This confirms my noticing how aggressive Chris Paul is off the dribble in the PS vs. RS. And he's never been on a team with this much space on the floor.
Playoff CP3 21.5 points, 9.5 assists, 5 rebounds, over 2 steals Shooting percentages at 48.5% and 38% from 3 PER 27 TS% 58.5%
Yes, this is how we're going to destroy the Warriors. We're going to pnr/iso Paul against Pachulia, Curry, Green or Livingston. They can't stop him. He can be shooting more right now but we really don't need it and he's doing a legendary job feeding the role players.
He can motivate him, and reduce his load. Change has to come from within. Harden has to believe in himself. Once he does that, he will become unbeatable. Go Chris! Go Harden! Go Houston Rockets!
I already posted this once, but I think here it's more appropriate. Cluth points (5 minutes left in the 4th quarter or OT) in the playoffs(1996-2017), x-axis clutch points per 48 minutes, y-axis clutch TS%(True shooting percentage), size of the circle is total clutch points scored, only players with more than 50 total points are included, the horizontal line is the average TS%. Paul ranks 5th in points per 48 minutes but shoots a much higher percentage than everyone who scores more. Kobe and Lebron score most points in the clutch time in the playoffs, but their shooting percentage is just around average; post-prime(only 97 and 98 playoffs are included) Jordan is still the best clutch player in the history of NBA; Harden is kind of mediocre, but still better than many clutch players, e.g., Manu, Wade, KD; Tmac and Westbrook are the worst, it reminds me of how TMAC choked in the fourth quarter in the series against Utah in two consecutive years, I was a fan of him at that time, really bad memories.
Interesting! Curry sweeps CP3 for over 1000 days (2015 to 2017) both regular season and playoffs. Playoffs stats looks much better if someone plays only first round, 3rd round is the toughest. Those stats are misleading to compare with Stockton.
entire career comparison: Paul has better talents around him than Stockton, but Stockton has much better playoffs success than Paul.
In my opinion, team clippers have a better talents than Team Jazz. Clippers big 4 > Jazz big 4 Clippers big 5 > Jazz big 5 and more ..... Jazz have no benches. How easy for Jazz to go to conference finals! The key: : Thread starters stats are misleading in order to compare Stockton to Paul.
They say he chokes in playoffs, but his numbers are even better than that in elimination games. He, like Harden, carried their teams in playoffs.
Yeah, I disagree whole-heartedly. Did you actually watch that team in the 90s? Karl Malone is a two-time MVP and one of the best power forwards to ever do it. Stockton is also regarded as one of the best pure points to ever play the game. That team was ****ing tough - and they played extremely well together.
The Jazz never missed the playoffs during Stockton's 19 years career and they reached the Western Conference finals five times in a seven-year span. From age 37 to age 40, Stockton playoffs stats go down. Chris Paul 6 years with Cippers (age 26 to age 31, prime) Playoffs Chris Paul should go to conference finals 2 times if he is better than Stockton.
Peja Stojakovic and Kyle Lowry surprise me with how efficient they are. Duncan and Allen are surprisingly low. I laughed when I saw Russell Westbrook. I knew Horry was clutch as hell, but DAYUM. Shout outs to Amar'e Stoudemire and Steve Nash, for all the **** you hear about the 7SOL Suns, you would think these guys were choke artists.
Ok, I've become a believer. The injury-riddled Clippers are far better than the Stockton-Malone Jazz teams of the 90s. Jamal Crawford, Deandre Jordan and Blake Griffin all don't have gigantic flaws in their games, and are all a prime example of perfect health in the postseason. Those guys are clearly comparable to former MVP-level teammates... I think you need to spend more time in the lab. And I'll ask again: Did you actually watch any of those Jazz teams at all?
