If Durant is so good, then why, with a guy as great as Westbrook on his arm, was he not able to do anything much? He's soft and overrated, and, like Curry, wilts when it matters. Both Curry and Durant suffer from being soft. They're both great during the season with 20 point leads. Crunch time, not so much. Curry to me will always be the enigmatic combination of the greatest shooter I ever saw, by a wide margin, and the guy who threw the ball away on a behind the back pass to Thompson at a critical juncture against the Cavs, causing Thompson to give the greatest WTF look, arms flop at sides look I have ever seen.
GS is like some sort of weird rocky road ice cream with already too many different ingredients. Adding more ingredients is not the answer.
Curry is the best shooter ever and very overrated. He's not a good defender, he's not clutch, and he's not a strong leader. When his shot is not falling, as it wasn't when it mattered last year, he's a liability.
Thompson is awesome, a great defender and team player, and he might be the most underrated player in the league because of who he plays with.
Green is also awesome and a great leader for his team. He is the heart and soul of the Ws, and he's more important than any other player. He carried them at times last year.
Irving won the finals last year. If you were watching, you saw him destroy the Ws. Just destroyed them. His final 3 to win it when the game score was stalled for 4 minutes of regulation was just massive, and it capped off some of the greatest clutch play I've seen in the NBA. They guy is amazing, and he gets better as the pressure builds - he's like the anti-Curry in that regard.
LeBron is getting older, but he's got some gas left in the tank.
So I factor in those things to get the order. LeBron and Irving are the two best players on the court for the finals. If you want regular season wins, you go with Durant and Curry, I guess.
All the pressure is on the Warriors. Little or none on the Cavs. LBJ may have some, worrying about legacy. But nobody else. Coming in dogs.
The Warriors already have the distinction of dropping 2 games against a finals team running Delavedova at the point and for pulling off the greatest choke job in the history of the NBA. So now they add the freakiest Freak in the NBA, making them even stonger on paper. They've lost 1 game since March, or something crazy like that, playing against a broken western conference. Everybody has them winning it easily. Man, if they don't win in blowouts, the pressure is going to be massive. Massive. If they don't win it this year, it will have two effects - 1. The % of people saying LBJ is the GOAT will increase dramatically, and 2. GS will go into the books as the greatest historical chokers in the history of the league.
