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Stephen Curry Just EXPOSED The NBA Media
Stephen Curry just exposed NBA media by carrying the Warriors and winning FMVP, and it’s time we call him dominant. I’m recording this as the Warriors are dogging the Celtics right now in Game 6. Curry is carving the defense and I’m just thinking to myself…this is the same Celtics defense that made Durant not wanna shoot, the same defense that couldn’t stop Giannis, but have two games shooting under 40%. We were told that this is one of the best defenses in the past few years. And while the Celtics shortcoming was their streaky offense, like why are you not passing or shooting this, the Warriors were able to score 110 points per game. And the entire Warriors offense no matter if you’re drop coveraging or not letting him touch the ball revolves around Stephen Curry. This is a short video meant to start a conversation, Charles Barkley. The Curry FMVP videos are coming, but I just want to understand. When are we going to admit that Curry is dominant? The NBA media has been unable to wrap their heads around Curry. They don’t know how to evaluate the greatest shooter ever because calling him that still isn’t enough to capture his greatness. His dominance is not traditional. It’s not posting up, not dunking over players, shooting midranges, he’s a point guard. And this through the wire podcast clip got my interest. Steph Curry is the best player 6’ 3” and under. But all the people he’s compared to, LeBron, Magic, heck KD, all of them have shown the traditional way, powering through, getting the ball in the low block elbow iso. Curry doesn’t fit any of that, but he dominates. He runs off screens, he makes defenders forget where they are, he has the defense in a panic all the way to half court. Heck in college, he was doubled for an entire game even when he didn’t have the ball. Defending Curry is mentally exhausting. Curry has faced double and triple teams while other stars got single coverage. I think it’s time to change the definition of dominance. And now the media is forced to acknowledge that. But don’t forget they are the same media that were telling you 3 years ago that Curry couldn’t carry a team. And at every level, Curry has had to prove them wrong. From leading the league in scoring when his peers said he won’t get the same looks without Klay and KD to now being the main man again winning a championship as if 2015 didn’t exist. If the 3 pointer is now the most important shot in the NBA and this guy is the best to ever do it, that’s dominant. But what do you think? And where do you rank Steph Curry all-time now.
Why James Harden Keeps Struggling In The Playoffs
James Harden struggled in the NBA Playoffs again. But why? If you use my link to sign up for NBA Top Shot and purchase a $9 Starter Pack, Top Shot will give you $20 back so you can start building your collection with Moments from the Marketplace: https://hoo.ps/mj2kallday #Harden #NBA Twitter- @MJ2KALLDAY Gaming/Streaming- @MJPLAYSALLDAY And look there is the argument that he just ran into the Warriors dynasty**. Did he run into that against the Kawhi-less Spurs in Game 6 at home. What about when Kevin Durant went down in Game 5 of 2019 and wasn’t even there in Game 6? In 21 elimination games in his career, Harden averages 24 points, 5.7 assists and 4.5 turnovers while shooting 42.5% from the field and 32.5% from 3. **More like Hammered Hard** So now that we got the fact that he does struggle, but why does Harden struggle in the playoffs? If Harden isn’t scoring, if he’s turning the ball over, he doesn’t provide other value. His defense is shaky at best. Man will not move on offense. And he’s just not great at catch and shoot 3s, shooting 33.8% this season. In the past, he’s been an average 36% catch and shoot 3s. But it hasn’t mattered because Harden has always been an isolation player. Like isolating more than entire teams. In Harden’s MVP year in the regular season, Harden shot 55.2% effective field goal and but in the playoffs, that goes to 46.6% from the effective field goal. Going from 71st percentile in the league all the way down to 43rd percentile. **Harden in general is an average shooter by today’s NBA standards.** When your primary schtick is that you’re an isolation player that can generate half-court offense, that typically means you perform in the playoffs, as long as you have more than 2-3 moves. In the playoffs, defenses hone in on the 1-2 go to moves of stars. We saw it with the Celtics versus Durant. We also have the reverse where teams will let stars go off but no one else. The Spurs would do that against LeBron and make him into a shooter. With Harden, part of that is taken care of without the defense doing nothing. **Yes, I’m talking about free throws.** (Harden has averaged over 10 free throws a game in the regular season since joining the Rockets. In the playoffs, he averages 9.1 free throws, so not much variation if you really think about it. But perhaps, if you look at the extremes in the playoffs, in nearly 1/3 of Harden’s games under 10 free throws attempted, he scored 15 points or under, 31 games out of 97. In games with 10 free throw attempts or over, there’s only 2 in 48 games. The free throws are a foundation for his game, but playoff basketball games can vary wildly depending on the officiating. **And Harden’s performances vary greatly because it, he has extremely bad outlier performances that cost his teams the series.** Charles Barkley called Harden "the best one-on-one player I've ever seen in my life.” The supposed greatest scorer in our NBA era has had some of the worst playoff performances by a superstar in NBA history. 