Steph Curry took the Leap brehs....

[KOBE]

Curry is a much better scorer and offensive player in general. People get tricked by Westbrook's ferocity but he's pretty damn inefficient.

Curry, on the other hand, is ungodly efficient despite them shooting an insane amount of threes.

They're both pretty much unguardable but Curry is a smarter player, a more efficient scorer in almost every metric, and his shooting is so good that he's now an insanely good playmaker due to the amount of defensive attention he receives.

Westbrook's biggest advantage over Curry is his ungodly stamina and motor. Westbrook and Jimmy Butler are two of the only players who can play every single possession they're on their court with a maximum motor.

you're honestly pretending like westbrook doesn't do the same? he doesn't get ibaka and adams and morrow open shots? that's not what he was doing in pick and rolls with kanter?

Most Common Shooters After Westbrook Passes2
1. Serge Ibaka: 133-of-241; 55 percent; 1.22 points per shot
2. Kevin Durant: 72-of-121; 60 percent; 1.36 points per shot
3. Enes Kanter: 76-of-118; 64 percent; 1.30 points per shot
4. Steven Adams: 69-of-116; 59 percent; 1.19 points per shot
5. Anthony Morrow: 52-of-98; 53 percent; 1.46 points per shot

don't go pretending like westbrook isn't a great playmaker these days. this isn't three years ago.

 

[TrebleMan]

Tack on 9 assists too, not to mention his passes set up other great passes and ball movement too.

Haven't seen anybody like Curry, then he went and got even better.

Not even once in a generation, dude is like the pinnacle of offense in basketball.

 

[catskill247]

See this is the shyt I'm talkin about

You're looking for something to dislike about him but YOU CANT EVEN FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WANA HATE ON HIM FOR

Lol,
Maybe it's because his demeanor doesn't match his nasty disrespectful game. Maybe if he glared towards the crowd had some of that Reggie miller vs MSG vibe to him, I could ryde with him. He has this "ah shucks" goody two shoes vibe to him. He doesn't have to be a thugged out Vernon Maxwell but maybe less corny than he is.

I was actually rooting for him for the mvp over harden last year but He lost points with me when in my eyes he didn't really play like the mvp in the finals and gave up 2 games to a team that had no right to win one. I even gained more respect for LBJ in the finals loss.

 

[Draje]

you're honestly pretending like westbrook doesn't do the same? he doesn't get ibaka and adams and morrow open shots? that's not what he was doing in pick and rolls with kanter?








don't go pretending like westbrook isn't a great playmaker these days. this isn't three years ago.

Westbrook is an amazing playmaker (He's best in transition) but he's not always a great decision maker. He's shown games and flashes of what he can look like when he slows down but he hasn't done it consistently and I saw Curry do it during the playoffs to lead his team to the championship.

So he gets the nod.

 

[Hersh]

curry do forr 1 of 8 out 26 shyts night

 

[Draje]

And just so we clear, the differences in these guys is in inches.

Lebron and Durant, so far, are the two franchise changing talents (You could put a healthy version of them on any team in the NBA and they'd be playoff locks).

Curry, Westbrook, Harden, and Davis are on the outside of that group, looking in, because I feel like they need to have a team a little more tailored to them to be playoff locks. I don't think you could put these guys on the 76ers and bring them to the playoffs but they could end up at that level.

 

[Big Boss]

I'm not gonna say that. Westbrook isn't really dumb, he's just a tad out of control, due to that high motor, and he needs to brush up on his fundamentals. His bad finishing is a result of a lot of jumping off the wrong foot in traffic, he focuses on exploding upwards rather than keeping his core steady, etc.

Curry is actually the opposite. Curry is probably one of the best, if not the best, at using his core to instantly balance and stabilize before he does anything. It's why he can do these insane floaters and these weird flick layups

Westbrook just so athletic and talented that he manages to finish enough of them that he hasn't really changed it. I mean, imagine if you had infinite turbo on 2K and no stamina. You're just more likely to play out of control and mash on that thing because you've never really need to pace yourself.

 

[CellarDoor]

Talk to me when Westbrook leads his team to a championship.

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Stack Money]

I never thought Kobe was physically gifted or freakishly athletic.

You the first person to ever say some dumb shyt like this, just watchin him get up for dunks back in the day and posterizin cats he was clearly freakishly athletic and you got to be physically gifted to pull off the difficult acrobatic shots he made and still makes.

 

[Draje]

You the first person to ever say some dumb shyt like this, just watchin him get up for dunks back in the day and posterizin cats he was clearly freakishly athletic and you got to be physically gifted to pull off the difficult acrobatic shots he made and still makes.

People acting like Kobe is Deangelo Russel or some shyt is mind-boggling to me. I think it's because people comparing Kobe to Bron or MJ but not being a GOAT-basketball athlete doesn't mean you're just average.

Kobe, in his athletic prime, is probably a better athlete than 99% of the perimeter players in the NBA right now.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

He's a cold muthafukka. Glad he got healthy. He does shyt I've never/rarely seen. So much fun to watch him play...if he's not going against your team.

 

[Originalman]

And just so we clear, the differences in these guys is in inches.

Lebron and Durant, so far, are the two franchise changing talents (You could put a healthy version of them on any team in the NBA and they'd be playoff locks).

Curry, Westbrook, Harden, and Davis are on the outside of that group, looking in, because I feel like they need to have a team a little more tailored to them to be playoff locks. I don't think you could put these guys on the 76ers and bring them to the playoffs but they could end up at that level.

Well said and that really is the difference.

 

[Originalman]

And people need to stop saying Kobe isn't athletic. Kobe was in the Elite-tier of NBA athletes, in his prime.

He's not on Lebron, Westbrook, or MJ in pure physical gifts (Those guys are In the GOAT-tier of overall athletic ability with dudes like Shaq and Wilt) but Kobe has GOAT-tier footwork (And that shyt isn't just hard work, his footwork was NBA good as a goddamn summer league player which is insane) too.

That is true and Kobe had a great first step and jumping ability. When he was young his speed and defensive ability was so good that after AI lit up the Lakers in game one of the finals the Lakers put Kobe on AI. No more 40 point out burst from AI and the Lakers win the next 4 games.

So Kobe was that fukking dude. These young folks forget or didn't see how athletically good kats like Kobe were.

 

[Romey Rome]

You the first person to ever say some dumb shyt like this, just watchin him get up for dunks back in the day and posterizin cats he was clearly freakishly athletic and you got to be physically gifted to pull off the difficult acrobatic shots he made and still makes.

Breh i didnt hit u with disrespect over the internet so please don't do it to me. I've seen all these plays already. It's athletic stuff but it isn't Westbrook d.rose before the injuries young wade or anything like that. I think Kobe is on the next tier under those. Which means he isn't a freak and isn't a once in a generation athlete.

People acting like Kobe is Deangelo Russel or some shyt is mind-boggling to me. I think it's because people comparing Kobe to Bron or MJ but not being a GOAT-basketball athlete doesn't mean you're just average.

Kobe, in his athletic prime, is probably a better athlete than 99% of the perimeter players in the NBA right now.

If I did say he was average that's not what I meant to say. I just think he isn't as naturally gifted or as athletic as the other greats.