Bush4Ever wrote:The funny thing is that the Splash Brothers and Green are shooting below standards from three...and they still have probably the GOAT offensive outputs in history (to-date obviously).
That is why they are lucky they added durant. I called this....It was almost statistically impossible for Curry to make the type of three's he takes, they are basically terrible shots but happened to go in. It's no coincidence to me that he is shooting a lower % this season...just based on statistics
If they didn't add durant i am not sure GS would have even made the finals this year, i still don't think it makes them much better than the cavs because at the end of the day lebron is better than everyone by a lot and that can't be ignored.
Last edited by Thedictator on Thu Dec 08, 2016 2:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
vcsgrizzfan wrote:
And Curry played the worse he could possibly play and, and, and....
the Cavs were extremely fortunate.
This year, they are getting pancaked.
Ehhhh....Curry wasn't "great", but I do think the physical defense played a large role in his inconsistency. However, his shooting lanes open up if the Cavs are having to worry about Durant instead of Barnes.
It was more than that. He let himself get flustered, turned it over very carelessly, not because of pressure at very key times etc.... I just don't see that repeating.
Why he averages a lot of TO's...that is just who he is, and he should have been more comfortable than ever going into a HC championship after winning the one the year before with an even better team
Also the cavs do this wonderful thing called defense and guarding the 3...
Bush4Ever wrote:The funny thing is that the Splash Brothers and Green are shooting below standards from three...and they still have probably the GOAT offensive outputs in history (to-date obviously).
That is why they are lucky they added durant. I called this....It was almost statistically impossible for Curry to make the type of three's he takes, they are basically terrible shots but happened to go in. It's no coincidence to me that he is shooting a lower % this season...just based on statistics
If they didn't add durant i am not sure GS would have even made the finals this year, i still don't think it makes them much better than the cavs because at the end of the day lebron is better than everyone by a lot and that can't be ignored.
To be fair... the guy is a career 44.1% three point shooter.
Are you saying him shooting a career low this season is the norm... and the past 7 seasons are the anomaly?
Bush4Ever wrote:The funny thing is that the Splash Brothers and Green are shooting below standards from three...and they still have probably the GOAT offensive outputs in history (to-date obviously).
That is why they are lucky they added durant. I called this....It was almost statistically impossible for Curry to make the type of three's he takes, they are basically terrible shots but happened to go in. It's no coincidence to me that he is shooting a lower % this season...just based on statistics
If they didn't add durant i am not sure GS would have even made the finals this year, i still don't think it makes them much better than the cavs because at the end of the day lebron is better than everyone by a lot and that can't be ignored.
To be fair... the guy is a career 44.1% three point shooter.
Are you saying him shooting a career low this season is the norm... and the past 7 seasons are the anomaly?
Curry's three point % drops to 40.8% in the playoffs. Play him physically and his percentage drops
Thedictator wrote:
That is why they are lucky they added durant. I called this....It was almost statistically impossible for Curry to make the type of three's he takes, they are basically terrible shots but happened to go in. It's no coincidence to me that he is shooting a lower % this season...just based on statistics
If they didn't add durant i am not sure GS would have even made the finals this year, i still don't think it makes them much better than the cavs because at the end of the day lebron is better than everyone by a lot and that can't be ignored.
To be fair... the guy is a career 44.1% three point shooter.
Are you saying him shooting a career low this season is the norm... and the past 7 seasons are the anomaly?
Curry's three point % drops to 40.8% in the playoffs. Play him physically and his percentage drops
FUN FACT OF THE DAY!!!
There are four players from last year's Finals series that are ranked in the top 35 for 3P% in the playoffs (career). They are ranked 8th, 25th, 33rd and 34th.
The four players are Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
Thedictator wrote:
That is why they are lucky they added durant. I called this....It was almost statistically impossible for Curry to make the type of three's he takes, they are basically terrible shots but happened to go in. It's no coincidence to me that he is shooting a lower % this season...just based on statistics
If they didn't add durant i am not sure GS would have even made the finals this year, i still don't think it makes them much better than the cavs because at the end of the day lebron is better than everyone by a lot and that can't be ignored.
