@ 138 in one game.. 109 in another. Kobe and LeBron have mad respect saying that game, or Wilt Chamberlain is one they wanna see..... But it has nothing to do with race or height... Hmm
@ He finished the season as the nation's leader in points per game (28.8) and three-pointers per game (5.38). He was named to the All-Midwest Conference Second Team. In Taylor's senior year, he scored 52 points in a 118-109 loss to Beloit College on November 22, 2014.[43] He again led the nation in scoring (28.4) and three-pointers (5.04), and was second in free throws made (185). He was a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection, was voted to the All-Central Region Second Team... That's college stats. but not NBA material... Why??
@@BEAUTYnIQ lol I truly miss game of zones. Idk why they cancelled it. They could have charged for it or put it on ESPN+ and ppl would have paid. Weird decision to not keep it going IMO
What he doesn't want to be defined as is the only thing he's known for. Being rejected by every team but recognized and respected by pro players is depression on steroids.
@Max Power no skill do you know how much stamina you need to put up 50 and he got over that do you know how much skill and athleticism you need to put up 50 points ya he could be just gifted but no one is gifted enough to score 100 points you probably don’t even play ball
@Max Power Yeah it may not take an insane amount of skill but it still takes skill and most people can’t do that. Not any varsity HS bball or even college player can do that and there’s a good amount of HS and college players that plenty of people including scouts think are “skilled” and I bet a lot of them couldn’t even do this. The way they did it doesn’t take the most skill but regardless it still does take skill. Also what flavor of paste?? Who’s out here eating toothpaste or tomato paste or any paste for that matter?? He probably didn’t have a fav paste flavor cuz he don’t eat that nasty shit. You might’ve gotten a definitive response had you asked him something noteworthy like what his favorite flavor of ice cream or Gatorade is dummy dum dum
Even if his teammates passed only to him, hitting more than most nba score lines even get to undoubtedly showed his quality, i mean to even hit over 50 points is nuts, let alone almost TRIPLE that, nuts.
@@jasonm6231well, he wants to be known for something else. When he dies, he doesn’t want “that guy who scored 138 points in college” to be the only thing written on his tombstone. He wants to accomplish more
It wasn’t because he was hogging the ball his team literally had a strategy in place and he was in the right place at the right time enough time to score 138 points
I’m a Grinnell College alum and they utilize a mathematical, full court hustle defense called THE SYSTEM. The NBA barely acknowledges this game play even though Grinnell continues to be the leading scoring team in the United States. “The Grinnell System, sometimes referred to as The System, is a fast-tempo style of basketball developed by coach David Arseneault at Grinnell College. It is a variation of the run-and-gun system popularized by coach Paul Westhead at Loyola Marymount University in the early 1980s.[1] The Grinnell System relies on shooting three-point field goals, applying constant pressure with a full-court press, and substituting players frequently…Through 2012, Grinnell won five conference championships, advanced to the postseason 11 times, and led the nation in scoring at all levels of college basketball in 17 of the past 19 seasons.”
@@Cliquityklack There must be a reason The System isn’t used in pro ball, I won’t pretend to have a clue what that reason is but no pro team is going to pass up a winning strategy. As a very team orientated athlete I would not have been happy on that team regardless of the outcome.
I guess the further we get from that game, the more people are going to forget or ignore how Grinnell played, which facilitated the crazy score. The offense was literally just ‘get steals and shoot as soon as you can’
@@endocry the point is it had more to do with the style and pace of play than the player. This video glosses over that. Grinnell would sellout for steals and then just let the opponent shoot/score. So the number of possessions per game was sky high. I guess to put this in perspective, if Steph Curry played for Grinnell back then, he would have scored 200 points in a game, probably more than once.
Grinnell plays basketball weird. They literally don’t play defense, their entire strategy is just drain threes. 120+ point games arent uncommon from the team. 138 from one guy is still crazy tho
For those wondering how this happened, the coach went wild and implemented a strategy that we all secretly wondered what it would look like, but he actually did it. Basically every person played man to man defense full court and when a pass was made they would double team the person about to catch the ball. Then on offense they had something like 5 seconds or less to shoot a 3 pointer, or find an open 3 point shooter. And this did this apparently every game the entire season. Extra info: This play style was extremely rough and wore out the players fast so each player wouldn't play more then 20 minutes per game, however the coach made an exception for Jack when he would get hot from 3.
