Is Stephen Curry ever going to recover after the worst humiliation in the finals ever

[Derivative]

We all seen that Curry is the type of player that thrives and swags when things are going his way, but withers and chokes when things get tough and when things are not going his way.

Now that he's starred in the biggest choke in NBA Finals history, lost with a 73 win team, lost with a 3-1 lead with HCA, getting humiliate multiple times by Lebron, getting the game 7 game winner shot in his face, and missing the potential game-tying shot. Is he ever going to recover his swag and his game?


Based on what we've observed, I would say no. Curry peaked in OKC.

[miggyme1]

We all seen that Curry is the type of player that thrives and swags when things are going his way, but withers and chokes when things get tough and when things are not going his way.

Now that he's starred in the biggest choke in NBA Finals history, lost with a 73 win team, lost with a 3-1 lead with HCA, getting humiliate multiple times by Lebron, getting the game 7 game winner shot in his face, and missing the potential game-tying shot. Is he ever going to recover his swag and his game?


Based on what we've observed, I would say no. Curry peaked in OKC.


:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

[newbetterbucs07]

It's a valid question. He wasn't even great in the finals last year either. 2 straight MVP's, but 0-22 in FMVP votes. Getting outplayed by a 24 year old this year, gave up the series clinching shot and couldn't even hit the rim when he had his chance. You know this stuff is starting to get to his head and we saw it on full display during these finals. The Cavs may have permanently mind ****ed the fraud.

[Derivative]

:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

curry is mentally weak, as seen in the OKC and cavs series

[miggyme1]

It's a valid question. He wasn't even great in the finals last year either. 2 straight MVP's, but 0-22 in FMVP votes. Getting outplayed by a 24 year old this year, gave up the series clinching shot and couldn't even hit the rim when he had his chance. You know this stuff is starting to get to his head and we saw it on full display during these finals. The Cavs may have permanently mind ****ed the fraud.


age determines greatness now? smh...where do these clowns come from???

[BlazerRed]

Once a cuck, always a cuck.

[miggyme1]

curry is mentally weak, as seen in the OKC and cavs series


I question if you even know what that means. Going for the bulls record really drained them in the End. Tank just looked empty....and they still came one possession away from winning the title. Next year I expect to see minutes handled a little differently and I think curry will once again be right in the middle of the MVP race.

[Kiddlovesnets]

He will never, but anyway hes declining so hes not getting another ring even if he recovers.

[newbetterbucs07]

age determines greatness now? smh...where do these clowns come from???

No, but getting outplayed by a guy that young drains confidence when you're the supposed MVP. I can understand Lebron, but the UMVP got destroyed and owned all series by 2 players on the other team. :lol He's a fraud.

[atljonesbro]

LeBron will always have the title for most humiliating finals ever

[Goldrush25]

He'll be better because of this.

It's just that last year, he got to skip a step in winning a championship. Most great champions had to withstand a heartbreaking loss before they come back and win it. Last year because of circumstance, he never was challenged. This year he was challenged and didn't know how to handle it. By the virtue of his team's greatness, he got this far but they were all shook.

What happened this year is what would've happened last year if Cleveland had been squad up.

[Derivative]

LeBron will always have the title for most humiliating finals ever

And now has the title for the greatest finals ever, he's redeemed.

[BlakFrankWhite]

Excellent post by OP

Great read

[HylianNightmare]

Yes

[miggyme1]

No, but getting outplayed by a guy that young drains confidence when you're the supposed MVP. I can understand Lebron, but the UMVP got destroyed and owned all series by 2 players on the other team. :lol He's a fraud.


did curry crown himself the umvp or did the voters??

[moongaze]

It's a lesson for him. He needs to add more to his game. The cavs showed that all his three pointers don't matter. He needs to improve his basketball iq big time. He averaged more turnovers than assists this series. He also needs to work on his midrange game and penetration. He should watch more Kyrie tape and try to work done of his game into his.

30 percent shooting in a game his team needed him most will haunt him for some time

[KiiiiNG]

Curry peaked in OKC.

[Derivative]

I predict next year curry's PER will be less than 28.

[Hey Yo]

We all seen that Curry is the type of player that thrives and swags when things are going his way, but withers and chokes when things get tough and when things are not going his way.

Now that he's starred in the biggest choke in NBA Finals history, lost with a 73 win team, lost with a 3-1 lead with HCA, getting humiliate multiple times by Lebron, getting the game 7 game winner shot in his face, and missing the potential game-tying shot. Is he ever going to recover his swag and his game?
Can't front on that ^^^^^^

Pure FACTS

[Lebronxrings]

If this were Lebron the entire world would bash him for YEARS.

