I was told Curry > Durant

[Dagger]

-Since 2015, the Warriors are 23-22 when Curry doesn't play (Durant joined the team in 2017).

-Since Durant joined the Warriors, they are 24-1 in regular season games where Durant sits and Curry plays.
-In playoff games, they are 6-3 (7-3 if you count the game against Houston where Durant got injured and Curry took over in the 4th quarter).

-Since Durant joined the Warriors, Curry, Thompson, Durant, and Green have played 1,921 minutes together. During that span they are...

+16.9 per 100 possessions with all 4 on the floor (which is insane)
+14.8 with Curry, Thompson, and Green (sans Durant: 672 minutes)
+13.9 with Curry and Green (sans Durant and Thompson: 526 minutes)
+14.3 with Curry (sans Durant, Green, and Thompson: 216 minutes)
+4.9 with Durant, Green, and Thompson (sans Curry: 591 minutes)
-.5 with Durant (sans Curry, Green, and Thompson: 417 minutes)
-4.3 with Thompson (sans Curry, Durant, and Green: 402 minutes)
-2.0 with Green (sans Durant, Curry, and Thompson: 209 minutes)

Draw your own conclusions.

There are no conclusions to draw, only the fact that the Warriors go as Curry goes.

[elmerjfudd]

Once again, productive in terms of scoring points individually, or productive in terms of the team performing better?

Because if you’re asking the latter, it’s Curry by a country mile and I proved that on the last page.

You pointed one without another if I’m not mistaken. I’m trying to find out how they appear when both are on the court at the same time. Who gets lion share of the touches, who gets the accomplishments and who makes more plays on defense and impacts the game from the defensive side?


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Durant gets more touches, because defenses opt to double team Curry away from the basket and leave one of the best isolation scorers in history...in isolation, instead.

That's the point, man. That's why the +/- numbers and all of the other advanced statistics are so ridiculously skewed in one direction.

Bill Russell never lead the Celtics in scoring...who was their best player?

I don’t think I’ve heard of a situation where a player is out producing another player is getting awards and is outperforming the other player on the defensive side yet the other player is the better player while both are on the court. We will have to agree to disagree on this one.


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[LNS]

Curry in Game 3:

47pts 8reb 7asts

Warriors lose

...the Warriors go as Curry goes.

[Dagger]

Curry in Game 3:

47pts 8reb 7asts

Warriors lose

...the Warriors go as Curry goes.

Toronto is a great team, and it was one game.