Which player would you rather have for the playoffs? Fully Healthy Stephen Curry or Giannis

[kenwood3333]

A healthy Curry from his mvp seasons.

[GusT15]

Why tf is steph winning this?

Because people read "Fully Healthy Stephen Curry" and brought to mind the 2016 Video Game MVP version of Steph.

And,yes,i'd pick the 28 year old version of Steph as well.

The issue is he's 32 nowadays...

[Hello Brooklyn]

Only one of those players have went up against Nurses defense in the playoffs. Did you see what Nurse did to those other players this season? Kawhi averaged 17.5 ppg on 56 TS% and 6 turnovers in 2 games. Lebron scored 13 points on 15 shots. Harden was efficient but they forced the ball out of his hands, 23 points and 3 assists.

LOL regular season games carry much less weight. Sorry.

Sure, but none of those other players faced a D like the raps in the playoffs. You act like it's an insult to Giannis that one of the best defenses in league history (and probably the best defense ever equipped to stop large wings) slowed him down. I hope Raps get a chance to face off against some of these players this year

The Raptors were one of the best defenses in league history?

I mean they were a lucky shot away from losing in the 2nd round. I don't think they were some all time great defensive team.

Steph played far better than Giannis did in the Finals. And that was with essentially no help at all.

[Packbuckman]

LOL regular season games carry much less weight. Sorry.

Sure, but none of those other players faced a D like the raps in the playoffs. You act like it's an insult to Giannis that one of the best defenses in league history (and probably the best defense ever equipped to stop large wings) slowed him down. I hope Raps get a chance to face off against some of these players this year

The Raptors were one of the best defenses in league history?

I mean they were a lucky shot away from losing in the 2nd round. I don't think they were some all time great defensive team.

Steph played far better than Giannis did in the Finals. And that was with essentially no help at all.

What when Giannis was 24 give me a break dude. Giannis impact on both sides of the ball out way anything curry can do now. And curry is not his 28 year old version anymore plus he was hurt. If you’re going to say that then I will take a 28 year old Giannis over anybody. He just keeps getting better every year.

[Hello Brooklyn]

Sure, but none of those other players faced a D like the raps in the playoffs. You act like it's an insult to Giannis that one of the best defenses in league history (and probably the best defense ever equipped to stop large wings) slowed him down. I hope Raps get a chance to face off against some of these players this year

The Raptors were one of the best defenses in league history?

I mean they were a lucky shot away from losing in the 2nd round. I don't think they were some all time great defensive team.

Steph played far better than Giannis did in the Finals. And that was with essentially no help at all.

What when Giannis was 24 give me a break dude. Giannis impact on both sides of the ball out way anything curry can do now. And curry is not his 28 year old version anymore plus he was hurt. If you’re going to say that then I will take a 28 year old Giannis over anybody. He just keeps getting better every year.

Curry was incredible last year, still in his prime.

And doesn't matter that Giannis is 24. Were only talking about now.

If Giannis gets better then we can re-visit the conversation.

[Middle Child]

Anyone more fun to watch than Steph?

[Cavsfansince84]

Its definitely debatable. If it were 2016 healthy Curry then I'd say its still him for sure but this is 2020 Steph and I'd like to see Giannis in these playoffs first but I'd probably lean towards him currently.

[Lunartic]

Giannis. We saw Curry this year and it wasn't pretty.

Can someone please, please justify how using a five game regular season sample size for any type of basketball analysis is something a logical person would do? Especially with the first 4 games coming at the beginning of the regular season, and one game coming after a four month layoff?

If you are not quite understanding, let's say you were one of the best workers at your job, and let's say your boss were to give you a terrible yearly performance and based it on 3 weeks of the whole year, after you've come back from a long vacation and being unable to work due to injury, while ignoring excellent performance in the past five years.. That is essentially what you are doing and its beyond ridiculous.

What if during those three weeks, the only thing different was your coworkers weren't covering for you and helping you with your PowerPoint presentations?

[michaelm]

The Raptors were one of the best defenses in league history?

I mean they were a lucky shot away from losing in the 2nd round. I don't think they were some all time great defensive team.

Steph played far better than Giannis did in the Finals. And that was with essentially no help at all.

What when Giannis was 24 give me a break dude. Giannis impact on both sides of the ball out way anything curry can do now. And curry is not his 28 year old version anymore plus he was hurt. If you’re going to say that then I will take a 28 year old Giannis over anybody. He just keeps getting better every year.

Curry was incredible last year, still in his prime.

And doesn't matter that Giannis is 24. Were only talking about now.

If Giannis gets better then we can re-visit the conversation.

No reason Steph should be any worse than he was in the 2019 play-offs, which was not too shabby. If people want to wait on him that’s fine, but the corollary would involve waiting to see if Giannis has improved his game in terms of play-off basketball as well as you say, he was also dominant last year in the regular season which didn’t quite transfer to the play-offs.

[Packbuckman]

The Raptors were one of the best defenses in league history?

