Steph Curry's 2015 Finals - Most Underrated Performance of All Time?

[warriorfan]

Steph Curry 2015 Finals Stats

26/5/6/2/ 59% TS



Perhaps the most critical segment of this series came at the end of the third quarter of Game 4, Cleveland cutting the Warriors lead to three. The Q was rocking. The Finals hung in the balance.

Curry calmly called for the ball, shook a defender and drained a three, pushing Golden State to a six-point lead. In a reversal of roles, a gassed LeBron tried to answer with a three of his own at the buzzer, only to miss badly. When James went to the bench to rest at the start of the fourth quarter, the Warriors seized control of the game and the Finals.

Curry finished with 22 that night. He then dropped 37, including 17 in the fourth quarter, in Game 5. On Tuesday, he dropped a couple of massive threes to help stem a fourth-quarter Cleveland surge, then when double-teamed, hit a wide-open Klay Thompson for another.

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[SIZE="3"][I]Not only did Curry average an MVP-like 26 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals in 43 minutes per game, but as Kerr told his point guard, sometimes a point guard has to put his own game now in favor of managing the game for his teammates.

That is what Curry relayed when he said in the postgame press conference, "The Finals are not that different from normal NBA games. It's just the spotlight is different, and soar are the expectations. When you have an average game, you find out in the Finals that people were expecting more. But really, that stuff doesn't matter. It's all about winning. That's what I've learned. I just need to impact games, be myself every other night, do other things to help my team win and be OK with that. Manage the game from a point-guard standpoint, find a way to win and that's what we did

[warriorfan]

Steph Curry 2015 Finals Highlights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrSbTz19T8)

[SouBeachTalents]

0/11

Not even a top 10 Finals performance by a perimeter player since 2000

[bigkingsfan]

No his 2016 was.

[warriorfan]

0/11

Not even a top 10 Finals performance by a perimeter player since 2000

Interesting take

Would you care to list 10 better performances?

[warriorfan]

No his 2016 was.

His 2016 Finals performance was underrated as well when you take into consideration that he was battling injury throughout the entire postseason

[bigkingsfan]

His 2016 Finals performance was underrated as well when you take into consideration that he was battling injury throughout the entire postseason
Of course is was underrated, Thompson should have caught that behind the back pass.

[Fire Colangelo]

Interesting take

Would you care to list 10 better performances?

Iverson '01
Kobe '01
Kidd '02
Kobe '02
Billups '04
Wade '06
Kobe '09
Kobe '10
Wade '11
LeBron '12
Durant '12
Lebron '13
Lebron '14
Lebron '15
Iggy '15
Lebron '16
Kyrie '16

Curry probably makes top 20 finals performances by a perimeter player since 2000 tho.

[LAZERUSS]

Chokurry, the healthiest and most rested player in the Finals in BOTH '15 and '16...played in a total of 13 Finals games. In those 13 games, he played well in exactly... TWO of them.

[GrapeApe]

Against a team that was missing their 2nd and 3rd best players? The active roster for that Cavs team is easily one of the worst in finals history. Curry's performance was underwhelming given the curcumstances.

[warriorfan]

Iverson '01
Kobe '01
Kidd '02
Kobe '02
Billups '04
Wade '06
Kobe '09
Kobe '10
Wade '11
LeBron '12
Durant '12
Lebron '13
Lebron '14
Lebron '15
Iggy '15
Lebron '16
Kyrie '16

Curry probably makes top 20 finals performances by a perimeter player since 2000 tho.

Allen Iverson 2001 -35/5/3/2/ 49% TS - No
Kobe Bryant 2001 - 24/7/5/1/ 50% TS - No
Kobe Bryant 2002 - 26/6/5/2/ 62% TS - No
Jason Kidd 2002 - 20/7/10/1/ 49% TS - No
Chauncy Billups 04 - 21/3/5/1 69% TS - No
Dwyane Wade 2011 - 26/7/5/1 61% TS - No
LeBron James 2012 - 28/10/7/1 55% TS - No
Kevin Durant 2012 - 30/6/2/1 65% TS - No
LeBron James 2013 - 25/11/7/2 52% TS - No
LeBron James 2015 - 35/13/9/1 47% TS - No
Andre Iguodala 2015 - 16/5/4/1 58% TS - No
Kyrie Irving 2015 - 27/4/4/2 56% TS - No

[Spurs m8]

0/22

[Bankaii]

Iverson '01
Kobe '01
Kidd '02
Kobe '02
Billups '04
Wade '06
Kobe '09
Kobe '10
Wade '11
LeBron '12
Durant '12
Lebron '13
Lebron '14
Lebron '15
Iggy '15
Lebron '16
Kyrie '16

Curry probably makes top 20 finals performances by a perimeter player since 2000 tho.
There's a couple indiscreet with but for the most part damn Cucksfan roasted again:roll:

[ShawkFactory]

No.

