Which year? Because their 2020 team had plenty of shooters, and their 2019 team had Butler and Redick. The only season that Stoudamire came close to playing a full season in Memphis was 2007. The Grizzlies won 22 games and missed the playoffs. In any case, Shane Battier was a solid perimeter shooter for Memphis, and they also had Mike Miller.
3 rings my man. 1 game doesn't diminish what he has accomplished. Rings earn the respect and the benefit of the doubt.
doesn't it kind of prove everyone's argument here that he has those things but doesn't have a finals MVP? His team was stacked as all hell im not typing out all of the reasons why. one note though one of those finals mvps was Andre Iguadola not Durant Thompson or Green. ridiculously good players around him at all times. one fair point to make would be how much could Curry carry a team this season if he were 5 years younger than he is now when he was actually winning those MVP's there are a lot LOT of variable in all of this you folks can't make everything to be quite so clear cut and simple.
lets see curry make it through this season before we even crown him that, curry the past 5 years never came into a game as the guy a team is gameplanning to stop( well besides the first 5 games last year). Klay, Dray, KD were always there to keep just enough resistance off of him to make his life a lot easier
He was robbed of FMVP in their first title. He averaged 10ppg more than Iguodala. Statistically, has there ever been a bigger FMVP snub from the winning team? I don't think any iteration of Curry could carry a supporting cast that doesn't complement him.
You may be right I don't remember that series too well anymore. I remember he started games at some point and played amazing defense and was scoring pretty great also.
Teams were definitely game planning to stop Curry in 2016. He was the league's leading scorer and shooting 45% from the 3pt line. If defenses weren't game planning for him, then who were they game planning for?
I went back and looked at the context, again Curry had enough help not to get embarrassed tonight and not embarrass himself. Honestly...I've heard you say stupid things before and i just wanted to make sure. Your posts are that bad. Looney outperformed Capela in the 2018 playoffs. He was good. He's also good at defending switches as well. Paschall averaged 14 ppg on 57 TS% , they are comparable. Looney might be outright better than Capela defensively(he can also hit jumpers) and Paschal has shown more offensive capablility than Ariza(who i like a lot). At worst they are comparable. Draymond didnt give a crap last year, they were tanking. Looney, Wiggins, Paschall are enough that you should not get blown out by 30, I could understand 15....but 30....that is embarrassing. But they didnt even have enough offense to break 100 either as well. Curry was garbage on that end too. Ariza went from 5.7 to 6.8. That is a lot when taking in shots attempted over the course of a season. And it stayed around his average for his time in Houston while taking the most threes he has in his entire career. He attempted 115 more 3s than the previous season that is a lot and he mainted his career 3 point efficiency in Houston playing with Harden. For an average increase like that yes, that is a lot. Check his totals. That is a lot. And he maintained his efficiency. Im not.....but it doesnt mean one player has more or less help than the other, scoring versatility matters a lot. And Oubre is way more versatile of an offensive weapon than Ariza. Because they had 3 of the greatest shooters of all time and they leveraged that heavily. Curry, Klay and KD were the ones who were taking the majority of the three point shots. Three point identity? Their identity has been having great shooters in general, not a 3 point identity. When Curry is an offensive juggernaut, you leverage the team around him and get him shot attempts, he was piss poor tonight and his playmaking was also sub par. Oubre and Wiggins are better offensive players than Ariza, they should be able to not get blown out by 30. Curry didnt perform and Curry didnt make anybody better either. Looool create a new identity...how ridiculous man. You work with the talent you have. If Curry can't make the playoffs with these guys his legacy does take a hit cause he has enough help to do so.
Iggy got FMVP because he shot really well from three that series and was Lebron's primary defender holding him to 47 TS% for the series.
It doesn't. Curry is overrated. Great shooter, but so is JJ Reddick. Curry without his goon squad like Andrew C U Next Tuesday Bogat is nothing. He needs more, more, more until he can't possibly lose a game... then he still loses a Finals and needs even more to be good. ... me thinks that means it was a good team. It does not make Curry a good player. Illegal screens being eliminated from your life don't make stars implode. Curry has imploded as a player. He's weak. Just get used to it, man. Go find another teat to latch onto. LeBron's probably has room.
