher's squad defeated.

    • 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.

    • The opposing team was called GymRatsNYC, a group of semi-pro players who play in summer streetball tournaments in New York City. Takenouchi reports that one of his teammates also scored 60 points in the game.

    • According to Stevens, Fisher had 56 points at halftime and about 76 after three quarters despite constant double and triple teams, so his teammates kept feeding him the ball every possession to see how high the Bronx native could go.

    "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."

    It's staggering that any player could exceed 100 points even against what surely wasn't NBA-caliber defense, but Fisher's high school exploits show he's capable of explosive scoring nights.

    The former McDonald's All-American once dropped 37 points on O.J. Mayo and 35 on Brandon Jennings as a high schooler at St. Patrick's in New Jersey. Though he has been overshadowed at Villanova the past three years by All-American teammate Scottie Reynolds, the 6-foot-1 Fisher broke out somewhat to average 13.3 points per game last season.

    You can call Fisher selfish for going for an individual accomplishment, question the level of competition he faced or celebrate his amazing scoring prowess, but here's one thing we can all agree on: It's a shame no video has surfaced so we can all judge Fisher's 105 points for ourselves.


    Impressive! Too bad there's no video footage of this.

  • #2
    Too bad. Maybe the fact that this game was treated "Just Another Game on the Sidelines" meant that no one was expecting an event like this.

    I like Corey Fisher and his game, reminds me of Stephen Curry shooting prowess.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by CKR13 View Post
      Too bad. Maybe the fact that this game was treated "Just Another Game on the Sidelines" meant that no one was expecting an event like this.

      I like Corey Fisher and his game, reminds me of Stephen Curry shooting prowess.

      If only Corey Fisher is playing in the NBA and he dropped that 105 points, he's gonna break the record of Wilt Chamberlain.
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      • #4
        His teammates must have had a wonderful time watching him play...
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        • #5
          Originally posted by uhg80 View Post
          His teammates must have had a wonderful time watching him play...
          Hah, hah!!

          I don't really know who Corey Fisher is.

          Like the article said, this is 2010. Somebody must have had a cell phone or a camera or something to record the last few moments or snap a photo of a coaching assistant's boxscore or something.

          I'm very skeptical.
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          • #6
            I am wondering is he really that good shooter for making 23/28 for 3??Because his 3P% in college was nothing special...

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            • #7
              Villanova's Corey Fisher says his 105-point game is no hoax
              By Jeff Eisenberg

              Almost a week after word of his Wilt Chamberlain-esque moment began circulating the Internet, Villanova guard Corey Fisher admits he's shocked by the attention his record-setting scoring barrage has received.

              Friends have called him on the phone, fans have flooded his Twitter account with messages and total strangers have even stopped him on the street all asking the same question: Did he really put up 105 points in a New York City summer-league game last Saturday night?

              "It's true," Fisher said Friday, almost sheepishly. "It never entered my mind that I would score 100 points. I was playing the game, and people in the crowd were yelling, 'He has this, he has that.' My teammates were finding me at the right place at the right time."

              A lack of video evidence has fueled skeptics who questioned whether Fisher's scoring onslaught actually happened, but the Bronx native said we can take his word that this is no Internet hoax. He did score 72 points after three quarters, he did hit 23 of 28 3-pointers and he did do all this against a collection of former college and semi-pro players who he swears were actually playing defense.

              Although the opposing team known as GymRatsNYC switched from a soft zone, to a box-and-1, to a swarming man-to-man, none of the defenses successfully cooled Fisher's torrid shooting. Someone from the crowd let Fisher know he was getting closer to triple figures after each second-half bucket until dozens of fans finally mobbed him on the court after he notched his 100th point at the free-throw line.

              "It's something everyone is going to talk about," Fisher said. "I know I'm going to get hit with it a lot going to school and during the year. People are saying I'm a legend, but I don't want to be a legend in streetball. I'm in school and I'm focused on the school year."

              It's shocking anytime a player eclipses the 100-point mark even in a meaningless summer-league game, but there were signs Fisher might be capable of a performance such as this. Although he only averaged 13.3 points per game as a junior, he dropped 37 points on O.J. Mayo in a high school game and once scored 72 points in an IS8 League game as a high school junior.

              Hearing about Fisher's summer-league exploits has Villanova fans optimistic that he can fulfill the great potential he flashed in high school with a breakout senior season, but he downplayed the importance of Saturday night's outburst.

              Fisher said the only way he can prove he's ready to make the leap from secondary option behind All-American Scottie Reynolds to Villanova's primary scoring threat is by showing it next season on the court.

              "This one game isn't going to get me where I'm trying to go or where my teammates are trying to go," Fisher said. "I know what I'm capable of doing. Me being the leader of this team this year, I feel I'm ready to make a big jump."

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              • #8
                corey has definately gotten in great shape compared to a few years back... amazing at drawing contact... definately an nba talent

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                • #9
                  That is quite an achievement. If his teammates were trying to feed him the ball, and if the other team wasn't getting blown out, I have no problem with somebody like that going for a scoring record. 105 points! Remarkable.

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