Nearly a week later, Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson's insane, record-breaking 37-point third quarter in Friday's game vs. the Sacramento Kings is still one of the most talked about stories in the NBA. Thompson's performance was mind-boggling, reconfiguring many ideas of what a player can accomplish over just 12 minutes. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] One of the men whose record he broke believes that Thompson had a serious advantage in achieving his record. Hall of Famer George Gervin, who scored 33 points in a quarter for the San Antonio Spurs in 1978, spoke to Bleacher Report's Howard Beck about Thompson's achievement and what might have helped him best the Iceman: First: "I said, 'Wowwwww, that's pretty impressive.'" Then: "But I'd like to see him try to get 33 or 37 in a quarter when there wasn't no three-point line." [...] When Gervin set the NBA record for points in a quarter—in the second quarter of a loss to the New Orleans Jazz, on April 9, 1978—there was no three-point arc. Its adoption was still a year away. Gervin accumulated his 33 points the old-fashioned way: on mid-range jump shots, slashes to the...