Around the NBA - Blazing into the Conference Finals

[Capn'O]

Let's get a new thread for this. Ahoy!

[knicksNOTslick]

Warriors were exploiting Kanter or any of their big men on D in the 4th quarter. Off the screen, Enes never guards the three and just stays back. Easy shots for Steph and Klay. Not all his fault though cuz Dame and CJ having bad games, but this looks to be a short series if they can't play better D.

[knicksNOTslick]

KD should just sit out the Western Finals. The Warriors are more fun to watch without him anyways. Get himself healthy for when they actually need him in the Finals.

[mpharris36]

KD aint going back to the warriors...they win without him...its time to move on to his own team. He knows that

[mpharris36]

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[robillionaire]

I didn’t even watch the game, this helps the narrative, hope warriors win in 4

[Da_Mane_Man]

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[Fat Kat]

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[thebuzzardman]

Durant - you have to notice the GSW's don't miss a beat without you .

[AllanHoustonFan]

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Kant play Kanter

[3toheadmelo]

It’s fun watching Steph Curry as the #1 option again with KD out.

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[spree2kawhi]

Here we go with the two most ridiculous narratives again:

1) Kanter is trash because ...
2) KD is supposed to ... because of his legacy.

This is so wrong and it's really getting old. You're better than that, guys. Kanter is very serviceable and one of the reasons they're there at all. KD might just as well stay there. I'd love to see him in NY, but he can do whatever. He is without any doubt the top player in the game he doesn't need to do ****.

Golden State however will be favorites to win even without him next year, but that shouldn't affect KD. It just shows you how underrated Steph (and Klay) still are despite the credit and championships they've already gotten. Steph to me is getting up there in THE conversation. But we've been through that before.

[spree2kawhi]

People here should accept that it's extremely hard to always be up at the three point line on defense as a big. It's almost impossible to do consistently. You're forgetting that the offense dictates where the action is. It's hard. Collins was late many times himself and he is agile. Now I'm not saying Kanter is great, but barely anyone will ever be able to defend those plays consistently.

Not only that, you'd actually need even longer and quicker help defenders in the corners than Portland has in order to survive the other outs this very high pnr has. Only Harkless fits the bill really.

But hey, after all there are people in this board calling Klay Thompson limited role player, so what can you expect really...

[whocares1]

People here should accept that it's extremely hard to always be up at the three point line on defense as a big. It's almost impossible to do consistently. You're forgetting that the offense dictates where the action is. It's hard. Collins was late many times himself and he is agile. Now I'm not saying Kanter is great, but barely anyone will ever be able to defend those plays consistently.

Not only that, you'd actually need even longer and quicker help defenders in the corners than Portland has in order to survive the other outs this very high pnr has. Only Harkless fits the bill really.

But hey, after all there are people in this board calling Klay Thompson limited role player, so what can you expect really...

On high screen and rolls the big and guard should trap the ball handler forcing him to make a quick decision. It can be done, it can make their defense vulnerable at times, but the Warriors are not the team to leave wide open.

[whocares1]

Durant - you have to notice the GSW's don't miss a beat without you .

Teams that don’t pressure Curry on both sides of the ball always get killed by the Warriors. The Cavs with Lebron and even to a certain extent the Rockets have proven that forcing Curry to defend top scorers, while also playing physical with him on defense off ball, leads him to struggle. It was only a week ago people were calling his brother better than him.

[thebuzzardman]

Durant - you have to notice the GSW's don't miss a beat without you .

Teams that don’t pressure Curry on both sides of the ball always get killed by the Warriors. The Cavs with Lebron and even to a certain extent the Rockets have proven that forcing Curry to defend top scorers, while also playing physical with him on defense off ball, leads him to struggle. It was only a week ago people were calling his brother better than him.

All I care about is Durant getting in his feelings about it and joining the Knicks.

[Tron Carter]

Durant - you have to notice the GSW's don't miss a beat without you .

Teams that don’t pressure Curry on both sides of the ball always get killed by the Warriors. The Cavs with Lebron and even to a certain extent the Rockets have proven that forcing Curry to defend top scorers, while also playing physical with him on defense off ball, leads him to struggle. It was only a week ago people were calling his brother better than him.

you really shouldn’t be taking game thread banter literally

[JXL]

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I find this ironic for some reason.

[spree2kawhi]

People here should accept that it's extremely hard to always be up at the three point line on defense as a big. It's almost impossible to do consistently. You're forgetting that the offense dictates where the action is. It's hard. Collins was late many times himself and he is agile. Now I'm not saying Kanter is great, but barely anyone will ever be able to defend those plays consistently.

Not only that, you'd actually need even longer and quicker help defenders in the corners than Portland has in order to survive the other outs this very high pnr has. Only Harkless fits the bill really.

But hey, after all there are people in this board calling Klay Thompson limited role player, so what can you expect really...

On high screen and rolls the big and guard should trap the ball handler forcing him to make a quick decision. It can be done, it can make their defense vulnerable at times, but the Warriors are not the team to leave wide open.

Of course that's true, you have to show. But the actual problem is semi-transition when Curry steps into a three in rhythm and from way behind the line. You cannot guard that consistently.

[Capn'O]

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I find this ironic for some reason.

man, I wish some ex-players would just have their player legacy back. Magic and Isiah were so good.