Titles Where One Player Was the Best in Every Series?

[T_L_P]

Best player on either team in each series*

Which ones you got?

[brownmamba00]

Dirk in '11?

[ArbitraryWater]

Dirk in '11?

Obviously.. but this thread won't turn out well.

[T_L_P]

Dirk in '11?

I would probably say so. But it's not an easy choice (Wade has a very strong argument for best player in the Finals).

[Sakkreth]

I would probably say so. But it's not an easy choice (Wade has a very strong argument for best player in the Finals).

Nah it's quite easy, Wade was great but Dirk was better without an argument.

[Im Still Ballin]

Leboss james 2012

[Budadiiii]

Leboss james 2012
Durant was easily the best player in the finals and every previous series

[T_L_P]

Nah it's quite easy, Wade was great but Dirk was better without an argument.

Dirk put up 26/10/2/.5/.5 on .537 TS%, with a GameScore of 16.6.

Wade put up 27/7/5/1.5/1.5 on .614 TS%, with a GameScore of 22.7.

Wade was 16/29 in 4th quarters. Dirk was 18/35.

Like I said, I'd probably go with Dirk. But it's not without argument. Wade put a all time choking LeBron and an unperforming Bosh on his back.

[StephHamann]

Jordan in 91 92 93 96 97 98

[Budadiiii]

Dirk put up 26/10/2/.5/.5 on .537 TS%, with a GameScore of 16.6.

Wade put up 27/7/5/1.5/1.5 on .614 TS%, with a GameScore of 22.7.

Wade was 16/29 in 4th quarters. Dirk was 18/35.

Like I said, I'd probably go with Dirk. But it's not without argument. Wade put a all time choking LeBron and an unperforming Bosh on his back.
Why would you probably go with Dirk? Because LeBron choked?

Heat should have easily won that series

[DMAVS41]

I personally thought Wade was a bit better than Dirk in the finals (mainly because of the flu game...people forget that Dirk did play one game truly sick)...however, it's a tough comparison because the Mavs pretty much solely focused on Lebron.

It would have been embarrassing if Wade didn't play great given the lack of attention he faced. But regardless, you have to credit him for playing well.

[SCdac]

This thread will amount to a discussion on offense-related statistics rather than who the better player was. How do we qualify the defensive impact of players like Duncan, KG, and Shaq outside of raw stats? Their impact isn't always in the boxscore or even advanced stats. As for the thread, I'd bet Jordan is eligible in some of his runs

edit: *quantify

[Fire Colangelo]

Surprised nobody mentioned 2000 Shaq.

2012 and 2013 LeBron.

All of Duncan's series are really arguable... I do remember KG having a good series against TD in 1999. Obviously you could argue Kobe playing better in 2003 as well, and Amare went crazy against TD in 2005 dropping something like 37/10 in that series.

Kobe was the best in 09 and 10.

Hakeem in 94, 95?

[T_L_P]

Surprised nobody mentioned 2000 Shaq.

2012 and 2013 LeBron.

All of Duncan's series are really arguable... I do remember KG having a good series against TD in 1999. Obviously you could argue Kobe playing better in 2003 as well, and Amare went crazy against TD in 2005 dropping something like 37/10 in that series.

Kobe was the best in 09 and 10.

Hakeem in 94, 95?

Only Duncan one was 03, tbh, and he was certainly the best player in every series. Duncan was better than KG in the Minny series, but Duncan wasn't better than Robinson in the Portland series.

Kobe doesn't really have a case for 03. Kobe wasn't even the best Laker (Shaq was).

Kobe put up 32/5/4/1 on .533 TS%. Duncan put up 28/12/5/1 on .575 TS%. Kobe's defense was poor though. Bowen won a game by himself, and Manu had his best series that year. I don't see how it could be Kobe. Even then, people said he was chucking. And this is peak Duncan. :confusedshrug:

Manu was the best Spur in 05. Duncan has a good case for 07, depending on how you view the Finals (Duncan drawing all the defensive attention, securing Ws with his defense, or Parker abusing the biggest mismatch ever). Deron may have been the best player in the WCF also.

00 Shaq is an obvious choice for sure. :cheers:
13 LeBron too.

But I do kind of agree with budadiiii. I thought Durant may have been the best player in that Finals series.

Good post.

[tpols]

2009 Kobe
2012 LeBron
2003 Duncan
2011 Dirk
2000 shaq

[pastis]

2009 Kobe
2012 LeBron
2003 Duncan
2011 Dirk
2000 shaq

yes.

maybe 2013 lebron as well.

[Heavincent]

Shaq 00
Duncan 03
Kobe 09 and 10
Dirk 11
Bran 12 and 13

[Suguru101]

Since 2000?

