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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2731857, member: 488"] I respect his opinion, but by his own admission I don't think he's a huge NBA guy and the post you quoted seems to be based almost entirely on a pretty flimsy foundation. Correct me if I'm wrong [USER=8028]@MadDogRevival[/USER] During that pivotal third quarter, Curry assisted on a three to cut the lead to two, hit a three to give them the lead, assisted on a two to give them the lead back, assisted on another two that re-tied the game, hit a three to extend the lead to five, another one to extend the lead to eight, and then scored seven straight points to put the game away at the beginning of the fourth quarter. None of that strikes me as front-running or anything like it. If we want to dig into his past for evidence on how he's played in elimination games, you have game seven of the OKC series (36, 5, and 8, a lot of which came late), game six (31, 10, and 9, overshadowed by Klay), game five (31, 7, and 6), and game six and seven against the Clippers in 2014 (24 and 33 points, respectively). The only real clunker was game seven against Cleveland two years ago (6 of 19, 2 assists to 4 turnovers), but Klay was possibly worse (6 of 17, 2 of 10 from three). I wouldn't call Durant clutch, but I wouldn't call him a choker either. If anything, he has flaws as a player that tend to get exposed when the floor gets cramped and the physicality increases. There's no greater indictment on him as a player than Houston daring them to run their offense through him and them (maybe) finally figuring out that it's better to have the ball in Steph's hands. He's still an incredible player who will serve his purpose, but I feel stupid for wondering last year if he was closing the gap on LeBron. Needless to say my gameplan would not be to go through Draymond and Livingston in game seven over Steph and KD. [/QUOTE]

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