As Devin Booker and Trae Young lead their particular teams in the 2021 NBA conference finals, its time to retire the phrase “excellent stats, bad team.”Both Booker and Young were tagged with the unflattering label early in their careers, when they accumulated outstanding per-game statistics for lottery-bound teams. Now, with Young powering Atlantas set of upset series wins as a lower seed, and Booker bring the Phoenix Suns to a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals– without star guard Chris Paul– we must learn from their examples and forget about a principle that constantly made more sense in theory than practice.The clumsy relationship in between private and group successI can comprehend where the concept of “excellent stats, bad group” stemmed.