One_and_Done wrote:Eh. He had a mediocre playoffs by his standards, but Kobe has had plenty of series as bad. 20-6-4 on 47 TS% with a minor injury hampering him is still fine when you consider the quality of defense he faced. He'll bounce back and be an all-star next year probably.
Mediocre ... to my reading, tends to suggest bad side of middling.
Murray's playoffs, whether by the bar of this RS, previous playoffs or full career and perhaps in absolute terms, were probably close to just bad (especially so by the former two). It's his worst PER, WS/48 and BPM of any season, RS or playoffs and bar a weak rookie year it's an outlier worst. On-off type stuff will be super noisy in small samples but, for what it's worth, the trend holds for that too.
Slashlines across eras aren't a terribly fair means of comparison.
Now it is only one playoff run so the sample is pretty tiny. You correctly note injuries and playoff competition level varies significantly. People may vary in focus as to whether what happened is all that matters or if injury is a mitigating factor.
More generally ...
If one heavily bought into his playoffs previously this probably is a big blow to his stock as (after an RS leap) his playoffs was - with whatever context one wants to give - very substantially his worst. If one hasn't been so focused on that, he's just come off his clear best production-wise RS which if more indicative of improvement than luck might augur well. A less playoff orientated approach is perhaps less likely to think him overrated at this moment - being less high on him before
and dropping him less now.
To "under" or "over" rated, that would depend on where one perceives him to be rated. I guess I'd be on the lower side but I haven't looked super closely nor would I have a great handle on where the consensus on him is.
