LeBron first player to shoot 64%+ in a month since...

[Mr. Incredible]

So much better than Kobe. Not even close.

[InfiniteBaskets]

Sure. In February (the subject of this thread), on 3s it's 43%, on shots just inside the 3 (16-23) he shot 63% (yeah, that's not a typo...), and on 3-15 feet, he shot 68%.

Was that sufficient?

LeBron is laying it up from the 3 point line so it's skewing his average.

[chosen_one6]

why does the thread title say "shoot" when he scores primarily with dunks and layups?

partial out all the fastbreak dunks and layups then tell me what his fg% is.

So with your logic, lets take away three pointers from Kevin Durants PPG and see how many points he scores per game because he shoots so many



Y'all LeBron haters crack me up.

And there's a minimum attempt number on the stat so that random role players that only played 20 minutes a game and made 3 out of 4 shots don't get accounted for. Come on people.

[SilkkTheShocker]

Kobe fans love to discredit MVPs, FG%, and PER.

[Roundball_Rock]

Jordan 3/1/90-4/1/90: 37.1 pts/7.9 reb/6.0 ast/3.8 stl/.9 blk/56% FG/33.1 GameScore

Jordan 3/1/89-4/1/89 - 28.5 pts/8.7/11.2 ast/51% FG/26.6 GameScore

By comparison, Lebron in February has a 28.2 GameScore average. And this is if we just look at months exclusively rather than any 30-day span, in which case Jordan had month-long stretches like these:

32.7 pts/9.9 reb/10.7 ast/2.5 stl/.8 blk/51% FG/30.5 GameScore

38.1 pts/7.7 reb/5.8 ast/3.6 stl/1.0 blk/56% FG/33.7 GameScore

PLAYOFFS - 38.4 pts/7.4 reb/6.8 ast/3.2 stl/.9 blk/52% FG/30.6 GameScore

PLAYOFFS, 3 Weeks - 37.5 pts/7.8 reb/8.3 ast/2.7 stl/53% FG/31.4 GameScore


I'm sure guys like KAJ, Shaq, Bird, Magic, and Wilt have had similar/better months than Lebron too.

at comparing FG % straight up. Lebron is doing this while taking 3.4 three's a game (at 43% in February). Jordan's highest FG % seasons all came when he took 0.6-1.2 three's a game (at 18%, 28%, and 31%). Moreover, Lebron is not jacking 25+ shots along with 10-11 FTA a game to achieve these results. Lebron's efficiency is off the charts and comes within the team context. If he were limited to only taking 2 pointers he would likely be around 67-69%. No perimeter player has ever approached this level of efficiency.

We are all witnesses.

[lebeast666]

some bald dude, what's his name, averaged 32-8-8 for an entire season.

some older dude earlier averaged an entire triple-couble for the season dude.

but they weren't cranking it out at 64%...

Faster pace era. More possessions = more pts, rebs, asts. Reason why MJ was able to take more shots than LeBron/KD and still avg 8asts/8rebs

[TheMarkMadsen]

Didn't he play with Jeff Mcinnis, Eric Snow, Larry Highes, Sasha Pavlovic, Drew Gooden, and Zydrunas Ilgauskus? Does that looks like an all star supporting cast to you?

you forgot Carlos Boozer and Big Z was an all star in 05, along with Hughes still being a very productive player.

Not an all star supporting cast by any means, but people always love to leave out that Big Z was a 2x all star & Carlos Boozer made a name for himself in a Cavs uniform


This is a great accomplishment but surely 64% is a very selective stat.

Why not 65? why not 63?

EDIT: Barkley's stats a few pages ago are a good example

[Dave3]

you forgot Carlos Boozer and Big Z was an all star in 05, along with Hughes still being a very productive player.

Not an all star supporting cast by any means, but people always love to leave out that Big Z was a 2x all star & Carlos Boozer made a name for himself in a Cavs uniform


This is a great accomplishment but surely 64% is a very selective stat.

Why not 65? why not 63?

