bwgood77 wrote:cberry78 wrote:"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordanlilfishi22 wrote:Yeah I'm not pinning Book's entire reputation and career on a couple of poor clutch showings. Every winner has far more failures than successes.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about a couple of bad showings by a young player either.
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Jordan lost a few times in the playoffs but was dragging a not great team at first. Once the team was really good they dominated.
Hard to compare anyone to Jordan though.
Book should get better in the clutch in elimination games, but that is some big time pressure. Where if you lose you are done. Some people play better under those circumstances like the guys I named above and some worse, but I don't know how many of them ones who play great did in their very first ever playoff elimination games.
Yeah I agree. I think the bigger issue with Book in G7 is not that he just had a bad game, it's that he completely **** the bed. He already had an underwhelming game in G6 where we got wrecked and the expectation of a star, an all-NBA level guy and a top 4 MVP candidate is that you would have a better comeback game. Not only did he not do that, it was a monumentally bad performance. It's G7, at home, he talked it up in the press conference and to be down 30 at the half after scoring zero field goals to that point is just the complete opposite of clutch.
I'm sure he's dealt with it his own way and I'm sure he's not nonchalant about it in his private life but I can see why he pissed off a few fans with the nonchalant way he handled it publicly afterwards.
