But the intensity of his clutchness was at an all time high tonight,and that is satisfying. Most of the criticism he gets is usually related to the 2016 finals against the Cavs as you rightly pointed out, especially by skip, It seems even the slightest injuries, especially to the hand does significantly affect long range shots. Even a small change in the accuracy of a shot gets the ball hitting the rim more times than it goes in.

Eruditor:


He has always been this clutch. People just overglorify his bad games and downplay his great ones. When everyone spoke about him choking against Cavs, I wondered if people realised he played that series with injuries. Yet same people will tell you if Kyrie did not get hurt in game 1 of 14/15 that GSW would have lost the series. They bring up injuries only when they want to downplay the warriors but never concede that someone can be hurt and it will effect their game.

GSW found the old magic.

Never doubt Steph curry.

KD loss was a blessing in disguise

Eruditor:


Me I was watching..when it is too close I would turn off the TV..then come back..turn off the TV etc

LOL. My heart was racing.

Game I didn’t watch or check score until 2 mins to go. The two road losses were too painful for me.

This is the time I like going on Twitter, the trolls and thy hype.

ipledge10:
I worried about the foul call also. I think they will foul Iguodala more cos of his field goal %. I believe if dreymond avr Iguoada can give 35 combine, klay and steph 60 combine and play good D. We gonna win

My worry is Looney getting into early foul trouble

curry and Klay combined for 60

Steph curry saved his best for the last.

Anyone who calls Nick Wright a basketball analyst is a joker. The guy makes my ears bleed everytime I listen to him, at least with Chuck you know he's either trolling or being plain dumb but Nick Wright actually believes the nonsense he's saying.

So happy for the warriors showing up tonight. I don't mind any other team winning the playoffs this year but definitely not the rockets. I can't stand them and their shitty brand of basketball.

smoosh20:




If you ask some people to stop posting from Nick Wright's stunk up asṣ or why they post trash like this or if they just started watching NBA yesterday, they'll say you're immature. They'll never read to understand. Just read to reply and sound smart.

Guy I was literally thinking of that post then I saw your reply. No mind am, Na box score e dey check, e no dey watch game

KarnThornheart:
Welp. The warriors dont need KD, they never did. Just a b-tch a-s move from a b-tch a-s nigga to make a really really good team unbeatable. Plus he robbed people of watching prime curry in all his glory. Curse this serpent!

leeemmnnaaaooooo

Eruditor:
Smoosh20, CuteRedd, Benji93, Hardetayour we deserve bragging rights abeg. They would not listen.

Been taunting my cousins, dem no go rest until WCF start

smoosh20:
Iggy hit 5 3s tonight. Looney was locked in. Jerebko and Cook were on deck. Klay held it down. And then he showed up when it was time.

looney needs to get paid this off season. I don't care by which team but the man is worth every penny he gets

Magics tweet after the game was on point.

Never underrate Steph Curry. Ayesha needs to apologize too.

Eruditor:
Smoosh20, CuteRedd, Benji93, Hardetayour we deserve bragging rights abeg. They would not listen.

As in ehn.

I just told a dude not to be so sure that Houston will blow out the warriors without KD.

Guess I was proven right afterall. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

KarnThornheart:


All i want. But on the contrary i dont want curry to fail, i want him to go back to carrying his own team like he did so splendidly the year he won the unanimous mvp. He went from that to not being the best player on his own team. I want a more even league with the OG warriors, maybe a knick resurgence with kyrie and KD, the sixers doing their thing, raptors too. Denver coming into their own, watch out for the phoenix suns, yes the suns. And what about the lake show with lebron and kemba walker? Giannis and the bucks are looking scary, the celtics got AD? How swell!


Not this circus show where we all know how the story is going to end.

To tell you the truth, I don't think many people expect GSW to win this season like the season before.

KarnThornheart:


But hes white

Are you a black supremacist?

Hardetayour:
Magics tweet after the game was on point.

Never underrate Steph Curry. Ayesha needs to apologize too.

True that

KarnThornheart:


They need a point guard. I saw an interview of his where he came off as very conceited, man was assertively calling himself a point god. Its good to be arrogant but not conceited, i just hope it all doesnt blow up in his face. Zion looks like a generational player at least from what people are saying, it will be very bold of james jones to miss out on him if the suns get the first pick. And since when did i become a troll

If the first pick fall on the Phoenix Sun's they could draft Zion and trade him for morant and a first round pick.

smokers:
beginning to fall in love with nba daily. getting addicted to watching skip, Shannon Wright, Stephen a Smith and Max kellerman daily.
though yet to decide on an nba team to support any suggestions

sacramento kings. don't say you weren't told.

Eruditor:
Steph Curry has not missed a clutch FT (2mins to go) in his whole career.

Lebron right now.

A40:
I'm just saying that for all their tough talking I don't believe that deep down in their heart of hearts they believe they can beat the Warriors without something extraordinary going in their favor especially without home court. I personally think not winning Game 5 could bite them in the behind.

The pressure is on Houston now.

Color me not suprised

darkelf:


Are you a black supremacist?

