This sub is so cooked if OKC wins tomorrow

What’s the biggest fall off by non guards?

How may MVP’s have been guards that have also made the conference finals? Like 8? Seems like a pretty niche stat

Has to be an MVP, has to be a guard, has to be from the regular season to only the conference finals.

Fairly specific stat.. Someone has too much time on their hands to desperately search for a stat for what reason?

shai has played very poor this series but this is the most cherry picked stat ive ever seen lol

At this point, just listing NBA team names is more productive than any actual analysis in this thread.

To be fair I mean he’s facing possibly the greatest defensive player ever.  

you all are deranged in your hatred. wake up

Is this a meaningful statistic or is it a flop?

Ok he’s still pretty good at the game

Even his scoring has flopped.

Dear diary:

I hate OKC!

There are 36 MVP winners and a bit over a dozen of them have been guards. Did you actually go through every single guard MVP season to check this stat? Or were you just looking for a bad stat to post and happened to find that one? Either way, that is seriously weird levels of hate. I don’t even like SGA, but that’s fucking weird bro.

How many of those guards faced probably the greatest defender to ever step foot on a basketball court?

I hate Shai but this is not THAT surprising a stat

this is a bit of a cherry-picked stat, but here’s a list of every guard mvp season and their ppg in the regular season to the ppg in the conference finals.

sga this year: 31.1 ppg to 24.3 ppg

sga last year: 32.7 ppg to 31.4 ppg

james harden: 30.4 ppg to 28.7 ppg

westbrook: didn’t make conference finals

curry: 30.1 ppg to 27.9 ppg

curry: 23.8 ppg to 31.2 ppg

derrick rose: 25 ppg to 23.4 ppg

kobe: 28.3 ppg to 29.2 ppg

steve nash: 18.8 ppg to 20.7 ppg

steve nash: 15.5 ppg to 23.2 ppg

allen iverson: 31.1 ppg to 30.5 ppg

mj: 28.7 ppg to 31.7 ppg

mj: 30.4 ppg to 29.5 ppg

mj: 30.1 ppg to 31.7 ppg

mj: 31.5 ppg to 29.8 ppg

magic: didn’t make conference finals

magic: 22.5 ppg to 20.3 ppg

mj: didn’t make conference finals

magic: 23.9 ppg to 19.8 ppg

oscar robertson: 31.4 ppg to 28.2 ppg

bob cousy: 20.6 ppg to 19.0 ppg

And what about going from 6.5 assists a game to 9? Where does that rank? Or are we just cherry picking one stat without adding any more context?

Exposed, fraud, bum, etc

Not really the best metric. He’s not selfish with the ball, okc has incredible players, and shai plays defense well.

….i hate okc and shai, but this one stat doesnt tell the full shotry

There has to be something else this sub wants to talk about besides SGA.

Gotta make it the Conference Finals to qualify though

Cease and desist mvp

Can I get like a top 5 falloff list for this?

On 36mpg vs 33 in the regular season.

Is this saying SGA sucks or is it that Wemby is the influential? I’m taking the latter. SGA’s midrange and drive heavy game plays into the strengths of Wemby. Wemby’s biggest strength (being 8 feet fucking tall) makes it’s extremely difficult for SGA to live where he wants to.

it’s because his zebra-striped teammates are letting him down

I swear everyone talking like this series is over. There is still game 7, which will be a TOUGH game on the road.

I think y’all underestimate how much more this says about Wemby than SGA.

It’s written MVP Gaurd. Does this mean there’s some other position with a bigger falloff?

Refs about to put in a historic game on behalf of OKC.

Where are the Thunder fans in this making up some excuse? We all hate your and your team. Night :)

Oh he’s about to come in with 40 tonight

Not yet it isn’t.

He could go off for 50 tonight…then he wouldn’t have the record.
If he sucks tonight, THEN he has the record. Now it’s just a work in progress.

Best guard since MJ

What a coincidence

let this sub tell it, sga isn’t a good basketball player

His season shooting was 55.³⁄₃₈.⁶⁄₈₇.9 versus this series 37.⁹⁄₂₆.¹⁄₉₆.8. No wonder his PPG is down.

DEATH BEAM POINTED AT EARTH

Playoff dropper.. not much else to say

Sounds like a league problem tbh

“Top 3 guard ever”

honestly the points is less of an issue. it’s the efficiency. he’s obviously struggling cause of wembys paint presence but his mid range is not falling…

He’s going to score 60 tomorrow after all this

If they make it to the finals it’ll raise back up. I don’t think the Knicks have the tools to play the kind of suffocating bully ball defense the Spurs guards do.

Shai Flop-Alexander

Just like Embiid’s MVP season

If we win, I could not care less lol

I mean he could drop 50 tomorrow on 24fts and this post would no longer be true…

Jdub and Ajay will return in Avengers: Cancunday

He drops 72 tomorrow and gets back to regular season average.

Is there a possibility both team loses, and Knicks became the champion? Any scenario where that can happen?

I don’t want OKC to win tmr, but I think they will win though.

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This is the worst Western Conference Finals performance in history vs the Spurs on an odd numbered year by a player who won regular season MVP and has a hyphenated last name.

You have to keep in mind that it took until 1967, when he was 30 for him to have a championship level supporting cast around him, that coincided with him taking a more passing approach under the coaching of Alex Hannum. He then ruptured his patellar tendon in 1969 at 32. In those three years, he sat numerous team records that still stand today, and he remains the only person to beat the Celtics in the 60s. I don’t think a single individual would have faired much better if you give them Wilt’s circumstances

The flop master

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many stat posts specific to one round of the playoffs.

without fts, he is a 15ppg player