He got outplayed by dellevadova in two of the games.

[Sarcastic]

It seemed like a lot of his 4th quarter points were from stat padding, and not really clutch. Just because you score in the 4th, does not mean it's clutch. 4th quarter can very easily be stat padding, just as much as it can be clutch.

[warriorfan]

It seemed like a lot of his 4th quarter points were from stat padding, and not really clutch. Just because you score in the 4th, does not mean it's clutch. 4th quarter can very easily be stat padding, just as much as it can be clutch.
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Perhaps the most critical segment of this series came at the end of the third quarter of Game 4, Cleveland cutting the Warriors lead to three. The Q was rocking. The Finals hung in the balance.

Curry calmly called for the ball, shook a defender and drained a three, pushing Golden State to a six-point lead. In a reversal of roles, a gassed LeBron tried to answer with a three of his own at the buzzer, only to miss badly. When James went to the bench to rest at the start of the fourth quarter, the Warriors seized control of the game and the Finals.

Curry finished with 22 that night. He then dropped 37, including 17 in the fourth quarter, in Game 5. On Tuesday, he dropped a couple of massive threes to help stem a fourth-quarter Cleveland surge, then when double-teamed, hit a wide-open Klay Thompson for another.

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[Spurs m8]

It seemed like a lot of his 4th quarter points were from stat padding, and not really clutch. Just because you score in the 4th, does not mean it's clutch. 4th quarter can very easily be stat padding, just as much as it can be clutch.

C'mon mate, Warriorfag doesn't do logic, he just picks and chooses to help with his daily meltdown

[LAZERUSS]

Kerr and Warrior ownership were so horrified by Curry getting shut down by a role player in Delli in '15, and then slaughtered by a much better player in Kyrie in '16...that they immediately went after KD with all guns blazing.

In other words,...they were waving the white flag...and then handing the keys to Durant.

[GrapeApe]

Allen Iverson 2001 -35/5/3/2/ 49% TS - No
Kobe Bryant 2001 - 24/7/5/1/ 50% TS - No
Kobe Bryant 2002 - 26/6/5/2/ 62% TS - No
Jason Kidd 2002 - 20/7/10/1/ 49% TS - No
Chauncy Billups 04 - 21/3/5/1 69% TS - No
Dwyane Wade 2011 - 26/7/5/1 61% TS - No
LeBron James 2012 - 28/10/7/1 55% TS - No
Kevin Durant 2012 - 30/6/2/1 65% TS - No
LeBron James 2013 - 25/11/7/2 52% TS - No
LeBron James 2015 - 35/13/9/1 47% TS - No
Andre Iguodala 2015 - 16/5/4/1 58% TS - No
Kyrie Irving 2015 - 27/4/4/2 56% TS - No

Are you saying no to all of those as in they weren't better than '15 Curry? Some of those stat-lines are CLEARLY better. Kobe in '02, Wade in '11, Lebron and Durant in '12, Lebron in '13, and Lebron in '15 are all better performances. An argument can be made for '16 Irving as well. Hell, Lebron in '15 got more FMVP votes and his team lost.

And btw, Wade's stat-line in 2011 was 27/7/5/2/2. Your rounding needs a little work.

[warriorfan]

Are you saying no to all of those as in they weren't better than '15 Curry? Some of those stat-lines are CLEARLY better. Kobe in '02, Wade in '11, Lebron and Durant in '12, Lebron in '13, and Lebron in '15 are all better performances. An argument can be made for '16 Irving as well. Hell, Lebron in '15 got more FMVP votes and his team lost.

Stat-lines are not everything

Kobe in 02 was playing next to Shaquile Oneal...You want to know what Curry's numbers would be if he was in that type of situation? Curry was drawing Shaquile Oneal type attention from the defense all series during his Finals performance, otoh Kobe was the main beneficiary from the defensive attention that Shaq was getting. It is apples to oranges.

Same deal with Irving in '16. He was playing next to LeBron James and Kevin Love while Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and Andrew Bogut were all missing games due to suspension or injury. Once again put Curry in those same circumstances and he would have put up numbers that put Irving's to shame. (He actually already did; 26/5/6/2/ 59% TS > 27/4/4/2/ 56% TS)

[TommyGriffin]

Uh oh. Warriorfan is starting to get irrefutable again.

[hiphopfan777]

Curry never teamed up with other superstars twice. , doesnt turn his teammates into spot up shooters

[SouBeachTalents]

Curry never teamed up with other superstars twice. , doesnt turn his teammates into spot up shooters

You are easily one of the dumbest posters on this board