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What should the name be?

Everybody Touches Jordan

Everyone Like Mike

Nobody Touches Lebron

Paint Camping

Zone Defense

Zone Sandwich

Strongside Flood

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According to Tom Haberstroh of ESPN, Lebron scored 38.3% of his team's points, which is 2nd in history to Michael Jordan's 38.4% in the 1993 Finals.


Here's the difference - in 1993 Finals, MJ shot 53.3 eFG% compared to 51.1% for the team.. So MJ's 33 shot attempts per game were positive expected value versus letting his teammates shoot.. But Lebron shot 43.1 eFG% compared to 43.2% for the team... So when Lebron shot the ball, it wasn't necessarily positive expected value versus letting his teammates shoot.

There's an ESPN article (http://stats.nba.com/featured/sportvu_finals_game6_2015_06_17.html?ls=iref:nba:s pecials) showing that in Game 6, Lebron shot the ball on pnr's 42% of the time, compared to 8% for Curry... This occurred because Curry passed to Draymond Green and Iggy 77% of the time either of them screened, compared to 0% for Tristan and 15% for Mosgov when they screened Lebron.. Again, Tristan and Mosgov shot FAR better than Lebron, but the pnr stats show Lebron passed up their higher efficiency to shoot himself at much lower efficiency.. :confusedshrug:

edit: wrong thread, my bad





What should the name be?

Everybody Touches Jordan

Everyone Like Mike

Nobody Touches Lebron

Paint Camping

Zone Defense

Zone Sandwich

Strongside Flood


Weakside spacing

Off-ball passing

Navigation Efficiency

Spacing like Neat Corn Rows

Spacing like a Marching Band

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Without James on the floor, Cleveland’s field goal percentage dropped for 40% to 17%, and it’s offensive efficiency fell from 97.3 to 50.9.


Who cares - there isn't a single all-time great whose team didn't have far worse stats when they weren't on the floor.

Why is it a big deal when it happens for Lebron?... The only reason people make a bigger deal today is because we now have stats with fancy names to measure it.





According to Tom Haberstroh of ESPN, Lebron scored 38.3% of his team's points, which is 2nd in history to Michael Jordan's 38.4% in the 1993 Finals.


Here's the difference - in 1993 Finals, MJ shot 53.3 eFG% compared to 51.1% for the team.. So MJ's 33 shot attempts per game were positive expected value versus letting his teammates shoot.. But Lebron shot 43.1 eFG% in 2015 Finals compared to 43.2% for the team... So when Lebron shot the ball, it wasn't necessarily positive expected value versus letting his teammates shoot.

There's an ESPN article (http://stats.nba.com/featured/sportvu_finals_game6_2015_06_17.html?ls=iref:nba:s pecials) showing that in Game 6, Lebron shot the ball on pnr's 42% of the time, compared to 8% for Curry... This occurred because Curry passed to Draymond Green and Iggy 77% of the time either of them screened, compared to 0% for Tristan and 15% for Mosgov when they screened Lebron.. Again, Tristan and Mosgov shot FAR better than Lebron, but the pnr stats show Lebron passed up their higher efficiency to shoot himself at much lower efficiency.. :confusedshrug:





When LeBron was NOT on the floor, JR Smith, Matthew Dellavedova, James Jones and Iman Shumpert DID NOT MAKE A SHOT in the NBA Finals


It's a statistical fact that Lebron turns teammates from playmakers (higher apg, lower assisted rate) into play-finishers (lower apg, higher assisted rate)... So his teammates have a much tougher transition when he goes to the bench - they have to become playmakers all of a sudden after being accustomed to play-finishing while Lebron dominates the ball.

Otoh, truly great basketball players don't reduce the APG of teammates by being ball-dominant - guys like Bird, MJ and Curry had the skill to spend more time off-ball, thus allowing teammates to retain their playmaking duties.

Allowing teammates to be playmakers helps the team win more because when Bird, MJ or Curry go to the bench, their teammates were already playmaking, so they don't have to make this big transition from play-finisher to playmaker like Lebron's teammates must do..
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LeBron James finished the 2015 NBA Finals with averages of 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds, and 8.8 assists per game.

LeBron James is the first player in NBA Finals history to lead both teams in points, assists and rebounds for the entire series.

Without James on the floor, Cleveland’s field goal percentage dropped for 40% to 17%, and it’s offensive efficiency fell from 97.3 to 50.9.

According to Tom Haberstroh of ESPN, James accounted for 38.3% of Cleveland's points in the Finals, the second-highest percentage of team points in Finals history. He is edged only by Michael Jordan scoring 38.4% of the Bulls' points in the 1993 Finals, which Chicago won.

He was responsible for an average of 57.7 points per game on points he either scored or assisted on; which in turn, accounted for 62% of the Cavaliers’s points in the NBA Finals.

According to ESPN Stats & Information, by pulling the Elo Ratings for each team to make the NBA Finals before the series began, and taking into account a team’s home-court advantage, it was able to project each team’s chances of winning prior to the Finals. What was discovered was that James’ teams had the lowest expected winning percentage — 37% — out of any of the other players on this list. If you consider that James still managed to win two titles with those odds stacked against him, the four losses don’t seem so terrible. And if we look at the 2015 Finals by itself, we’ll realize that James did was pretty much unprecedented.

“If we look at a multi-year Statistical Plus/Minus talent projection for every NBA Finals team, this Cavs team ranks as the ninth-least talented NBA finalist since 1985. (By contrast, Cleveland’s opponents, the mighty Golden State Warriors, rank as the 14th-most talented.) Remove James, and things get even more dire; his supporting cast ranks as the third-worst team carried by its best player to the NBA Finals since 1985.”

If you were to take James’s talent rating (6.6) and replace it with that of the league-average player (0.0), the Cavaliers’s talent rating would dwindle to -0.1. So what the King ended up doing was carrying one of the three-worst supporting casts in NBA history to within two games of a championship. Of course, what we forgot to mention was that FiveThirtyEight also determined that these Golden State Warriors finished the year with the second-highest peak Elo Rating (1822) in NBA history and third-highest Composite Elo Rating of all time (1796), making them one of the best basketball teams ever. And what James did against them remarkable.

When LeBron was NOT on the floor, JR Smith, Matthew Dellavedova, James Jones and Iman Shumpert DID NOT MAKE A SHOT in the NBA Finals

Without LeBron James on the floor this series.
JR Smith 0/9 FG
Delly 0/7 FG
J. Jones 0/3 FG
Shumpert 0/2 FG
Total 0/21 FG

Edit: wrong thread.. my bad