@@Bird.Lover6000 Grinnel plays in a way that basically just skips on defense. Their entire strategy is to sink threes all game so they'd often have 100, 110, 120+ point games.
I thought it was because he scored 138 points while his team scored zero. There’s no way that everyone on the college team wasn’t good enough to score 1 pont
@@zetsu4212 I’m sure that played a part in it but grinnel is also a division III school where the offense is predicated entirely on shooting as many 3s as possible, even if it means sacrificing layups at times. Not to mention the difference in the level of competition between DIII and the NBA. And with the emphasis on efficiency in todays NBA, you’re going to have to be a one in a million athlete to have a chance if you play in a system that is based solely on volume
@@hopelove897 its not about the nba taking him or not but now he's gonna be known as the person who scored 138 points in a game. Shoulda just kept grinding and maybe found a different league
@@rjb9999 I wasn’t asking you lol. Nosey much, didn’t get enough attention as a kid? I was making sure that’s what he was referring to. Your obviously too unintelligent to comprehend that’s what I was doing. Belligerent and ignorant. You must have daddy issues lmao.
@@GangMember9000 sounds like an excuse for why he didnt make it in the NBA, overseas, etc. "i DoNt wAnNa LeT oNe GaMe DeFiNe Me" Yea ok bud, you couldn't cut it.. Its okay.
@@jasonmcmillian8417 sometimes the NBA can be weird about recruiting. Some of the best in the NBA were at one point denied to join by recruiters but still found a way to play
Exactly! He said “I walked away cause I didn’t want that game to define me…” nall G, you walked away cause *NOBODY* wanted you! They knew you weren’t actually a basketball player! They seen through all of the media hype and bs!
That's the thing. What are his other stats like rebounds,assists,steals,etc. Probably a NBA coach would think that if you gonna take that many shots in a game, I would have 11 unhappy pro ballers (or a lost locker room)
that’s why you play to the coaches style ? or maybe the coach has a playbook where the players can follow it for a more organized style of play and OUUU then he could learn those plays and then be apart of the team in anyway the coach needs, like spot up shooting maybe ? spacing the floor ? idk juss a thought for change
oh yeah makes sense, he definitely will never pass considering he left the game bc he didn’t want to be defined by his high scoring games, and somebody even said the way his school played was they played tight defense and tried to score as soon as possible your ONLY scoring that much if you have the best shot onna team, i can 99.99% guarantee he’d pass the ball lmao, he doesn’t play to score, he played bc he loved the game, you have to mesh into a coach’s play style and if it requires you to pass the ball they’d pass the ball, if he wanted to play and a team drafted him whether it’s here or overseas he’d be playing to whatever the coach’s play style was
@@SpaceRanger187 idk never heard of him but could of been by design? Like everyone could agree let this guy just score for us. Other wise he would got benched right? Anyways that many points is insane and has the potential to be at least a scorer off the bench. But I'm assuming the real reason he didn't go pro is cause his defense was trash and handles were just average
His 138 points came off 71 three point attempts, he made only 29 of them. He took a 108 shots, made 52 of them. The rest of his teammates combined took 20-25 shots. Plenty of star potential kids could do this if their team just lets them hog the ball and shoot every single shot. There was a kid on the other team named David Larson, he scored 70 points on 34/44 shooting.
@@GD6345. mainly because of his lack of knowledge of what the NBA defines as "real playbooks" his college uses a playbook that the NBA teams don't approve of.
@@GD6345. I agree with you, there is a taboo sort of thing about teams taking people from places that play like they do, one major issue is the fact that the playbook wears down players physically and they have injury problems within a few years, they also don't usually have the stamina to play more than 20mins a game.
@@GD6345. because he was not NBA level talent. he wasn't even NCAA D2 talent. in this 138 pt game he never came out. his 29 other teammates rotated a new 4 every dead ball. they turned down wide open layups to pass back out to Jack. this happened multiple times. Jack barely crossed half court to play defense the entire game. on top of all that they played a 7 man roster bible college where future pastors just wanted to have fun and play competitive basketball. Jack's team doesn't do this every game. they specifically targeted this school so they could try and break a record. their system is specifically designed to bring notoriety and that's it. it's not impressive, it's offensive to the sport and I'm glad his career wasn't boosted by this shit show of a program.
