How do you avoid someone that doesn't pose a threat because they can't get to your level? And Parker was a shell of himself this PS. Between him and Lowry for most disappointing performance at the position, no reason to bring him up
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How do you avoid someone that doesn't pose a threat because they can't get to your level? And Parker was a shell of himself this PS. Between him and Lowry for most disappointing performance at the position, no reason to bring him up
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Steph winning the MVP & championship gassed your head up too?
No, avoidance is an act. You don't avoid a matchup that doesn't happen b/c their teams couldn't take care of business. And I added more to the post, Parker was straight garbage that PS. Only reason you'd bring him up is because of his legacy not current ability. Conley with a broke face is more useful
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It was avoidance due to circumstances that have been rectified by the league. Let's just see what happens this year
When Warriors repeat with Curry having to defend/being defended by starting guards we'll shut up
Playoff games were a lot closer without D-Mo & Bev in the lineup.
How the hell does this have anything to do with anything on the basketball court?So him blowing up Jrue, Bev and Conley in the RS means nothing. Do you doubt that he can and will light them up? If you saw his percentages shooting against them historically and didn't have their reputations as "elite" defenders to rely upon, you'd think they were terrible defenders. He's just that good, coming off an historically great peak season at the position. People need to put less emphasis on the opposition and more on just how great of a player he is, because few are putting up his type of production in those scenarios. It's never easy to perform at a dominant level in the postseason and to the point about him defending PG's, he wouldn't have done so even if they were heathy.
Winning a chip in this league is hard let alone repeating, crazy to set that as a baseline for the team to prove itself coming off a title. I really can't remember the last time a dominant team was met with so much skepticism.
Man the Clippers flat out choked their opportunity to advance to the conference finals, their circumstances were beyond favorable in that game 6 collapse and the offensive struggles of Parker/Manu/Kawhi/Green down the stretch hurt the Spurs chances of coming out of the first round. Sucks they had to play in the first round but wait. Spurs had a chance to get HC if they beat the Pelicans final game of the season? And they lost? 100% on them. None of this "avoided" talk makes any sense whatsoever when it concerns those two teams, just weren't good enough to make the WCF and that's the end of this story. People need to be criticizing Clippers/Spurs players rather than look at the champs with skepticism for things out of their control
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Yes it does. Because it would mean he has an agenda, in trying to discredit what he's accomplished. And the comment wasn't true, did Curry have the defensive workload of Draymond? Of course not. But their defense works on everyone being active and taking care of their assignments. If you had actually watched Warriors games, you would've seen the improvements he's made on the defensive end.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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That would explain..... A LOT. Fair enough - if that's how you view the game as some sort of metaphysical world, then do you.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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I'd like to know how you came to this conclusion...
Nobody is saying Jrue, Conley, or Beverley would expose Curry as a bum but it makes a difference when you actually have to defend on the other side of the ball and then go back and be the engine of your team for 40 minutes. How many players do we see doing both? Few, especially as guards. And I'm trying to be objective but this same board swears what Lebron has done as next to nothing because of his "opposition", now I don't know if you're one of those people but if it was done to him it can be said about Curry. Warriors are a well-rounded, deep team, and Stephen Curry makes them great. Take him off that team they lose in the 2nd round every year as a ceiling in the West. He is the motor, and that motor had little to deal with.
As far as him "not defending PGs", who would he have defended?
In New Orleans, if he's not defending Jrue he's guarding who? Tyreke? Gordon? Both are entirely too strong and Gordon is a very good shooter but since he hasn't exactly been a stud in the league I'll give you that.
He'd have a break on defense with Memphis.
And Curry certainly wouldn't be guarding Harden.
Bottom line is the hardest Curry worked for his shooting numbers was against Dellavedova in the Finals, who he did not have to respect on the other side of the ball. More stars than not have had tough matchups on their way to a trophy. Curry had 1 series of 4, at the end. No one is saying he and Golden State don't deserve a ring but this was a very easy road to it.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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I might as well have, it's not like you've brought anything of significance to this conversation.So you arguing with yourself?
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Kanters and Waiters will cost them a lot of wins
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You got me there