The Clutchest Team in the NBA

[FkLA]

Lol It's called confidence. The teams hiring sports psychologists are hiring them for overall mental balance to deal with all the pressure that comes with being a professional athlete. They aren't hiring them to combat sweaty palms, or increased heart rates or to combat anti clutch lol.

The more prepared you are, the more confident you are and the better you're going to produce. The NBA players in big games and in big moments are more prepared than any players in the world.

Pros are the best prepared but they're also playing at the highest level for the biggest stakes. It's completely ridiculous to think they're incapable of feeling pressure. There's literally subjects about this being thaught at universities.

[MaNu4Tres]

Pros are the best prepared but they're also playing at the highest level for the biggest stakes. It's completely ridiculous to think they're incapable of feeling pressure. There's literally subjects about this being thaught at universities.

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Then why do statistics prove that in the long run ( over a large sample), players shoot around their career averages in pressure situations?

If clutch existed, success would be repeatable in these high pressure environments -- but this does not happen. Success in these scenarios is part of confidence, variance and skill. Skill and variance have a bigger part of the outcome than a player having a " clutch gene" or being clutch".

[Kawhitstorm]

Were talking about hitting clutch shots in the regular season not playoffs..my point is winning close games/in the clutch in the in the regular season doesn't guarantee a championship..

Who the said anything that happens in the regular season "guarantees" anything?

All I said was that blowing out teams in the regular season amounted to nothing against OKC, so might as well try squeaking out wins since this squad isn't going to be blowing out teams after the 1st rd. The current squad probably wouldn't have botched the Gm 2 ending where Patty shot an airball.

[skin27]

^^I'm not saying you said that but your downdrading last year's team performance in the regular season...that's why i example the 2010-2011 team that win a lot of close games in the regular season Ang get bounce in the first round..

[FkLA]

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Then why do statistics prove that in the long run ( over a large sample), players shoot around their career averages in pressure situations?

If clutch existed, success would be repeatable in these high pressure environments -- but this does not happen. Success in these scenarios is part of confidence, variance and skill. Skill and variance have a bigger part of the outcome than a player having a " clutch gene" or being clutch".

Where are these statistics you speak of? I highly doubt all players shoot their career averages in pressure situations.

And sure there is no clutch gene that they can turn on and thus guarantee repeated success in high pressure situations. That's common sense. But I also think it's common sense that all humans are capable of feeling pressure. Pro athletes aren't different in that respect. What you're implying is akin to saying a police officer will perform no different in a gun fight than he would at a gun range he frequents.

Clutchness is the ability to remain composed in those situations and it varies depending on the person.

[kaji157]

To say the truth, the "clutch" stat, doesn love kawhi a lot, mainly because he takes bad shots.
Manu and Tony always used to be able to get inside at will and have a high percentage shot. Kawhi still fails to realise which shot to go to, and it reflects on his clutch stats.


During the 2013-2014 le run, the team clutchest players where Tony, Manu, Beli, and Tim. In that order. And then the finals mvp.

[Kawhitstorm]

The more prepared you are, the more confident you are and the better you're going to produce. The NBA players in big games and in big moments are more prepared than any players in the world.

Nick Anderson from the '95 Finals says " o", the guy completely lost his composure under a high pressure situation despite not being a guy who lacked confidence as he was talking smack to none other than Jordan during the same postseason run. (He did lose his confidence after that incident as he refused to drive so he doesn't have to shoot FTs:)

Russell Westbrook certainly doesn't lack confidence but he loses his composure & starts deviating from his normal playing mode when it gets to crunch time. It's not even like the defense is forcing him to play even faster (turnovers) or take quicker shots (terrible shots) but the guy just self-implodes.