Bradley Beal didn’t get the memo about how to get to 51 points the easy way in today’s NBA. If you can get hot from deep or find a sympathetic ref, you can pile up some points pretty quickly. Neither of those things happened for Beal en-route to a career-high 51 points against Portland on Tuesday.
Yes, he made some outside shots, going 5 of 12 from the field, but that isn’t too uncommon for a guy like him. He’s made at least 5 threes in three other games this season. It’s not like he was camped out around the three-point arc waiting for open shots.