Shaq - 2000, 2002

Duncan - 2003, 2005 (The people putting Manu above him or as arguable, are blanking out on basketball being played on both ends.)

Kobe - 2009

LeBron - 2012, 2013, 2014 (Heard TLP say that Durant may have been better. At scoring maybe, but he didn't play-make, pass, rebound, defend, or draw as much attention from the defense as LeBron did. It isn't really arguable.)

[T_L_P]

Shaq 00
Duncan 03
Kobe 09 and 10
Dirk 11
Bran 12 and 13

Pau and Kobe were basically even in that Utah series

But Pau was the best player in the 1st round against OKC.

Agreed with 09. Kobe had a brilliant Playoff run. Not 2010 (in terms of best player in each series; it was still obviously a brilliant run)

[DMV2]

Since 2000?

Shaq - 2000, 2002

Duncan - 2003, 2005 (The people putting Manu above him or as arguable, are blanking out on basketball being played on both ends.)

Kobe - 2009, 2010

LeBron - 2012, 2013, 2014 (Heard TLP say that Durant may have been better. At scoring maybe, but he didn't play-make, pass, rebound, defend, or draw as much attention from the defense as LeBron did. It isn't really arguable.)
Durant's 2012 Finals was nothing but empty stats. Couldn't help the Thunder frontcourt not get dominated on the glass by Bosh. Couldn't stop LeBron in the paint.

He had 0 impact, yet people always blame Westbrook, just because Durant's scoring stats were still good.

[SCdac]

I'm a huge Manu fan and I'd still take Duncan in 05 over him. Manu was even better in the first around against Denver than in the Finals imo. Finals are just more memorable and a bigger stage. Talking about the Spurs without talking about Duncan's defense is like talking about the mid-2000s phoenix Suns high octane offense without mentioning Nash's amazing skills on that end. Even on offense, TD did average 27 ppg / 14 rpg while nearly sweeping the #1 seeded Suns. I'd take 05 TD over prime Amare easily.

[Rose'sACL]

yes.

maybe 2013 lebron as well.
how is that a may be? wtf is up with everyone in this thread?

[ArbitraryWater]

Jordan in 91 92 93 96 97 98

Not in '93 and '97... Hell, Kemp bested him in the '96 finals, son.


2009 Kobe
2012 LeBron
2003 Duncan
2011 Dirk
2000 shaq


Um, who had a better series' than LeBron in 2013?



I don't see anyone outplaying LeBron over an ENTIRE series from 2012-2014..... Sure, Kawhi was right there with him from game's 3-5, but in game's 1 and 2 he scored NINE POINTS EACH, non factor.... Imagine if LeBron did that.



- And yeah, Kobe was not the best player in the 2010 OKC series... Even the finals were close.

[Milbuck]

Not in '93 and '97... Hell, Kemp bested him in the '93 finals, son.

Lmfao at you condescendingly calling him "son" when you you think A) Jordan wasn't the best player in the 93 finals, and/or B) Kemp was in the 93 finals.

And it's clearly not just a typing error on your part, you mention that year twice.

[Budadiiii]

Lmfao at you condescendingly calling him "son" when you you think A) Jordan wasn't the best player in the 93 finals, and/or B) Kemp was in the 93 finals.

And it's clearly not just a typing error on your part, you mention that year twice.
:roll:

And they played the Suns that year. Can't make this shit up.

[Spurs5Rings2014]

Lmfao at you condescendingly calling him "son" when you you think A) Jordan wasn't the best player in the 93 finals, and/or B) Kemp was in the 93 finals.

And it's clearly not just a typing error on your part, you mention that year twice.

:lol

[StephHamann]

Not in '93 and '97... Hell, Kemp bested him in the '93 finals, son.




.

http://www.nerdsdib.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5dhcpwI.gif

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNhofLr5tC4 Sir Charles (talking about the 93 finals): "That guy is better than me"

[Milbuck]

:roll:

And they played the Suns that year. Can't make this shit up.
For real. The saddest part about this is that it's not even the first time something like this has happened. The amount of times this dude has said next-level retarded shit that completely exposes his knowledge of the game, leading to him being eviscerated by posters who actually know what they're talking about...and he still parades around with his awkward self-important shtick...straight up comedy act :oldlol:

[Crose]

jordan
duncan 99/03
shaq 00
kobe 09/10
lebron 12/13

[ArbitraryWater]

Lmfao at you condescendingly calling him "son" when you you think A) Jordan wasn't the best player in the 93 finals, and/or B) Kemp was in the 93 finals.

And it's clearly not just a typing error on your part, you mention that year twice.

So what do you think it is, I believe Kemp played for the 1993 Phoenix Suns?

Sure

[ArbitraryWater]

http://www.nerdsdib.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5dhcpwI.gif

-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNhofLr5tC4 Sir Charles (talking about the 93 finals): "That guy is better than me"

Nah, I'm talking about the 1993 ECF... Pippen was the MVP of that series.