Imagine not wanting to be defined by your game and then as a result being defined by that game. 38% from 3 and 48% from the field isn't horrible, but the amount of shots he put up in that game tells you the other team was absolutely trash which is why it wasn't Elite Point Scoring that made him that record.
So I got curious and found a reddit comment I'll quote here: ''I'm watching this game right now. This is the most despicable display I think I have ever seen in sports. Right from the top, the game announcer says that the team is going to try to get a scoring record in this game for Jack Taylor. Grinnell intentionally scheduled a horribly over-matched team for the express purpose of trying to break records against them. Grinnell routinely passes up open layups so they can pass the ball to Taylor Taylor basically never crosses halfcourt, just waiting at the offensive end for his next chance to score Once Faith Baptist gets into the bonus, Grinnell routinely subs in the end of their bench to intentionally foul so that they can get the ball back for Taylor for more points. This is when they are up 50+ points in the first half. Grinnell set the opponent on "easy," passed it to one guy the whole game, and had him score as many as he could. An video game tactic in real life, against a real opponent. Very mature. If I'm a player on Faith Baptist, there is no way I make it through the game without getting myself ejected for something. I got angry just watching that garbage.'' No wonder this dude didn't get picked up if his crowning achievement was that pre-planned.
@@Immor7alBG Idk who made that comment but just based on the film I watched it’s still impressive. Almost every shot was fully contested and sometimes he was double teamed. I think his downfall might’ve just been his size and lack of athleticism to compensate. His jumper is good tho
@@tdot415 yeah I l know that, but the deeper meaning behind the quotes is people don’t want to live their entire life being defined by what their best at.
Bro, people don't understand how near to impossible a 138 point game is. A 20-50 point game is tiring asf especially in College where u meet physical and tall players, but this dude almost tripled it. When you really let it sink in, 138 is insane even in college. I bet some NBA players can't score that much against a College Team.
Lol you should really read the comments of people who actually know the team and watch the game. They specifically designed it so that he could break a record. He sat on the 3 point line(no defense) and was passed the ball at every opportunity. Man literally took 71 threes.
Lolol, found a comment on Reddit that was written 9 years ago. Anyone who thinks this 138 point game is anywhere near legit, anyone who is genuinely surprised or shocked that he went undrafted, this one is for you 😂😂😂😂 I'm watching this game right now. This is the most despicable display I think I have ever seen in sports. Right from the top, the game announcer says that the team is going to try to get a scoring record in this game for Jack Taylor. Grinnell intentionally scheduled a horribly over-matched team for the express purpose of trying to break records against them. Grinnell routinely passes up open layups so they can pass the ball to Taylor Taylor basically never crosses halfcourt, just waiting at the offensive end for his next chance to score Once Faith Baptist gets into the bonus, Grinnell routinely subs in the end of their bench to intentionally foul so that they can get the ball back for Taylor for more points. This is when they are up 50+ points in the first half. Grinnell set the opponent on "easy," passed it to one guy the whole game, and had him score as many as he could. An video game tactic in real life, against a real opponent. Very mature. If I'm a player on Faith Baptist, there is no way I make it through the game without getting myself ejected for something. I got angry just watching that garbage.
He doesn't really have a choice lmao They didn't want him, they aren't gonna change their mind the year later If you don't get drafted, it's kinda over, that's why I hate most of the US sports Hard to get a second chance
Does anyone actually know how this happened? Grinnell College hired a coach to get them back to the top, he made a system to score at will, have players cherry picking instead of playing defense, and give up a layup if u can get the ball down court quickly. One game, Jack Taylor started well and at halftime they realised it was a special night and he could do something there. So they fed him the ball and he scored 138.
The NBA keeps a monopoly on who gets to score the most. It's all about the shoe deals and being able to use the pro to manipulate any fans that let them.
Well that’s in Sweden the competition there isn’t close to what it is here. But it definitely means that guy needs to get over here n play for real tho lol
@@jeremytaft8247 You're literally going against what Kobe said when he didn't care what level Jack did it at. And it's actually 272 points by a 13 year old in a regional tournament in 1974. Still insane no matter what level with the strain scoring that much would be.
You don’t declare for the draft when you’re senior. Atleast not back in 2015. You were just automatically eligible. The era with the super seniors that were in now is where you need seniors to officially declare.
