70sFan wrote:Please, learn to read my posts instead of projecting your ideas on me. I have never said that Jokic winning the last game would have helped him at all without better level of play. Can you at least try to be intelectually honest?
What are your thoughts on best ever 3 or 4 year offensive peak, 70's?
How many players, period, have had a 4 year offensive peak like Jokic? Not just centers!
Updated 5/24/24:Consider that in the past 341 games (including the playoffs, dating back to the beginning of 2020-2021), Jokic has put up a slash line of:
26.6/12.3/8.6 on +8.7 Relative True Shooting% (rTS%) (while also, incidentally, leading all centers in steals by a massive margin):
The only player in NBA history to put up a slash line of 26.6/12.3/8.6 in ANY SINGLE 82 game season is Oscar Robertson, all the way back in 61'-62', and he did it in a game that featured
*127* possessions per game, playing
*44* MPG.
Jokic, on the other hand, has done this in a league averaging only
*99* possessions per game, and while playing only
34.6 MPG.
And, he's sustained it for nearly 4 full seasons, including the playoffs.That is
truly astounding.
For those who prefer advanced metrics (that we have for all eras of the NBA), here are a few objective things to consider:
1. His 31.7 PER across the last 341 games stacks up against the best (single) seasons of Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and LeBron James.
2. His BPM the last 4 full seasons is 12.3, which stacks up against anything Michael Jordan ever did in a (single) season. It falls top 5 all time among *single season* BPM totals.
3. His TS% of .656 would be third all time among all high volume 3 point shooters, such as himself (3+ 3PA/G). And again, that's compared to only an 82 game sample for the other players.
He's done all of this while shooting an outstanding .829 from the line, an incredible .365 from three point range on very high volume for a center (3.2/game).
Consider, too, that he's a 7 foot, 275+ lb center, not a small, adroit, shooting focused guard.