I just want to add one more player to the "clutch" analysis.

Lebron James.

I didn't know this would be the case, but after looking at his numbers in the playoffs last year, I have to conclude that LJ was the clutchest of them all. But even Lebron took mostly jump shots.

Shooting:
72% of his crunch time shots were jumpers... and 85% of those were self-created (i.e. not assisted). He shot .577 on those shots. Incredible average since his average on jump shots this season is only .388. We got bamboozled by a hot shooting Lebron.

Driving:
He got into the paint 28% of the time and shot .600 from there.

Getting fouled:
He got fouled 20% of the time, which is in line with other crunch time starts, including Chauncey. He only made 16 out of 25 free throws.

Passing:
But the real key is his assist to turnover ratio of "undefined". I'm assuming that a great number of his assists were after he started driving. He had 14 assists and 0 turnovers in crunchtime.

All in all, he took an incredible number of crunchtime shots, 54. Pavlovich and Hughes each got off 13 shots. Ilgauskas 11. And it looks like they made the right decision calling Lebron's number over and over.

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