If Melo had played 40 minutes vs Nigeria

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Using the points scored, divided by the minutes played methodology, Carmelo was scoring on a pace to tally 106 points in 40 minutes. Melo has scored 53 points in his last 26 minutes or 82 points per 40 minutes.

Stephon Marbury held the old American record with 31 points scored against Spain (2004) in a 102-94 victory. Marbury played a total of 30 minutes with a scoring rate of 41 points projected over 40 minutes. In that game Carmelo played 2 minutes and was 1-for-1 with a three.

In Team USA's first five games Marbury scored just 21 points missing 24 of 30 shots. On his day off he spent 90 minutes working on his shot. In that 31 point performance he knocked down 6 of USA's 12, 3-pointers breaking Reggie Miller's mark of 5 in a game. Charles Barkley & Adrian Dantley had the old mark of 30 points in a game.

Oscar Schmidt, a 6-8 ¾ small forward for Brazil, who unofficially tallied 49,737 in his overall playing career holds the single game Olympic record of 55 in the 1988 games in Seoul against Spain in a 118-110 loss.

Schmidt is the all time Olympic career scoring king with 1,094 points in 38 games for an average of 28.8 ppg.

In the 1988 Olympics Oscar scored a total of 335 points for an average of 41.9 per game. He played in five different Olympics, but Brazil never got past the quarterfinals in any of them.

If anyone can find a box score with minutes played for Scmidt in his record performance, I would be curious to see his points per 40 minutes.