To be fair... the guy is a career 44.1% three point shooter.
Are you saying him shooting a career low this season is the norm... and the past 7 seasons are the anomaly?
Curry's three point % drops to 40.8% in the playoffs. Play him physically and his percentage drops
What does that have to do with THIS season... which is what I was responding to...
zombiesonics wrote:
Curry's three point % drops to 40.8% in the playoffs. Play him physically and his percentage drops
What does that have to do with THIS season... which is what I was responding to...
Because they added Durant which means Curry can't dribble around like Curly Neal and chuck 3's whenever he wants, which is what he likes to do.
And history shows his numbers don't get better in the playoffs.
So your theory is that with Curry taking less stupid shots, and Durant being a bigger threat offensively and opening up more space....that those reasons are why he's shooting worse this year?
Do you even watch basketball?
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are dumber than that.
The fact is this Warriors is much better suited to win in the postseason than last year or the year before. If it's cars-warriors again, the Cars will have major problems slowing down the warriors offense. They had some problems slowing down the warriors last year and that was with Harrison Barnes.
The Cavs obviously deserve all the credit in the world for winning last year. As well as they played them last year and all the advantages they had including having a top 5 all time great, it still took them some 7 games to beat an inferior Warriors team to the one were seeing now.
Im more confident in the Warriors this year than last even though we won't be winning 70 games again.
Again did people watch last night. Curry didn't hit a three, Durant shot horribly and Klay shot badly. Warriors went 7-30 from the 3 point line and they still blew out our supposed top challengers in the west.
The warriors defense is already better than last years tbh.
Maybe earlier in the season the Clippers were top challengers and looked formidable but the team is 16-7 and has won 2 of their last 7 games getting blown out by Detroit and Indiana.
They won't put up the same regular season numbers, but Durant is going to make things much, much easier in the playoffs. GSW has a high-variance playstyle (tons of threes on offense, and a defense that's more horizontal than vertical), so Durant's ability to make something out of nothing on offense, and to amp the level up defensively in high-tension moments, will pay dividends.
I don't think that they'll sleepwalk to a title though. They're certainly a heavy favorite, but Cleveland could pull it off. Love the last two years vs this season is night and day.
Spurs and Clippers? Not sure. Losing Duncan will be a problem, but he pretty much was finished as a player after coming back from the injury last year, and was definitely done in the playoffs. Pau isn't the same defender as a healthy Duncan, even old, but he's a better option than a Duncan with no juice left. Clippers seem to have a rotation that worked, but even as a huge CP3 fan, I'm skeptical that they can stay healthy.
One thing is absolutely certain: This Warriors team "should" win 75 games and cruise through the playoffs en route to the Championship, with no more than 1 or 2 postseason losses.
Anything less will be a monumental failure.
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"Today's NBA is soft, the Defense is weak, and the rules 'really' favor the Offense."
"Lebron doesn’t guard for a full game and our game plan was to get him to play defense and he left me open all game."
thedangerouskitchen wrote:One this is absolutely certain: This Warriors team "should" win 75 games and cruise through the playoffs en route to the Championship, with no more than 1 or 2 postseason losses.
thedangerouskitchen wrote:One this is absolutely certain: This Warriors team "should" win 75 games and cruise through the playoffs en route to the Championship, with no more than 1 or 2 postseason losses.
Anything less will be a monumental failure.
Good thing you set that up now.
It's true...
GS added a Top 3 player in the game to a team that won 73-games... what do you think the expectations should be?
I mean, let's get real. That's like the 96 Bulls adding Shaq.
"Today's NBA is soft, the Defense is weak, and the rules 'really' favor the Offense."
"Lebron doesn’t guard for a full game and our game plan was to get him to play defense and he left me open all game."
