PLAY IN | (8) WARRIORS VS. (9) GRIZZLIES

[JoeyLightYears]

I'm surprised Silver isn't trying to push to make this a best of 3 right about now

[KyRo23]

Curry misses the playoffs, dropping two chances make it in a row and getting outplayed by Ja Morant in the finale. Just give this man the MVP

Ja Morant wasn't double teamed.

Steph played like an MVP tonight: 47 minutes, double teamed the entire 4th and OT, still put up 39 points. Was he loose with the ball, yea he had 7 turnovers.

But the Warriors had a chance to win and Draymond airballed a game winning layup. I guess Steph probably regrets not jacking up a 3 while double teamed.

Yeah, superstars get doubled teamed. Pretty jarring reality check for the guy now that he isn't playing with Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson.

This is actually very true. It didn’t occur to me that Warriors fans haven’t seen their stars being double teamed in like 7 years lol

[inquisitive]

Morant is on the brink of superstardom

[BallerTalk]

Warriors are so bad that Curry could not even get a shot off in overtime because they were just straight trapping him leaving someone open and they still couldn’t pay.

It's tough being the solo superstar.
Gives some real life perspective on the past Curry vs ______ debates doesn't it.

[therealbig3]

Steph is literally throwing the ball to the Grizzlies on most of his turnovers, and we can't even admit that, it has to be someone else's fault.

Lol and CP3 fans are almost just as bitter as Harden fans.

He wasn’t perfect, he had issues with TOs, but he was easily the best player on the court and almost willed them to a win...for the 2nd game in a row. Didn’t really get a lot of help out there.

Not sure what he failed at today, unless you’re saying not playing perfectly = failure.

Really bad turnovers and bad defense

His defense wasn’t bad, and he countered the bad TOs with incredible shot making and overall offensive impact.

He played like a superstar tonight. These same criticisms can be used against a lot of players. Labeling it a “failure” just gives the person away as a hater.

[GSP]

Dame, Harden, and Westbrook didn’t have a play-in. Curry led his team to the playoffs in any other season, come on why do we need to be ridiculous about this? “Curry couldn’t carry a team to the playoffs” becomes the narrative when they were literally the 8th best team in their conference and would have made the playoffs in any other year? Are you guys freaking serious lmao?

Dame was in the first play-in ever just last season and eliminated this Grizz team

Russ literally played in 2 play in games

[therealbig3]

Warriors are so bad that Curry could not even get a shot off in overtime because they were just straight trapping him leaving someone open and they still couldn’t pay.

It's tough being the solo superstar.
Gives some real life perspective on the past Curry vs ______ debates doesn't it.

Curry was always better than Harden and CP3 and Westbrook and Durant. He wasn’t as good as LeBron.

That’s pretty much the extent of the Curry vs. “blank” debates.

[GeorgeSears]

Curry misses the playoffs, dropping two chances make it in a row and getting outplayed by Ja Morant in the finale. Just give this man the MVP

Ja Morant wasn't double teamed.

Steph played like an MVP tonight: 47 minutes, double teamed the entire 4th and OT, still put up 39 points. Was he loose with the ball, yea he had 7 turnovers.

But the Warriors had a chance to win and Draymond airballed a game winning layup. I guess Steph probably regrets not jacking up a 3 while double teamed.

Yeah, superstars get doubled teamed. Pretty jarring reality check for the guy now that he isn't playing with Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson.

Yes, and those other superstars usually have players better than Draymond Green as their 2nd best player... I'm sure their no.2's also don't airball layups.

[Bruin]

Wow ESPN just said this is the youngest team to reach the playoffs since the 2011 Thunder

And Ja 5th youngest to lead a playoff team in scoring and assists. Grizz got a bright future

[Lava Rock Kid]

So happy for Grizzlies. And they will create all sorts of problems for Utah. Ja is equal if not better than Donovan. And the Grizz have bigs that will create problems for Gobert.

Well the jazz did sweep them with three losses in 6 nights. But ok.

[oldschooled]

Ja
35/6/6 5 TOs +/- -1 in a winning effort

Steph
39/4/5 7 TOs +/- +4 in a losing effort

And people here were like Ja outplayed Steph lol.
Steph had a positive 4 on a losing effort. Think about that.

[JN61]

Yet again Curry loses when not taking care of the ball properly.

