NBA Playoff Predictions??

Bucks! Lopez was on fire, great to see MIL mount that impressive 4th quarter comeback. Leonard and the rest of TOR looked gassed in the 4th with Lowry the exception.

 

brook never hit a single 3pt shot while with my team, nets. just shows what effort can do for a player. ben simmons should take a lesson

 

I heard he can go back to Duke cause he didn't hire an agent. Nice loop hole if you aren't drafted by the team you want.

 

Bucks are crushing. Raptors are done. Mob Bench putting up double digit points, Giannis on fire. Nobody helping out Kawhi. Bucks in 5 or 6 max.

 

Well the Warriors' series won't last much longer.

 

With or without KD they are unbeatable

 

We finally have a series in the east. It was close to being 3-0 Bucks but thankfully it didn't go that way. I just want these to be competitive.

 

The Raptors almost shot themselves in the foot. Many times they had chance to put them away with simple 2 point high percentage buckets ,but instead kept trying the 3 and missing. It was actually very infuriating as a fan

 

Exactly...good point

 

Lol

 

Another close game, but I really wish this series went longer...too much of a gap now to the Finals (May 30th). KD is having an easy playoff run.

 

With 2 starters out for the series and past finals MVP- Iguadala, out as well for game 4, Curry averaged 36.5 pts/game in the 2019 Western Conference finals to advance to his 5th NBA finals in a row...another notch in the belt for all the doubters of his pure greatness, not just his "shooting greatness...It was really great to see Draymond Green make up a lot of slack for the injuries, as he may have been just as important as Curry was in sweeping the Blazers.

 

The blemish on Curry's "greatness" will be forever to be tied to him in the form of choking away a 3-1 series Finals lead

Jordan would never have let that happen, and no other team in NBA history has choked away that lead in the Finals.

 

The asterisk should be on the 2 he won with Miami

 

Blowing the 3-1 lead is Old news and had many other factors that doesn't all fall in #30's fault...Just as Jordan struggled all those years to get past the "Jordan rules" East, before he won his 1st championship, Curry continues to work and adapt his game and pad his resume. No one compares to MJ. Many still continue to nquestion if Steph Curry is still an elite player. Many continue to criticize him when he seemingly struggles when other teams maul him and triple team him, not giving him any chance of an uncontested 3 point shot. Yet, his team is "always in the game." He has adjusted his game somewhat and had become more adept at finishing close to the rim and he is thriving. Without KD, he is forced to shoulder more offensive load, along with the rest of his team mates. He is still and elite player who continues to get better...

 

Old news doesn't dismiss it...doesn't mean it didn't happen, and doesn't mean it no longer counts.

 

Of course it counts-which everyone agrees would put a player like MJ, at this point unanimously above a player like Curry. However, Curry’s story is still actively trending upwards. If Curry would have had 4 Straight NBA championships at this point and was on the verge of 5 straight, his narrative would be a bit different. He has always lived with the naysayers and keeps producing. Too small to be recruited by major Div 1 school despite having an all time NBA record holding father... Too small to play shooting guard and not skilled enough to be an NBA point guard, despite leading nation in scoring in NCAA...not good enough of a leader to have let Lebron and Kyrie steal a championship away when he continued to play on a bad ankle and a rather untimely suspension of Draymond Green in game 5, with heroic efforts on the Cav’s players’ parts...now, past his prime and Can’t win a series without 2 time NBA finals MVP KD...He just keeps playing through it all and keeps adding to his, as you imply “tarnished” legacy...

However, none of the modern players legacies compare with MJ’s no matter how many times people bring up Lebron or Kobe...No one ever brings up Steph Curry in this short list...

MJ is “the storied Lemans winning 250 GTO” and everyone else so far are on his shadow by a significant amount.

 

Curry has been talked about as the greatest shooter of all time. He very well could be. But NBA players are judged on both ends of the floor and more than shooting.

 

For the sake of argument, if Stephen Curry is not the greatest shooter of all time, Who would you compare or be better than him? He pretty much holds every “shooting” record in the books. Debating whether Curry is possibly the best shooter of all time, Is just like saying MJ is possibly the best player of all time...