James's total score has reached 36947 points, has surpassed Carl Malone to rise to the second place in NBA history, and Anthony's total score is 28217 points, it is very remarkable to get so many points, but he and James entered the NBA in the same year, the total score difference is 8730 points, is the gap between their strength really so big? What kind of performance did the two play in the head-to-head confrontation?
According to statistics, James and Anthony have played each other a total of 40 times, James led the team to a record of 25 wins and 15 losses, and Anthony led the team to a record of 15 wins and 25 losses. James is obviously much better than Anthony in terms of leading the team, so how is the individual performance comparison?
In these 40 games, James averaged 38.7 minutes per game, averaged 19.2 shots per game, hit 9.6 hits per game, averaged 26 points, 6.9 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 1.6 steals and 0.8 blocks, shot 49.9% from the field, shot 29% from three-point range (4.2 shots, hit 1.2), and shot 71.3% from the free throw line (5.7 of 8).
Anthony averaged 36.8 minutes per game, averaged 19.5 shots per game, hit 8.2 hits per game, averaged 22.5 points, 6.6 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1 steal, 0.6 blocks, shot 42.1 percent from the field, 33.5 percent from three-point range (4.2 shots, 1.4 hits), and shot 77.7 percent from the free throw line (4.7 of 6.1).
The comparison can be found that James crushed the opponent in the confrontation with Anthony, his average score per game was much higher than Anthony, the average rebound per game was also a little ahead, the average assists per game were far away from Anthony, the steals and blocks were also more than Anthony, and the shooting percentage was 7.8 percentage points higher than Anthony.
Anthony had only two advantages over James: one was three-point shooting and the other was free throw shooting. James averaged 1.2 shots per game, Anthony averaged 1.4 shots per game, Anthony averaged 0.2 more shots per game than James, and his three-point shooting percentage reached 33.5 percent, 4.5 percentage points higher than James's 29 percent.
James averaged 8 free throws per game, averaging 5.7 hits per game, shooting 71.3 percent from the free throws, Anthony averaged 6.1 shots per game, 4.7 shots per game, 77.7 percent from the free throws, Anthony scored fewer free throws than James, but the free throw percentage was higher than James's.
Three-pointers and free throws used to be James' two major weaknesses, but he has made huge breakthroughs in three-point shooting in recent years, and the three-point line has become one of his main scoring areas, but strangely, his free throws have not improved much, before this season, he has been shooting below 70% in three consecutive seasons, and this season's free throw shooting rate has reached 75.5%, perhaps this is a sign of improvement, he is gradually becoming less than flawless.
James is the 2003 champion, Anthony is the 2003 tanhua, rookie season, both played very good performances, and finally James with a slight advantage to push Anthony to win the best rookie, perhaps this has long been doomed to James always better than Anthony.
At his peak, Anthony's scoring ability was not worse than James's, but apart from scoring ability, none of his abilities were better than James, Anthony was a good scorer, and James was an all-round warrior, a very good leader, and a super disciplined player.
At the time when James maintained high attendance, high scoring and high efficiency for many consecutive seasons, Anthony was lost in the Big Apple, he joined the Knicks and got a big contract, but the performance was not as good as a year, and after the establishment of the year, it was going downhill, and James was still leading the team forward with excellent performance, he became the top three players in the MVP list for many years, making the team a favorite to win the championship.
Different personalities and different career plans, so that Anthony and James gap is getting bigger and bigger, Anthony in terms of data is completely inferior to James, in terms of honor is several grades apart, now Anthony has become a role player with a basic salary, James is still the star of the house, still holding more than $40 million in high salaries, they are now in a situation the gap is as big as the total score gap.