2 average finals, not one and I'm not insinuating shyt. Check my posts, I'm usually the one giving Curry props. The point was after his finals performance, Curry love fest dropped dramatically or am I exaggerating? During those 2 years, Curry and his family>Lebron and the NBA. Now people viewing Kyrie, Russ, and Harden over him. It's that easy for people to become prisoners of the moment, and that what happened after the finals. He was the 2nd leading vote getter and lead the league in early jersey sales, but the constant Chef talk is not the same. He was the face of the league the last 2 years, copy?
ESPN with a dumb ass article up Isaiah better than Isiah
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2 average finals, not one and I'm not insinuating shyt. Check my posts, I'm usually the one giving Curry props. The point was after his finals performance, Curry love fest dropped dramatically or am I exaggerating? During those 2 years, Curry and his family>Lebron and the NBA. Now people viewing Kyrie, Russ, and Harden over him. It's that easy for people to become prisoners of the moment, and that what happened after the finals. He was the 2nd leading vote getter and lead the league in early jersey sales, but the constant Chef talk is not the same. He was the face of the league the last 2 years, copy?
No one was bringing up conditioning issues (Steph included) when he was putting up 28-6-6 in the prior series against OKC, or when he came back in game 4 and dropped 40 on the blazers while yelling "IM BACK, IM BACK"
I fukk with Lil Homie but Zeke going nut with the fukked up ankle >>>>>>>>>>>>> anything Young Thomas
If the thesis is wrong though... then, yes.
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Nah.
He was great in the '15 Finals (sans one bad game). I still don't understand how dudes watched that series and come to the conclusion that he played bad or even "average", especially given the fact the Cavs' entire defensive scheme was built around getting the ball out of his hands. And yet he still averaged 10 ppg more than any other Warriors player, and he still scored more points on better efficiency than any other player in the clutch, and he still generated more open looks and points through his gravity + passing + decision making than any other player in that series.
Does og isiah get sonned be Jeff Teague and schoeder in a playoff series....I think not
The entire finals I was like Steph needed surgery, just watch man. Right after, you're going to find out he needed shoulder and ankle surgery. Summer passed, and he never had surgery. I was at his SC30 Select Camp, and even though the energy wasn't the same as the year he won it all, dude was energetic as heck with the guards. I was
the entire time. He most likely played with tweaks, all athletes do, but it had to be fatigue that plagued him during that finals. That was definitely an conditioning issue, same with Bron vs the Spurs.Gil Scott-Heroin
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I. People did bring up his injuries/conditioning issues
II. Why would Steph bring up shyt like that when he knows folk would use it against him, i.e. making excuses?
III. He said "IM BACK, IM BACK" in the heat of the moment during his first game back after rehabbing for the past two weeks. Quite clearly he wasn't the same player (before the injury) as the playoffs went along. The effects of that OKC series really took a toll on him.
NO 1 player is 100% healthy that deep into the season. It is what it is. Curry is great, but the all time great train (After 2 ATG seasons) stopped.
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then argue that.
Dont argue it on something you misread (not you, specifically). People say that article and thought it said the writer is saying he is better than Zeke.
He won a Finals MVP. When the other Isaiah does it holler at us.
And how are we defining a better season? Just stats from two different eras? Not taking into account team success or the fact that one player CLEARLY dialed back his individual game in order for his team to be able to win. Does winning not matter anymore?
Gil Scott-Heroin
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And you'd be right, players just have to deal with it. nikkas get injured every day, B. But it sure as hell doesn't negate what they've managed to achieve, though.
And this is where you're wrong.
Mainly cuz he was league MVP but Iguodala won Finals MVP. Voters must have seen it differently too...
Gil Scott-Heroin
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Like I've said many a time - it was all because of the LeBron lone wolf narrative going on at the time (Iggy being the antagonist whose team won), and them being so preoccupied with that, they weren't paying attention to what was actually going on.
They stopped paying attention to the league MVP during the finals that his team won? Even though he was playing great basketball? If you say so...