Ewww! What exactly are the blacks supreme at apart from jumping about and acting like damn fools. Add zero intrinsic value to society.

I'm a misanthrope.

Khanben:


In all fairness to Nick, he called Jokic a pretend superstar before the playoffs. His stance was he needs to see him do it in the post season, something I think a lot of people also do.
Now he has acknowledged the jokers genius after almost all their games and Cris Carter keeps laughing at him about that

Nope. This what he said after Game 1! He basically did a Paul Pierce and ended up looking like a donkey.

People get takes wrong all the time but he gives BS takes with authority as if he's some type of expert

KarnThornheart:


You dont become a superstar off of one season. This man literally just made his first all star game I'm not ready to put him in that category yet. If most dont consider AD a superstar then Jokic certainly isnt a superstar.

Jokic should have been an all-star last season as well. The All-star game has long been a glorified popularity contest anyway. Kyle Lowry has been a 5 time All-star for crying out loud and his numbers as an all-star this year weren't as good as Jokic last year.

AD is definitely a superstar, I don't know what niggas are smoking.

Anyway the term superstar is just semantics. What makes a superstar to you might not make it with somebody else, but as far as pure on court production this guy led a #2 seed in Points, Rebounds and Assists and is doing it again in the post season. That's superstar production to me

KarnThornheart:

Without numbers all we have is opinions and narratives and all of that is subjective. Nick also tends to hold back on going at his guests i guess just to be polite sometimes but i've seen him hold his own. Hes not my favorite analyst not even close, but the man gets a bad rap for no reason other than he loves lebron. All numbers guys love lebron, daryl morey loves lebron, thinks hes the goat by a mile, very few people know numbers better than daryl morey so i dont think these numbers wright uses have no context.

I agree but at the same time there has to be some kind of balance. Guys like Daryl Morey and Nick Wright. What do they have in common? They never played the sport! At any level and so they will never understand the intangibles and why players who rode both eras rate Jordan over LeNomad.

It speaks to the greatness of Jordan that despite not playing in an analytics ruled era he rates favorably and even higher than a lot of superstars in this era do

And between me and you Daryl Morey is an overrated GM low-key

Lemme reiterate people don't hate Nick Wright because of LeNomad. He's an awful pundit and that's the truth, of course he has to hold back on his guests. What street credibility does he have? What sport did he play? Would you argue with a Doctor just because you watch Grey's Anatomy? Or argue with lawyers cos you watch Suits?

A40:

And between me and you Daryl Morey is an overrated GM low-key

No such thing. Either you are a good GM or not. You cant judge the GM based on decisions made by a coach. Morey has been good. He knows how to make deals and get the right pieces. But his handicap is over reliance on analytics. No matter what your formula says, Melo was not a fit on this team. Ariza should still be here. And we needed some toughness down low, but toughness is not in the analytics formula

birdman:


No such thing. Either you are a good GM or not. You cant judge the GM based on decisions made by a coach. Morey has been good. He knows how to make deals and get the right pieces. But his handicap is over reliance on analytics. No matter what your formula says, Melo was not a fit on this team. Ariza should still be here. And we needed some toughness down low, but toughness is not in the analytics formula

You beat to it. Morey is the master of analytics and that was why he got MDA and made so many other moves.

KarnThornheart:


Ewww! What exactly supreme at apart from jumping about and acting like damn fools. Add zero intrinsic value to society.

I'm a misanthrope.

Ok. now I understand your type of person.

birdman:


No such thing. Either you are a good GM or not. You cant judge the GM based on decisions made by a coach. Morey has been good. He knows how to make deals and get the right pieces. But his handicap is over reliance on analytics. No matter what your formula says, Melo was not a fit on this team. Ariza should still be here. And we needed some toughness down low, but toughness is not in the analytics formula

Lol you're making my argument for me. I'm not judging purely by decisions made by the coach. I'm just saying he is not as good as cracked out to be. Just look at the contract he gave CP3. You don't give a 33 year old a 4 year/$160m deal no matter what. I'm surprised his analytics didn't tell him that

The problem right now is the upside for the Rockets is almost nil! Should KD leave the Warriors sef it could be argued that the Rockets are somehow not best positioned to take advantage because they are capped out

Ohh and btw I won't blame him for taking a flier on Melo. It was a pretty low risk maneuver anyway

A40:
Lol you're making my argument for me. I'm not judging purely by decisions made by the coach. I'm just saying he is not as good as cracked out to be. Just look at the contract he gave CP3. You don't give a 33 year old a 4 year/$160m deal no matter what. I'm surprised his analytics didn't tell him that

The problem right now is the upside for the Rockets is almost nil! Should KD leave the Warriors sef it could be argued that the Rockets are somehow not best positioned to take advantage because they are capped out

Ohh and btw I won't blame him for taking a flier on Melo. It was a pretty low risk maneuver anyway

The Chris Paul deal is an anchor that will sink the rockets, the only solution is (and I don't know if this is even allowed) for the contract to be restructured where they take some money from him and pay a player of the ilk of Tobias Harris or Gallinari guys who can play in a system and also create their own shot especially in the midrange.
If something is not done their window just got shut down for good. Harden on the other hand has to decide whether his priority is money via a supermax contract or championships.

