Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Or we understand that pretty much everyone gets at least a bit worse during 'clutch' time for a number of reasons, and the real question is how much worse you get. If someone like, in your example, Kawhi Leonard goes from 58.9%TS - which is what he averaged overall last season - down to 54%TS, then yeah that's a reduction but it's not a massive massive cratering reduction. By comparison, Ingram went from 58.7%TS overall on the season to 45% in the clutch. Kawhi got 4.9% worse, Ingram got basically 14% worse. That's a pretty steep drop off. You expect some drop off, as in the Kawhi example, you don't expect that much of a drop off.
Yeah, Lebron having a similarly sized drop is also really bad. I'm not suddenly trying to claim that Lebron shot well in the clutch, he obviously didn't. The 'gotcha' doesn't work cause I agree, Lebron shot poorly in the clutch last year.
And then you still haven't addressed the fact that BI has been even worse than that in the clutch so far this year.
What's with that? He was pretty bad in the clutch last year, he's even worse this year, and apparently I'm ''real dumb'' for thinking that's something to be concerned about? Grow up.