Its time we do the same thing for curry. :D

[tpols]

of course.. you guys are all prisoners of the moment.. curry may not be top 10 GOAT potential but he certainly has Dirk ish potential. People forget Dirk choked away a 2-0 pretty much a 3-0 lead in the Finals in 2006, and then took a 67 win team the next year to a first round loss. Dirk was called soft, a choker etc all the same stuff as steph right now ... 5 years later he led one of the most dominant title runs in NBA history w/ shootin the ball. Thats the thing about shooting, it never goes away. Curry could have nash like longevity for all we know and rattle off a few superstar titles.. never know.

So Curry could.. next year, few years from now, whenever, catch fire and shut you guys up again. There have been many players that were considered better than Curry that had worse playoff series than he just had.. Lebron, Kobe, Wade, Garnett, Dirk we could run down the list.. all great players have had their low points.

[warriorfan]

I predict next year curry's PER will be less than 28.

less than 28

damn that sucks

:lol

[warriorfan]

of course.. you guys are all prisoners of the moment.. curry may not be top 10 GOAT potential but he certainly has Dirk ish potential. People forget Dirk choked away a 2-0 pretty much a 3-0 lead in the Finals in 2006, and then took a 67 win team the next year to a first round loss. Dirk was called soft, a choker etc all the same stuff as steph right now ... 5 years later he led one of the most dominant title runs in NBA history w/ shootin the ball. Thats the thing about shooting, it never goes away. Curry could have nash like longevity for all we know and rattle off a few superstar titles.. never know.

So Curry could.. next year, few years from now whenever, catch fire and shut you guys up again. There have been many players that were considered better than Curry that had worse playoff series than he just had.. Lebron, Kobe, Wade, Garnett, Dirk we could run down the list.. all great players have had their low points.

Dirk didn't even suffer a major MCL injury during the playoffs too.

[Derivative]

Dirk didn't even suffer a major MCL injury during the playoffs too.

I applaud you effort, but belief does not equal reality.

[Kiddlovesnets]

less than 28

damn that sucks

:lol

I think even less than 25, hes declining and will be washed up in no more than 2 years.

[Derivative]

less than 28

damn that sucks

:lol

that's a HUGE drop from 30+ PER

[PejaNowitzki]

Curry needs to get healthy and he needs to stop looking to shoot first so often. Being more focused on distributing the ball instead of trying to see how closely to the halfcourt line he can knock down shots from would make them a better team in the playoffs.

[Rake2204]

It's a lesson for him. He needs to add more to his game. The cavs showed that all his three pointers don't matter. He needs to improve his basketball iq big time. He averaged more turnovers than assists this series. He also needs to work on his midrange game and penetration. He should watch more Kyrie tape and try to work done of his game into his.

30 percent shooting in a game his team needed him most will haunt him for some timeThat was kind of the odd thing about his postseason run this year. His field goal percentages in the paint and in the restricted area were astronomical for a guard throughout the regular season. It seemed like he was always two steps ahead of the defense for the vast majority of the year. Each time it looked like, "Oh boy, he's about to get destroyed by Dwight Howard, Curry would have some kind of crafty finish that he'd make look so easy.

I believe he shot 66 percent from the restricted area in the regular season, which placed him fifth in the NBA behind only DeAndre Jordan, Dwight Howard, Hassan Whiteside, and LeBron James. That number dropped to something like 52 percent in the postseason and 47 percent in the finals.

I understand the kneejerk reaction is to say that he couldn't handle the defense in the postseason but after watching him all year, and the shots he was finishing under serious pressure, from the oddest angles, he looked like a completely different human in the paint during the playoffs. Suddenly even mostly open layups weren't even a sure thing, and that's alarming when you're talking about a guy who hit nearly 70 percent of those shots for the first 80 games of the year.

[Height Freak]

We all seen that Curry is the type of player that thrives and swags when things are going his way, but withers and chokes when things get tough and when things are not going his way.

Now that he's starred in the biggest choke in NBA Finals history, lost with a 73 win team, lost with a 3-1 lead with HCA, getting humiliate multiple times by Lebron, getting the game 7 game winner shot in his face, and missing the potential game-tying shot. Is he ever going to recover his swag and his game?


Based on what we've observed, I would say no. Curry peaked in OKC.

It's very rare for Betas to turn in Alphas

[AcquiringSteak]

People seem to forget that Stephen curry was born with a silver spoon, always had anything he wanted and had the road paved (just imagine being the kid of a decent nba player). He showed that he doesn't have the grit and determination, that we see in Lebron where everything he did was EARNED AND NOT GIVEN. So yeah he'll probably be over it, but his road has been so easy which will help him.

