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Originally Posted by sygazelle
Thanks for agreeing. But, I'm confused about your comment on defense. In your original post you were talking about lack of defense against Curry's offense. In this post, you talk about Curry on defense. Now, are you saying he is not a great defender? As a guard, his rebound and block stats are not great, but he happens to be number 1 in the nba this season in steals. I think the notion that Curry is not good on defense is myth.
http://www.knbr.com/2016/03/29/a-bre...good-defender/ |
Curry is a lot better version of AI/Miller/Allen, he knows the game and has great handle and is a very smart player, he is smarter than most people give him credit. Which is why you hear a lot of ex-players say yea he is only great shooter. The defense in this league along with his very good teammates allow him to avg 30/game in regular season. He is not a killer on his OWN, he cannot handle Lebron's defense for full game.
As for his own defense, you cannot rely on curry to guard lebron or westbrook for that matter (
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/05/step...rriors-thunder). Not saying westbrook is better than Curry, he is not, but great stealing ability does not put him in same conversation as Gary Payton. Can you imagine curry trying to defend jordan/kobe/wade/magic, not for a minute. He needs to have great finals performances and MVPs before getting any where near the top 10 of all time.