Curry and Durant can do what Harden is doing this season

[TheCorporation]

Its impossible for curry to average that because if he even hits 30 ppg the opposing teams are getting blown out of the building. Where as harden plays a sub optimal brand of ball that basically has him going tit for tat with the opponent. Ding0 just tidal waves you,

36?!

How about could he average even just 26 in the Finals?

Before KD
2015: 26 ppg
2016: 22.6 ppg
Average: 24.3


After KD
2017: 26.8
2018: 27.5
Average: 27.1

Total Average: 25.7 ppg

[Stephonit]

Curry held record setting LeBron and Kyrie at bay for 7 games with just 22 ppg. Amazing. Steph is truly a master of the dark arts and possesses arcane basketball skills. Imagine what he'd do if he wasn't drained from taking out 2 MVPs the previous round.

[TheCorporation]

Curry held record setting LeBron and Kyrie at bay for 7 games with just 22 ppg. Amazing. Steph is truly a master of the dark arts and possesses arcane basketball skills. Imagine what he'd do if he wasn't drained from taking out 2 MVPs the previous round.

Klay was drained in the WCF (saved his ass from missing the Finals)
Dray was drained in game 7 Finals (saved Curry from a blow out)

Get your facts straight baby boi

[SouBeachTalents]

Curry held record setting LeBron and Kyrie at bay for 7 games with just 22 ppg. Amazing. Steph is truly a master of the dark arts and possesses arcane basketball skills. Imagine what he'd do if he wasn't drained from taking out 2 MVPs the previous round.

Curry was the 4th best player that series

[Stephonit]

Klay was drained in the WCF (saved his ass from missing the Finals)
Dray was drained in game 7 Finals (saved Curry from a blow out)

Get your facts straight baby boi

Okay so the Warriors were drained and were facing a fresh LeBron who coasted throughout the year and in the Eastern Conference and still took the Cavaliers to 7 games. Yeah that checks out.

[Stephonit]

Curry was the 4th best player that series

The abilities of assassins and wizards aren't obvious to the uninitiated.

[SouBeachTalents]

The abilities of assassins and wizards aren't obvious to the uninitiated.

I guess so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFF4PnCaXE

[And1AllDay]

I guess so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFF4PnCaXE

6/19 with 2 assists when the lights are the brightest

[ronniec]

Really?

So then the fact that all of LBJ's peaks are better or equal to MJ means he doesn't score the ball that well? Do I need to bump all the peak vs peak treads showcasing these facts?

Reg season peak = LBJ won
Finals run = LBJ won
Game Score single game = LBJ won
bla bla bla this isn't new information dude...KEEP UP

Or how about just this:

The original post was about Harden, Curry and KD.

How the fvck there is a MJ vs Lebron discussion here???

Damn it.

[Wally450]

Anyone could do what Harden is doing, but they'd have to chuck and lose their team games in order to get his stats. Harden does it within the flow of the game, which is even more impressive.

[superduper]

those numbers don't mean shit really. It's do long of answer to explain why you obviously just don't get how stats don't mean better.

Half of those stats are b.s anyway. For example jj Reddick had a 101.4 drtg this year. That says it all

Corp why are you avoiding this like the mofuggin plague?!?

You have to be truly out of touch with reality to believe deep down that basketball is played on paper.

[Gileraracer]

Curry would average 39.12PPG with the amount of FGA, 3PA and FTA that Harden has.

[SpaceJam2]

Corp why are you avoiding this like the mofuggin plague?!?

You have to be truly out of touch with reality to believe deep down that basketball is played on paper.

It was already mentioned that as your ORTg rating goes up, your DRtg usually goes down. Did Reddick ALSO have a 125 ORtg? Let me pull some Kawhi numbers for you to get the point across better I guess.

Kawhi has had very low DRtg years 96, 98, etc, but that's also partially because he wasn't doing as much on the offensive end. I hope you're still with me to this point. Okay, so, if you can expend more energy on defensive then you will usually expend less energy on the offensive end. Let's take a look at the examples I just explained

Kawhi

2014
ORtg 116
DRtg 98
Net difference = +18

2015
ORtg 113
DRtg 96
Net difference = +17

2019
ORtg 120
DRtg 105
Net difference = +15

So as you can see, in most instances when ORtg goes up, DRtg goes down. I hope this makes more sense to people when discussing advanced analytics. No I'm not being a dick I just wasn't sure if you understood them so now the forum can be a better place for me to waste my days posting about basketball until I find a job.


*edit* And please don't go searching for an outlier because I'm sure they exist but the point has been made and I hope I've made things clearer. Outliers are exceptions, not the rule. Kawhi was the perfect person to use in this example. The same could probably be done for MJ and LBJ as well.

[PP34Deuce]

To do what HArden is doing you have to:

-Be very offensively skilled
-Have a mindset to attack
-Have the body to hold up

Kyrie, Curry, all can score in bunches quick but they aren't built to play the way Harden can.

Kevin Durant next year I believe will go on a tear like Harden has. He's going to light it up to prove he can do it.

[superduper]

To do what HArden is doing you have to:

-Be very offensively skilled
-Have a mindset to attack
-Have the body to hold up

Kyrie, Curry, all can score in bunches quick but they aren't built to play the way Harden can.

Kevin Durant next year I believe will go on a tear like Harden has. He's going to light it up to prove he can do it.

Kyrie can do it to an extent, he's not shy of physicality on his drives. Curry on the other hand definitely wouldn't hold up. He's too finesse as opposed to physical.