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Show me some samples of evidence to where Stockton was way over his season average and stepped his game up in the playoffs? Last second shots are a whole other thing, and IIRC Stockton didn't have many of those. What games did Stockton win late? I'll have to research that b/c none are coming off the top of my head.Originally posted by: torpid
Stockton stepped his game up in the playoffs even more than nash did. Nash is a better scorer and ball handler. And passer probably too. It's just that much more impressive what stockton did in the playoffs when you consider that he wasn't a GREAT scorer. But he always had that dagger-in-the-heart shot late in playoff games. Chauncey Billups does that a lot too, making a shot to kill all hope and make you want to commit suicide as an opponent.
Nash doesn't quite have that yet.
Nash basically single handedly beat the Mavs last year (3 games over 40 and 30 pts), and won game 1 vs LAL this year all the while holding comparable stats to Kobe in every game (minus Game 7 when he was injured). If that's not stepping up, I don't know what is.