5 of the best statistical INDIVIDUAL playoff series displays of the last 40 years.

[viktordoomsecretwars]

First 3-peat Jordan was the greatest basketball player I've ever seen. Point blank period.

Absolutely flawless on both ends of the court for 48 mins.



Also to be fair, this was first round so only best out of 5 back then so this was a 3 game stretch. Mike dropped 46, 33 then 56 on the road to walk out with the sweep. But the efficiency and dominance in which he did it was just

I'm pretty sure @viktordoomsecretwars has posted that entire Gm 3 where MJ drops 56 on the road to close it out. If you have time, watch them highlights. He scores 56 on 20-30 FGs, literally scoring in every way imaginable from fadeaway to midrange to 3, to dunk. Etc. I watched it live as it happened. The crossover, double pump dunk in a crowd, over Ronnie Seikley had me and has me like that to this day when I see it.

@viktordoomsecretwars help me out and post that clip fam I'm too lazy to look for it

This is the game you are referring to. He scores only 2 points in the 1st quarter. Then goes off and scores 54 points in the last 3 quarters of a playoff game.




Your comment about best of 5 is why I have that performance vs the Sixers in 1990 as the best playoff series of all time played by an individual. Plus the 1990 Sixers were just flat out a better team than the inexperienced 1992 Heat. Mini back story:

The Sixers vs Bulls series was 5 games between a 76ers team that had won 53 games in 1990 and a Bulls team that had won 55 games. So two evenly matched teams with the X-factor being MJ. Pippen had to miss 1 or 2 games because his pops died.

Barkley for whatever reason finished above MJ in the MVP voting that year. And Jordan just went off in that series.

The numbers are the numbers, but they can't say how he dominated defensively. He had Hershey Hawkins and Johnny Dawkins, 2 pretty good guards who were playing extremely well up to that point, in a body bag.

I think I remember MJ saying in an interview that stretch was the best he ever played in the postseason.

 

[steph_harden]

shyt like that is why u never ever hear anybody knock the Rockets for not taking the GOAT...

 

[MJ Truth]

First 3-peat Jordan was the greatest basketball player I've ever seen. Point blank period.

Absolutely flawless on both ends of the court for 48 mins.



Also to be fair, this was first round so only best out of 5 back then so this was a 3 game stretch. Mike dropped 46, 33 then 56 on the road to walk out with the sweep. But the efficiency and dominance in which he did it was just

I'm pretty sure @viktordoomsecretwars has posted that entire Gm 3 where MJ drops 56 on the road to close it out. If you have time, watch them highlights. He scores 56 on 20-30 FGs, literally scoring in every way imaginable from fadeaway to midrange to 3, to dunk. Etc. I watched it live as it happened. The crossover, double pump dunk in a crowd, had me and has me like that to this day when I see it.

@viktordoomsecretwars help me out and post that clip fam I'm too lazy to look for it

Somebody on the Heat must have told Michael his shoelaces were untied before the game, and that was all of the motivation he needed.

 

[King Poetic]

Shaq against the Pacers and Nets wasn’t shocking at all

 

[Monsanto]

Wonder how Kobe vs Orlando stacks up.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Best Finals series by game score, same criteria as OP:

LBJ has 6 of the top 30: 4th, 7th, 11th, 14th, 22nd, 29th, and 30th best of all time.

MJ has 4 of the top 30: 5th, 6th, 12th, and 24th


MJ also has 34th, otherwise neither has any more in the top 50.

Then when you look at the defenders they were facing.....MJ had his five against the Lakers, Blazers, Suns, and Jazz (twice), all of whom were forgettable as fukk in their perimeter defense. LBJ had his six against Kawhi and the Spurs (twice) and Iggy/Draymond and the Warriors (four times), some of the best defenders in the game.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

3 of those top 5 were first-round series and the other two were 2nd round. And most were back in the 1980s when pace was crazy high too.

The 100.6 pace of 1989 still has never been reached again, and that was the 2nd-slowest seasons of the entire 1980s. Even the 97.8 pace of 1991 wasn't hit again until last year. But OP does nothing other than repost Nobody Touches Jordan talking points so context doesn't actually matter to him.

 

[ISO]

3 of those top 5 were first-round series and the other two were 2nd round. And most were back in the 1980s when pace was crazy high too.

The 100.6 pace of 1989 still has never been reached again, and that was the 2nd-slowest seasons of the entire 1980s. Even the 97.8 pace of 1991 wasn't hit again until last year. But OP does nothing other than repost Nobody Touches Jordan talking points so context doesn't actually matter to him.

Imagine basing all of your basketball opinions off a shytty ass stan blog based off an era you didn’t live.

Kevin Johnson is better than Chris Paul

 

[murksiderock]

Wonder how Kobe vs Orlando stacks up.

Kobe had a 22.8 GmSc vs Orlando and objectively speaking besides that, it's the most impressive he ever played in a Finals, also validated as his highest Finals GmSc...

Kobe's peak GmSc is the '10 WCF vs Suns, 28.8 GmSc...

 

[Monsanto]

Kobe had a 22.8 GmSc vs Orlando and objectively speaking besides that, it's the most impressive he ever played in a Finals, also validated as his highest Finals GmSc...

Kobe's peak GmSc is the '10 WCF vs Suns, 28.8 GmSc...

