Since '68: Charles Barkley Drops 56 In Golden State | Phoenix Suns

we are underway game three in Oakland a victory by the Suns and the season ends for Golden State a warrior win and they stay alive in the play on Friday Barkley from 15 Swiss it's good well I remember going to the Warriors bench and I'm talking to Don nelon I said Don I got like 10 points in the first 3 4 minutes of the game he say we're not going to double you after to take the three wants to shoot it again got it sh what a first quarter for Sir Charles 27 points did not miss a shot 11 for 11 from the field three [Music] three-pointers what' he get 56 or something like that against the Warriors in one series and it's just what he did he could do that because he could do stuff like that sometimes you know you let him be a minute late to the bus I said Don I'm ask you this one more time and Don who's one of the great coaches and characters NBA he he looked at me he says Charles I'm going to tell you this one more time we're not going to double you because when I go back and look at it I almost had a triple double those first two games got a guy named Don Nelson saying no one he doesn't need a double team Charles and he said if you can beat us beat us and we still laugh about about that story to this day Charles is just a unique individual biggest heart in the world one of the greatest athletes forget basketball all time and this is a basketball player a guy 6'4 6'5 to be able to do the things that he did Barkley handles the ball starts to move back on Gatling keeps coming now falls back puts the shot up and in off the glass from 16 he got it this is his NBA playoff career high that's very few nights where you just shoot everything and it goes in I was very uh fortunate tonight and hey I mean when you just shooting it and they all going in it's it's unbelievable feeling he's demonstrated throughout his career that he's a Superman in many ways and uh bad back uh question mark and all he um he put on a great show so he W to Barron Houston gave him the business uh Chris Weber gave him the business after he dropped his rookie trophy of your trophy and we're just like if you think you don't need double team Charles go right ahead M at the Baseline Fade Away 15 foter good a beautiful Fall Away Fade Away shot he said we're not doubling you you're not going to have a triple double you said you can get 30 points but you're not going to get eight or nine assists I don't even know if incredible is a a good enough word but I mean he just he came ready to play from the jump start we milked him every single play whenever we needed a but bucket in any corter he did what was necessary made good rebounds good blocks shots he was incredible he had that Rockstar status a lot of us had a lot of accolades but we had never played with somebody of his caliber and uh it was really really a special uh I think experience for all of us Charles told us matter of fact we're going to go home we going to end this sweep him and go home and rest and he told Paul give me the ball so once we found out that he's not going to get double team we gave him the ball when you're scoring like that obviously you know everybody telling you how many points you got I was feeling it that's what I remember the most going by the bench I don you sure you're not going to double me and he and like I said we still laugh about it to this day he's like Charles I'm telling you for the fourth time we're not going to double you here comes Charles Barkley out 56 points in the ball game his individual career high gets a hug from KJ Marley big win for the Suns here big game for Charles bar

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