Rank the Best Playoff Series by Curry

The-Power · Post #1 » by **The-Power** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:57 pm

All things considered and according to your criteria, what are the best playoff series Curry has played in your opinion?

Basic numbers of some possible contenders include...

2015 vs HOU (WCF, 4-1)
31/5/6 on 68% TS in 37 MPG, vs. 8th ranked defense

2016 vs. OKC (WCF, 4-3)
28/6/6 on 61% TS in 37 MPG, vs. 13th ranked defense

2017 vs. SAS (WCF, 4-0)
32/6/5 on 73% TS in 34 MPG, vs. 1st ranked defense

2017 vs. CLE (Finals, 4-1)
27/8/9 on 62% TS in 38 MPG, vs. 21st ranked defense

2019 vs. POR (WCF, 4-0)
37/8/7 on 66% TS in 40 MPG, vs. 16th ranked defense

2019 vs. TOR (Finals, 2-4)
31/5/6 on 60% TS in 42 MPG, vs. 5th ranked defense

2022 vs. BOS (Finals, 4-2)
31/6/5 on 63% TS in 38 MPG, vs. 1st ranked defense

Lou Fan · Post #2 » by **Lou Fan** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:25 pm

Where's 19 vs Portland?

RCM88x · Post #3 » by **RCM88x** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:25 pm

I would put the 2019 WCF against Portland in this group too, but probably drop the 2017 WCF (he was only 6th on his team in TS%, what a scrub).

Of these the 2016 WCF and the 2022 Finals probably stand out as most impressive to me. For a while I felt like the last 3 games of the 2016 WCF was the best 3 game stretch of his career although it might have been surpassed at this point.

capfan33 · Post #4 » by **capfan33** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:35 pm

I'm not sure about the rest but I feel reasonably confident that the 2017 finals should be last given the circumstances.

The-Power · Post #5 » by **The-Power** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:28 pm

Lou Fan wrote:Where's 19 vs Portland?

RCM88x wrote:I would put the 2019 WCF against Portland in this group too, but probably drop the 2017 WCF (he was only 6th on his team in TS%, what a scrub).

Fair enough on 2019 vs. Portland. I suppose I just intuitively steered towards the more competitive and/or iconic series and the Portland series slipped my mind, but it was a WCF and Curry played out of his mind. I completely forgot that a couple games were actually really competitive. I added it.

But I'd look at it similar to the 2017 WCF series. Both WCFs, both sweeps, both insane scoring performances. SAS lost Kawhi but they were still the #1 defense in the league, so even with Durant that was an unexpected massacre (124.5 ORTG) led by Curry.

RCM88x · Post #6 » by **RCM88x** » Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:35 pm

The-Power wrote:
Lou Fan wrote:Where's 19 vs Portland?

RCM88x wrote:I would put the 2019 WCF against Portland in this group too, but probably drop the 2017 WCF (he was only 6th on his team in TS%, what a scrub).

Fair enough on 2019 vs. Portland. I suppose I just intuitively steered towards the more competitive and/or iconic series and the Portland series slipped my mind, but it was a WCF and Curry played out of his mind. I completely forgot that a couple games were actually really competitive. I added.

But I'd look at it similar to the 2017 WCF series. Both WCFs, both sweeps, both insane scoring performances. SAS lost Kawhi but they were still the #1 defense in the league, so even with Durant that was an unexpected massacre (124.5 ORTG) led by Curry.

I kind of feel like the 2019 series vs Portland is one of their more iconic dominations since it was completely without Durant and kind of unexpected at the time.

With the 2017 series, once Kawhi went down they pretty much folded, idk, just hard for me to put much stock in his individual performance that series when basically the whole team was on fire and LMA was the offensive/ focal point for the Spurs. I'd consider his Finals play to be much more impressive even though the Cavs defense wasn't technically as good I guess.