Khanben:


The Chris Paul deal is an anchor that will sink the rockets, the only solution is (and I don't know if this is even allowed) for the contract to be restructured where they take some money from him and pay a player of the ilk of Tobias Harris or Gallinari guys who can play in a system and also create their own shot especially in the midrange.
If something is not done their window just got shut down for good. Harden on the other hand has to decide whether his priority is money via a supermax contract or championships.

Take money from chris paul

KarnThornheart:


No, none of the guys i mentioned won MVP throughout their era but it was clear who the top dawg was. No one accomplished more than them individually during this era, Wilt had 4, Kareem had 6, Magic had 3, MJ had 5, and lebron has 4. This players also consistently proved how far above everyone else they were during this time especially in the off season. During "his era" duncan had 2 and nash had 2, more than him which is less than you can say about these other lads. You could argue Kobe should have had one more but whose fault is that? No one asked him to go ra.pe someone.

That is my point. The idea that you need a regular season MVP award to validate how good or dominant a player was in a certain era is rather erroneous to me. There has to be a healthy combination of Regular and post season excellence for you to tell me a player was consistently dominant

Kobe between 1999/2000 to 2010 only had 3 seasons where he didn't finish in the top 10 in MVP voting. In fact on 6 occasions he finished top 5. When you also consider he was also the best or second best player to teams that went to 7 Finals between that timeframe and the best playoff performer overall then suggesting Kobe didn't have an era is borderline irresponsible

Khanben:


The Chris Paul deal is an anchor that will sink the rockets, the only solution is (and I don't know if this is even allowed) for the contract to be restructured where they take some money from him and pay a player of the ilk of Tobias Harris or Gallinari guys who can play in a system and also create their own shot especially in the midrange.
If something is not done their window just got shut down for good. Harden on the other hand has to decide whether his priority is money via a supermax contract or championships.

You can't take 1$ from CP3.

Khanben:


The Chris Paul deal is an anchor that will sink the rockets, the only solution is (and I don't know if this is even allowed) for the contract to be restructured where they take some money from him and pay a player of the ilk of Tobias Harris or Gallinari guys who can play in a system and also create their own shot especially in the midrange.
If something is not done their window just got shut down for good. Harden on the other hand has to decide whether his priority is money via a supermax contract or championships.

Lool we told them the deal was a bad one at the time. Unfortunately this isn't the NFL so nothing like restructuring.

Now I can understand not wanting to lose Chris Paul after potentially being a hamstring away from beating Golden State and playing for the title but why would you double down on a player that has consistently showed the ability to get injured at the most inopportune time. They should have gone for a shorter deal or let CP3 walk and get good two way wings that could carry the offensive burden from Harden and enable them match up better with Golden State

Harden and Paul are locked and joined at the hip for the next 3 seasons. Gordon would definitely test himself in the market and Capela who they paid the big bucks was unplayable in this series. By the time the likes of the Kings, Nuggets and Clippers come of age there might be real problems for Houston

A40:

Jokic should have been an all-star last season as well. The All-star game has long been a glorified popularity contest anyway. Kyle Lowry has been a 5 time All-star for crying out loud and his numbers as an all-star this year weren't as good as Jokic last year.

AD is definitely a superstar, I don't know what niggas are smoking.

Anyway the term superstar is just semantics. What makes a superstar to you might not make it with somebody else, but as far as pure on court production this guy led a #2 seed in Points, Rebounds and Assists and is doing it again in the post season. That's superstar production to me

I agree, its subjective. LBJ, Harden, Curry, Durant, Kawhi. Only players consistent/well established enough to be listed in this list in my books. Would have added westbrook too a while ago but.... yikes. Mind you brodie has done what jokic did this year and still doesnt make the cut. i guess your career just isnt as strict as mine. People throw the word superstar around too lightly.

I agree but at the same time there has to be some kind of balance. Guys like Daryl Morey and Nick Wright. What do they have in common? They never played the sport! At any level and so they will never understand the intangibles and why players who rode both eras rate Jordan over LeNomad.

It speaks to the greatness of Jordan that despite not playing in an analytics ruled era he rates favorably and even higher than a lot of superstars in this era do

And between me and you Daryl Morey is an overrated GM low-key

Lemme reiterate people don't hate Nick Wright because of LeNomad. He's an awful pundit and that's the truth, of course he has to hold back on his guests. What street credibility does he have? What sport did he play? Would you argue with a Doctor just because you watch Grey's Anatomy? Or argue with lawyers cos you watch Suits?

You cant be a numbers guy and an experienced athlete at the same time, given how difficult that is its almost a paradox.

Analytics, Numbers, its always been there. Just that no one ever paid attention to it until recently.

Daryl Morey built the only team capable of rattling the warriors in the past couple of years and probably wouldve won it all if not for them.

Street cred has nothing to do with it. If i cite a research to a doctor and he dismisses it because he doesnt understand it or has never heard of it of course i would argue with him.