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Nuvendil on 09 June 2018
PAOerfulone said:

Well that didn't take long.

Teams were trying to recruit him on Twitter DURING the finals.

Find it pathetic if you ask me.  Teams need to have *some* dignity.



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Maxosaurus-rex on 09 June 2018
PAOerfulone said:
Angelus said:

He still averaged like 30 and almost a triple double....how is that sub Lebron? Idk man.

Watching those games, the only reason he didn't have beefier numbers, was because for some inexplicable reason he didn't pull up over Curry like every time he got him one on one (which was all the fucking time). I mean seriously, the amount of times he back down Curry, only to kick it out to someone as soon as another defender took like one step towards him.….I couldn't believe it, frankly. He could have feasted on that all day.

Steph is a better defender than he is given credit for and he's tougher than he looks. Plus, it certainly helps having a Defensive Player of the Year (Draymond Green), 2 lockdown on-ball defenders (Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala), and a 7 foot tall all-time great player with very long arms (Kevin Durant) backing you up. It was essentially 1 on 5, with someone always ready to rotate and help Steph by either contesting the shot and making it very difficult for LeBron to score in the paint or force him to kick it back out to a shooter and close out just in time.

1 on 5!? You gotta be joking. Love Smith Hood all played less than 30m and got more than 10 points. LeBron played over 40 minutes and scored 23. Love also got more rebounds. 



Chris Hu on 09 June 2018
PAOerfulone said:
Chris Hu said:

Yeah, nope again it became Durant's team last year already.  On top of all that when Curry has a off game his numbers are much worse then when Durant has a off game.

Because last night, the Cavs were hounding Curry like a dog and were all over him the entire night. They were cool with Durant going off the way he did, but they absolutely refused to let Curry go off, which is the way every team tries to play the Warriors. Because everything the Warriors do starts with Stephen Curry. Coincidence that when Steph went off in Game 3 of the WCF, the Warriors utterly destroyed the Rockets by over 40 points. Or Game 7 when Steph went off in the 3rd quarter, that was the end of it? Or Game 2 in this series when he broke the record and lit the Cavs up like a Christmas tree in the 4th quarter, it took a relatively respectable, striking distance game, and turned it into a blowout.
He's the engine that makes them GO.
And I kind of can't take Durant seriously as an alpha male/leader of a team when he joined the team, led by Stephen Curry, that beat him after he was leading them 3-1 with Russell Westbrook.

Nope, again told you Durant is going to win it.  Its Durant's team and it was from the moment he showed up with the Warriors.  Also as good as they are I doubt they will win the next two titles so Curry is never going to be a back to back finals MVP.



Chris Hu on 09 June 2018

No matter where LeBron is going next season he is not going to play all regular season games like he did this year. He is also going to play less minutes per game. He is going to do that so that he doesn't run out of gas during the playoffs like he did in the finals.



KLAMarine on 09 June 2018
Chris Hu said:
PAOerfulone said:

Because last night, the Cavs were hounding Curry like a dog and were all over him the entire night. They were cool with Durant going off the way he did, but they absolutely refused to let Curry go off, which is the way every team tries to play the Warriors. Because everything the Warriors do starts with Stephen Curry. Coincidence that when Steph went off in Game 3 of the WCF, the Warriors utterly destroyed the Rockets by over 40 points. Or Game 7 when Steph went off in the 3rd quarter, that was the end of it? Or Game 2 in this series when he broke the record and lit the Cavs up like a Christmas tree in the 4th quarter, it took a relatively respectable, striking distance game, and turned it into a blowout.
He's the engine that makes them GO.
And I kind of can't take Durant seriously as an alpha male/leader of a team when he joined the team, led by Stephen Curry, that beat him after he was leading them 3-1 with Russell Westbrook.

Nope, again told you Durant is going to win it.  Its Durant's team and it was from the moment he showed up with the Warriors.  Also as good as they are I doubt they will win the next two titles so Curry is never going to be a back to back finals MVP.

Speaking of Finals MVP, I feel Curry should have won it this time. He was leading scorer 3 out of 4 games wasn't he?



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Nuvendil on 09 June 2018
KLAMarine said:
Chris Hu said:

Nope, again told you Durant is going to win it.  Its Durant's team and it was from the moment he showed up with the Warriors.  Also as good as they are I doubt they will win the next two titles so Curry is never going to be a back to back finals MVP.

Speaking of Finals MVP, I feel Curry should have won it this time. He was leading scorer 3 out of 4 games wasn't he?

I mean, Durant tried to help him win it but that probably didn't help much.  If it had gone to 5 or 6 games and Curry had played great in the fifth and sixth game, he would have had it.  As it stands, Durant's game 3 overshadowed Curry's play.



PAOerfulone on 09 June 2018
Nuvendil said:
KLAMarine said:

Speaking of Finals MVP, I feel Curry should have won it this time. He was leading scorer 3 out of 4 games wasn't he?

I mean, Durant tried to help him win it but that probably didn't help much.  If it had gone to 5 or 6 games and Curry had played great in the fifth and sixth game, he would have had it.  As it stands, Durant's game 3 overshadowed Curry's play.

At the very least they should've been co-Finals MVPs, because Curry was the reason they won in Games 2 & 4 (he had 20 points in the first half), and he broke the Finals record for most threes in one game. They were both just as important as the other in this series.



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Dark_Lord_2008 on 09 June 2018

The Warriors will need to make a move to secure Anthony Davis and make it a Big 5 if any team dares make a Big 4 to counter the Warriors Big 4. The Sixers could form a Big 4 and sign Lebron and to add to Simmons and Embiid. The Rockets can make a Big 4 and sign Lebron and George to add to Harden and Paul.



Chris Hu on 09 June 2018
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
The Warriors will need to make a move to secure Anthony Davis and make it a Big 5 if any team dares make a Big 4 to counter the Warriors Big 4. The Sixers could form a Big 4 and sign Lebron and to add to Simmons and Embiid. The Rockets can make a Big 4 and sign Lebron and George to add to Harden and Paul.

Yeah that's not gonna happen they are about to lose a couple of players because of lack of cap space.  Especially since Durant wants a max deal.



Chris Hu on 09 June 2018

More and more people are floating the idea of LeBron going to the Celtics. I like the idea. It pretty much would be a reverse KD instead of joining the team he couldn't beat he joins the team he always beats and cap wise is doable the Celtics would just have to trade Hayward or Irving (more then likely Irving since he probably doesn't want to play with LeBron again) and some other pieces to the Cavs to make it work cap wise.