Final Performances by Greats

[Shanemansj13]

I just took the top 6 Finals Performances by each great player (could have played in more Finals). This doesn't take into account if they won or lost the series or the competition, just single series performances. This surprised me actually. Take a guess who is who....some are obvious, others aren't.

Player A
37.9 ppg 4.7 rpg 7.4 apg 49 fg%
33.9 ppg 6.4 rpg 5.1 apg 52 fg%
33.8 ppg 5.6 rpg 3.4 apg 42 fg%
31.3 ppg 5.8 rpg 5.7 apg 49 fg%
31.3 ppg 3.4 rpg 7.7 apg 45 fg%
31.1 ppg 5 rpg 2.7 apg 46 fg%

Player B
33.6 ppg 12 rpg 10 apg 56 fg%
34.0 ppg 8.5 rpg 10 apg 53 fg%
35.8 ppg 13.3 rpg 8.8 apg 40 fg%
29.8 ppg 11.8 rpg 8.5 apg 59 fg%
28.2 ppg 7.8 rpg 4 apg 57 fg%
29.7 ppg 11.3 rpg 8.9 apg 50 fg%

Player C
41.0 ppg 8.5 rpg 6.3 apg 50 fg%
35.8 ppg 4.8 rpg 6.5 apg 52 fg%
31.2 ppg 6.6 rpg 11.4 apg 55 fg%
32.3 ppg 7 rpg 6 apg 46 fg%
33.5 ppg 4 rpg 2.3 apg 42 fg%
27.3 ppg 5.3 rpg 4.2 apg 41 fg%

Player D
32.4 ppg 5.6 rpg 7.4 apg 43 fg%
26.8 ppg 5.8 rpg 5.3 apg 51 fg%
28.6 ppg 8 rpg 3.9 apg 41 fg%
24.6 ppg 7.8 rpg 5.8 apg 42 fg%
25.7 ppg 4.7 rpg 5 apg 40 fg%
22.6 ppg 2.8 rpg 4.4 apg 38 fg%

 

[DorianRo]

its MJ and Shaq far ahead of everyone else.

. And then the rest. I dont factor in guys who play with AD/Rondo who need 6 games to get by an injured Heat team and a Butler who can't put consecutive great games together LOL

 

[Shanemansj13]

its MJ and Shaq far ahead of everyone else.

. And then the rest. I dont factor in guys who play with AD/Rondo who need 6 games to get by an injured Heat team and a Butler who can't put consecutive great games together LOL

Shaq did play in 6 Finals but he isn't one of these four. Try again.

 

[tlance]

A is Jordan and B is LeBron.

C is a really interesting line. Guessing it is an older player like Jerry West or Elgin Baylor?

D is Kobe I think?

 

[Shanemansj13]

A is Jordan and B is LeBron.

C is a really interesting line. Guessing it is an older player like Jerry West or Elgin Baylor?

D is Kobe I think?

This is tough.

A. Nope
B. Yes
C. Nope
D. Yes

2/4

 

[Shanemansj13]

@tlance you got the names right, just switched them up.

A. Jerry West
B. Lebron
C. MJ
D. Kobe

I was surprised with West's numbers. They were amazing and he only got 1 title. It shows how stacked those C's teams were with 5-6 HOFr's

 

[trojanfan12]

@tlance you got the names right, just switched them up.

A. Jerry West
B. Lebron
C. MJ
D. Kobe

I was surprised with West's numbers. They were amazing and he only got 1 title. It shows how stacked those C's teams were with 5-6 HOFr's

There's a reason he's the only player in history to win MVP while being on the losing team.

 

[Shanemansj13]

There's a reason he's the only player in history to win MVP while being on the losing team.

Lebron should have been the 2nd!

 

[trojanfan12]

Lebron should have been the 2nd!

Agree. It's the only other time in history that I've seen where that could have been the right call.

 

[msgkings322]

Agree. It's the only other time in history that I've seen where that could have been the right call.

Draymond in 2016...without his most valuable assault on players' balls Cavs don't win

 

[tlance]

@tlance you got the names right, just switched them up.

A. Jerry West
B. Lebron
C. MJ
D. Kobe

I was surprised with West's numbers. They were amazing and he only got 1 title. It shows how stacked those C's teams were with 5-6 HOFr's

Damn. The 11.4 assists threw me. That is a ton. What year was that?

 

[trojanfan12]

Damn. The 11.4 assists threw me. That is a ton. What year was that?

I'd have thought 11.4 assists was Lebron all the way.

 

[Heatles84]

Lebron should have been the 2nd!

I will admit, as much as I don't like Lebron, he deserved the Finals MVP in 15.

 

[tlance]

I'd have thought 11.4 assists was Lebron all the way.

Assists were too low the other years though.

LeBron would have never averaged 2.4 assists.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Damn. The 11.4 assists threw me. That is a ton. What year was that?

91 vs Lakers

 

[trojanfan12]

Assists were too low the other years though.

LeBron would have never averaged 2.4 assists.

True. What a crazy discrepancy. 11.4 for 1 finals, 2.4 in another. lol

 

[Shanemansj13]

True. What a crazy discrepancy. 11.4 for 1 finals, 2.4 in another. lol

Yeah that was Magic’s last Finals and Kareem/Worthy were gone by that time. Magic averaged close to 13.0/game

 

[tlance]

91 vs Lakers

Ok.

No wonder why I didn’t remember that line.

I watched a lot of those games, but I was 12 at the time.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Ok.

No wonder why I didn’t remember that line.

I watched a lot of those games, but I was 12 at the time.

I was 2 hahaha but I remember every dribble like it was yesterday

 

[trojanfan12]

Ok.

No wonder why I didn’t remember that line.

I watched a lot of those games, but I was 12 at the time.

I remember the series.

3 of the 5 games, I had to watch at a sports bar near my work because after I got off work I didn't have time to get to where my friends and I usually watched the games before tip off. I had seen a sports bar nearby, but had never been in.

So, I go into the bar for game1 and it's nothing but Chicago sports memorabilia. Turns out, I had managed to find the only sports bar in SoCal that catered to Chicago transplants. I was literally the only Lakers fan in the bar.

Game 1, it was awesome. The other 2, including game 5...not so much. lol

The more I think about it, it makes some sense that MJ had a lot of assists in that series. One of the things I remember about it is spending most of that series pissed at Byron Scott because he kept leaving John Paxson to go double team MJ, who kept passing to Paxson, who kept making the Lakers pay for leaving him open.