There are many different ways to look at this, but if I go head to head and boil it down to a choice between two sets... I would rather have Lin & Harden on my team over the other two. - Lin and Harden present a better all round game. - GS jump shooters are easier to defend. Jump shooters can go cold. - Upside, Much easier to improve your jump shot than playmaking ability Having said that, Curry is my favourite player in the playoffs. Only problem is, I think my wife likes him more than me.
When Curry and Thompson's jumpshots arent falling they are completely garbage. I'm so glad we have Harden.
Curry is clearly spent for the season - you have to give him a pass for putting the team on his back so often during the season and during the playoffs. He's a volume shooter who actually makes most of his shots, so you can't blame him for doing it when the rest of his team couldn't create their own shots to cure cancer. On the other hand, Thompson was never that good to begin with, given his actual role on the team (rather than the "shooting guard" label that's just slapped on him). Don't get me wrong, he's a good player, but he benefits tremendously from playing with Curry. Put Parsons or Ginobli or even Steve Novak in his place and those guys would post phenomenal numbers.
Eh, I would argue Lin is better. When Thompson is on fire there's no doubt he's better but he cant really do much of anything else. If his shot goes cold he's screwed. At least Lin can still be a capable play maker even if he's cold
Crazy. They're good (especially Curry), young players with room for improvement but they're not godly like some people here and the media make them out to be.
i think thompson is underrated defensively though. he's long, has lateral quickness and is a decent rebounder with a higher ceiling imo
Yeah, they're going bat-***** crazy over Curry. I like the kid, but they already crowned him the best 3pt shooter in NBA history, lol. Like Ray Allen, Reggie Miller, Larry Bird, and Mark Price(just to name a few) never existed.
The Warriors were 1-3 in the regular season against Denver, with the lone win by a whopping one point. Denver would drill them too, right? The regular season doesn't automatically translate to the playoffs. Sorry.
Warriors weren't the same team in the regular season. Andrew Bogut has changed them. Surely you must realize that he is completely different in the playoffs.
The Rockets aren't the same team, either. That Patrick Beverley guy that averaged 33 minutes in the playoffs? He was in the rotation for a whopping one game against Denver, that on the second night of a back to back and on the road. The Jeremy Lin that averaged 15 ppg on over 45% shooting and 40% 3-point shooting from February on? Again, one game. The small-ball lineup without a true PF? One game. There are always differences. That's part of the reason the regular season doesn't translate.
Oh, and to use a prominent recent example, the 2011 Bulls swept the 2011 Heat in the regular season... then lost to them, 4-1, in the ECF.
