That shyt literally gets brought up in every LeBron conversation. That’s equivalent to saying the 2016 comeback is overlooked.
Forgotten NBA Finals Performances
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Legitimately in the top ten debate.Moses is probably the most overlooked/forgotten ATG. Back 2 Back MVPs on two different teams
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I was thinking the exact same thing. In a game 7 with several future HOFers, Draymond was arguably the best player on the floor
He put the Warriors on his back that night but they failed him
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If my memory serves me correct they went away from him in the second half
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Moses is probably the most overlooked/forgotten ATG. Back 2 Back MVPs on two different teams
Bob Pettit is more overlooked than him because he was white and cats don't care about basketball before 1980...
But Moses certain is one of the GOATs, one of the 20 greatest players ever and should be considered so comfortably and unanimously...
Yeah Petit is the early stretch 4 blueprint. Moses should get more credit for putting the beats on Kareem a few times in big series. They only bring up Walton doing it tho
You can't convince me he didn't sell his soul for that performance. He hasn't scored 30 in a game since.
Only scored 20 or more 11 times.
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Everyone in this picture except CP3 has an nba title.
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Gotta throw Dwight Howard’s game 4 in the 2009 finals in there somewhere.
He almost had a triple double with 16 points, 21 rebs and 9 Blocks! But was 1 shy..
He almost had a triple double with 16 points, 21 rebs and 9 Blocks! But was 1 shy..
Harden's performance for OKC against the Heat in the 2012 Finals gets misremembered as him having some sort of all time bad performance.
With OKC leading 1-0 in the series, in a crucial game 2 Harden was 7-11 from the field in 34 minutes and was +13 for the game (the bench were all in the plus). OKC's starters all had a negative plus/minus with KD being -9 and Westbrook -11. The starters lost them that game and the 2-0 lead which changed the momentum.
Harden had two inefficient shooting nights in games 3 and 4 (2-10 both times) but basically all three guys were off from three (0-4 for Harden, 1-4 for both KD and Russ) but Russ and KD ate up all the extra shots while Harden facilitated and rebounded. He led the team in rebounding with 10 in one of those games and led the team in assists and was tied for 2nd in rebounds the other game.
He contributed but as Bosh has stated the Heat's game plan was to limit Harden which explains why he couldn't get the easy twos to ramp up his shooting efficiency and overall points. One of those losses KD had 5 TOs in a game decided by six points compared to Harden's 2 TOs.
Beard was reasonably efficient in the elimination game too but Russ was chucking/bricking and KD had 7 TOs to Harden's 3. They got thoroughly outplayed and all had poor plus/minus stats obviously but KD and Russ were the worst of the three (though Harden played fewer minutes).
Because Harden couldn't be the hero third guy he was against the Spurs due to the Heat's game plan, people spun a narrative of him choking when in reality he contributed enough to make some of those losses winnable. The Heat just were the better team with a solid game plan.
With OKC leading 1-0 in the series, in a crucial game 2 Harden was 7-11 from the field in 34 minutes and was +13 for the game (the bench were all in the plus). OKC's starters all had a negative plus/minus with KD being -9 and Westbrook -11. The starters lost them that game and the 2-0 lead which changed the momentum.
Harden had two inefficient shooting nights in games 3 and 4 (2-10 both times) but basically all three guys were off from three (0-4 for Harden, 1-4 for both KD and Russ) but Russ and KD ate up all the extra shots while Harden facilitated and rebounded. He led the team in rebounding with 10 in one of those games and led the team in assists and was tied for 2nd in rebounds the other game.
He contributed but as Bosh has stated the Heat's game plan was to limit Harden which explains why he couldn't get the easy twos to ramp up his shooting efficiency and overall points. One of those losses KD had 5 TOs in a game decided by six points compared to Harden's 2 TOs.
Beard was reasonably efficient in the elimination game too but Russ was chucking/bricking and KD had 7 TOs to Harden's 3. They got thoroughly outplayed and all had poor plus/minus stats obviously but KD and Russ were the worst of the three (though Harden played fewer minutes).
Because Harden couldn't be the hero third guy he was against the Spurs due to the Heat's game plan, people spun a narrative of him choking when in reality he contributed enough to make some of those losses winnable. The Heat just were the better team with a solid game plan.
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Gotta throw Dwight Howard’s game 4 in the 2009 finals in there somewhere.
He almost had a triple double with 16 points, 21 rebs and 9 Blocks! But was 1 shy..
He coulda had the win but he missed clutch freethrows at the end that allowed fisher to hit the 3 to send it into OT where they lost. shyts gotta burn...that series was way closer than people remember.
Same series that had Courtney Lee missing crucial free throws like his name was Nick Anderson
Yup. Pau Pau coulda won MVP