5 current NBA stars who choked in the Playoffs

#3 Kyle Lowry - Toronto Raptors (2016)

#7 Kyle Lowry

Kyle Lowry is a veteran, he has four more years of experience playing the league than DeRozan had but somehow both faltered when they needed to lead the team in the 2016 Playoffs. And Lowry was the biggest shock, with DeRozan's one-off huge game helping the team reach the Conference Finals.

It wasn't his first Playoffs, maybe Lowry could get a pass for the team's debacles in 2014 and 2015 but what about 2016?

Toronto could have eased through the first two round against the Pacers and a short-handed Heat but Lowry's struggles didn't help. Give him credit though, he did come up big in the close-out game against Miami but given the disparity in talent between the two teams, it shouldn't have taken a Game 7.

Lowry averaged 6.0 assists that postseason, which is around what he did for the regular season but his scoring and shooting were huge disappointments. Over the 82-game 2015-16 regular season, he averaged 21.2 points on 42.7% shooting. In the Playoffs, however, that year he averaged 19.1 on 39.7% shooting.

Numbers should be going up and not down when it comes to the postseason. Some of his games were horrific. He had multiple games where he either scored in single digits or shot less than 25% from the field.