Kobe Impressed J.J. Culver To Rating 100 Factors
Wayland Baptist guard J.J. Culver scored 100 factors on Tuesday evening (December 10), changing into simply the second participant in NAIA historical past to attain at the least 100 factors in a recreation.
Culver, a senior, is the older brother of Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie Jarrett Culver.
J.J. led his workforce to a 124-60 beatdown of Southwestern Adventist.
His field rating was scintillating.
He scored 81 % of his workforce’s factors (100-of-124), hit 81 % of his workforce’s discipline targets (34-of-42), and took 81 % of his workforce’s pictures (62-of-77). Culver related on 12 three-point pictures (on 33 makes an attempt), and added 20 factors on the free-throw line. The remainder of Culver’s teammates mixed to go Eight-for-15 from the sector and 5-for-6 from the road.
“We at all times script our first couple of performs, and J.J. scored on the primary three or 4,” Wayland Baptist coach Ty Harrelson stated. “The fellows realized he was scorching and saved going to him. We figured so long as he is taking good pictures and pictures out of our philosophy that he had an opportunity to do one thing particular tonight.”
His brother Jarrett took to Twitter in disbelief.
After all, probably the most well-known 100 level recreation was recorded by Wilt Chamberlain as a member of the Philadelphia Warriors towards the New York Knicks in 1962.
Nevertheless it wasn’t “The Massive Dipper” that impressed Culver, it was Kobe Bryant.
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“I noticed a few of his movies,” J.J. stated of the previous Laker nice. “He stated when he scored 81, he was conditioned rather well. So in the summertime, I ran loads.”
Culver is referring to Bryant’s career-high scoring recreation of 81 factors towards the Toronto Raptors.
Congrats to Wayland Baptist on the win and kudos to J.J. Culver on making historical past.