do i do sport ever de ben make a wish he would get a big crew steve owes here's
the was gonna brother event
jr
hastens
and we're talking about suddenly sports fans would love to talk about steven i
talk about a check and i talk about you reject talk about it
o'clock performance
and it's hard to measure
and it's something you go with based on what you see
tom brady's clutch
peyton manning is
that's what we believe
right because that's what we see
and uh... we see it we talk about all time in the n_b_a_ to basketball you
think you know a clutch performer
when you see one
so jr big basketball fan
good basketball player play with jr lot steve and i do is ekkuva player so jr
let me ask you questions
who were among the top clutch players in the n_b_a_
uh... currently world
there we go to our weekly here of course procedures khali bra
brian brian james cardinal anthony spread is what you think alright at
pages
we got those graphics ready alright here we go here the top
clutch players
in the n_b_a_
this is based on shots made with their team trailing
or tied
late may gain the last five minutes of the ball game
when you're down last five minutes right through the last twenty four seconds
when your team is down by two points or fewer or its time
top i've five performers based on at least thirty shots this is since
nineteen ninety six
through the present-day
here we go first list top performers carmelo anthony hits nearly fifty
percent of the shots than chris ball the surprise me at forty five and then a
three-way tie between a shawn marion brendan roy and hugo tour coach and
could be a happy to see that now we have bounce around when i can give you all
the list but here's some other guys on that list
get the next day she was chard lewis on the list called the glen robinson on the
west
jailing rose is on that list tim dot deprive every morning against jay lin
rosa madeline right everybody doesn't bigger general rose is a money player
but these are the shots they get paid big time shots ben gordon is on that
list by the way look at the percentages
nobody said nafta shots in these situations
sixteenth best clutch player since nineteen ninety six chris webber
therefore brought at seventeen and a third of the shots
as many as raymond felton
was turned into a pretty good player
there's a ray allen there's the much-maligned gilbert arenas had number
twenty
still moving down the list vince carter
at thirty two you don't see a disco beastie frances demons dot a meyer
nick van exel
and jr at number twenty five
toby bryant at thirty one point three percent
what does that mean
about co first of all to be fair to koki
he's taken allot more shots
that all of those guys
a ton more shots than all those destined changed percentage
but toby has cranked up many more shots than all those guys in fact you know one
of the some of those guys it eight she was thirty shots in big-time situations
kal be i think is cranked up a hundred and fifteen shots in those situations
nonetheless
he hasn't made many of them but the perception is
is the coby is our money
big-time player but the evidence suggests
that maybe he is
and you don't think he's
i have been a lakers fan my entire life
in fact and moved to l_a_ because i love the lakers so much
uh... adult i love the lakers odyssey through the magic era but i love them
there that make that excels adele three dt
passover seder savalas those ears as well love them
and expel the lakers now
i never loved coby
and the main reason is that he told me
frees you with this play
in lake in situations jess slice elaine given the ball everybody clears out of
the way and he just does
yes my actually a friend of mine i have no doubt he repeat he and i are both
big lakers has and we set up with a lakers
every single game after the games during law school
and he and i always thought that colby was one of the most on clutch players in
the sense that this performance the last few minutes of the game are horrendous
and ice never understood what they want but also clutch
not that doesn't mean our physical plant is amazing but nobody taught pop
one-two may be prepared only right for
but i'd always thought that in the clutch
to try to do too much
terrible shots makes bad decisions and almost always winds up failing well
what's interesting of course there's always why the phillies made some huge
shocked his mate in his shots in the playoffs but he is also miss singer
shops in the playoffs
and our mind tends to forget that
because of the drama and excitement created
when he hits it
and the announcers voice and the fans and the cheering or the day
devastation of the other team when he makes those shots
and i think that has a lot to do
it's sort of how people react and the tricks that are are split but it's more
than just those shots the toby
that's more than just those statistics because
the lakers as a team over the course of colby's career
they have what they have the
most potent offense over the last fifteen years
in the n_b_a_ jr
these guys score
per one hundred projections
or hundred nine points per hundred possessions the best in the n_b_a_ over
the last fifteen years
kal be brought to best player on the team
is largely responsible for that
well that we can dispute that actually true
in the last
twenty four seconds of close games
they regress horrible and they average just eighty two points per hundred
possessions
in close games and by the way tm the holy doesn't move with them
in fact their eleventh in the league so they take a significant step back in the
last twenty four seconds
of closed and we know who they look to announce close games
they look to colby by the way the new orleans hornets
average a hundred and seven points per game nearly with the lakers average over
a full game
in those last twenty four seconds of close games
the per hundred possessions in close games that is almost entirely
attributable to chris paul right beatrice at all
creates great shots the difference offer first he made some countries in telling
and he gives dave usd wide-open eighteen-foot alicia nails right so
what's interesting is that what we've learned over the last twenty-five years
in social sciences i thik
what we've learned in large part is that our eyes deceive us we've learned that i
witness testimony
from
in court cases
is though most
unreliable testimony that there is justice brennan a nineteen sixty-seven
and u_s_ vs wade
said i witness testimony is the testimony that juries
most except that's with juries are most eager to hear
but is notoriously unreliable
the innocence project which is
freed
keeps taking these guys off death row
turns out they didn't do it
bad eye witness identification is the single greatest cause of wrongful
conduct convictions seventy five percent of convictions overturned through d_n_a_
testing i witness testimony played a role
what this tells us is and what's fascinating to me about these numbers
regarding the n_b_a_'s
and it's true battles for us
don't trust your eyes
just don't trust 'em
scientists know it
we want to believe what we see
it doesn't mean what we see is wrong
but we're trekked
by what we see i've always found it fascinating that week
rely on what we see and we've learned more and more that what we see is
unreliable
at a sports fans we react emotionally
and we've learned more and more that reacting emotionally in life
is not right arise deceive us i wanna leave you with one
obviously we're talking about the n_b_a_ and clutch performer so in a leave of
the story about rape
atticus pretty happy
story about a woman in jennifer thompson the story from dialect which workers of
the young turks officers twenty two years old when she was raped in nineteen
eighty four
and sheet scrupulously that dollar stores had studied her attacker
memorized every detail of the guy's face
and so that she thought survive she would help you so identified
and she did she identified again they were promised cotton in a photo on
and then she picked him out of anette physical lineup
a few days later
the guy gets convicted he goes to prison ten years later d_n_a_ comes out
he didn't do it
he's free and then d_n_a_ implicates another guy a fellow named bobby pool
than the curious part of the story rights dialects quick is that
despite her determination of memorize every detail of the case when she first
saw the guy who didn't do it in court
bobby pool
she had no recollection of ever seeing that guy before
in her life and it was the guy who raped her
and now she says even though d_n_a_ exonerated
ronald cotton
when she and mentions
the event the traumatic event that happened to her
she still sees ronald cotton attacking
and we know for a fact that he didn't had another guy
and obviously that's a very serious issue we're just talking about the fun
of sports
but it accepts
our perception is toby right is the greatest cuts player
and the back of the matter is he takes too many bad shots to the rest of the
team stands around
and we think that all those dramatic plays in he's made some huge blaze on
playoffs
some incredibly dramatic place
but he's also probably share balls
and we don't remember those because our eyes to see this
and toby bryant is a gigantic loser
uh... quickly give proven it
on the workings for