I mean they were a lucky shot away from losing in the 2nd round. I don't think they were some all time great defensive team.

Steph played far better than Giannis did in the Finals. And that was with essentially no help at all.

What when Giannis was 24 give me a break dude. Giannis impact on both sides of the ball out way anything curry can do now. And curry is not his 28 year old version anymore plus he was hurt. If you’re going to say that then I will take a 28 year old Giannis over anybody. He just keeps getting better every year.

Curry was incredible last year, still in his prime.

And doesn't matter that Giannis is 24. Were only talking about now.

If Giannis gets better then we can re-visit the conversation.

He is better this year at 25 across the board like every year! **** he’s even better from the start of this season till they stopped the games. Curry was out hurt so what are you even talking about. He should win mvp and dpoy this year better. Curry is great but he is not that.

[michaelm]

What when Giannis was 24 give me a break dude. Giannis impact on both sides of the ball out way anything curry can do now. And curry is not his 28 year old version anymore plus he was hurt. If you’re going to say that then I will take a 28 year old Giannis over anybody. He just keeps getting better every year.

Curry was incredible last year, still in his prime.

And doesn't matter that Giannis is 24. Were only talking about now.

If Giannis gets better then we can re-visit the conversation.

He is better this year at 25 across the board like every year! **** he’s even better from the start of this season till they stopped the games. Curry was out hurt so what are you even talking about. He should win mvp and dpoy this year better. Curry is great but he is not that.

Curry hasn’t needed to be DPOY. Sure he couldn’t be anyway, but what matters is what team you build around the respective players, and Curry basically fits everybody. This years Bucks look to be a great team, but play-off results are needed to prove their ultimate worth.

[rapsdontlie]

Giannis.

No knock on Curry of course, but you're talking about a dominant force on both offense and defense.

[bovice]

as a #1 option, Giannis and it isn't close. as a #2? give me Steph. Steph is overrated as a #1 and can't carry a team the way Giannis can.

[bon]

Why tf is steph winning this?

Because people read "Fully Healthy Stephen Curry" and brought to mind the 2016 Video Game MVP version of Steph.

And,yes,i'd pick the 28 year old version of Steph as well.

The issue is he's 32 nowadays...

I'll take 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 versions of him. 2020 TBD

[knuckles862]

as a #1 option, Giannis and it isn't close. as a #2? give me Steph. Steph is overrated as a #1 and can't carry a team the way Giannis can.

Your joking right?

[bovice]

as a #1 option, Giannis and it isn't close. as a #2? give me Steph. Steph is overrated as a #1 and can't carry a team the way Giannis can.

Your joking right?

I think 2 things:
1) Steph plays in a system and plays with players that perfectly compliment his skillset. Put him on any other team and he isn't as good. KD is better than Steph but the golden state way of playing revolves around Steph, so it makes him look like the better player. 2) I look at Steph compared to other #1 options on a previous championship teams. Duncan, Shaq, Kobe, Lebron, Wade, Kawhi, KD, Dirk. All those guys are physically gifted and can get their shot off on anyone at any time. All of those guys can get to the rim at will a lot better than Steph can. Steph moreso than any other player on that list relies on 'gaps' in the defense to score, which is why he looks really good in the regular season

Steph is an all-time great, but Giannis has more qualities I look for in a #1 option. He plays defense better, he can physically bully people. If he has reliable shooters around him, he'll eat you up in the paint. When a team is deep into the playoffs and it's late in the 4th quarter, I'll take the guy that can get to the rim at will moreso than the guy that relies on jumpers. Again, this is as a #1 option.

[Jadoogar]

Curry for sure


Giannis shooting makes him easy to expose

"Easy" is not exactly true when it comes to exposing Giannis, but if his teammates ain't making 3s, it becomes a bit harder for him.

Yea not a lot of teams have the defensive personnel of last year's raptors teams.

[Curmudgeon]

Depends on the rest of your roster.

[Triples333]

Curry for sure


Giannis shooting makes him easy to expose

"Easy" is not exactly true when it comes to exposing Giannis, but if his teammates ain't making 3s, it becomes a bit harder for him.

Yea not a lot of teams have the defensive personnel of last year's raptors teams.

Worth mentioning that the Raptors are the one team they both played in last years playoffs, Curry with less help, and Curry was significantly better (31/5/6 on a 60% TS. 119 O rating to Giannis' 22.7/13.5/5.5 on a 51.8% TS. 100 O rating). The Raptors 100% selling out to do anything they could to slow Curry (the best D in the playoffs by far, and a team perfectly fitted to stop Curry... For all the "system player" guys still floating around). That's what he does to teams, and why he is the driving force of the best team of this generation. The answer is Curry. That much has been proven. Time will tell of Giannis can ever get to that level.

[HiRez]

You can't really answer this without knowing the makeup of the rest of the team, but in a vacuum I'll take Curry. PG most important position, no one in the league creates space like he does (useful for any team), and the experience of winning multiple chips counts for something, there is no replacement for it.