He wasn’t robbed. You just really underestimate Iggy’s impact on LeBron. That was the key to the series. One of the rare instances where the guy doing the real dirty work got his due. When they couldn’t limit LeBron the following season a frustrated and mouthpiece chucking Curry had to run and get big brother.
It’s really not that complex. Every situation where Curry didn’t have a huge talent advantage he has flopped.
We can agree that he was robbed under one and only one circumstance: you admit that Harden was robbed by Curry with Curry's first MVP. Otherwise, stuff it in your little W-nation box and light it on fire. The moment is gone.
I mean...Curry to me is one of the greatest offensive players ever....but I also think he's overrated by the amount of help he's had in his career. And honestly...I just think its kind of fun seeing him like this when he's had the deck stacked so much in his favor. That Weako guy's argument about him not having enough help is a terrible excuse to getting blown out by 30 lol, it is embarrassing no matter how you slice it. And it will be massively embarrassing if he doesnt make the playoffs because he should be able to. Harden can do that in his sleep.
Absolutely wrong. The Nets are stacked. They'd embarrass a lot of teams. Maybe you misread them....again. This is one of the stupidest things ever written. In his best season, Looney averaged 18.5 mpg, 6.3 ppg, and 5.2 rpg. Ariza is far superior to Paschall. Ariza was a solid perimeter shooter who played plus defense and complemented Harden's game. Last year, Paschall put up empty stats on a bad team. Durant, Irving, Levert, Joe Harris, Dinwiddie, Deandre Jordan, and Jarrett Allen. You're really underestimating the talent on that Nets team. And Looney/Paschall are replacement level role player. The fact that you're trying to use them as examples of Curry's "good" teammates proves that the Warriors are pretty bad this year. And the following season, Ariza's attempts dropped to 6.2, but he was unable to hit 40% again. Given that Oubre has shot in the mid/low 30's for his career (from the 3pt line), I think it's presumptuous to assume that it'd improve simply because he's playing alongside Curry. I don't think 1 extra shot attempt per game is a lot. Fit trumps versatility. For instance, if you have Harden, would you rather have Oubre or prime Ariza? In the past few years, the Warriors were the most prolific 3pt shooting team in NBA history. Not sure how you can argue against that. Curry was fine tonight; they were simply heavily outclassed, and frankly, with the way Oubre/Wigging played tonight, the Warriors should've lost by 50. No, he really doesn't. Look at it this way....how does Curry/Wiggins/Oubre stack up with Lebron/AD/Schroder Kawhi/Paul George/Lou Williams Jokic/Murray/MPJ Luka/Porzingis Harden/Wall/Cousins Ingram/Zion/Ball/Bledsoe Booker/CP3/Ayton Lillard/McCollum/Nurkic/Covington Aldridge/Derozan Mitchell/Gobert/Conley Most of those teams have a legitimate 2nd star before getting to the above average role players. With GSW, you go from Curry straight to the above average role player (which is where I have Draymond Green unless he proves otherwise). Are you a Curry super-fan? You have such unrealistically high expectations for him.
He was robbed. He averaged 10ppg more than Iguodala. It's like with the Lakers/Magic series. Gasol spent a lot of time guarding Dwight and still put up decent stats, but Kobe won the FMVP. Why the double standard?
Of course Harden was robbed of an MVP. That year, I bet $100 that Harden would get the MVP. Carrying the Rockets to the 2nd seed with Dwight missing half the season should've been enough.
Durant/Irving/Levert/Joe Harris/Dinwiddie/Deandre Jordan/Jarrett Allen vs. Curry/Wiggins/Oubre/Paschall Given that Wiggins/Oubre combined to shoot 7-30, the Warriors should've lost by a lot more than 30. That's a huge difference in the talent level and chemistry between the two teams.