"I don't want to be defined by my 138 point game" i.e. "I'm salty that I never got to play professionally but still want to look like the bigger person"
You have to put in perspective that if an individual scores 80 in high school varsity that’s insane but to score 138 points on college level that’s just mind blowing
Nah the craziest stat is he took 71 threes, that would break the nba record for an entire team. Also the fact that he shot under 50% from the field and under 40% from three. Kobe would be so proud.
No the coach said at the beginning of the game. Jacks the only one to shoot. You rebound and pass it back to Jack. Point was the publicity to the school so the coach could sell his book.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Grinnell college, they run an insane offense. They only send 3 people down on defense and the other two Cherry pick. They throw up the first shot they get. They’re actually really fun to watch. After the first half the team realized how many points he had and just started feeding him.
Well, to score 138 there must have been a strategy for the team to make him a priority scorer. He may be great at it but no one can beperfect so he'll obviously have his drawbacks. Including his smaller build and shorter height, he won't be excelling at what he does best in the NBA. Plus, you can't expect him to be scoring as much as he does at the lower levels. Even if he scores higher than the average high scorers(which is highly doubtful), it'll be a 4.6 vs 5 when it comes to other aspects. He would just get bodied by most teams and will probably get guarded by better defenders. So him not getting picked is a logical choice in most cases.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord They didn’t say anything about strategy they mention Soli that NBA didn’t want him because scored all by himself but it’s not a criticism of the strategy because they don’t mention the strategy
No one wanted him because he obviously NOT a team player. He also probably didn't the whole package as a pro Basketball player. Maybe his defense sucked. It's not about how many points your score, it's over all talent that gets you places.
Well his team mates didn’t have to pass to him I think he should have been given a chance But fast forward to 2021 and the NBA just tried to shut Labron down…..
I remember this game happening and the headlines, but I’m just going off of what I read in the comments. His other teammates took like 20-25 shots, and some other kid on the opposing team shot 34/44 and scored 70. This kid shot something like 27/71 for 3s. I guess the team took a very unorthodox style of play for years, and their entire strategy was full court man to man coverage, double team whoever got the ball, aggressively go for a steal, and either pass to the closest free guy at the 3pt line, or throw it up within the next few seconds. I read something like no player ever played more than 20 min a game because of how aggressive the play style. They basically spent 90% of the game just getting steals and throwing them directly to this dude so he could put up a 3 as fast as possible 🤷🏻♂️
Or he’s just not a good player and anyone that puts up 108 shots is going to score that number of points? This nigga was playing 1 on 5 while NBA teams play 5 on 5. NBA is not D5 basketball, it’s the real deal.
@@BestGranny10 yeah if i’m being 💯 here i gotta say that i don’t rly like him, he’s overrated and prolly wasn’t playing a good team at the time and rly seems like he wouldn’t get along w ppl
I’ve known jack since kindergarten n his twin sister has been my bestie since then, he’s more than just basketball. Yeah he had fun that night n his team saw he was on fire so they kept passing him the ball to try n get a record. Anyone who makes a sport their whole life, doesn’t have much going for them. He’s a humble, kind, God fearing, family man. He’s well known n respected in our hometown.
As amazing as scoring 138 might be…among pro scouts, it’s probably the ultimate display of selfishness. Ironically, it’s that 138 point game that destroyed his basketball career.
@@slbshadow it’s not people be so quick to give an opinion based input when they don’t know the full story the coach implemented a strategy to rack up high points by cherry picking defenses sometimes and shooting 3s within seconds to rack up a higher score it wasn’t because he was selfish it was because he was on a role and his teammates kept passing him the ball
Nice bro making assumptions when I’m actually fucking doing any research the strategy for the team was when they were on defense they get the ball and within five seconds shoot for a three pointer or pass it to somebody else who’s in position to shoot for three pointer. And when they were on our fence well the same thing you shoot for a three pointer within five seconds I’m getting the ball on your past and what helped you can. He just happen to be in the right place at the right time and the time is the score of 138 points. He was not in fact a ball hog. If that was the case the couch would’ve been Chatham it wouldn’t have gotten that far
I don’t want to be defined by my 138 point game. Proceeds to quit basketball to live a normal life. Makes sense the record will likely stay but otherwise he’ll be forgotten.
