2023 Playoff misc.

[Mike G]

How does this postseason place Jokic among the best ever?
Since 1974, VORP is counted. So we look at top 20 postseasons in VORP and Win Shares.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/le ... son_p.html
https://www.basketball-reference.com/le ... son_p.html
About 15 top PO appear in both top 20s. One by Jordan makes top 10 in one but not top 20 in the other, so I tossed it in.

Then I looked up PO Games to get per-game WS and VORP. This kinda matters.
WS*VORP is actually the square root of that product. /G is just that divided by Games.
xyz is WS*VORP*(WV/G)

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xyz    W*V    WV/G    PO      tm     yr     G    WS    VORP   WS/G    V/G
3.67   3.72   .265   LeBron   Cle   2009   14   4.83   2.86   .345   .204
3.37   4.33   .180   Duncan * SAS   2003   24   5.94   3.15   .248   .131
3.36   4.26   .185   LeBron * Mia   2012   23   5.82   3.12   .253   .136
3.34   4.19   .190   LeBron   Cle   2018   22   5.16   3.40   .235   .155

3.01   3.71   .218   Jordan * Chi   1991   17   4.77   2.89   .281   .170
2.84   3.84   .192   Jokic  * Den   2023   20   5.01   2.95   .251   .148
2.67   3.94   .171   LeBron * Mia   2013   23   5.20   2.99   .226   .130
2.48   3.85   .167  Nowitzki  Dal   2006   23   5.39   2.75   .234   .120

xyz    W*V    WV/G    PO      tm     yr     G    WS    VORP   WS/G    V/G
2.26   3.73   .162   Bird   * Bos   1984   23   4.72   2.95   .205   .128
2.17   3.74   .156   Kawhi  * Tor   2019   24   4.88   2.86   .203   .119
2.16   3.57   .170   LeBron * Cle   2016   21   4.69   2.71   .223   .129
2.08   3.63   .158   Wade   * Mia   2006   23   4.79   2.75   .208   .120

1.88   3.40   .162   Jordan * Chi   1998   21   4.81   2.41   .229   .115
1.85   3.49   .152   Kobe   * LAL   2009   23   4.66   2.62   .203   .114
1.81   3.46   .151   Shaq   * LAL   2000   23   4.67   2.57   .203   .112
1.77   3.39   .154   Jordan * Chi   1992   22   4.13   2.78   .188   .126

* - won Finals mvp (this is from memory)
LeBron's 2009 didn't reach the Finals. It appears here because it's still top 20 in both VORP and WS; and serves as reminder that the list isn't comprehensive or exclusive, and others would likely be in here, but for the top-20 cutoff.

[Crow]

Nuggets, #1 in regular season on efg%. Third in playoffs by 0.3 % points.



Thunder 24th on efg%.

For the last 13 champions, the regular season efg% rank was less than 2.5 and never worse than 5th.

Have a design & implemention without a top efg% and you are on a different path than recent winners.

Sixers were 6th in regular season. Close to standard. 13th in Playoffs. Vastly short.

[Crow]

The last 4 title winners before this playoffs were on average a 5.75 conference seed. They average winning 1.25 rounds this time. Just one made conference finalsand now in finals.

Durability at the top varies but there wasn't much this season for those four.

[Crow]

Every one of the 10 most used lineups in playoffs had a Center sized guy. The smallest PFs in that top group by height were Nic Batum and Aaron Gordon. Not small in the back when it counted.

IF Thunder make playoffs with a 200 pound center and a guard at PF that will be very different.