The Sacramento Kings head coach became the latest to chime in on the historic feat the Miami Heat star hit.
Bam Adebayo dropping 83 points Tuesday for the Miami Heat dominated the NBA landscape. The historic moment sparked reactions since then, which now includes Doug Christie of the Sacramento Kings Friday.
The head coach got asked about his thoughts on Adebayo delivering the second-greatest single-game scoring performance. Adebayo's night surpasses the 81 the late Kobe Bryant completed back on Jan. 22, 2006 against the Toronto Raptors.
But Christie's first five words will likely shock fans.
"I didn't really see it," Christie began when speaking with reporters Friday.
Yet he still didn't want to ignore what the Heat star delivered against the Washington Wizards.
"But anytime you can do that in our league, that's special. Just...wow," Christie said.
Christie still got pressed about Adebayo, including getting asked how he'd defend someone going off on the scoring end like that.
"Again, I didn't see," Christie continued to state. "But there's multiple things -- you want to get the ball out of the guy's hands, you want to not let him score. And inside of that, you may foul him. Exactly how it happened, I'm not sure. But even then, you have to make your free throws."
Adebayo earned 43 attempts on the white stripe, hitting 36 of his shots there. He's now in the record books for most free throws made in a single game. But more astonishing was what Adebayo did outside of the free throw line. He nailed 20-of-43 field goals including sinking seven three-pointers.
"It's an incredible feat," Christie said. "I don't know Bam like that but I hear he works extremely really hard on his game. He's been an Olympian. And for our league he's been incredible."
How did Bam Adebayo fare against Kings?
Fortunately for Christie and the rest of the Kings, they won't have to game plan against Adebayo anytime soon.
It's because Sacramento and Miami already faced one another earlier in the season. But how did Adebayo fare in those meetings?
Adebayo didn't come close to 40 points, or even 30. But he led Miami with 25 points on 8-of-15 field goal shooting in the Jan. 20 meeting. Sacramento fell in that one 130-117.
Sacramento claimed the first meeting, though, back on Dec. 6. And the Kings bottled Adebayo to only nine points in that 127-111 romp. Zach LaVine dropped 42 points that evening.
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