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LEBRON is joining Heat with Wade and Bosh
theremedy360:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on July 10, 2010, 09:39:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: wcsoldier on July 10, 2010, 04:11:38 AM ---Well Wade is clearly better than the Choosen one in one category : clutchness ... overall Lebron is slighty better but I'd personally take Wade over LBJ because he's unlikely to choke in the playoffs
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There is no such thing as "clutchness".
Explain A-Rod in the playoffs or how in '06 against the Pistons in the ECF he scored 30 of the Cavs 32. Anybody can hit those shots, it's just you usually give it to your best player, so naturally after hundreds of attempts they'll fall.
Take a sample of someone shooting in the clutch & I would bet they'll be shooting around 40%, but then look at how they shoot during the rest of the game & it'll be about 40%. It's not "stepping up", it's just doing what you've always done, the only difference is that the game is on the line.
In the second quarter of some random game Kobe might go off & nail four shots in a row on consecutive possessions and nobody would say shit besides maybe "That's Kobe doing Kobe.". But when he does in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, it's like some natural sixth sense takes over & he's hitting these shots out of "clutchness". :D
Some magical thing God only blesses a few of us with.
It was a term invented to create heroes, but it's not real.
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It's not real? So the fact that Kobe and MJ have hit numerous game winners and rallied to keep their teams in the game in the fourth quarter on numerous occasions is just a coincidence? Some people can handle the pressure and others crumble under it. Just cause A-Rod sucked in the playoffs before doesn't mean he was doomed forever, but that also means that he couldn't handle the pressure early on.
Javier:
Superstars carry team in the "clutch" all the time. Take a look at the best 5 players in the league and then take a look at the best 5 "clutch" performers year in and year out. Little things change.
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on July 10, 2010, 10:45:47 AM ---
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on July 10, 2010, 09:39:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: wcsoldier on July 10, 2010, 04:11:38 AM ---Well Wade is clearly better than the Choosen one in one category : clutchness ... overall Lebron is slighty better but I'd personally take Wade over LBJ because he's unlikely to choke in the playoffs
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There is no such thing as "clutchness".
Explain A-Rod in the playoffs or how in '06 against the Pistons in the ECF he scored 30 of the Cavs 32. Anybody can hit those shots, it's just you usually give it to your best player, so naturally after hundreds of attempts they'll fall.
Take a sample of someone shooting in the clutch & I would bet they'll be shooting around 40%, but then look at how they shoot during the rest of the game & it'll be about 40%. It's not "stepping up", it's just doing what you've always done, the only difference is that the game is on the line.
In the second quarter of some random game Kobe might go off & nail four shots in a row on consecutive possessions and nobody would say shit besides maybe "That's Kobe doing Kobe.". But when he does in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter, it's like some natural sixth sense takes over & he's hitting these shots out of "clutchness". :D
Some magical thing God only blesses a few of us with.
It was a term invented to create heroes, but it's not real.
--- End quote ---
It's not real? So the fact that Kobe and MJ have hit numerous game winners and rallied to keep their teams in the game in the fourth quarter on numerous occasions is just a coincidence? Some people can handle the pressure and others crumble under it. Just cause A-Rod sucked in the playoffs before doesn't mean he was doomed forever, but that also means that he couldn't handle the pressure early on.
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Yeah, but who else takes the shots besides MJ & Kobe? If the Celtics let Brian Scalabrine take the last shot in every situation to win the game; he'd be clutch because every now & then he would hit the shot?
Like I said, if you're shooting 40% all the time & hit 40% of your shots in the clutch is there any difference or are you just doing what you always do?
I remember Tim Duncan hit a game tying 3 in overtime in the playoffs a few years back; does that mean some super-natural force took over & allowed him to hit the shot?
Sure you can say you might be a little tense, you could make the argument; but these guys play in front of 50,000 people a night; I doubt anything makes them nervous.
Chamillitary Click:
Just a little bit to add to that..
If a player "calms his nerves" & can magically just hit all his shots in the last two mintues; why can't he be even calmer during the rest of the game & just shoot like 90% from the field? In the first quarter I should see these clutch players go 9 for their first 10, no problem.
Also, those half court, million dollar shots are luck or clutch? I don't know, the pressure is sure on there & those aren't even professional athletes. :P
OG Hack Wilson:
--- Quote from: Meho on July 09, 2010, 03:20:15 AM ---Sick! Gonna be a very interesting season next year. I am kinda surprised that Lebron went to Miami though, basically means he'll never be mentioned as a focal point when/if they win a ring.
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this is not true
it all depends on who plays best...and my money would be on Lebron. Wade misses 15 games every year and is 3 years older.
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