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Candace Parker leads the WNBA all time list in triple doubles... With 3
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:57 am
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:57 am
ESPN let me know how great of an achievement that is this morning. She's been in the league, what a decade?
3 triple doubles, ever. More than anyone. Now that is a wild stat!
3 triple doubles, ever. More than anyone. Now that is a wild stat!
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 8:58 am
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Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:59 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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3 triple doubles, ever. More than anyone. Now that is a wild stat!
That is kinda insane.
I honestly have no idea how that is even possible
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:59 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Westbrook who? This is amazing GOAT player ever 
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:00 am to Mingo Was His NameO
How does a pg or sg not accidentally fall into that?
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:04 am to Oilfieldbiology
Their fundamentals are so great that there simply aren’t a lot of rebound opportunities. This is basketball as it was meant to be played
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:07 am to Mingo Was His NameO
They could be playing a game in my driveway and I still wouldn't watch it
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:08 am to Salmon
I don’t have the numbers to spout off but I’m sure the number of possessions is probably the biggest component for this.
Simply way less opportunity in an WNBA game to get a triple double than in an NBA game. Shorter games, longer shot clock, completely different style of play. Less chances for any stat
Lower shooting % across the leagues and less shots on more difficult shots overall (WNBA shoots a lot of mid range shots and almost never dunks) makes it a lot harder to get high assists.
The NBA on the other hand has a lot of inflated numbers on triple doubles, especially these days when teams are having all time numbers for possessions and 3 point shooting, which leads to pretty easy assist numbers (which can also be fudged)
I mean a triple double doesn’t really mean anything specific anyway, it’s simply like a cool stat to aim for.
Simply way less opportunity in an WNBA game to get a triple double than in an NBA game. Shorter games, longer shot clock, completely different style of play. Less chances for any stat
Lower shooting % across the leagues and less shots on more difficult shots overall (WNBA shoots a lot of mid range shots and almost never dunks) makes it a lot harder to get high assists.
The NBA on the other hand has a lot of inflated numbers on triple doubles, especially these days when teams are having all time numbers for possessions and 3 point shooting, which leads to pretty easy assist numbers (which can also be fudged)
I mean a triple double doesn’t really mean anything specific anyway, it’s simply like a cool stat to aim for.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:09 am to wildtigercat93
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Simply way less opportunity in an WNBA game to get a triple double than in an NBA game. Shorter games, longer shot clock, completely different style of play. Less chances for any stat
I had like 5 triple doubles in my HS career playing 8 min quarters with no shot clock
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:12 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Hmm, 148 NBA players have had at least 4 triple doubles so she'd be tied with guys like Ray Allen and Steve Nash for 149th in a combined WNBA/NBA history.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:16 am to wildtigercat93
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I don’t have the numbers to spout off but I’m sure the number of possessions is probably the biggest component for this.
Simply way less opportunity in an WNBA game to get a triple double than in an NBA game. Shorter games, longer shot clock, completely different style of play. Less chances for any stat
Lower shooting % across the leagues and less shots on more difficult shots overall (WNBA shoots a lot of mid range shots and almost never dunks) makes it a lot harder to get high assists.
The NBA on the other hand has a lot of inflated numbers on triple doubles, especially these days when teams are having all time numbers for possessions and 3 point shooting, which leads to pretty easy assist numbers (which can also be fudged)
I mean a triple double doesn’t really mean anything specific anyway, it’s simply like a cool stat to aim for.
You're right about all of this, but the WNBA also has way less good players so I would have assumed the players everyone knows would have put up way more dominant stats.
I mean Westbrook put up 50 in like 1 year and the all time career lead in the WNBA is 3! Like Salmon said, I figured someone could have accidentally run into more than that.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:31 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:32 am to Mingo Was His NameO
3 more than any of y’all
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:37 am to Salmon
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had like 5 triple doubles in my HS career playing 8 min quarters with no shot clock
You weren’t playing against the best players at that level in those games I’m assuming, so the WNBA players doing it against other professional womens basketball players, is much more impressive than you dunking on the JV squad, relative to the competition
And I’m not looking to get into the whole “WNBA vs high schoolers” debate. I’m not comparing those two things against each other. I’m comparing the level of play in the respective versions of their sport
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:39 am to sjmabry
Ice Cube comin’. He only needs two more, but I don’t know if he plays enough to catch Ace.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:40 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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You're right about all of this, but the WNBA also has way less good players so I would have assumed the players everyone knows would have put up way more dominant stats.
That can be seen in points, but assists require another player making a shot, rebounds require the opportunity to get rebounds (ie more defensive possessions), blocks need more opportunity to be blocked, etc
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mean Westbrook put up 50 in like 1 year and the all time career lead in the WNBA is 3! Like Salmon said, I figured someone could have accidentally run into more than that.
I think this sentence says a lot more about NBA regular season competitiveness and stat padding in cases like Westbrook than it does about the WNBA specifically.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:42 am to wildtigercat93
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I think this sentence says a lot more about NBA regular season competitiveness and stat padding in cases like Westbrook than it does about the WNBA specifically.
I do too, but Parker has 375 career games played and 3 triple doubles. More than any other woman ever! Sue Bird has played like 20 years and has been outstanding the whole time. Wild stat.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:44 am to wildtigercat93
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Shorter games, longer shot clock,
I thought they had the same clock rules as nba
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:46 am to Oilfieldbiology
I’m not a massive WNBA guy or anything so you could be right, I just assumed
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:47 am to wildtigercat93
I’m the biggest Liberty fan in the world. I’ve seen 10 games? Which is 9 more than anyone else.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 10:00 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I do too, but Parker has 375 career games played and 3 triple doubles. More than any other woman ever! Sue Bird has played like 20 years and has been outstanding the whole time. Wild stat.
It’s only crazy because of how common the triple double has become for basketball because of that stat padding I mentioned. There was a long time of basketball history where triple doubles were barely cared about
Westbrook spent a decade with the sole focus of getting a triple double every night, to the deferment of his teams. Both Sue Bird and Westbrook have hovered around 30-35 minutes per game during their entire careers. Which seems like a 1 to 1 comparison but in 2020 there were 9 teams that hit over 80 possessions per game in the WNBA, most ever in that leagues history, for the NBA on the other hand, only 5 teams were under 100 and the lowest was 98.
So that’s 20 extra possessions per game between those two players at the same level of minutes. And Westbrook gets 46 more chances every season to get a triple double than any NBA player does.
Like i get it’s a catchy stat, but it actually makes perfect sense when you look at the big picture
At the end of the day, they are two entirely different sports more than anything.
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 10:01 am
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