Kawhi and LeBron playoff shot comparsion

He's not playing much worse than his season averages. His shooting was sub 50% during the regular season and it's been sub 50% for four of the past five seasons so I'm not sure why you find that so surprising. He's also only scoring 3.8 PPG less than his season average. I don't know why you think something there's something wrong with him because he's playing pretty much the same as he has been. Did you just expect him to all of a sudden become a different player?

As for Tony Parker, he's scoring around the same PPG as he did in his all-star years. In his 2013-2014 season where he was an NBA All-Star and All-NBA second team, he averages the same PPG as he is in these playoffs. The only difference is that's he's scoring those points with better efficiency than he had in any season. During these playoffs he's been a more efficient b shooter than Curry, Harden, Lowry, or IT. So if playing worse than someone with their all-NBA caliber statline, only with more efficiency makes a player bad, then like I said, almost every single player in the league is playing bad.

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