The Champs Escape The Beam & Now Face The King's New Regime! | Official Lakers (#7) vs. Warriors (#6) WCSF Thread

[Professor Emeritus]

One thing I look forward to watching is how Curry’s drives and finishes at the rim fare against AD’s rim protection

Both excel in these areas

And this was on display in both of their teams last games—AD was blocking and disrupting everything when Memphis tried to attack the basket and Steph was getting to the paint at will against the Kings and converting a variety of layups and floaters

Although Ja is a great finisher at the rim he’s not as smooth, savvy, and crafty as Steph is—will AD be as effective in slowing Steph’s scoring in the paint?

The Kings had nobody like AD guarding the paint —will Steph keep going to the hole undaunted?

Not even just AD, Steph still has flashbacks every time he sees Bron waiting in the cut.

 

[Wild self]

The Servers gonna crash in just 48 hours from now.

 

[jaydawg08]

Ahh man nothing like Bron vs Curry come playoff time lol.

It's our generation "Magic vs Bird"

 

[SCORCH]

Not even just AD, Steph still has flashbacks every time he sees Bron waiting in the cut.

Steph with a good knee tho

 

[Brief Keef]

Warriors in 6 hopefully LeBron finally hangs it up after this one...time to take the old lion king out to pasture...

 

[Ozymandeas]

Ahh man nothing like Bron vs Curry come playoff time lol.

It's our generation "Magic vs Bird"

I remember when some clown said Steph and Bron weren't the new "Bird and Magic"



Sometimes you just gotta put posters on ignore.

Magic and Bird only played each other three times in the playoffs.

Steph and Bron will now face off for the fifth time. Sixth if you count the play in they had. They'll forever be attached to one another.

 

[Cole Cash]

I wish we had Brazilian Nash for this moment…..

Curry was never the same after huertas pulled his card

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Not even just AD, Steph still has flashbacks every time he sees Bron waiting in the cut.

You mean Steph still has flashbacks winning three titles every time he faces off against Bron.

 

[OnFleekTing]

I remember when some clown said Steph and Bron weren't the new "Bird and Magic"



Sometimes you just gotta put posters on ignore.

Magic and Bird only played each other three times in the playoffs.

Steph and Bron will now face off for the fifth time. Sixth if you count the play in they had. They'll forever be attached to one another.

People consider steph his rival?
Hell the main people who hate James also hate curry
I don't even consider them rivals considering the super team era has mitigated the personal rivalry narrative

 

[ryderldb]

Surprised the poll is pretty even.

Curry was never the same after huertas pulled his card

Haven't heard that name in a long ass time.

 

[fifth column]

IT was 3-1 over Jordan and has two rings off of MJ but MJ only has one off of him, I guess IT was better than MJ each of those years?

Bird up 2-0 with an extra ring, so better than MJ too by that logic.





If Tatum looks like the best player on the court, but he loses the Finals anyway because AD balls out and his supporting cast plays better, then yeah, it would be stupid to give Bron more props than Tatum for that just because Bron was the 2nd-best player on the winning team.

Jaylen Brown might have lost last year, but would you claim Klay was better just because he won?
Do you think Jrue was better than Booker in the 2021 Finals?
Was KCP's 2020 performance better than Jimmy Butler?


The obsession on this forum with selectively giving sidekicks full credit for winning/losing (only when it helps the argument) is wild. "RINGZ" only makes sense as an argument if you believe that 1 player has complete control over whether the team wins or loses. And if 1 player has complete control over that, then the sidekick is irrelevant.

I have no idea what you trying to say

 

[horizon]

Lakers in 7

 

[ryderldb]

One thing that worries me is that steph has historically been pretty mediocre against the lakers no matter who was on the team (kobe, bron, tanking years). I don't know what it is. Not sure what the actual stats are, but I wouldn't be surprised if his PPG and fg% vs. lakers are all below his career averages.

 

[SCORCH]

One thing that worries me is that steph has historically been pretty mediocre against the lakers no matter who was on the team (kobe, bron, tanking years). I don't know what it is. Not sure what the actual stats are, but I wouldn't be surprised if his PPG and fg% vs. lakers are all below his career averages.

He has averaged 21 points vs the Lakers. 34% from three. It's bizarre.

He always seems to struggle against them for some strange reason. He often play wells against the Clippers in LA but it's a different story against the Lakers.

 

[Snake316]

This going to break ratings records for the 2nd round in the playoffs