Murray is scoring on 46% TS in these playoffs

[Peregrine01]

I said the Nuggets would be a surefire dynasty if they had a better #2 option.

Sticking by it despite Murrary's prior playoff excellence. If he's not volume scoring with good efficiency, his value greatly diminishes. As is evident during this playoff run.

He's averaging 24pts 4.9reb and 6.2 ast with 50/40/90 splits in his playoff career. And he's ok defensively. That's a great 2nd option

Where is this 50/40/90? He's at 46/39/91.

Those splits aren't bad but you have to consider the mix of his shots - taken altogether, he's scoring on 57% TS for his playoffs career. Considering how he's playing in the most ideal situation possible for a guard (next to Jokic), this is fairly underwhelming when you match that up with the playoff reputation that he has.

[Johnny Firpo]

So has he even been worse than Doncic?

Easily worse. Luka is scoring at a terrible efficiency too, but it's at 52% TS, and he obviously rebounds, and has been playing pretty good defense, close to a triple double average I think. Also had two good games and one great game so far out of the 12 games. Murray probably had no great games, like 6-7 terrible, 2-3 average, and maybe one good game.

[TheShow2021]

Jamal Murray is that guy who went on an epic blackjack heater in Vegas, never cashed out, and eventually lost it all.

[firedavidkahn]

Jamal Murray is that guy who went on an epic blackjack heater in Vegas, never cashed out, and eventually lost it all.

I mean... Murray has a ring.

In no scenario did he lose it all. Still a champion and a huge reason why. He just isn't a superstar in any way shape or form.

This post season hasn't been good to him but he generally is a play offs riser.

[Peregrine01]

So has he even been worse than Doncic?

Easily worse. Luka is scoring at a terrible efficiency too, but it's at 52% TS, and he obviously rebounds, and has been playing pretty good defense, close to a triple double average I think. Also had two good games and one great game so far out of the 12 games. Murray probably had no great games, like 6-7 terrible, 2-3 average, and maybe one good game.

I don't really see a comparison. Luka is still the focal point of the OKC defense and despite him nursing multiple injuries he's still putting a lot of pressure on the defense, forcing doubles and creating open looks. Murray is not creating much of anything, can't score and has been completely bottled up by single coverage.

[PedroFlu]

He's gotta be injured. Or does he gets possessed by the spirit of Jordan everytime he faces the Lakers?

[AleksandarN]

Can someone explain this BS.

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[levon]

Can someone explain this BS.

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He's Paul George in disguise?

[AleksandarN]

Can someone explain this BS.

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He's Paul George in disguise?

He’s Jevonty Porter in disguise.

[levon]

Can someone explain this BS.

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He's Paul George in disguise?

He’s Jevonty Porter in disguise.

By the way, that didn't hit the side of the backboard like the commentators thought. It looks like he wanted to flip it to a Gordon alley-oop, but stopped halfway.

[AleksandarN]

He's Paul George in disguise?

He’s Jevonty Porter in disguise.

By the way, that didn't hit the side of the backboard like the commentators thought. It looks like he wanted to flip it to a Gordon alley-oop, but stopped halfway.

He had a 100 percent bucket. Stupid. He bet the under

[Roger Murdock]

Murray is like the 50th best player in the NBA but people viewed him as more because he’s been really good in the playoffs twice

It’s not unusual for a low level #2 to struggle

[cupcakesnake]

He's injured. It's pretty evident he doesn't have the pop or explosivness he had last year when he was dancing around pick & rolls and cutting out peoples throats.

He's making the occasional good play but night to night it's been pretty brutal. It doesn't help that he's playing against a murder of crow perimeter defensive group in Minnesota.

[Special_Puppy]

Murray is like the 50th best player in the NBA but people viewed him as more because he’s been really good in the playoffs twice

It’s not unusual for a low level #2 to struggle

Its been insane for one to be doing THIS poorly though

[Pablo Escobar]

He needs to stop coming into the season out of shape.

[Peregrine01]

He's injured. It's pretty evident he doesn't have the pop or explosivness he had last year when he was dancing around pick & rolls and cutting out peoples throats.

He's making the occasional good play but night to night it's been pretty brutal. It doesn't help that he's playing against a murder of crow perimeter defensive group in Minnesota.

He's hurt but he's always hurt. Injury proneness is as much a part of a player's make-up just like height or weight is.

Beyond that, I've always been skeptical of his game. Now, I've had to eat crow a few times cause he can go on hot streaks because of his off-the-dribble and movement shooting during the playoffs but for the most part he's been a streaky shooter throughout his career. When his shot is off, what else is he bringing to the table? He doesn't get to the rim well at all and because he can't beat his man he can't get easy buckets for himself, stress the defense or get to the line. He has a tendency to overdribble into really difficult shots and often gets tunnel vision. He has nice synergy with Jokic but pretty much every player that plays with Jokic synergizes well with him. I'm not convinced that he's an all-star level guard that many like to paint him as.

[Howard Cosell]

Denver is going to have to figure out how to win game 7 with little to no production from Murray. I actually think his elbow is injured, not just hurt.

[binjumper]

Relax, guys. He's had two bad games this series, was solid to very good in the other 4.

Nuggets lost by almost 50, and the entire bench shot something like 4/27 (and 25% on FTs). Don't need to start making Murray the scapegoat here.

Murray has been horrible all post-season. He was horrible in the Lakers series too.

Murray literally took over in 2 games against the lakers in the 4th and buried them.

[Woodsanity]

Relax, guys. He's had two bad games this series, was solid to very good in the other 4.

Nuggets lost by almost 50, and the entire bench shot something like 4/27 (and 25% on FTs). Don't need to start making Murray the scapegoat here.

Murray has been horrible all post-season. He was horrible in the Lakers series too.

Murray literally took over in 2 games against the lakers in the 4th and buried them.

For the Lakers series he was basically good for 1 game and 1 4th quarter and bad for all the other games.

It was enough cause the Lakers arent that good but the T-Wolves are a different story.

[JShuttlesworth]

He's injured, which shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone, he has missed a lot of games over the last 5-years