2017 Offseason Thread

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Am I the only surprised he hasn't started posting "Steph is a poor defender" memes in defense of himself?

[CMH]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Am I the only surprised he hasn't started posting "Steph is a poor defender" memes in defense of himself?

I'm more surprised Steph hasn't been called a sixth man on a contender.

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[Vni]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Has Curry ever been summer league MVP ? I don't think so, so why are we even wasting our time talking about this bum.

[49UNCFan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

None of you have proven Steph as a worthy defender. All I know is he avoids checking the opposing point guard and when he does they usually score.

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[AshamanCarnage]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

None of you have proven Steph as a worthy defender. All I know is he avoids checking the opposing point guard and when he does they usually score.

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Why go through the effort of proving something that everyone, except one person, already knows to be true?

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

We need to develop a signal for AlexBrady.

[Vni]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

We need to develop a signal for AlexBrady.

David DeBusschere is so overrated as a defender.

(Alarms are gonna ring at his house)

[Majingir]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Is this what Toronto Media is spinning because you guys ****ed up and gave him that garbage contract and then YOU guys dubbed him the Lebron Stopper? Lol

Nobody is saying the contract wasn't bad and everything about his time here wasn't a big time fail.

And it wasn't the Toronto media reporting it. It was Basketball Insiders(Eric Pincus who is also Lakers writer at Bleacher Report)

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

It's funny only OS think steph is a good defender

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Pretty sure this isn't true.

[49UNCFan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Why go through the effort of proving something that everyone, except one person, already knows to be true?

Because you cant prove it.

[49UNCFan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Pretty sure this isn't true.

Majority thinks otherwise https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbn...arriors-game-1

[ProfessaPackMan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Majority thinks otherwise https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbn...arriors-game-1

Lol nothing in that link even speaks about his defense. This was the closest thing:

One of the biggest keys to the Warriors blowing a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals the Cavaliers winning the 2016 championship was how they put Stephen Curry through the ringer on defense

And even in the comments section, nobody was even speaking about Curry's Defense. They were talking about Draymond. I'm almost certain you just went to Google and typed in "Steph Curry Bad Defender" and looked for any article that would fit your argument, lol.

Meanwhile, here's what I found and read after typing in "is stephen curry a good defender":

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/12648764/how-stephen-curry-developed-top-flight-defender

^This link has Video and Stats to back it up.

http://thesportsquotient.com/nba/201...ed-defensively
^This link does as well

http://www.knbr.com/2016/03/29/a-bre...good-defender/
^This one as well

At the end of the day, we can go on and on regarding his Defense but the notion that Curry is a bad defender and is not a good one, is just not true nor is it accurate at all.

Nobody is saying the contract wasn't bad and everything about his time here wasn't a big time fail.

And it wasn't the Toronto media reporting it. It was Basketball Insiders(Eric Pincus who is also Lakers writer at Bleacher Report)

You got a link to that?

Couldn't find anything like that on Google. Not that it's true either way, which I'm sure you know.

[wco81]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Cavs exploited Curry by forcing switches onto Lebron.

But that was just the last couple of games.

Kerr admitted they didn't adjust to it and said they had plans to adjust to it.

Game 1, Cavs try it and Curry did the hard hedge on Lebron, keeping him from penetrating, and then ran back to the guy who screened while the primary defender who'd been screened switched back to Lebron.

After a couple of times, the Cavs didn't try any more.

[SPTO]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Regarding Carroll, it's a contract that Ujiri pretty much regrets but he cut bait when he had to rather than hoping he'd turn things around. I do remember when he first came to Toronto he was dubbed as the great "D and 3 guy who would be the Lebron Stopper". It obviously didn't turn out that way. His career here never really got going. I think most people in this market are glad to see him gone and he's gonna get booed out of the building when the Nets come to Toronto this year. That is, if he's healthy

[49UNCFan]

Re: 2017 Offseason Thread

Cavs exploited Curry by forcing switches onto Lebron.

But that was just the last couple of games.

Kerr admitted they didn't adjust to it and said they had plans to adjust to it.

Game 1, Cavs try it and Curry did the hard hedge on Lebron, keeping him from penetrating, and then ran back to the guy who screened while the primary defender who'd been screened switched back to Lebron.

After a couple of times, the Cavs didn't try any more.

What happened to Curry 75% of the time he had to guard Kyrie? The only reason they SWITCHED Curry and Klay because 2016 Curry didnt get the job done on Kyrie and Klays length challenged Kyrie more.