Why Stephen Curry's FMVP Should NOT Change Anything

Stephen Curry winning NBA Finals MVP doesn’t change anything and here’s why. Stephen Curry will never win a title. Steph Curry can’t carry a team. You can’t win by just shooting 3s. Curry is past his prime. The Warriors only won because of KD. Curry’s a playoff choker. Curry is not dominant… **Yeah Curry put that to sleep.** The Warriors won a championship and Stephen Curry won a finals MVP. The entirety of mainstream media has branded this narrative that Stephen Curry is a playoff choker. This video was posted by ESPN 2 years ago and lemme guess, it’s showing 2016 which is not great. We hold him to this high standard because Curry is knocking on the door of being a top 10 player all-time, but this playoff choker narrative has followed him. Stephen Curry has actually holds some ridiculous clutch playoff records. Curry holds the most, second most, and 5th most points scored in a 4th quarter in the NBA finals in the 2010s. More than LeBron, Kyrie, KD, Kawhi, and even his own teammate Klay. That espn video showed Curry missing this shot in Game 4 against the Blazers in 2016. And what about in 2016 in Game 5 against the Blazers. The game goes to overtime and well Curry had the MOST POINTS in NBA history in overtime with 17. 17 points in 5 minutes to send the Blazers home. But let’s really look at Curry in the playoffs and NBA finals because he’s actually one of the greatest playoff performers ever. I’ve made a video explaining the 2016 NBA Finals, how Curry has acknowledged years later that his knee was no where near 100% and that he felt like he couldn’t drive by Love quick enough before the help came so he settled for that 3. But no excuse, Curry choked. The turnovers, the missed 3s. But for that to rewrite some of the playoffs and finals records is like saying LeBron’s 2011 NBA finals means that he chokes in the playoffs like he didn’t rename Toronto LeBronto. To disprove the narrative, let’s see how inconsistent Curry’s finals performances have really been. I could say he was the first player in NBA history to average 26 and 6 assits in an NBA Finals and not win finals mvp and he’s done it 3 times. That’s consistent but you’re looking for game to game. We can use a general metric like Gamescore to see, the same metric Jxmyhighroller used to find the best game ever. I took an average of all the game scores in the finals of the greatest players, Durant has the highest average, part of that is him being right next to Curry and getting open dunks…Jordan is second, LeBron in 10 finals has consistently been amazing except for 2011. Magic and Larry are not too far off, Shaq’s dominance still shows up here. Where’s Curry? Right here. Smack in the middle. Among the greatest of the greatest NBA players in NBA history. That doesn’t scream bad playoff performer. In fact, that just means he’s like most finals performers. Curry has 6 games in 6 finals in which he has a single digit game score. He had 4 games under 5. Jordan’s lowest game score was 7.7, only 2 games in 6 finals with single digit game scores, and has multiple series where his game score never went below 17. LeBron’s low is 5, he has 3 single digit gamescore games, all losses. He also has not so good games but we’re talking about the worst statistical games. **However Gamescore doesn’t capture everything.** It’ll capture pure production based on points assists rebounds field goal percentages along with steals, blocks, fouls, and turnovers. That means that if you contest a lot of shots without blocking and cause misses, it won’t capture it. If you’re running around screens being a decoy, it won’t capture it. And it definitely doesn’t capture the all out defense thrown at Curry. I’m going to let this play from Jxmyhighroller’s video. **Curry’s gamescore does not reflect impact because these base stats that we package everything up in a nice digestible format, advanced stats try, but we can see it, if you want to see just check my videos on the Curry Effect or Curry having a bad game.**