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Nuvendil on 06 June 2019
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Angelus said:
Nuvendil said:

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.

I never got to see Jerry play, but I mean I'm sure he's the logo for a reason. Those definitely are some monster stats. We've certainly seen others throughout the years also put up ridiculously great numbers to no avail. It's one of the things that annoys me the most about the way media covers sports, because they got people thinking like anything you do in a loss is pretty much irrelevant. Like hey....that team lost so....everything this guy did, no matter how awesome it was, "he just came up short/wasn't clutch enough/etc." Total BS. These are team games, and you need your unit, as a whole, to outperform those other guys. Just having the best individual is rarely ever enough.

Agreed.  I mean, if you want to see that individual statistical dominance doesn't guarantee a win, look at the 65 playoffs.

West averaged 40pts that postseason with 8 40+ games in 11 playoff games and didn't win.  Chamberlain averaged 30pt and 31rb against the Celtics and his team didn't win.  Even Jordan, whom these Analysts treat like a god, had multiple playoffs where his stats were impressive and he didn't win.  Cause to win you need a good team and a good coach.  Not just one dominant superstar.