[Bruin]

So happy for Grizzlies. And they will create all sorts of problems for Utah. Ja is equal if not better than Donovan. And the Grizz have bigs that will create problems for Gobert.

Well the jazz did sweep them with three losses in 6 nights. But ok.

Regular season means literally nothing when it comes to playoffs

As a Raptor fan I remember sweeping the season series against the wizards only to get swept in the first round by them several years ago

[The Sebastian Express]

Dame, Harden, and Westbrook didn’t have a play-in. Curry led his team to the playoffs in any other season, come on why do we need to be ridiculous about this? “Curry couldn’t carry a team to the playoffs” becomes the narrative when they were literally the 8th best team in their conference and would have made the playoffs in any other year? Are you guys freaking serious lmao?

Dame and the Blazers were the eighth best team in the western conference last year and had to play a play-in. We won. So no, a bit like last season. What happened to Steph and the Warriors isn't unprecedented.

Year after year a lot of Warrior fans talk about how Dame can't perform against the Warriors in the playoffs and chokes, ignoring the incredibly insane amount of defensive attention and game-planning that goes against him without the same caliber of players around him as Steph.

Well, now you guys get a little taste of what it's like in that position and maybe you'll be a bit more understanding with the new perspective.

[BallerTalk]

Dame, Harden, Westbrook,Which roster is worst than the current GSW?

Do your own homework

But I'll get you started:
Rockets 2015
Blazers 2016
Thunder 2017

All those teams are easily better than GSW

Nope.
You may want to actually LOOK at those rosters.

This just brings home what others have been saying for years, exalting Curry above those other guys simply because of wins and without considering the vast differences in supporting cast was silly. But folks still did it.

This season we got to see Curry in similar circumstances.
His personal number were remarkable but his inability to lift his team past even the low bar of making the playoffs is just as noteworthy...especially in those comparisons.

[AussieCeltic]

So the other night vs the Lakers, Draymond was still the best defender in the league, and tonight, it’s back to “worst supporting cast”. Okay.

His team shouldn't of even sniffed the playoffs and he played decent. You guys are weirdos with the Curry hate.

It’s not hate at all. My point is simple: I don’t agree that this cast is as terrible as some claim it is. I don’t think it’s great at all, I don’t think it’s good even. But it’s not horrendous, I think some people are stretching that. Go back and read through all 100 pages of the Warriors-Lakers game the other day and you’ll see how the supporting cast was being praised by many who rip them to shreds to uplift Curry. That’s what bothers me.

The Lakers literally just double team Curry the whole game. Brooks one of the league best wing defenders just face guarded Curry all game plus they doubled him.

Draymond a offensive short comings along with the rest of the squad is by far the worst offensive teammates in the league.

If you watch those games and think “Steph Curry should do more” you literally have rocks in your head.

[Dacost]

Ja is freaking 21 years old why are people trying to compare him to a MVP/ 32 year old Curry at his prime.

Like duh Curry is better but every young guy has to start somewhere and JA has done that.

[PierceFan4ever]

Warriors are so bad that Curry could not even get a shot off in overtime because they were just straight trapping him leaving someone open and they still couldn’t pay.

It's tough being the solo superstar.
Gives some real life perspective on the past Curry vs ______ debates doesn't it.

Curry was always better than Harden and CP3 and Westbrook and Durant. He wasn’t as good as LeBron.

That’s pretty much the extent of the Curry vs. “blank” debates.

People are delusional if they think Harden or Dame are in the same sentence as Curry

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That’s without Durant, and Harden still has CP3, Curry wipes the floor with the rockets to eliminate them. Harden would not have carried this current warriors much further if if at all.

They did not let Curry even shot in overtime and the Lakers late in the game did the same thing by trapping him and letting role players beat them.

If Curry had the looks say JA had today including a lot of open threes, he would have 70 points and everyone would have a completely different tone. Curry by far the least of the problem for the warriors even with 7 turnovers.

[jehosafats]

Its not rocket science

It's not altogether clear either

You’re thinking too hard man lol 7 and 8 just have to win 1 game. 9 and 10, it’s win or you’re out.

I guess the question is ...why?

It was already the case that if you lose this game, or if another team wins or loses, that can make or break your chances to make the playoffs. Sudden death was baked into the regular season already, so why make it like it's a tournament that's really not a tournament?

[xb3at band1tx]

Ja and RJ made the post-season before Zion