Clinching Game Stats for MJ, Kobe, LeBron...

[chazzy]

I have no problem admitting I have a personal vendetta against you.

[Legends66NBA7]

Most biased agenda and troll posters will help drive someone to have a vendetta on here, I guess.

[WayOfWade]

Great players putting up great numbers.

I don't get why Carmelo Anthony is in this. Could have picked a better candidate. Add some other great perimeter players in his place, like Bird, Magic, etc... I guess finding the stats for those guys would be hard, though.

I did Melo cause I knew he'd be easy. As for Magic and Bird, I will get to them in these stats threads eventually, but it will have to be post 1984 (basketball reference stops complete box scores then). And yeah, definitely some more wing players would be good, people like Clyde, Ray, etc...

[DMAVS41]

Melo? ROFL

Do some other great players like Dirk and Duncan or something...

[kshutts1]

I would like to see their "clinching game" stats relative to their "playoff average" stats from that year.

There was another thread on this exact same topic.. literally... and I went through and basically did it this way:

CGppg (Pppg), CGrpg (Prpg), etc.

When I did that, I saw that not many players' stats really increased all that much, if at all.

[kshutts1]

Finally found it..

"Originally Posted by WayOfWade
MJ, LBJ, Kobe, Wade, Duncan, Shaq, & Dirk.

Michael Jordan G7 Stats:
36.8 (33.4) PPG, 7.2 (6.4) RPG, 6.6 (5.7) APG, 1.2 (2.1) SPG, 1.0 (.9) BPG, 4.0 (3.1) TOPG, 48.9( 48.7) FG%, 33.3 ( 33.2) 3FG%, 79.7 (82.8) FT%


Kobe Bryant G7 Stats:
21.4 (25.6) PPG, 7.1 (5.1) RPG, 5.1 (4.7) APG, .9 (1.4) SPG, 1.6 (.7) BPG, 2.0 (2.9) TOPG, 39.5 (44.8) FG%, 32.4 (33.1) 3P%, 70.2 (81.6) FT%


Dwyane Wade G7 Stats:
21.7 (23.7) PPG, 5.5 (5.5) RPG, 3.8 (5.2) APG, 1.3 (1.7) SPG, .8 (1.1) BPG, 4.0 (3.6) TOPG, 40.7 (47.6) FG%, 15.4 (32.1) 3P%, 91.4 (77.6) FT%

LeBron James G7 Stats:
34.4 (28.1) PPG, 9.0 (8.6) RPG, 3.6 (6.7) APG, 1.6 (1.7) SPG, .4 (.9) BPG, 2.4 (3.5) TOPG, 47.4 (47.2) FG%, 31.3 (32.2) 3P%, 79.4 (74.9) FT%

Tim Duncan G7 Stats:
25.8 (21.9) PPG, 12.2 (12) RPG, 3.4 (3.2) APG, 1.2 (.7) SPG, 2.6 (2.4) BPG, 3.4 (2.9) TOPG, 42.6 (49.9) FG%, 0.0 (15.6) 3P%, 87.5 (68.7) FT%

Shaquille O

[Magic 32]

So in essence, even cherry picking certain games to be removed, even though it was Kobe's choice to come out of HS early. Both with it's benefits and pitfalls. Wanting to be on the Laker franchise, which already had an All-Star caliber player at his position.

Removing those games, it's still:

MJ > LeBron > Kobe > Wade > Melo

So, thanks. I think.

Aha.

Lets see what happens when Lebron slows down.

[Unbiased_one]

Aha.

Lets see what happens when Lebron slows down.

I'm not sure how you haven't realized this, but LeBron has slowed down considerably over the last 3 years, but has become a significantly better player than he ever was before. He's developing his skillset, much like MJ did when he lost a step. MJ managed to do better than compensate for his loss in athleticism, and it will be interesting to see if LeBron can do the same (although I have my doubts whether he can do it as successfully as MJ did.)

[jlip]

Great players putting up great numbers.

I don't get why Carmelo Anthony is in this. Could have picked a better candidate. Add some other great perimeter players in his place, like Bird, Magic, etc... I guess finding the stats for those guys would be hard, though.

I did Magic's elimination game averages in a previous thread.
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...8&postcount=24

I just looked in my files and found that I did his clinching game averages in the Finals only also (only pts/rbs/asts).
5 Wins- 20.8ppg 10.2rpg 14.8apg

*3 Loses-19.7ppg 7.7ppg 16.3apg

Overall avg.- 20.4ppg 9.3rpg 15.4apg

*He didn't play in the '89 clinching game due to injury.

[Fresh Kid]

Melo? ROFL

Do some other great players like Dirk and Duncan or something...

Melo is close to dirk though.

[Hoopz2332]

[TOLATE]

u took kobe numbers before 00'?