What is Curry's Peak Year?

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Peak Season for Curry

2014-2015
0
No votes
2015-2016
20
61%
2016-2017
8
24%
2017-2018
0
No votes
2018-2019
0
No votes
2019-2020
1
3%
2020-2021
3
9%
2021-2022
1
3%
 
Total votes: 33

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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#21 » by f4p » Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:20 pm

Outside wrote: Curry’s nature as arguably the most accommodating and complementary superstar ever


based on what? they got humiliated by lebron in the finals, after thinking they were on top of the world, and instead of coming back with vengeance on their mind, they had a cryfest in the parking lot after game 7 and told their big brother to come and help them beat up the bully. that's not accommodating. that's weak. even as a curry/warriors hater, i feel like they cheated me. part of rooting against people is the fun of seeing them lose or even having to begrudgingly give credit where credit is due. the cavs were injured in 2015. the warriors were "injured" in 2016. 2017 could have been the rubber match. if the warriors won, they could always say 2016 was a fluke and have supremacy over the matchup. instead they put in a cheat code and hoped everyone would praise them for beating the game. even after losing 3 of 4, lebron is the standout from their 4 year rivalry. durant left because it wasn't as satisfying as he hoped. it was just bad.

and during 2018 and 2019, there were non-stop complaints about KD not fitting into the warriors offense, like it was his job to adjust and he was supposed to be the accommodating one.


that allowed the team to reach the highest level of excellence. That can be considered the foremost example of a player as a ceiling raiser, and I would argue that is something to be valued highly, even more than one of the many heliocentric carry jobs to a title that we've seen, including Curry’s performance this year in the finals.


i'm sure the crane that put the last part of the burj khalifa in place was an amazing ceiling raiser, but the record had been set like 1000 feet before. it didn't really matter.
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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#22 » by parsnips33 » Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:23 pm

Lol who voted for '19-'20
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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#23 » by parsnips33 » Thu Jul 21, 2022 4:26 pm

Onus wrote:I don't understand how the Durant years can be considered easy mode yet Shaq and Kobe's team can be considered comparable and some may even pick them, but shaq and kobe don't get docked for being on easy mode as well?


All time funniest thing are guys that are like '01 Lakers and '96 Bulls in 4 if they played '17 Warriors but then also say those Warriors are uniquely unfair and a blight on basketball. Have a little consistency
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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#24 » by Onus » Thu Jul 21, 2022 5:08 pm

capfan33 wrote:
Onus wrote:I don't understand how the Durant years can be considered easy mode yet Shaq and Kobe's team can be considered comparable and some may even pick them, but shaq and kobe don't get docked for being on easy mode as well?


Lmao there's very few situations that are remotely comparable to the Warriors with KD and I'm not sure why you would pick Shaq-Kobe's Lakers specifically. They were a pretty top-heavy team with a good but not great supporting cast around them, not the greatest defender of his generation and arguably the 2nd greatest shooter ever spearheading the cast.

I think the closest analogy I can think of to the KD Warriors is probably the 80s Celtics/Lakers or maybe the 69 Lakers in theory, but even those teams don't come close to matching the absurd foursome that the Warriors had.

It's mostly just because on GB they were comparing 2017 to 2001, so just top of mind. 2017 is an all time great team but there were obviously other all time great teams that were unfair to their competitions as well but I just don't see the same type of dismissal of their accolades like i see of 2017.
Most 4th Quarter Points in Final since 1991
1995 Shaquille O'Neal 11.5
2000 Shaquille O'Neal 11.5 (61.1% TS)
2015 Stephen Curry 10.8 (75.1% TS)
1997 Michael Jordan 10.7 (55.1% TS)
1998 Michael Jordan 10.6 (50.6% TS)
2011 Dirk Nowitzki 10.3 (68.0% TS)
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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#25 » by Ein Sof » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:14 pm

I think there was this one season where he led the NBA in both scoring and TS% while setting the all-time RS win record, don't remember which one it was tho
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Re: What is Curry's Peak Year? 

Post#26 » by Cavsfansince84 » Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:41 pm

I'd still like to see people being more ok with the idea of peak rs and ps not necessarily needing to line up. I don't think it hurts anything to use that type of meaning.

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