Bill Buntin vs Mel Counts

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Bill Buntin and Mel Counts compared on their NBA careers: Bill Buntin played 1 season, 1965-66 to 1965-66, Mel Counts 12 seasons, 1964-65 to 1975-76. Bill Buntin averaged 7.7 points a game to Mel Counts's 8.3. They have faced each other 4 times: Bill Buntin's team won 0, Mel Counts's 4. Mel Counts won 2 titles.

Who has the better career numbers?

Mel Counts leads in 2 of the 2 lines, Bill Buntin in 0. Bold marks the better figure; playing time — games, minutes, at-bats, innings — is not scored.

Bill Buntin and Mel Counts career per game
42GP789
17MIN17.4
7.7PTS8.3, better
6REB6
0.9AST1.4, better
—STL0.1
—BLK0.1

Bill Buntin and Mel Counts: no career line is published, so it is worked out from the seasons on file — career totals divided by games played.

Bill Buntin vs Mel Counts head to head

They have faced each other 4 times: Bill Buntin's team won 0, Mel Counts's 4.

Bill Buntin and Mel Counts, record against each other
GamesPlayedBill Buntin wonMel Counts won
Regular season404, better
Bill Buntin and Mel Counts, averages in their games against each other
5.8PTS7.5, better
6.5REB13.5, better
0.0AST0.0
10.3MIN8.8

Every game against each other

Bill Buntin vs Mel Counts, every game
Mar 17, 1966BOS at DETL 128-1036 PTS, 0 MIN2 PTS, 0 MIN
Dec 17, 1965BOS at DETL 114-1122 PTS, 0 MIN6 PTS, 0 MIN
Nov 26, 1965DET at BOSL 134-1148 PTS, 7 REB, 0 AST, 18 MIN12 PTS, 11 REB, 0 AST, 16 MIN
Nov 13, 1965DET at BOSL 122-937 PTS, 6 REB, 0 AST, 23 MIN10 PTS, 16 REB, 0 AST, 19 MIN

Games both played on opposite sides, from the game logs on file; the record is their teams’.

Titles and awards

Bill Buntin and Mel Counts titles and awards
Bill BuntinTitle or awardMel Counts
—Championships2, better

Awards come from the league’s published winner lists; a championship counts a season played for the club that won it.

Season by season

Lined up by career year, not by calendar: each row is the players’ nth season.

Bill Buntin and Mel Counts season by season
PTS: Points scored — a free throw is worth 1, a shot inside the arc 2, beyond it 3.REB: Missed shots the player collected, at either end of the floor.AST: Passes that led directly to a team-mate's basket.PTS: Points scored — a free throw is worth 1, a shot inside the arc 2, beyond it 3.REB: Missed shots the player collected, at either end of the floor.AST: Passes that led directly to a team-mate's basket.
1st1965-667.7, better6, better0.9, better1964-654.84.90.4
2nd————1965-668.46.40.7
3rd————1966-677.66.10.9
4th————1967-6811.78.91.7
5th————1968-6912.47.81.4
6th————1969-7012.68.42.0
7th————1970-7111.06.31.7
8th————1971-725.23.41.3
9th————1972-734.63.81.0
10th————1973-743.23.21.2
11th————1974-756.95.92.4
12th————1975-763.03.31.3

What the columns mean: PTS · REB · AST