D'Angelo Russell outplays Curry Huertas locks him up and Randle outplays Draymond #LOADING

[Hiphoplives4eva]

This will never get old

fukking Huerta exposing this fakkit!

 

[DonKnock]

Because he doesn't.

He probably just knows a few and is parlaying them with some comments he saw on Twitter or some shyt. Why anyone would make a sweeping generalization like that, I don't know.

And in this episode of Mental Gymnastics we have an opinion [LeBatard doest know enough Warrior fans] presented as fact.



And to use your own words an "opinion can be wrong when it doesn't reflect reality".



Since now in addition to watching every second of every basketball game, you now also know EVERY SINGLE PERSON that Dan LeBatard knows and also have an equation to calculate if the percentage of these people is enough to establish a representative sample of Warrior fans.

 

[GilSho]

This will never get old

 

[Robbo]

as a warrior fan i think this thread is hilarious and a throwback to the last stand of the LWO. Well played. and if you caught feelings over this thread, especially if youre a warriors fan, we all remember what it was like to lose, lets not forget the days of bob sura, mark price, chris gatling, john starks, mike dunleavy, and speedy claxton

I definitely remember how it was to have one signature win for the season... to get all hyped to beat a really good team, when your guys are struggling to get 20 wins.

 

[Fresh]

The Bionic Mulatto yamming on everything in sight lookin primed to take blake's spot as the biracial boss.

 

[Full Measures]

The best player in the League y'all

 

[Full Measures]

DAMN, you LWO stans are a delusional bunch

nikka ain't you a Kings fan?

Enjoy having overrated ass Cousins as your best player and bum ass Rondo ass your point guard for the next 5 years

 

[DonKnock]

No response, chalk another win up for me

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

This will never get old

That boy Huertas took one look at who they had defending him and was like

Beat him with the quickness

 

[Family Lives Matter]

#loading

 

[LezJepzin]

nikka ain't you a Kings fan?

Enjoy having overrated ass Cousins as your best player and bum ass Rondo ass your point guard for the next 5 years

I hope you're not a Lakers fan saying Cousins is overrated yet every summer you want him to wear Purple and Gold instead

 

[Bounty]

Oh how the mighty have fallen

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

And in this episode of Mental Gymnastics we have an opinion [LeBatard doest know enough Warrior fans] presented as fact.



And to use your own words an "opinion can be wrong when it doesn't reflect reality".



Since now in addition to watching every second of every basketball game, you now also know EVERY SINGLE PERSON that Dan LeBatard knows and also have an equation to calculate if the percentage of these people is enough to establish a representative sample of Warrior fans.

How could Le Batard possibly know the majority of Warriors fans to even make that generalization? The words "opinion can be wrong when it doesn't reflect reality" fits perfectly with what he said. Of course I don't know every single person that he knows, I just know that nobody without surveying or interviewing the entirety of the Warriors fanbase (or the majority of them at least) in the country can make that assumption.

Why are you and other having a hard time understanding this?

 

[Consumed]

Plenty of players that are called great are stopped by good defense. It's happened to Lbj with Kawhi and Durant with Tony Allen, to name a few. KD even said Allen was in his head and that he rushed shots because he was worried about Allen blocking his shots. That hasn't stopped KD from being called a great player.

Curry is called a superstar because he's the leading scorer on the team with the best record. His screeners get him open and also him running from defenders.

You don't go from having a competitive game against GS in their building (where they are dominate) to getting 40-pieced in your building (where you are dominate) in 3 weeks. Cavs threw the game they played 2 months ago to fire Blatt.

He hasn't cooked Delly. His screeners cooked Kyrie in the game you brought up. Nice try, though. And the Cavs were giving him open shots to throw the game.

KCP was a non-factor because Curry was defended by someone else, was running from KCP, egregious moving screens by Dray and Bogut, he was wide open, and transition buckets. It was embarrassing. Same with Bev and CP3 guarding him. Wake me up when this is not the case. And GS was blown out by Detroit in the game that KCP was a "complete non-factor".

No one gets cooked like the Chef, though.

When a player plays good defense on you, the few times you get looks, you will miss because your defender has taken you out of rhythm. That's what happened to Curry in the Finals. It's a terrible look for you to claim that a player just "happened" to be trash in the same series and games where a player "played good defense" on you.

You problem is you have yet to prove Curry making any defender (maybe Felton) "look like a joke".

