NT's All Time NBA ReDraft Thread: GR8 Write Up Page 187, Bracket Final Vote

Page 1 finally updated, sorry for the delay.


ROUND 1
Hakeem Olajuwon
Michael Jordan
Bill Russell
LeBron James
Kobe Bryant
Shaquille O'Neal
Magic Johnson
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Wilt Chamberlain
Tim Duncan
Larry Bird
Kevin Garnett
Oscar Robertson
Dirk Nowitski
Julius Erving
Patrick Ewing
Scottie Pippen
Jerry West
Moses Malone
Anthony Davis
Kevin Durant
David Robinson
Charles Barkley
Isiah Thomas
Karl Malone
Chris Paul
Dwayne Wade

Updated.

Statis, Osh, E, and P all tweeted. I'm steppin out for a bit, will update again in a little bit.
 
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Zeke never "carried" his team to the finals, they had the best defense in the league for like a decade.

Revisionism is strong.

Two HOF'ers averaged around the same per game as Thomas during their championship, hell 1 of them averaged 3 less assists.


But yea, he carried multiple HOF'ers including his coach to a championship. :lol:
 
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The Zeke slander :smh:

Zeke >>>>> CP3

Can't believe we're still rolling out the excuses for CP3's failures. AT LEAST GET OUT THE 2ND ROUND, that's all I would like to see.
 
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For CP3 Haters, especially ones that wanna bring up "carrying" teams. :lol:

The first thing CP3 bashers will point to when criticizing him is a lack of playoff success. I’m not going to sit here and pretend that him never winning more than one playoff round in a single season shouldn’t matter to his legacy, because it should.

But people need to realize that his playoff failures have rarely been his fault.

A brutal Western Conference, which Paul has occupied his entire career, has played a part in all of that. A mere switch of draft-night fortune in 2005 (say he went a pick earlier to the Atlanta Hawks) could’ve placed him out East, where he’d be all but guaranteed AT LEAST one Conference Finals berth in his career, but probably many more and possibly even an NBA title or two.

His New Orleans Hornets teams simply didn’t have the talent or depth around Paul necessary to make a run out West from 2006 to 2011, and although he’s lifted a dormant Los Angeles Clippers franchise to perennial playoff status recently, the amount of elite intra-conference squads has made it tough to advance deep in the postseason.

Speaking of which, is there any specific year where Paul’s team was clearly better than playoff opponent, and lost? Maybe a few months ago against the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference Semifinals, but Paul played through a hamstring injury and the Clippers’ depth was nowhere near the quality of the Rockets’ depth.

More importantly, though, he’s maintained his dominant play in the postseason.

CP3’s PER in the playoffs is an amazing 25.6, good for No. 6 in NBA history and first among all point guards. His playoff Win Shares per 48 minutes (.200) also stand as the sixth-best number, just behind Magic Johnson and Jerry West at his position.

In 10 career elimination games, Paul has held his own, accumulating 20.6 points, 5.5 rebounds, 10.3 assists, 2.8 steals and 2.8 turnovers per contest and a respectable 47.2/34.1/82.6 shooting slash. There hasn’t been much shrinking in big moments there.

So what’s holding CP3 back from an amazing postseason resume? Right now, it’s a lack of help from teammates.

At this point, we’ll dive into a statistic I’m coining the “one-man army factor,” or OMAF. Paul has 10.4 career playoff Win Shares, and he’s played in 28 playoff games which his teams have won. Divide 10.4 by 28, and you get 0.371 for his OMAF. Convert that into percentage form, and CP3 has essentially given the Hornets/Clippers 37.1 percent of their playoff production. That’s a lot.

What this stat tells us is how much support a player is getting from his teammates; the higher the OMAF, the less his teammates are helping him in producing wins.

CP3’s playoff OMAF places his individual talents in a very favorable light compared to the title-winning superstars of his era.

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Next time, put CP3’s playoff failure in context before you criticize the man for them. He’s done all he can and produced at a historically great level in the postseason, so why should he be the whipping boy?


Full article

https://www.todaysfastbreak.com/nba...-generations-most-underappreciated-superstar/
 
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