Jordan shot 40% and 35% outside of game 4 I think it was...

Pippen saved the series with 23/7/4 on 51%, multiple clutch 4th quarters and a superior closeout game (MJ shot 33%).

[Milbuck]

So what do you think it is, I believe Kemp played for the 1993 Phoenix Suns?

Sure
You tell me bud. You've also dropped such gems as "KG wasn't known as a defensive stopper until he was in Boston", so I'm not entirely sure what you know or don't know.

[ArbitraryWater]

You tell me bud. You've also dropped such gems as "KG wasn't known as a defensive stopper until he was in Boston", so I'm not entirely sure what you know or don't know.

I guess that was a pretty retarded thing to say....

so, you believe I think Kemp played for the '93 Suns? Be real http://hoops-nation.com/community/public/style_emoticons/default/childplease.png


For once just be honest and don't try to "own" someone.. just be honest. Harmless mistake... You know it... But no, you needed to quickly copy and post it in the "dumbest things said" thread :lol

[Milbuck]

I guess that was a pretty retarded thing to say....

so, you believe I think Kemp played for the '93 Suns? Be real http://hoops-nation.com/community/public/style_emoticons/default/childplease.png


For once just be honest and don't try to "own" someone.. just be honest. Harmless mistake... You know it... But no, you needed to quickly copy and post it in the "dumbest things said" thread :lol
Again, you tell me, dude. Whether it was that, you not knowing which year the Sonics played the Bulls, whatever it was..enlighten me. There seems to be so many coincidental errors with you that I'm not entirely sure what I should consider blatant retardery and what gets a pass.

[ArbitraryWater]

Again, you tell me, dude. Whether it was that, you not knowing which year the Sonics played the Bulls, whatever it was..enlighten me. There seems to be so many coincidental errors with you that I'm not entirely sure what I should consider blatant retardery and what gets a pass.

damn you're acting childish.. Rockets got jobbed in '93 in game 7 against the Sonics, and then ironically they got screwed in the WCF to the Suns, as the Suns received the most FT's in a playoff game EVER (64) making for the Jordan/Barkley matchup... I know just fine what happened those years.

[Milbuck]

damn you're acting childish.. Rockets got jobbed in '93 in game 7 against the Sonics, and then ironically they got screwed in the WCF to the Suns, as the Suns received the most FT's in a playoff game EVER (64) making for the Jordan/Barkley matchup... I know just fine what happened those years.
No, you actually don't :oldlol:

I'm 100% positive that you literally just now looked that up, browsed some old threads/articles, and typed out this post with a throbbing erection. I know that because you've been caught blatantly copy/pasting posts before. And when you're not doing that, you come out with gems like the KG post. Who are you trying to fool here? :lol

[J Shuttlesworth]

Everyone's already said 2012 LeBron

Is there a case against 2013 LeBron?

[ArbitraryWater]

No, you actually don't :oldlol:

I'm 100% positive that you literally just now looked that up, browsed some old threads/articles, and typed out this post with a throbbing erection. I know that because you've been caught blatantly copy/pasting posts before. And when you're not doing that, you come out with gems like the KG post. Who are you trying to fool here? :lol

:rolleyes:

Okay... go ahead and continue to hang on to that, post your smileys, if it makes you happy... I'm done here. You love to have the last word (comes from receiving a lack of attention), we know that by now, so take it :cheers:

[Milbuck]

:rolleyes:

Okay... go ahead and continue to hang on to that, post your smileys, if it makes you happy... I'm done here. You love to have the last word (comes from receiving a lack of attention), we know that by now, so take it :cheers:
Ah yes, the ArbitraryWater patented "last word" defense to get people to stop clowning him when his feelings get hurt. How did I not expect that :oldlol:

I'm out too, *last word*

[Budadiiii]

Damn, I love seeing Milbuck bully ArbitraryMilk. Shit is lulz.

He's too nice a guy though. Next time you slip up AW I'm going for the jugular, punk ass bitch.

[Heavincent]

ArbitraryWater getting bodied :lol

[pastis]

No, you actually don't :oldlol:

I'm 100% positive that you literally just now looked that up, browsed some old threads/articles, and typed out this post with a throbbing erection. I know that because you've been caught blatantly copy/pasting posts before. And when you're not doing that, you come out with gems like the KG post. Who are you trying to fool here? :lol

i dont understand here. why would it be embarassing if he just looked up the stats? are you just allowed to post here if you watched the nba for 27 years or so?

[ArbitraryWater]

Damn, I love seeing Milbuck bully ArbitraryMilk. Shit is lulz.

He's too nice a guy though. Next time you slip up AW I'm going for the jugular, punk ass bitch.

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