Was just gonna bump the season game thread. I was hoping this would be a good game but LTG's Guy Kyrie ain't doin shit. Warriors look unstoppable

Haven't been watching. Been asleep but Irving has already proven what needed to be proven.

wrong you got to prove it night in and night out...this is the NBA fella!

:lol: @ "he has nothing left to prove"

He's what, 24? LeBron would tell you even he still has something to prove. That's a ridiculous statement.

LTG in an earlier thread took last year's playoffs for his proof.

Now a one game is too short a sample...

I will take Irving's previous 5 over last night's one. I didn't see the game. I will concede last night. Curry is done on that one. Feel free to continue stat gazing however. It is so obvious at this point. However there was a deafening silence on the matter after last year's finals. Now it is only a small sample size. From games 3-7 he thorougly dominated Curry. He is also having a better season now. I'm sure you can find a stat that suggests otherwise.

You seem to distort reality a lot on this board. I'm not sure why. There wasn't a deafening silence after the Finals last year. All of us that said Steph was better admitted he got throughly outplayed in that series. The point you continue to miss is that if you take their overall careers instead of a 7 game sample size, Steph is miles ahead of Kyrie.

Curry is clearly a franchise guy.

Curry
2011 Jason Terry
2011 Jason Kidd
2011 JJ Barea
2011 Tyson Chandler


Are they in the finals?

Probably not but I would argue that's not a great comparison since the entire roster would look different if the franchise guy is a PF instead of a PG. Put 2016 Curry on the 2011 Bulls and they are probably in the Finals. Replace Wade in 2006 with him, same thing. Jason Kidd and those Nets teams, same thing.

LBJ shut Rose down, and he'd shut Curry down as well. I'll give you Wade. Not sure about Nets (the East sucked at that time anyway).

If Curry isn't a franchise guy you're basically saying there's only 5-6 franchise guys in the last 20 years.

You seem to distort reality a lot on this board. I'm not sure why. There wasn't a deafening silence after the Finals last year. All of us that said Steph was better admitted he got throughly outplayed in that series. The point you continue to miss is that if you take their overall careers instead of a 7 game sample size, Steph is miles ahead of Kyrie.

Wade
LBJ
Shaq
Kobe
Kidd
KD
KG
TD
AI
Dirk

This list confuses me. If you're conceding the point I made about Curry and Wade and Kidd, it would stand to reason that if they are on here he should be too.

Also, AI is one of my favorite players ever but it's crazy to me that you have him on the list but not Chris Paul, Steph Curry, or Russell Westbrook.

Rose and Curry have completely opposite styles. The Bulls offense depended on Rose beating his guy off the dribble. Curry would've been 10x harder for him to guard and he would've torched that Heat team.

People had to fabricate injuries in order to justify how bad he played. The perception of him has changed greatly after what Irving did to him.

Forgot about Paul but he has never even been to a finals yet, and likely will never make one. Got to see Westbrook carry a team into the playoffs for a few years by himself - I am sure he can.

I think Curry would make it to the finals by replacing Wade in 2004, but that's more because of Shaq. I think Wade is better than Curry if we compare peak to peak, or in Curry's case, his current status. I'm not sure about Curry vs Kidd. I've only put Kidd on here because he's carried a team of unremarkable talent to the finals. Curry has a lot of help.

Steph Curry has had a hard time in each of the last two finals series. Derrick Rose was a much tougher cover when he was right than Curry. He frankly looked terrible. Absolutely terrible. It's not that he missed shots he looked terrible. People had to fabricate injuries in order to justify how bad he played. The perception of him has changed greatly after what Irving did to him. Irving is also playing better this year too.