It’s a dispute that’s as old as basketball itself: Who do you desire to take the shot with the videogame on the line?
In its yearly study, NBA basic supervisors decisively chose Stephen Curry as the gamer they’d desire to take the last shot, with 55% of all GMs picking the Warriors superstar. Nets star Kevin Durant got the second-most votes, earning 17% of the vote, and Blazers star Damian Lillard got 14% of the vote.
DeMar DeRozan, Luka Dončić, Nikola Jokić and Kawhi Leonard were the just other gamers to get votes from the 30 NBA GMs.
FOX Sports’ Shannon Sharpe doesn’t concur with Curry being the clear runaway option by GMs to take the clutch shot. In truth, he thinks somebody was snubbed completely from the list.
“Hell no [I don’t agree],” Sharpe stated on Wednesday’s “Undisputed.” “Give me Dame or offer me LeBron[James] It’s absurd that LeBron did not get a vote. Steph really hasn’t had a entire lot of clutch shots in his playoff profession. He’s on 2-of-10 in the last 10 seconds on a game-tying or consent shot in the playoffs and his last make was in 2015.”
Who is the most clutch shooter in the NBA?
NBA GMs stated that Steph Curry was the most clutch shooter in the league. Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless disagreed.
Sharpe brought out some more statistics to back his case as to why he views Lillard and James as the videogame’s 2 most clutch shot makers.
“In the last 5 seconds of a playoff videogame, game-tying or consent shot, Dame Lillard is 30%,” Sharpe stated. “Steph Curry is 20%. Kevin Durant is 18%. LeBron James is 39%, and he didn’t get a vote!”
Sharpe thinks that the narrative of James not being an elite shooter, like the other 3, hurt him in the eyes of the GMs.
“When it comes to the playoffs, in the last 5 seconds with a game-tying or consent shot, LeBron James is hands down the finest,” Sharpe stated. “LeBron James is 2 times muchbetter in the playoffs [at making those shots than Durant].”
Skip Bayless took problem with Sharpe pointingout James as the finest shooter since a set of his most remarkable game-winning shots in the playoffs were catch-and-shoot plays. He likewise took problem with the GMs ballot for Lillard.
“What tookplace in the Olympic gold medal videogame versus France in 2021, when Kevin Durant conserved their bacon?” Bayless stated. “Dame goes to the free-throw line late in the videogame to ice the videogame, and he missesouton both totallyfree tosses. Don’t provide me he’s ‘Dame Time!’ Kevin stated, ‘Give me the damn ball and I’ll go down there and make it and end this.'”
Sharpe pushed Bayless on any remarkable clutch shots Durant hasactually made in the NBA playoffs thinkingabout his low shooting portion in those minutes.
“Well, he made a shot that needsto’ve won the videogame, however his toenail was on the line, didn’t he?” Bayless stated, remembering Durant’s shot to sendout Game 7 of the 2021 Eastern Conference semifinal series versus the Bucks to overtime.
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