3 of 20 from the field. 13 turnovers in a single game. We’ve already talked about Game 6 against a Kawhi-less Spurs. Keep in mind that the Rockets also designed the whole team around Harden for him to iso and have shooters all around. What about game 7 in 2020 against his former teammate Chris Paul, 4 of 15 from the field? But his playmaking was solid even is Chris Paul outplayed him and Harden had the block. But maybe there’s a simple answer. Harden gets tired. Harden has never been super athletic, he’s been crafty using his weight and shiftiness to throw defenders off, it takes more effort for him to go at that speed, ****The regular season drains on him, especially when he’s logging all those minutes That’s what Mike D’Antoni said for 2017. Steve Kerr has said that he knows that Harden would get tired because of how much he dribbles and the constant pick and rolls. And now it’s even worse because he’s lost quickness, he’s lost his first step so now all his shooting inefficiencies are out in the open. We’re seeing Harden isolate and not get anything. Over and over and over again. He’s not really able to get by consistently, his slightly above average 3 pointer isn’t enough to be a superstar. But now, because he’s not as shifty, defenders can stay up on Harden more and still cut him off for the drive. So Maxey is actually leading the Sixers in scoring without Embiid. Harden is no longer the isolation scorer he once was, and he’s already struggled with the playoffs.
The TRUTH About Kevin Durant
Kevin Durant is not who everyone has been saying he is. It’s not the Celtics sweep, it’s something that we’ve seen for a long time. #Durant #NBA #Curry Twitter- @MJ2KALLDAY Gaming/Streaming- @MJPLAYSALLDAY For many years, whenever Kevin Durant has been healthy, he has been considered either the best player in the world or in the top 3. Just last year, he went on a tear in the playoffs, specifically against the Bucks. Giannis even called him the best player. 2 rings, 2 finals MVPS with Curry and the Warriors even though defenders were leaving Durant wide open to get to Curry and that Curry deserved one of those final MVPs. We know KD is on twitter religiously. He even liked a tweet saying the Curry needed another MVP and three-all stars to get the job done. And that Kevin Durant was better. **Uhm, Durant, you know you needed another MVP and three-All stars to get the job done.** What if we look at Durant’s career without Curry? 4 scoring titles, 1 NBA finals appearance, 1 MVP, 7x All-Star, 5 All-NBA First Teams, all before the age of 28. But KD and the Thunder weren’t winners. They were really good, the young trio of Russ, Harden, and KD were ahead of schedule when they made the finals in 2012. Despite the Thunder losing Harden, the Thunder were still really good when healthy, 60 wins in 2013, 59 in 2014, 55, in 2016. They were favorites to come out of the West in 2013 and 2014, forget the Lakers failed superteam. Sure in 2013, Westbrook got hurt in the playoffs, but what about 2014? They lost to the Spurs playing hero ball. Westbrook had a 35% usage rate, KD with 29.4%, and they couldn’t keep up. We take out the championships away from Durant and we get one of the greatest scorers of all time. A near 7 footer with insane skill, but not a leader. Kevin Durant for years complained about the Thunder not having enough ball movement with Westbrook. That the offense was too reliant on himself and Westbrook. Westbrook and Durant both had usage rates above 30%. At the end of his run with the Warriors, Durant made it clear that he felt like he wasn’t part of a group, and that he wanted to dive deeper into his bag, to go away from the motion offense since it didn’t work in the last two rounds of the playoffs. **The Nets was his chance to have his team.** The Nets were KD’s team, not Kyrie’s. Weird for Kyrie because he also wanted his own team and not to be a Robin to a Batman. But I digress. Kyrie stated that this team didn’t need a coach, Durant implied that anyone could step up to be the coach. What this means is that they took on the leadership responsibility all to themselves. It’s why the Nets didn’t really have an offense besides give KD and Kyrie the ball and have them figure it out. So basically, OKC Thunder basketball. These are decisions Durant has made **But as evident in this series, Durant ball doesn’t work against a good team because Durant can struggle to run an offense.** Durant multiple times, especially in Game 3, couldn’t run the offense. Bad decision making, hesitant. And this isn’t the first time KD has struggled. Let’s go back to 2016. The Thunder are up 3-1 against the Warriors. Durant to that point has been solid, 30.8 points, 8.4 rebounds on 43% from the field. And then we have Games 6. OKC is up 8 in the 4th quarter, but Durant goes 1 of 5, 2 crunchtime turnovers, mainly led by bad decision making. Durant goes 10-31 from the field for the entire game. And in Game 7, well Curry outplayed Durant, again. In the last 3 games, Durant averaged 32 pointson 39.5% from the field while Curry averaged 32.7 points, 7.7 assists on 47% from the field, 47% from 3. Durant has guard like skills, but he’s not necessarily a floor general. Similar to shortcomings with Kawhi, except he’s worked on that and tried to pair himself with a floor general like Kyle Lowry or the entire Spurs sytem. Just this season, NBA executives picked Kevin Durant as the most clutch player in the NBA. Durant has hit the second most clutch shots in the playoffs since 2000 and while he has hit some amazing shots, he’s only shooting 33% from the field in those situations, considerably worse than other stars. Kevin Durant as the closer really came from his games against the Cavs which again, even Ty Lue has stated, the Cavs focused mainly on Curry. The gameplan was to double Steph every time he touched the ball. To sit here and argue that KD is better than Steph is a wild statement considering the fact that Steph has 2 MVPs, 2 finals appearances, 1 championship and 2 scoring titles without Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is one of the most gifted scorers in NBA history, a freak of nature. But as we’ve seen time and time again, Durant raises the floor of his team, he’s had some amazing playoff series like against the Clippers in 2014. He has 14 40+ point games in the playoffs.
