Angelus said:
I think as of right now he'll be more concerned with just winning the Finals at all. |
I was mostly being facetious. Though that did make me ruminate on the extraordinarily rare occurrence of FMVP going to a player on the losing team. Which in turn made me look up the one time that happened with Jerry West and...dang.
G1: 53pt 10ast 3rb 51% shooting
G2: 41pt 8ast 3rb 54% shooting
G3: 24pt 6as 1rb 37% shooting
G4: 40pt 4ast 6rb 50% shooting
G5: 39pt 9ast 3rb 51% shooting
G6: 26pt 3ast 4rb 47% shooting
G7: 42pt 12ast 13rb 48% shooting
Series average: 37.9pt 7.4ast 4.7rb 49% shooting
And for the record, he suffered a hamstring injury in game 5 that didn't heal fully until after the series and was limping throughout game 6 and the stellar game 7. It's easy to forget how much of a monster Jerry could be in the postseason and that he still holds more than one record for playoff performances.
