Dewey wrote:Jedzz wrote:Steph Curry would be cried about all day here calling his own number so often, being a weakness on defense, "scrawny", holy hell all that together with his snarky attitude and facial expresssions he would have an army of people against him here. Imagine Steph Curry here with a bunch of scrubs "developing", multiple in starters roles that have no head for it yet. Cherry on top the POBO signs Rubio and drafts Edwards to somehow play with Steph. Imagine that playing out.
Agree ... Steph without Thompson has been a struggle for GS and they are a well-established championship caliber franchise, so I can cut some slack. Short-term I just need the gritty effort, especially, if we can get Ant/McD/JV/Reid sold on that intensity as how they are expected to play. Rubio/Okogie/Culver/McL for example are pretty good with taking pride in their effort, so if we add 4 more of these young fella's, we can only hope that will pay dividends up the road. Just need to win a few to keep the spirit alive. Tonight would be an awesome win and then the Kitten back Friday...
That's fine to see his predicament now without Thompson. Everyone sees their record and a missing piece. But it's just one missing piece really. He's still got the coach, green, and others. But I'm talking about imagining Curry in the Wolves situation this season like Dlo is stuck with. It is 5 times as bad. How would Curry handle being pushed to bench for Rubio to start and players like Edwards/Culver initiating the offense as well? Granted Curry doesn't have as many cold moments, but he's had them when things aren't going right. Here it is rarely going right. How man 6-4 players they run at PF there? Curry would crap his pants if he had to play here.
People like Merc need to see the difference here. Need to see players the same way, not differently.
mercgold3 wrote:
Steph, scoring wise is in his 2nd best season ever.
28.4 PTS
FG% .458
3PT% .392
The struggle is because there´s nobody else outside of him to really score the ball.
Is kinda impressive what he's doing by himself.
Those aren't great percentages for his numbers but sure his PPG is up.
Hmmm Sounds familar and yet a different narrative. Most playesr are described as steering the tank with inflated PPG because they are alone with no stars in such a situation.
When Dlo was driving Warriors tank without Thompson or Curry, Dlo had:
24 PPG
FG% .430
3PT% .374
Terrible, right? Only because he was a single player on a tank team, right? Different narrative.
Whether you like or not, Steph waited until years 4,5,6 to get over 20PPG. Dlo might be a half notch below someone like Curry overall, but he still made it to that level in years 4,5,6 as well. And Dlo did it while being bandied about around the league from team to team. Different coaches, schemes, players around him at each stop. These players are more similar than you think. Their situations have been so different. Even today, Warriors made sure there wasn't a logjam to Curry's role coming back. Here, Dlo sees the team add Rubio, Edwards, Bolmero, Hagans, and twoway Jmac again all after Dlo was here. Then in preseason they show us they plan to rerun Culver at "playmaker" again.
Use that Warriors difference in situation handling to see where this Pobo and Coach have gone awry. Imagine Curry having to deal with this. Then stop your Dlo hate posts when your head finally understands, Merc.
See you in 2025 if they are even around here then to see who they really become.