EDIT: Barkley's stats a few pages ago are a good example

Carlos Boozer was a sophomore and LeBron was a rookie. I said 4 years for a reason - I wasn't including his rookie year in assessing his statistical potential. Larry Hughes was absolute crap when he got to the Cavs and was never "productive" with them at all. And yeah I know Z was an all star in 2005 (and 2003) - but after that it was downhill and it's not like you needed to be a great player to make it as a center on the Eastern All star team. Can anyone even name the second best big in the East in 2005 after Shaq?

I was never trying to make any point other than what you already conceded, he never played with an All Star level supporting cast. Yeah Boozer was there (in LeBon's rookie year, so that means next to nothing) and yeah Z had one all star year.

And yeah 64% is selective, but it's selected based on the fact that it's his shooting percentage. If someone was to score at least 67, they would say "the last person to score 67 was in 200X). You can be selective when you're talking about just one stat. It's not like they said "last person to average 29, 7, 7, and 64% and 43% 3s, etc. etc. They just said last person to shoot this high. There's no issue of being too selective there.

[All Net]

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Kareem

@EliasSports tells us @KingJames is 1st player to shoot 64% FG in a month (min 200 att) since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in March 1983

LeBron's month:
217 FGA, .641 %

Some of Shaq's months that were pretty close:
'93 jan - 213 FGA - .639 %
'93 dec - 307 FGA - .612 %
'94 jan - 291 FGA - .619 %
'94 march - 324 FGA - .580 %
'95 dec - 337 FGA - .591 %
'96 nov - 296 FGA - .605 %
'99 march - 308 FGA .591
'00 march - 376 FGA .590
'02 march - 293 FGA .614
'03 march - 320 FGA .588
'04 feb - 216 FGA .639
'05 jan - 245 FGA .620
'06 feb - 140 FGA .643
'06 apr - 97 FGA .680 (8 games)
'08 march - 128 FGA .648
'09 feb - 142 FGA .641
'09 march - 192 FGA .641
'10 jan - 125 FGA .648
'10 nov - 62 FGA .694
'11 jan - 65 FGA .677 (39 year old shaq in his very last season...)

So basically although it is technically true, it is just another made up stat, and Shaq had several far more impressive months in this regard.
He even came to within 0.001% two times

[chosen_one6]

LeBron's month:
217 FGA, .641 %

Some of Shaq's months that were pretty close:
'93 jan - 213 FGA - .639 %
'93 dec - 307 FGA - .612 %
'94 jan - 291 FGA - .619 %
'94 march - 324 FGA - .580 %
'95 dec - 337 FGA - .591 %
'96 nov - 296 FGA - .605 %
'99 march - 308 FGA .591
'00 march - 376 FGA .590
'02 march - 293 FGA .614
'03 march - 320 FGA .588
'04 feb - 216 FGA .639
'05 jan - 245 FGA .620
'06 feb - 140 FGA .643
'06 apr - 97 FGA .680 (8 games)
'08 march - 128 FGA .648
'09 feb - 142 FGA .641
'09 march - 192 FGA .641
'10 jan - 125 FGA .648
'10 nov - 62 FGA .694
'11 jan - 65 FGA .677 (39 year old shaq in his very last season...)

So basically although it is technically true, it is just another made up stat, and Shaq had several far more impressive months in this regard.
He even came to within 0.001% two times

The thing is, Shaq was a center that lived in the paint. The fact that LeGawd can do it and he's a wing player and taking three's is just holier than thou.

All hail the King!

[tazb]

@ that butt-hurt Kobe stan on the first page. LeBron averaged 38 points / 8 rebounds / 8 assists on the Cleveland Cavs in 08-09 playoff run. 38/8/8 and they somehow still lost.

[coin24]

@ that butt-hurt Kobe stan on the first page. LeBron averaged 38 points / 8 rebounds / 8 assists on the Cleveland Cavs in 08-09 playoff run. 38/8/8 and they somehow still lost.

So what team do you actually follow? Or are you just a sad Lebron stan laker hater because its cool?
You have a very exciting life it seems