This is partly on Dame. It's up to him if he still wants to be underdog hero or be prepared professional. At this point there is a chance, that he realise that. For one time I would like to see him saying: "I don't see any team, that can beat us." instead of "We can do it, if we believe in miracles hard enough. Let the ring of friendship lead us."
Dame and Curry play different games besides the long ball. Curry plays much more without the ball, running all over the place, where Dame is much more methodical with the ball in his hands.
37 points but no points after LeBron hits three. We’re talking about a guy who can get shut down by Kevin Love.
Curry is obviously not trash. That being said, it’s a shame that Dame has fallen out of the conversation for MVP. He led his team to a good record while missing key pieces and then he willed his team and took the onus on himself to turn things around when things got bad. It’s looking like that change wasn’t just a flash in the pan and the team has been performing well since. Dame is THE best leader in the NBA and should be in the conversation more so than Curry, who didn’t make the playoffs.
To answer the thread title: no. He's far from trash. That Warriors team around him? That's trash, especially with Thompson and Wiseman out.
Unlike Mike, Curry draws double teams well outside the 3 point line . Dump it to Green in the middle for 4 on 3 who dishes to cutters & open shooters. They rode that formula to the most efficient offense in the league & a title through prime LBJ before KD arrived. Whats the excuse for that? It's a team game. Mike won zero titles without HOFer Pip. Hakeem went to the finals with Sampson as a rookie but then Ralph crumpled to injury. Dream toiled away for a decade with Vernon Maxwell and like dreck as his wing men. Then Horry & Cassell show up in successive drafts and old man Hakeem is in the finals again and they win 2. No apologies. Last season with mostly the same roster minus Curry the W's finished dead last in the league. This year with him they finished on the cusp of the playoffs. Thats talent moving the needle. Without shooters, Draymond struggles for a role on offense. Teamed with Curry again, his effectiveness returned. They'll have 1-2 lotto picks (Wolves #1 top 3 protected) in the next absolutely loaded draft and hopefully for him/them Klay Thompson regains his health & game. Their future is very bright. At the end of the day Curry will be recognized as an all time talent when he's inducted. Some will disagree, whatever. STOMP
That's a sample size thing. A full season of Wiseman would have been better for the Warriors than a partial season from him. And more wins doesn't mean better players. Wiseman was a rookie but anyone who watched him knows he was a difference-maker. Losing him meant plugging in a replacement-level guy, and that's brutal when you're talking about a big man.
If the NBA gives the MVP to a player on a team that didn’t even make the playoffs I might be done, Lebron has almost pushed me to that point alone.
Yeah, I could totally understand how watching arguably the BEST PLAYER TO EVER PLAY THE GAME, might sour you a bit.
He’s no where near the best player, and out of all of the great players that I’ve watched from the 90s until now he has the most cheesedick phony personality of them all. What kind of asshole thinks he lives in a world where he can trademark “Taco Tuesday” in 2020? He doesn’t sniff Kobe or MJ’s jockstrap. The funny thing is those guys would pretend to be healthy when they were hurt, Lebron pretends to be hurt when he’s healthy. I’ve seen him roll around on the floor acting like he’s been shot from the stands in his past 2 games only to see in replays that they were common fouls, it’s actually pretty embarrassing. Complete POS, everything about that dude screams fake.
You have a TON of pent up rage against this man. “Nowhere near the best”, hmm. There are a few who would disagree. The Taco Tuesday thing caught on, and because of it he started a campaign during Covid 2020 where every Tuesday he fed families all across Cleveland. Delivered meals to 10s of thousands. I think that is pretty cool. I could go on and on about the OFFCOURT charity and philanthropy as I could about his ONCOURT accomplishments, but I do know he pays for college for all the graduates of his school. I’m not sure “POS” would be the term I’d use to describe him.
