I've yet to see a Laker fan say 7 of 12. I'll never understand why that stuff matters to stat guys. He has something like 28 or 32 or something like that game winners. (depending on how you define game winners, buzzer beaters, final 5 seconds, what have you) and nobody else in the league is near there. And that's over the course of 15 years, PLENTY of sample size. Has he shot more then anybody? Yes, absolutely, because his team has trusted him to take the shots, and he's played in a lot of games, etc etc. But tons of guys have played in lots of games, they don't get trusted to take that shot. KG been in the league same amount of time, he won't EVER be seen shooting game winners, he passes the ball like a hot potatoe.
Remember .4 game? How many people remember the fact that Kobe hit the go ahead bucket in the final 20 something seconds, then Duncan hit that miracle shot that gave them the lead with .4, and THEN Fish hit .4? Kobe, Duncan both could have had game winners, but were one upped within the frame of the actual game. Those are clutch shots that get included in your stats, but didn't lead to wins. Fisher's was the shot that mattered. The final shot is the one that matters in a do or die type game. (do or die not meaning eliminaion, I mean win or lose the specific game) Guys hitting a bunch of shots with 35 seconds left and then the other team coming down and scoring means NOTHING. But yet, those show up in your stats. Those stats, that are flawed. You can't POSSIBLY go thru shot after shot after shot to create a "clutch" stat. Relying on game winners may seem simple minded, but it's better then nothing.