Please explain how it's a "terrible look" to believe that NBA defenders aren't good enough to stop high scoring NBA players, even though they get paid millions to do just that? I guess it's an even more "terrible look" to pay people millions to stop high scorers? High-scoring players have big averages because great defenders are much more rare than high scorers. Especially with the wealth of bigs that can screen for weaker 1-on-1 players like Curry. If great defenders weren't so outnumbered, the shooters wouldn't have the averages they have. 2 other factors are stat-padders like free throws and the fact that you can't touch players these days because it's a foul.

KCP was a non-factor because Curry was defended by someone else, was running from KCP, egregious moving screens by Dray and Bogut, he was wide open, and transition buckets. It was embarrassing. Same with Bev and CP3 guarding him. Wake me up when this is not the case. And GS was blown out by Detroit in the game that KCP was a "complete non-factor".

The least you could've done is look back at the highlight videos before getting caught in an absolute lie



In that video you can watch him beating KCP off the dribble (0:35), hitting a 30 foot three (0:58), scoring off a screen that the Pistons are forced to switch (1:08), beating him backdoor (2:35), getting brick walled by a screen (2:49), getting brick walled by a screen again (3:25) and beating him backdoor again that resulted in a foul (4:08). What happened to him in between this game and the previous? Why didn't his good defense result in a poor shooting night here, but it did the last game? You think the Warriors didn't set these same damn screens in the last game? And don't whine about illegal screens when literally every team in this league does the same thing, they just don't have the shooters to capitalize on it like the Warriors have so people don't give a shyt.

Here's him embarrassing Chris Paul last year


Corner three late closeout by Paul (0:20), retarded 3 that there's zero defense for + the and-1 (0:30), faces zero resistance from Paul who's predictably struggling to cover him in the P&R by himself, finds Bogut for a layup (0:46), loses him off ball for a three (1:02), drops Paul on his ass (1:10), beats him backdoor for a layup (1:47), crosses him for the 2nd time this time for a pull up 3, just stands there and doesn't even bother to recover (2:20), three in his grill (2:40)

If that ain't embarrassing idk what is. Paul got his ass absolutely handed to him and he generally does struggle against dominant PG's. Westbrook put him in a blender during the '14 PS.

He hasn't cooked Delly. His screeners cooked Kyrie in the game you brought up. Nice try, though. And the Cavs were giving him open shots to throw the game.

The Cavs didn't throw anything, they just got destroyed by the better team on that night. So you think those lockeroom comments about them taking offense to Steph's champagne quote were fabricated. That they didn't have something to prove to a team that beat their ass in the Finals the year prior. You think a group of grown professional men would throw a game against that team of all just to fire a coach when LeBron simply needs to snap his fingers to get that done regardless of results? They had a top 5 record in the league when Blatt was fired!



Curry burns him off ball (1:05), shakes the nonsense out of him with a backdoor cut (1:16), hits a P&R three as Delly can't get around Draymond, who doesn't even set an actual screen but just stands there, quick enough (1:25), oh lets try Shump on Steph now since Delly's getting his ass beat (1:58), for god knows what reason backs away from Curry as he launches a three in the P&R textbook defense from the Currystopper (3:25) and lord knows what would've happened if he played the 4th quarter. Yeah Kyrie got killed too, but the point is that Curry had success against pretty much everyone the Cavs tried to throw at him.

For one, you won't find any pure defensive specialist on the perimeter getting paid a rich contract just for that because of how much of their success is dependent on the defenders around them. Like there's a reason Tony Allen and Andre Roberson can get played off the court in a playoff series. It IS a terrible look to pay these guys good deals and they'll have to have good offensive skills/potential to be worth a ton of value. Different story for bigs or wings versatile enough to be a high impact help defender and be in several places at once though.

High scoring players have big averages because they're really damn good at scoring. Its that simple. There isn't some drought of great perimeter defenders, most teams have someone suited for that role and he manages to beat them on a consistent basis.

Curry is one of the best 1on1 players in the NBA......every guard in this league uses screens thats just basketball 1on1, there just hasn't been another PG league history who's made more of a good screen than Curry b/c of his shooting dominance. He gets gripped by defenders all the time when running off ball and frankly the refs have to allow that otherwise there's no way to keep him from getting open on literally every possession.

Curry is called a superstar because he's the best offensive player in the league, having an unprecedented season and is leading what may go down as the greatest offense in league history. He's also a great off ball player

Fixed. I don't know what it is with you and this "running from defenders", its called being a good off ball player. Its an actual skill in basketball. He'll do that if Steve Nash, tonight, decided to put on a Magic jersey and guard him.

 

[ThaGlow]

Missed this game but did the Lakers really hinder the 3pt shooting of both Splash bros (whether via contest, wearing them down, frustrating them) or was it just a case off them missing open 3s?