GreenHat wrote:I love that many are making the strawman argument of them rather winning a championship.
No one is arguing they'd rather Lebron have the highest PER instead of winning a title.
PER has its problems but if a guy has the best PER ever and is beating everyone else by 6 full points he's clearly the best player in the game and its not close, especially when he plays big minutes and is a premier defender on top of that.
A 30 PER is amazing regardless of any other factors, and Lebron is way above that.
He can get even better too. Its not like he has even been exceptionally "hot" this season either.
that is true, but LeBron had the biggest drop off in points since Oscar Robertson (who he happens to get a lot of comparisons too) in the Finals. I mean if he's going to be a beast in the regular season, continue to the Finals or these numbers just don't mean anything...
yes he is having a phenomenal season and I hope he gets all the awards he wants, but there is one thing I'm sure he'd rather have than a regular season MVP award and whatnot. While that isn't the argument, people are just frustrated how this guy is so good, but when it came to the biggest stage... he was no where near the same person. It's especially frustrating how the games were so close in the Finals as well. I remember there were posts about LeBron's woes late game and his struggles in the Finals, and someone was said "OH BUT HIS PER IS OVER 9000!!!", in a mocking way. While that did make me laugh (dbz ftw) no guy with that kind of PER should be that bad in the Finals. He has many years to make up for it though.
