@anon Amazing that this post has spoiled it for you, its all over social media. You were going to find out sooner or later!

Not usually a fan of spoiler efforts, but this might have alerted some people to tune in and see something special.

That was just unreal.

Fantastic performance. I wonder if it will inspire Rotnei, Ennis or Young to try and do something similar in the next couple of weeks.

Never a need to apologize to someone who goes on a basketball forum, and doesnt expect to see a result.

50 in a 40 minute format is rediculous! This is the type of stuff the league needs to advertise, all fans of sport love seeing massive totals, goals kicked runs scored etc NBL need to run with this!

Phenomenal shooting display! Never thought i would ever see and individual 50 point game in the NBL.

^^^ Inspiration for rotnei and co? Inspiration is one thing but you need to be in one hell of a zone to shoot like goulding did

In a league where every possession is at an absolute premium, you need to be hot from the get-go to register anything near 50. If you come out missing your first couple, you'll be forced to defer slightly by coach and teammates.

I was doubting we would ever see a 50pt game was great to see, we rarely get 40pt games let alone 50.

Yeah, I think Rotnei is the only other person capable of 50. And that would have to be on a very good day.

How many did Bobby Locke drop in his first game for Geelong?

He dropped 49 and that was in the 48min days

Bobby Locke debuted in 1990 or 91.

I don't think there's any point matching off performances from the semi-pro days with today, it's not needed and doesn't do either of them justice.

Any huge scoring night is worth celebrating, and today Goulding joined the ranks that include Gaze, Green, Heal, Penney etc - all great players.

Bobby Locke stepped off the plane and scored 50, not 49.

Played almost 47 of 48 minutes, 19/39 from the field, 10/13 from the line, a meagre 5 steals, for 50 points on debut. At only 5-9, the cat could score.

@paul so feats of the past get treated in what way. The nba still salute Wilts 100 point game with all the hairs on that performance. The NBL should be proud of it diverse history. 1984 Al Green would rip the current NBL apart.

Anyone scoring 50+ regardless of game length has had a big night

Al Green had a helluva month in May '84!

Amazing performance from Goulding. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he can do for the Boomers.

Hopefully he isn't lost to the NBL after this season though. The league needs stars like him to stick around.

because anyone who posts here should know not to include the outcome in the title header so someone can choose to come into the thread or not...

@ Phil you're a bit slow there mate. We don't care about spoiler alert that was hours ago.
Lets enjoy gouldings achievement because it will be a while before we see a 50 point game again.

I haven't watched the game yet but I have to ask..did the Kings defend him at all???

haha definitely the one time a spoiler is encouraged. I'd make a special effort to tune in to a game if there was a rare performance like today. Amazing stuff by goulding. Great crowd too.

KB3 said: @paul so feats of the past get treated in what way.

paul said: Any huge scoring night is worth celebrating.

What I don't like is trying to downplay one against another as they are all done in different circumstances. I think we should just celebrate each one for the great performance it is.

^ isnt that the exact point of stats and scoring records to compare 1 performance to the other

No he's saying celebrate them...not compare and rank them.

Statements like "84 al green would rip the current nbl apart" are just errant nonsense. No one played defense in the NBL until the mid 90s, which is why its hard to conpare eras.

If you compare them you really have to compare the circumstances because they have changed a lot, and Im not a fan of that as it just ends up downplaying one or the other depending on the view of the beholder.

No, you're interpreting it that way. I think they should all be celebrated as great achievements.

79-83 is correct for the first 40-minute era, though.

Also worth noting that as well as an extra eight minutes, 1984 introduced the three-point line.

Regardless of whether it's 48 or 40 mins 50 points in NBL is still a great achievement.
Goulding gives hope to alot of younger players, wasn't highly touted as a junior, startingas a developmentplayer, now at 25 he is amongst the NBL's best players, potential boomer and likely to end up well paid in Europe or even have a crack at the NBA

drop another 50 and then ill be impressed

33 shots wow

Great achievement. He was sinking 3's left, right, and centre. Best shooting display I've seen in the NBL since Gaze.

@Mick i think you may be a little off there. Some of the best defensive players existed in the 80's

Loggins was still good enough to be on the Olympic team in 1992. I would suggest that he 1984 ( 27 years old) version was faster , stronger and more athletic. And Al was a superior scorer to him

Bubbles 50 was a great effort but to disregard past champions of the game show a lack of respect. Saying these guys played in a semi pro time smacks of ignorance toward their ability and achievements.

Look at it this way: yes, the defenders were semi-pros. But so were the scorers.

What difference does it make? They'd both be terrible if they played today (unless you assumed their training would upgrade to match the era), but they didn't play today.

How accurate is that top ten scorers list up there?
Didn't scott fisher score 60 odd for the giants in the late 80's?

This is only a thought as I have not checked stats to back this up but with the added depth in all teams today compared to the past the great players of yesteryear had the chance to take many more FGA on a regular basis than those of today. Now shots are shared between more players on the team. Percentages are probably similar but not the amount of shots taken.

I wonder if anyone has the time and info to check the FGA per game of say Gaze, Green and compare that to Goulding this year.

Also Boti drags out 2 players (eg Blicavs, Barnett) from a period of a quite a few years and then tries to compare them to today. He talks them up as great shooters but what were their percentages compared to for example CJ, Ingles, Mills, Newley, Goulding, Madgen, Gliddon, Matt Campbell, hell even Sav, DJ, Kickert, Andersen, Ronaldson. All of whom played in a similar period of time.

Of course Gaze was a rare case but my guess would be that many of those I have listed above , given the volume of shot attempts that the players in the past had, could have put up similar or better numbers.

He talks up Palubinskas international scoring but forgets that Mills has done similar( well in reality probably a lot more).

Would you have Pearce or Goulding shoot for your life?

Back in the day were better shooters in general ( see the video getting about where Mark Jackson woops Steph Curry?) Todays team shooting at 40% is acceptable where as back then sub 45% was a disaster

Todays player is better at getting to the rim and finishing with either hand

Todays player will take riskier jump shots rather than deferring to an alternative.

Of course the scouting is superior to yesteryear and so player's tendencies are easily discovered and worked on by the d to create a harder environment for the offence to operate within

KB3 - that video is an anomaly. People get hot.

Steph Curry is statistically the best shooter of ALL TIME in the NBA.

Mark Jackson shot 33% for his career from deep: several seasons of which had the shorter three point line.

Saying people were "better shooters back in the day" is just complete nonsense that is entirely unfounded or supported by any statistical evidence whatsoever.

I don't need stats evidence I have my eyeballs

His performance can't have been that good or else someone would have said he was in beast mode.

"I don't need stats evidence I have my eyeballs".

Are these the same infallible eyeballs that "saw" Mark Jackson is a better shooter than Steph Curry?

Reminds me of the time I got into an argument with a guy who insisted three-point percentage was a bad way to measure three-point shooting ability, because Ray Allen was the best shooter in the league but the statistics said Anthony Morrow was better, therefore the statistics are flawed.

Koberulz... who ever you were having that debate with needs to be sterilized