Over the Nuggets in 09 or the Jazz?

Interesting. I know Kobe often doesn't fit the statistical measurements of these advance stats but it's good to see where he stacks up.

 

[murksiderock]

Over the Nuggets in 09 or the Jazz?

Interesting. I know Kobe often doesn't fit the statistical measurements of these advance stats but it's good to see where he stacks up.

I think its hyperbolic to say Kobe doesn't "fit" advanced measurements; when hits say that they are usually just venting that Kobe doesn't have the highest placement in a particular category. GmSc is basically PER and having a 28.8 GmSc for an entire series is damn high...

In his career he has 19 individual playoff games above 28.8, including two above 40 and 13 between 30-39.9. He's got an impressive resume that everyone acknowledges, and advanced measurements aren't any worse for him than they are for anyone else. People around here just default to shytting on any statistical evaluation that doesn't show Kobe with the highest ever total...

'08 WCSF vs Jazz he has a 25.4 score and '09 WCF vs Nuggets he has 26.8. These aren't low scores lol, view it similarly to how you view PER. They wouldn't be low PER scores either...

 

[Monsanto]

I think its hyperbolic to say Kobe doesn't "fit" advanced measurements; when hits say that they are usually just venting that Kobe doesn't have the highest placement in a particular category. GmSc is basically PER and having a 28.8 GmSc for an entire series is damn high...

In his career he has 19 individual playoff games above 28.8, including two above 40 and 13 between 30-39.9. He's got an impressive resume that everyone acknowledges, and advanced measurements aren't any worse for him than they are for anyone else. People around here just default to shytting on any statistical evaluation that doesn't show Kobe with the highest ever total...

'08 WCSF vs Jazz he has a 25.4 score and '09 WCF vs Nuggets he has 26.8. These aren't low scores lol, view it similarly to how you view PER. They wouldn't be low PER scores either...

That makes sense, I definitely see that top 5 or nothing statistical evaluation on him.



Great breakdown.

 

[L&HH]

How many of these series were first round best of 5 with only 3 games played compared to some of the other ones that had 6-7 games played?

 

[murksiderock]

(1) Jordan vs Heat (1992) : 45.0 ppg - 9.7 rpg - 6.7 apg - 3.0 spg - 1.0 bpg, 61 FG% [Gamescore : 38.4]

(2) Jordan vs 76ers (1990) : 43.0 ppg - 6.6 rpg - 7.4 apg - 4.0 spg - 1.2 bpg, 55 FG% [Gamescore : 35.4]

(3) Olajuwon vs Dallas (1988) : 37.5ppg - 16.8 rpg - 1.8apg - 2.3 spg - 2.8 bpg, 57 FG% [Gamescore: 34.2]

(4) Jordan vs Cavaliers (1988) : 45.2ppg - 5.4 rpg - 4.8 apg - 2.8 spg - 1.6 bpg, 56 FG% [Gamescore : 34.0]

(5) Jordan vs Knicks (1989) : 35.7 ppg - 9.5 rpg - 8.3 apg - 2.5 spg - 1.3 bpg, 55 FG% [Gamescore : 31.8]

This pretty much confirms what most of us already know

Special mention to:

Bernard King vs Pistons 1984 - [Gamescore - 31.7]

Shaq vs Pacers 2001 - [Gamescore - 30.6] ,

Shaq vs Nets 2002 - [Gamescore - 30.1],

Lebron vs Raptors 2018 - [Gamescore - 30.7] ,

Lebron vs Pacers 2018 - [Gamescore - 30.0] ,

Durant vs Cavaliers 2017 - [Gamescore - 30.3],



Game Score formula : Game Score in Basketball Explained | NBAstuffer

Game Score is a player evaluation metric which can be considered John Hollinger‘s simple and linear version of the Player Efficiency Rating.

Game Score Formula=(Points)+0.4*(Field Goals Made)+0.7*(Offensive Rebounds)+0.3*(Defensive rebounds)+(Steals)+0.7*(Assists)+0.7*(Blocked Shots)- 0.7*(Field Goal Attempts)-0.4*(Free Throws Missed) – 0.4*(Personal Fouls)-(Turnovers)

What exactly does in confirm?

Jordan had six series with a GmSc over 30: '86 QF vs Celtics; '88 QF vs Cavs; '89 QF vs Cavs; '89 SF vs Knicks; '90 SF vs 76ers; '92 QF vs Heat....in individual playoff games, Mike has 7 40+ GmSc's and 41 between 30-39.9...

•Dream had the one series you mentioned; in individual games he has 3 40+ games and 19 between 30-39.9...

•Shaq just had the two series you mentioned; he had 3 individual games of 40+ and 22 between 30-39.9...

•Durant has just the one series you mentioned above 30; he has no 40+ games yet and 17 between 30-39.99...

Lmao I don't know what you thought you were proving. You might have a complete mental breakdown if you go look at LeBron's shyt haha, the two you posted aren't the only series he has a 30+ GmSc in and his individual games of super high GmSc, I think it's safe to say you won't like what you see and start a whole bunch of backpedaling and shyt...

 

[Dorian Breh]

Wait are we using MJ sweeping an 8 seed as the no. 1 seed as an example of his dominance?

A team that went 42-40 in the regular season and wouldn't have made the playoffs if they weren't in the weakest division in the league at the time?