The Washington Wizards just dropped a game in overtime to the Milwaukee Bucks despite a 55-point effort from their last star standing Bradley Beal. That’s almost the most mind-blowing sentence I have ever read.
The point of the game is to score points, so you would think that when your best player scores an insane amount of points that means your team pretty much always wins. However, while your logic is somewhat sound you are incorrect.
There are actually a lot of reasons that someone might score a ton of points and your team still loses, and more on that in the coming slides, but it’s not at all a rarity in the NBA.