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Originally posted by: Murphy3
Of course, the ultimate goal is the championship. However, there's nothing wrong with digging just a big further than that. Fans sometimes unfairly judge an individual player based upon how their team performs in the post season when it's obviously not in control of just one man. So yeah, the ultimate is to win the title, but there's nothing wrong with analyzing individual performances of certain players.
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I agree, and as you pointed out, Dirk clearly has a statistical edge over KG, especially considering any time period other than just last year. For one thing, it took KG 7 games to bust out with 30 against CWebb on one leg --- not exactly a ringing endorsement of his offensive firepower.
And, just to be a contrarian, while games aren't just in the hands of one man, the NBA is perhaps the easiest game in which one player can dominate a single game, a playoff series, or even the entire playoffs. Hakeem's run in the mid-90s comes to mind, although his "role players" all played quite well those years.