[AintNoSunshine]

I question if you even know what that means. Going for the bulls record really drained them in the End. Tank just looked empty....and they still came one possession away from winning the title. Next year I expect to see minutes handled a little differently and I think curry will once again be right in the middle of the MVP race.
Was his tank empty in G1 as well where he scored a whopping 10 points? Cut the excuses. The stage is simply too big for him and Klay too really.

[miggyme1]

People seem to forget that Stephen curry was born with a silver spoon, always had anything he wanted and had the road paved (just imagine being the kid of a decent nba player). He showed that he doesn't have the grit and determination, that we see in Lebron where everything he did was EARNED AND NOT GIVEN. So yeah he'll probably be over it, but his road has been so easy which will help him.


yea playing four years at Davidson really showed how spoiled he is.SMH

[miggyme1]

Was his tank empty in G1 as well where he scored a whopping 10 points? Cut the excuses. The stage is simply too big for him and Klay too really.


The same stage he was on last year and won. Yea makes a lot of sense kid. And of course if he was gassed the whole playoffs he was gassed game 1. Stop asking dumb questions. Team was running on fumes and it was apparent in the okc series.......and still came a minute away from winning it all this year.

[34-24 Footwork]

Lol. Steph Cucky really shit the bed in a way that I'm really not accustomed to seeing.

But he'll be back..

Hopefully he gets his ass in the weight room and start looking like a grown man (even though sources says he deadlifts 400Lb)

He needs upper body strength. Dude gets ragdolled far too often on the court.

Needs to play out of mid post more often, as well. His mid range is so nice that I'm not sure why he doesn't get more of them.

[riseagainst]

no way. Look at what happened to Derrick Rose after LeBeast destroyed him in 2011.

[CJ Mustard]

Nah, his career is over. Might as well retire.

[miggyme1]

Lol. Steph Cucky really shit the bed in a way that I'm really not accustomed to seeing.

But he'll be back..

Hopefully he gets his ass in the weight room and start looking like a grown man (even though sources says he deadlifts 400Lb)

He needs upper body strength. Dude gets ragdolled far too often on the court.

Needs to play out of mid post more often, as well. His mid range is so nice that I'm not sure why he doesn't get more of them.


I guess steve nash,ai,isiah Thomas, tony parker,john Stockton, mark price needed upper body strength too??

[KyrieTheFuture]

Lol. Steph Cucky really shit the bed in a way that I'm really not accustomed to seeing.

But he'll be back..

Hopefully he gets his ass in the weight room and start looking like a grown man (even though sources says he deadlifts 400Lb)

He needs upper body strength. Dude gets ragdolled far too often on the court.

Needs to play out of mid post more often, as well. His mid range is so nice that I'm not sure why he doesn't get more of them.
Yea and KD benches 300

[34-24 Footwork]

I guess steve nash,ai,isiah Thomas, tony parker,john Stockton, mark price needed upper body strength too??

Steve Nash is a REALLY BAD EXAMPLE bro...take from a Lakers fan.

Little fakkit broke his back carrying his suitcase.

Overall body strength could've helped him prolong his career

[KyrieTheFuture]

Steve Nash is a REALLY BAD EXAMPLE bro...take from a Lakers fan.

Little fakkit broke his back carrying his suitcase.

Overall body strength could've helped him prolong his career
Dude played until he was 40. The **** you talking about prolonging his career?

[34-24 Footwork]

Yea and KD benches 300

:lol :lol

Not the same. But I see where you're going with that. However, someone with the explosiveness of Westbrook is definitely capable of deadlifts of deadlifting that much.

Bogut said that about Curry by the way.

[34-24 Footwork]

Dude played until he was 40. The **** you talking about prolonging his career?

He was tough as nails. But him being a little bit stronger would've preserved his body for more than a handful of games in his last 2 seasons.

That's all I'm saying.

[Mr. Jabbar]

We all seen that Curry is the type of player that thrives and swags when things are going his way, but withers and chokes when things get tough and when things are not going his way.

LeCurry

[KyrieTheFuture]

I'd believe WB can hit like 325 for high reps. I'd be shocked to see him do 400 but I've been shocked by many athletes.

No argument there on Nash. Dude was a bit of a soft body for sure.

[warriorfan]

Curry is going to be able to rest his injured knee and get healthy and come back better than ever

All this "is Steph ever gonna recover?" shit is absurd

Steph is a full grown man, full grown men dont get shook

It's wishful thinking to say that Steph is just going to go away because he couldn't play up to his normal standards after suffering an MCL injury

Curry will be back, GS will be back in the Finals, and Curry will still be dominating

Next year we will see if LeBron can catch Golden State with Curry, Iguodala, Bogut injured, and Draymond suspended

Doubt it doe

Remember: as you read this post, Curry's MCL is healing