dirks championship run = goat

[mehyaM24]

outscored lebron (future goat) 52-11 in 4th quarter

beat Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, Brandon Roy, Chris Bosh, Lemarcus Aldridge, Pau Gasol

ended the Phil Jackson era in a sweep

11 dirk's championship >>>> duncan's entire career, anything KG has done, better than barkley's entire career.

[navy]

Better than Duncan's entire career? Duncan has 4 rings. Sit down.

[Quickening]

Wade had better stats in the finals... Lebron beat himself.

[Fire Colangelo]

His finals aren't anything to gloat about, but his entire playoff run was great.

People, including myself tend to overrate Dirk's 11 finals because of the fact he beat LeBron. But truth is he averaged 26 on 41%.

Dirk was GREAT in 4th quarters though.

[HoopsFanNumero1]

Wade had better stats in the finals... Lebron beat himself.

This is the right answer. Dirk had a good playoffs run, great even, but his Finals performance is very overrated.

[moe94]

Turning around a franchise and winning it all with arguably the GOAT defense > 2011 Dirk

[BoutPractice]

His finals aren't anything to gloat about, but his entire playoff run was great.

People, including myself tend to overrate Dirk's 11 finals because of the fact he beat LeBron. But truth is he averaged 26 on 41%.

Dirk was GREAT in 4th quarters though.

And had 2 game winners. 26 ppg 2 game winners and FMVP, that's a great Finals, regardless of shooting percentage.

That said... this is just disrespectful to Duncan.

[ArbitraryWater]

His clutchness in the 4Q of the Finals made up for the lackluster play through the first 3 Q's... god forbid, his teammates kept him in somewhat of a close game!

In the 4th, Dirk closed out all 4 wins with 8-10 points in every 4th quarter.

Not THE Goat Run, but TOP 10.

[MrC1991]

Dirks run was remarkable but come on man better than anything Duncan or LeBron has ever done? LOL

[Cone]

definitely the goat playoff run.

completely carried that squad. never seen someone carry a team with such mediocre teammates

he torched my thunder, and im not even ashamed to admit it.

by the way, in the finals, he played thru a sickness and finger injury. good gawd

[ArbitraryWater]

And had 2 game winners. 26 ppg 2 game winners and FMVP, that's a great Finals, regardless of shooting percentage.

That said... this is just disrespectful to Duncan.

Sadly only one OFFICIAL Game Winner.

The clutch shot in G4 was with already up 1... so more like a game sealer.

[SilkkTheShocker]

Did LeBron have a bad game the whole 2012 postseason?

[SCdac]

In response to the clear hyperbole, the teams the Mavs went up against have gotten massively overrated because of big names.

Take the Thunder for instance, average age of that team is like 22 years old lol... they were kids playing against hungry veterans...

Lakers were in a funk that season, look at Pau Gasol's numbers before running into the Mavs (41.8 FG% against the Hornets)...

Heat team were the worse than '12 and '13, when they added Battier, Allen, Andersen, etc, went on that amazing win steak, and Lebron was still prone to a good punking at the time (he's admitted that series helped him grow, he worked on his game in the summers following).

Dirk was excellent, but keep in mind he didn't lead his team in rebounds, blocks, assists, steals, or three's made..... In other words, he had a fair amount of help.

... inb4 DMAVS wall of text ...

[ArbitraryWater]

Did LeBron have a bad games the whole 2012 postseason?

Nope. Thats the amazing thing. Both ESPN Lists ranked it as 2ND GREATEST PLAYOFF RUN. Of course ISH went crazy mad about that But dude didn't have ONE poor game.

13 30+ Point Games in 23 Games.

[Megabox!]

Did LeBron have a bad games the whole 2012 postseason?

No I don't think so. Dude was in the zone that entire postseason and the finals, nobody was stopping him