Walter Szczerbiakformer American player Real Madrid who, fifty years later, still holds the record for goalscorers in a Spanish league game with the 65 points he scored against Brogan on February 8, 1976, he considers it “very difficult” to beat this mark due to the current game systems and the rotations used by all coaches.
This was considered at the tribute event organized this Friday in Madrid by Association of Clubs of Baloncesto (ACB), in which he recalled that performance, which took place at a “time” when the white club “was a snowball that, as the minutes passed, turned into an avalanche”.
He explained that behind his record was his intention to get rid of the “thorn” given the low evaluation he received from the sports press in his previous match against Eagleswhich boosted him in the next performance against the Lugo team, against which, at a time when the three-point line did not exist, he scored 25 of 27 two-point shots and missed only two of seventeen free throws.
To reach the historic 65 points, Szczerbiak76 years old, highlighted the collaboration of his partner Carmelo Cabrerawhose assists were instrumental in breaking the record. “Between him and I we scored 69 points,” joked Szczerbiak about the legendary Canaries point guard, who accompanied him in the tribute.
Szczerbiak receiving a commemoration souvenir
The American, who at the time had been in the country for two years Real Madridreceived after its exhibition in Lugo an offer to renew for five years which would translate into three cups of Europemany other Cups Intercontinentalfour Illness and one cup of the King.
During his speech this Friday, Szczerbiak He recalled the changes that occurred in basketball then compared to today, and highlighted the difficulty of breaking the scoring record due to “the way they play today”, since in his time it was normal for a player to spend 40 minutes on the court, something very difficult to see now.
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“What made us win so many points was our way of attacking”, he continued. “The bad thing is that there were no unified criteria, that’s why I want to congratulate the ACB for what it did for Spanish basketball. In our time they didn’t exist.”
In turn, the president of the ACBAntonio Martinhe considered that the American is “the history of basketball” and his tribute represents “an act of justice”, as it represents everything that was before the creation of the aforementioned association “which is due to everything that those of you who were before the ACB did, which would not exist with the strength it has if you had not done what you did in previous years”, he concluded.
