shot %, fga, and finals wins

[Straight_Ballin]

Sure we can look at the team make up surrounding the player in question, etc, etc, etc, but when it comes down to it, players like Kobe and Bron and even worse AI really think/thought that they are good enough that they should be putting up as many shots as they are/did. These guys think they have the shooting ability of Jordan and they never did. If you are an intelligent player, at some point you need to assess yourself and say to yourself, look... I'm just not as good of a shooter as Jordan was so I need to approach getting a win in a different way.

A player that comes to mind that would know how to make the right decision if they were put into AI, Kobe, or Bron's shoes would be Duncan.

The other question, is this: had Jordan not been such a damn good shooter, would he himself had the ability to cut back on his number of attempts per game or would he just have been another Kobe/Bron/AI and chuck his teams out of wins?

5/7 and 2/6 (especially last season) kind of speak for themselves, but 6/6 had alot to do with taking a ton of shots AND actually making them.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

What?

:wtf: :confusedshrug:

[Megabox!]

Jordan stans are f*cking dumb

[Straight_Ballin]

MJ 1998: TS% .516 with 164 FGA
Lebron 2015 TS% .447 with 196 FGA
Kobe 2004 TS% .45 with 113 FGA

I'm sure other years in the finals look similar, but if you look at true shooting % in comparison to FGA, the final losses for Bron and Kobe in this sample selection are due to them shooting themselves out of the game at low clip. Jordan can take 164 attempts in 1998 for example because he has a high true shooting % of .516, resulting in a win. Kobe and Bron on the other hand, with far lower TS% found themselves losing. If they would have just shot better, they would have won. Such is the key factor separating the GOAT from the rest of the pack. Shooting a ton and doing it at a very very effective clip.

[kennethgriffin]

the 2 times kobe lost

2004:

- 350 pound shaq
- injured 40 year old malone
- 40 year old payton
- 40 year old fox
- scrub russell
- scrub cook
- scrub luke
- scrub medvidenko
- scrub rush
- scrub george
- scrub fish



2008:

- 0-16 playoff record pau gasoft ( 85th all time on BBR )
- 0 allstar crack head odom
- rookie ariza
- scrub newbie
- scrub karl
- scrub mihm
- scrub mbenga
- scrub turiaf
- scrub luke
- scrub farmar
- scrub sasha
- scrub radman
- scrub fisher







when jordan was winning he had guys like



- top 25 all time, top 5 all time defender Scottie Pippen
- GOAT rebounder, top 5 all time defender Dennis Rodman
- 20ppg allstar a year before chicago Ron Harper
- Euro legend Toni Kukoc
- top 5 all time 3 point shooter, Finals game winning shot Steve Kerr
- top 5 all time 3 point shooter, Finals game winning shot John Paxson
- top 5 all time 3 point shooter, shooting legend Craig Hodges
- All Star great defensive player Horace Grant
- All Star, high % shooting point guard BJ Armstrong
- All Star, multi 20PPG seasons Bill Cartwright
- solid role player Stacy King
- 40 year old Robert Parish riding the bench ( equivalent to malone or payton )

[Straight_Ballin]

- 40 year old Robert Parish riding the bench ( equivalent to malone or payton )

:lol Fair enough.