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Michael Jordan is 1 of only 3 players ever to average 11+ assists in a finals. Then 2 years later he averaged 41 ppg. The highest ppg ever in a finals. (alien.top)

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I've recently gone down the rabbit hole of Jordan shit tonight and this combo of stats blew my mind.

He's never been a point guard for an extended time. I know he played point guard at the end of a season and racked up 10 triple doubles out of 11 games. Out of his decently lengthy career he's barely done it but.. he still put up 11+ assists a game in a finals and only 2 other players in history have done this. Both point guards their whole careers(Cousey and Magic).

Then 2 finals later he sets the finals ppg record at 41 points.

Both of these have not been broken since those years 30-32 years ago.

Bonus: he set the playoff scoring total record in the playoffs in the year between those. That hasn't been broken either

He won all 3 years to support the awesomeness even further

Dafuq was this dude on???

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[–] Yupadej@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Had LeBron been born in a good family like Steph he would have been the GOAT easily. That brother became a GOAT contender off pure talent with no one even teaching how to shoot a jumper. Can't learn that later in your life. Ambidextrous, perfect body and incredible vision but struggles to shoot a FT because he didn't have the privilege to learn fundamentals like Steph.

MJ had great family support as well. Wemby has the perfect body if you ignore injury risk and great fundamentals from a basketball family. LeBron James had the worst conditions with many flaws and is still close so I believe we haven't seen the GOAT yet. I haven't seen a flawless basketball player yet. A small guy like Steph coming near the top shows me there's still a lot of inefficiency at the top. Jordan is the closest thing to a flawless player I know but he is still a little too small and inefficient from deep to be the permanent GOAT in basketball imo. In football I feel I have seen the perfect player with perfect physical, technical abilities, IQ, vision in Messi.

[–] billythekido@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm losing brain cells reading all your comments in this thread, so I'm not even going to touch your Jordan/LeBron theory, but you're never going to see a perfect player. Even if Messi is head and heels above everyone else, he has loads of flaws.

[–] FightMiilkHendrix@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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