When comparing the shooting percentage of playoff stars, if we put Harden and Klay Thompson together, I believe that the first choice of many fans must be Klay Thompson is more trustworthy, after all, Klay is a famous pitcher, and Harden's bad reputation abounds, but this is not the case, Harden and Curry, James, every bad performance in the playoffs will be magnified countless times, and Klay is similar to Lillard, Mitchell and others, playing well will be blown to the sky, and playing poor will be no one to publicize at all, Let's take a look!
No. 10: Jack Crowder, 54 bad games, career percentage: 24.8%!
Crowder has played 115 playoff games in his career, and the average shooting rate of all these games combined is only 39.2%, especially in the recent days of the Bucks, 23.1% shooting in the 23 playoffs and 25% shooting in the 24 playoffs.
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No. 9: Jeff Green, 49 bad games, career percentage: 27.3%!
Jeff Green averaged 41.6% shooting in the playoffs, and his best season was when he was with James Harden, Jeff Green shot 49.5% from the field in the Rockets in the 19-20 season, and 48.5% with Harden in the Nets in 21, and the rest of the Thunder 32.9%, Grizzlies 33.3%, including the Nuggets in '22 35.3%.
No. 8: Kyle Lowry, 62 bad games, career percentage: 27.8%!
Lowry's playoff shooting rate was 41.1%, and at his peak in the Raptors, 1 of 11 in the playoffs and 2 of 12 abounded, and the Raptors were soaring in the regular season, but in the playoffs, Lowry and DeRozan were miserable and abused like rags, which is also the origin of the title of "garbage brothers".
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No. 7: Smart, 53 bad games, career percentage: 28.3%!
Smart shot 39.6% from the field in the playoffs, and his most classic series was the Celtics vs. Bucks in '19, where Smart shot 9.1% from the field, including 0.5 of 5.5 shots from three-point range, and 66% from the free-throw line was also off par.
No. 6: Horford, 51 bad games, career percentage: 28.7%!
Horford shouldn't actually be here, he is an interior star, and the average shooting rate of 49.3% in the playoffs is also in line with the interior level, but Horford's game is too polarized, especially during the Hawks period, he often made 2 of 11, 4 of 19, and 3 of 12, and like Lowry of the Raptors, Horford was also one of the reasons for the Hawks' regular season playoff slump in those years.
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Fifth place: Dream Green, 53 bad games, career percentage: 28.9%!
Green shot 44.9% in the playoffs, Green shot very accurately before the 16-17 season, when the three-point shooting rate was 38.8%, and even reached the 41% level in a single season, and then after Durant joined in 16 years, Green's role began to change, and in 16 seasons, Green averaged 14 points, 9.5 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game, and Durant joined to steal all the offensive scenes on the front line, and slowly Green became a blue-collar on the defensive end, and his shooting ability lost his crosshairs in the long run.
No. 4: James Harden, 70 bad games, career percentage: 29.6%!
Harden, along with James, Curry, and Durant, is known as the NBA's four current traffic kings, so every bad game will be discussed by fans over and over again, especially in key battles such as 17 against the Spurs 3 in 17, 18 against the Warriors 21 in 5, 19 against the Warriors 28 in 9, in the big 2:4, 3:4 series, every sluggish game is unforgivable.
The Warriors have two other people who don't play well, and once Harden makes a mistake, the Rockets will be gone
No. 3: Paul George, 54 bad games, career percentage: 30.5%!
Paul George was once one of the representatives of the NBA's "God and Ghost Game", in these 54 bad games, the shooting rate was less than 30% of the games accounted for 24 games, such as 18 years against the Jazz in the sixth game of life and death 2 of 16, 19 years against the Trail Blazers in the key game of 16 3, 2020 against the Nuggets in the 7-of-16 game 4 of 16 only scored 10 points, etc., last season in the Clippers vs. Mavericks series Paul George shot 33%, including 3 of 11 in the third game, 4 of 13 in the fifth game, Game 6 of 18 in the sixth, the Clippers lost all three games.
No. 2: Westbrook, 59 bad games, career percentage: 31.5%!
The playoff game is not so abrupt for Wei Shao, who has shot 40.5% from the field in his playoff career, including less than 40% in six seasons, 38.8% in his MVP season in '17, 36% in '19, and 26% in the Clippers last season.
Klay's situation is also the reason why the star level is not enough
No. 1: Klay Thompson, 63 bad games, career percentage: 31.7%!
Klay Thompson was shocked when he came to first place, in fact, Klay's playoff shooting rate of 43% was much lower than that of the regular season, 32.7% in the series against the Spurs in 17, and 3 of 11 and 4 of 13 in the Western Conference finals against the Rockets in 18, but the Warriors had Curry and Durant in the background, so after Klay made 9 of 14 three-pointers in the sixth game, all the sluggish performances were selectively forgotten by fans.