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Originally Posted by GTO2.0
I could be wrong, but I think the consensus around here on the Admiral is that he was an all stats no he art playoff choker who didn’t win jack until Duncan walked through that door. Still a top 50 all timer though.
Sounds a lol like what people say about someone we were just discussing in this thread :P
I mean bolded is exactly how I thought of CP3 until he left LAC. His stats were great, even improved in playoffs, but despite a pretty solid team around him he just never seemed to win. And it wasn't just those horrendous ****ups against OKC or the choke job against HOU. His teams were good enough in the regular season he should've been able to better in playoffs, but he never did. So I figured stats must overrate him and he wasn't actually that good at winning playoff basketball.
Then he left LAC (and in particular, lolDoc), was part of a team that took the greatest team of all time to 7 games (and might've won if he didn't miss the last two), and now he's in the finals as the best player at 36. Injuries have helped this run, true, but it's just as true that they'd hurt a lot of his previous runs. Playoffs are a really short sample and variance is a *****.
So back to initial topic I'd say Admiral is probably quite underrated too.
Last edited by Banzai-; 07-05-2021 at 07:36 PM.
Reason: Not just "part of", he was 1b on that Houston team