Lillard is obviously the better and more individually accomplished player, but it’s kind of interesting that they both have the same amount of playoff wins. [Lillard’s playoff stat line is 25/4/6 on 41/36/88 splits.](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/damian-lillard-playoff-record) [Beal’s playoff stat line is 23/4/4 on 44/34/82 splits](https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/bradley-beal-playoff-record).
EDIT: I don’t know why this is being extrapolated as some kind of player comparison post. I even noted in the text that Lillard is obviously the better and more individually accomplished player.
EDIT 2: Apparently Beal’s teams have only ever lost to 1 seeds. So while the Easter was weaker it’s not like Beal was avoiding the “top dog” teams
by Solid-Confidence-966
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Follow up question; Who do you think had more help?
Eastern conference is cheeks
The funny thing is that Beal hasn’t had significantly more help
So what you’re saying is they both have the same amount of LoyalCoin
Pretty interesting. In comparison, I believe Lillard had the better supporting cast, was always the number one option (would assume higher usage as a result).
Beal being two points off is shocking actually. I would expect Dame to have a higher ppg avg.
Both quality guards who lean on their scoring. An apt comparison
The real winner here is their bank accounts
I would never have guessed this one.
Had no idea Beal had anywhere NEAR 50 playoff games.
One is in East, the other in the West. Lillard would’ve made deeper runs in the East Playoff.
Dame is overrated, Beal is underappreciated
beal and dame should team up it’d be funny to see one try to convince the other to join THEIR team
I mean both players are great but we all have to take into account that Dame is on the west with teams of Spurs, OKC(KD times), GSW, and Rockets all in contention at the time they are also making a run of it. Beal on the other hand is on the East which is weaker at the time. But yeah, it is interesting to know that both have the same wins.
Yeah this is one of those stats that blows my mind. Had no clue that Beal had so much playoff games.
ITT: a bunch of people who weren’t alive when LaMarcus Aldridge was playing on the Blazers, acting like Lillard is the only good player ever to play in Portland
It’s sometimes crazy how influential narrative can be on the perception of a player. I would have never knew this but those Wizards teams with Wall and Beal always had longer playoff series that went to Game 6 or 7 so it makes sense.
This just shows how many times Dame has dragged ass teams to the playoffs whereas Beal was leading his team to the lottery in the weaker East.
It’s wild that people read this and are like, “I nee to parse and rationalize the difference between these similarly impressive records.” Rather than recognizing that the second is obviously, objectively more impressive
Eastern conference. Next.
And they both have more playoff wins than jokic. So what?
Damn, Lillard has 39 playoff losses? That actually seems quite a lot. When he loses a series, he gets crushed I guess.
Bit sad how forgotten Lamarcus Aldridge is by even Portland fans apparently lol.
Beal hasn’t constantly had to run into the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs, that helps him out a little bit. Or the 62 win Spurs that went on to win the finals. Or the bubble Lakers who went on to win the finals.
Yes, but if you transported Beal to Portland and Lillard to DC, those respective records would flip…Lillard’s record would most likely be a helluva lot better in a historically mediocre Eastern Conference.
Dame has also played in West which , overall, has pretty much always been much better throughout Beal and Dame’s career.(Remember that shitty Orlando team made multiple playoffs)
TIL Bradley Beal has been in the playoffs
This is just West vs East stats. Harder to advance 2010-2023 when you are playing quality Warriors, Lakers, Thunder, Nuggets, Clippers, etc
The east was really bad until a few years ago. The Wiz underperformed and should’ve made a conference finals at least once
Anyone who remembers the talent gap between the East and West back then wouldn’t be surprised by this.
Those Wizards teams were significantly worse than the Trailblazers, but a mid seed team in the East had a much easier time in the first round compared to even highly seeded Western teams. No free wins in the West, whereas the Lebron teams basically strolled into the ECF every year.
Edit: Point being, Dames stats and wins were much tougher to come by. Not knocking Beal, but I hope history remembers the context and doesn’t just assume these counting stats are similarly impressive.
How many of those losses came against GSW? Can’t fault lillard for those…seemed like every time from 2015-2019 they’d face them. And they also lost to the nuggets multiple times when Dame would put up 50…
I think this is one where you can rightly point to the quality of the East when Beal and Wall were racking up those wins v. the quality of the West when Lillard was.
Beal’s series wins are against a Derrick Rose-less Bulls #4 seed in the first round in 2014.
A disastrous choke by the #4 seed Lowry/Derozan Raptors in 2015.
And a win as the favourite against the #5 seed Hawks in 2017.
With no second-round series wins.
Lillard has wins against the #4 seed Harden Rockets in 2014, the #4 seed CP3 Clippers in 2016, a win as the favourite against the #6 seed Westbrook Thunder, and a second-round win against the pre-bubble #2-seed Jokic-Murray Nuggets.
I think Lillard’s playoff resume is slightly overrated, but I also rate those series wins at a significantly higher degree of difficultly.
lmao at your first edit. You don’t know why it’s being extrapolated as a comparison when you are literally comparing data sets? Ok, man.