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Steph Curry on Lawson and Harden.

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by blahblehblah, Oct 29, 2015.

  1. frontline94

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    I hope you're not being serious. It is very normal to look up to a player to look up to a basketball player or athletes. They can often embody our aspirations, pride in community, or even as something as simple as the excitement of sports. Rethink your criticism please.
     
  2. alethios

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    He's classy but he still has this adolescent smugness that's a little grating. But he's got game to back it up.

    Still if we're going to expect that the Harden/Lawson duo is going to blow people away out of the gate, we're sadly mistaken. This combo is going to take time to nurture and grow into what the Curry/Thompson combo has become. They didn't get there overnight. It's amazing that some people believe it will happen overnight.
     
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    Well, if there's one thing where Curry excels, it's his 3 pointers which are truly amazing. It's very hard to argue from that point coz a 3 pointer is a 3 pointer. It's 1.5x better definitely than a 2. It's the reason Warriors are dying over their screens just to give Curry and their other shooters enough space to launch a 3.
     
  5. digitallinh

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    He's a neutral to above average defender. You used to have to hide him, but not anymore. He contributed 4.1 out of his 16 win shares on defense, and had a defensive plus minus of 0.3, defensive rating of 97, along with roughly 2 steals a game.

    Opponents shot about 43% when he was defending.

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    Compare this to Beverley who has a reputation for being a "good defender"

    Beverley gives up 45% shooting to his opponent.

    has a defensive +/- of about the same 0.3,0.6 last two years

    roughly one steal a game/per 36

    a defensive rating of about 102 the last two years.

    They both rebound at about the same rate as well 7%.
     
  6. digitallinh

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    An interesting tidbit about Beverley was last year, the player he was defending shot about 44.3% but when he was contesting the shot, the opponent actually shot a slightly better percentage at 44.9. Kind of funny.
     
  7. digitallinh

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    One more, stats on Lawson and Harden last year

    Lawson.

    The player he was supposed to be defending shot about 43%, but when he was actively contesting, the guy shot 47% (probably due to his height having no effect)

    His defensive rating is 106, which is pretty terrible, but we knew this.

    Harden.


    Defensive rating of 102

    His guy shot 44.3% , but when he was contesting, the opponent shot 42.7%
     
  8. Dr of Dunk

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    I want to hate him. Just. Can't. :(
     
  9. YaoMing#1

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    Harden is really big and had very long arms im not surprised that players shoot worse when he's comtesting the shot. He actually gets his fair share of blocks off when he contests 3 points shots which is extremely hard to do.
     

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