Why Kevin Durant Is STRUGGLING In The Playoffs
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Things Aren't Looking Good For Giannis Antetokounmpo
NBA All-Stars have been announced, but Giannis is getting taken for granted. #NBA #Giannis #LeBron Gaming/Streaming- @MJPLAYSALLDAY Twitter- @MJ2KALLDAY This is meant to be a quick video because I don’t even know how much I’m supposed to believe in this, and I hope you don’t believe in this. Somehow we’ve become desensitized to Giannis’s greatness and we’ve forgotten. We need to give Giannis his flowers. The guy who put up 50 points, 14 rebounds, and 5 blocks in the closeout game of the NBA finals while oh yeah still handling the ball at the age of 26 last year is now suddenly less than the guy who “we don’t know what he’s going to bring” Ja. No disrespect to you man, you’ve been great, but not MVP. The MVP race has been evolved. Steph was the runaway until the Dom Curse...and well the slump is real. Durant is unfortunately injured which leaves 3 players. The guy who can’t shoot, the boring guy who can’t run fast and Joel Embiid. **Well that’s what the media would want you to believe which again I hope you don’t.** 3 international players, I’ve made a video on Nikola Jokic and why no one cares about him. And Joel Embiid is getting some credit, only takes a streak like this, but we’re here to talk about Giannis because what he’s doing this year is again, ridiculous. In just 32.7 minutes per game, he’s averaging 28.6 points, 11.3 rebounds, 6 assists 1.5 blocks while shooting 53% from the field and a 60.1% true shooting. So even when he’s top 5 in the league in scoring, top 5 in rebounding, top 10 in blocks, top 5 in PER, for years, fans, media, they all get bored. To the point where they stop caring unless he breaks this new standard, not just maintains it. Nevermind that actual improvement in his passing. It’s similar to MVP voter fatigue, phenomenon when one player wins MVP over and over so people crave for something new. The first was with Kareem Abdul Jabbar who won MVP 6 times in 10 years so they changed the vote from players to broadcasters and sportswriters. Other examples include Michael Jordan in 1997 who was fresh off of winning MVP nearly unanimously in 1996. His stats dipped by less than a point, less than a percent field goal, and the Bulls won 69 games! Karl averaged less points, and less win shares and lost the finals to Jordan. And then next year, Jordan had a story, voter fatigue was gone and he won it again. You potentially say the same about LeBron in 2011. He had won in 2009 and 10, but moving to the Heat made him villain number 1 and so despite having better stats than Derrick Rose in nearly every category Rose and having similar records, Rose won. Before the NBA bubble, Giannis was dominating the league, 29.6 points and 13.7 rebounds a game with 5.8 assists in 30.9 minutes a game with the highest PER in the league, highest plus minus in the league, the best defensive player in the league, DPOY, the Bucks with the best record in the NBA. But people were tired of Giannis being at the top even without succeeding in the playoffs and so there was another narrative, another player: LeBron James. Even though the Lakers weren’t as good, even though LeBron was 9th in PER and his teammates Anthony Davis was 4th, even though MVPs couldn’t happen if they were playing with another MVP level player, the agenda for LeBron was pushed. Yup, LeBron despite playing with Anthony Davis who himself was averaging 26. The question with Giannis was always the playoffs and even with that, we saw progression, year by year, figuring out the wall, physical perimeter defenders, big men, all that to average 30.7 points including 35 points per game in the finals, and be dominant defensively. That gave him respect that he deserved for a long time comin, but still not the respect he deserves right now. I understand that stats have become inflated, I understand that records are being broken constantly now, but we should take everything else into context. We don’t even need to compare raw stats. There are only 3 players in NBA history to win MVP, DPOY, and Finals MVP. He’s the first player in NBA history to finish top 20 in 5 major stat categories. Giannis relative to his peers simply put is dominant, above and beyond. But we’re used to him dunking on people, making the craziest blocks, handling the ball at 6’ 11”, post fadeaway, euro stepping. We’ve truly become desensitized. I’m not saying that we need to think that Giannis is MVP, but we need to acknowledge what he is doing. The hype Ja is getting right now is without any accolades, without the best achievements in the sport. Imagine if he had a few MVPs, was doing what Giannis is, we would never hear the end of it.
