re: Kobe Bryant's clutch gene

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Stats don't always tell the whole story.

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I think over a large sample size, any intangible stuff that may exist will all show up in the numbers.

I don't at all think that players can "rise to the occasion" in terms of they can will this or that jump shot to go in. They're good players, they make "clutch" shots because good players make shots at all points of the game, including the end. They don't make them because of some magical ability to summon some powers that they can summon in the 2nd quarter of a game.

That being said, I do think it can go the other way. Not based on nerves or not being clutch, but I do think players can try too hard to be the guy who takes the last shot and they end up not making correct bsaketball decisions. Kobe does this. Lots of times he's good enough to overcome that and he makes the shots. Lots of times he doesn't.

And I'd venture to say all the stats posted already and other stuff posted in the past at least fall in line with everything I said above, though it doesn't obviously prove it because those things can't literally be proved.

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DownSouthCrawfish

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I think the best way I've described it in the past that gets the lightbulb to go off for some people is very simple:

Michael Jordan, everyone says he was the most clutch player ever, blah blah blah. For the 1st 47 minutes of a game, who was the best player to ever play basketball? Michael Jordan.

So, it kinda goes without saying that he's also going to be the best player who makes the shots in the final minute. People have it backwards. They say he's the GOAT because he makes those big shots. I say ha makes those big shots because he's the GOAT.

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Jordan "never carried himself like this":

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O rly?

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O rly?

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Jumping OVER a 7'2" Center >>>>>>>>>>>> Dunking on Patrick Ewing.

Get this shite out of here.