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People that think Durant is a better offensive player than Curry are nuts, IMO. He's the guy that makes that team impossible.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Also now that they have KD the regular season doesn’t matter to them, or matters very little.
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True, Durant is awesome and unguardable but as great as he is he somehow often bogs down their offense. He's so good he can completely take over but the engine of this team will always be the splash brothers.
 
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Scoe said:
Have you seen who is in the Basketball HOF, Love will get in.
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Most of the questionable members had great college careers or at least a couple of off the chart pro years. I like Love, but I don't see it. If Chris Webber was boarderline, what the heck is Love?
 
Love has held up pretty well given what they've asked him to do. He's probably a better perimeter defender than he gets credit for - he moves his feet pretty well and seems to understand positioning. He's not quick enough to spring back to the shooting pocket on step backs, but those shots are usually OK to give up.

Where he hurts you more, I think, is as a help defender. Doesn't give you much in the way of rim protection.
 
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Cavs can't hit the open three to save their life.

Meanwhile Curry drills another in the corner. game over
 
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This is gonna sound like i’m attacking specific teams, but I think something that doesn’t get talked about enough is the amount of moving/illegal screens are allowed in today’s game. Both of these teams have utilized it, literally guys hugging the defender to prevent him from getting over it.
 
intlzncster said:
Cavs can't hit the open three to save their life.

Meanwhile Curry drills another in the corner. game over
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They were draining them in the third quarter but getting in a shooting contest with the best 3 point shooter ever and another top 3 all-time shooter is not a winning formula.
 
Well you're not beating the Warriors at home when Curry hits 9 3's on >50% shooting.

You're not staying within 15.
 
See if I was trying to defend Curry I would face guard him and let him get to the basket if he gets by the guy. He’s taking 18 3 pointers for a reason. And he hasn’t been finishing in traffic as well as he has in the past.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
This is gonna sound like i’m attacking specific teams, but I think something that doesn’t get talked about enough is the amount of moving/illegal screens are allowed in today’s game. Both of these teams have utilized it, literally guys hugging the defender to prevent him from getting over it.
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I agree. Both teams have been doing it and it's been incredibly frustrating to watch.
 
This isn't meant as any sort of criticism on Lebron but Kevin Love is basically just a spot up 3 point shooter now just as Bosh was in Miami. These were dominant power forwards who turned into guys who just camp out at the corner 3 line playing with Lebron. It just seems like such a waste of two great players.
 
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tzznandrew said:
I agree. Both teams have been doing it and it's been incredibly frustrating to watch.
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Like, the way the game is played and officiated is already hard enough on defenses, and now guys can grab the defender to get the matchup they want. This brand of NBA along with all the threes is not as fun to watch.
 
superjohn said:
This isn't meant as any sort of criticism on Lebron but Kevin Love is basically just a spot up 3 point shooter now just as Bosh was in Miami. These were dominant power forwards who turned into guys who just camp out at the corner 3 line playing with Lebron. It just seems like such a waste of two great players.
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Well when Love tries to go in the post now he gets pushed around and blocked because of his lack of athleticism, he is playing to his strengths now, which haven’t been very strong.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Like, the way the game is played and officiated is already hard enough on defenses, and now guys can grab the defender to get the matchup they want. This brand of NBA along with all the threes is not as fun to watch.
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If they just called those--not even the moving picks, for the love of god, just the grabs you've identified--it would be so much more enjoyable.
 
Guys, they used to clutch and grab way more in the past. As a perimeter player you were getting hand checked the whole time before getting laid out at the rim.
 
superjohn said:
This isn't meant as any sort of criticism on Lebron but Kevin Love is basically just a spot up 3 point shooter now just as Bosh was in Miami. These were dominant power forwards who turned into guys who just camp out at the corner 3 line playing with Lebron. It just seems like such a waste of two great players.
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He cut to the basket a couple times tonight to great effect, especially in 3rd quarter when Cavs made their run. His post-ups are definitely few and far between now (but post-ups are generally not great plays unless you have a mismatch anyways).

I'm also not sure this is a LeBron thing as much as an NBA league thing. Boogie Cousins is shooting 3's in this era.
 
superjohn said:
Guys, they used to clutch and grab way more in the past. As a perimeter player you were getting hand checked the whole time before getting laid out at the rim.
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You always have to have a different opinion. We are talking about the illegal screens, not the hand checking in the past. Screens were tougher back then, but they weren’t illegal anywhere to this degree.
 
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