We Were WRONG About Trae Young, But Not James Harden
Trae Young has been balling in the NBA, other stars have not. Trae's been proving a lot of people wrong. #NBA #Hawks #Trae ...
Stephen Curry Is Doing Something We Have NEVER SEEN
Stephen Curry All-NBA Defense? Curry has never done this... Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MJ2KALLDAY - Enter promo code MJ2KALLDAY for 83% off and 4 extra months for free! Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTve2WeLfhk Twitch- https://www.twitch.tv/mjallday2k Tik Tok- https://vm.tiktok.com/wfx5vW/ Discord- https://discord.gg/RSUxXmU REACTION CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRMHGayBNY&t=516s The OUTRO song is OUT!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SUYj3SUdUw Instagram- @MJ2K_ALLDAY Twitter- @mj2kallday #Curry #NBA #Warriors Stephen Curry just locked up Harden, twice. And now Steph has the best defensive rating amongst all guards. Sure, a lot of that has to do with team defense, with Draymond covering up a lot of mistakes, but let's stop this narrative that Steph is or ever has been a bad defender. I've always been of the mindset that Curry is an average defender that gets picked on because who would choose Draymond, Klay, KD, Barnes, Wiggins, Iguodala as their defender when there's 6' 3" Steph Curry. No one. Steph is a good defender and this year, it's really obvious and here's why. Stats aren't everything, but on defense, Steph lowers opponents overall shooting percentage by 3.8% which is more than Luo Dort's 3.8% and it includes a 10.6% reduction from 3 when compared to each player's average. That's actually ridiculous, he's never reduced 3 point percentage by more than 1% in the last 5 years. In fact most lockdown off ball defenders are barely reducing or actually a higher defensive field goal percentage. It's even better than the GOAT Caruso. So -10% is insane. Steph has always been the weakest link in the Warriors defense. But that doesn't mean he's been a bad defender. Being the worst defender in the starting 5 is relative. That doesn't mean he is a bad defender in absolute terms. That's like saying who's the worst scorer out of Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, and Devin Booker and then also saying Devin Booker is also just bad at scoring. Being 6' 3" with a 6' 4" wingspan doesn't really help Steph defensively and so he compensates by having quick ass hands that are everywhere and moving his feet a lot on the perimeter. You can see that in all the strip steals he gets against players like LeBron and Paul George. His hands are extremely active, I mean just look at how much movement there is. But also understand that Curry knows the team's defensive gameplan and is amazing at leading the ball handler into where the defense wants. He's talked about making the ball handler commit to one side to make it easier to guard. The Warriors have always played small, aggressive switching, and so Curry knows he needs to lead defenses into Draymond, Iggy, and then cover the pass which is why he gets so many steals in the lane. What he's doing this year makes him a good defender. I don't know about all NBA defense level because Curry isn't really tasked with guarding the opposing team's best perimeter player and there are better perimeter defenders, but honestly, if he keeps this up, if the Warriors end up with a top 3 defense, and Curry has more moments bothering or even stopping perimeter players, he should be in the conversation. The fact that I'm even considering this is crazy, but Steph, I want to push the narrative for you. But what do you think? How good is Steph Curry defensively this season?
The Lakers CAN'T Win Unless Russell Westbrook CHANGES This
Russell Westbrook and the Lakers are not doing too well...and it's because Russell Westbrook has to change this. Get Extra today to start building credit with ...
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