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Speaker 1: Steph Curry. It's gonna be a fun one. And then
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Speaker 1: the very end. So number four, Steph Curry is accolades,
Speaker 1: four time NBA champion, best player on two championship teams,
Speaker 1: best or second best player on two championship teams. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what I said about KD. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give either of them credit or for being one
Speaker 1: or two on that team. I'm just gonna keep it
Speaker 1: vague for both of them. Four time first team All NBA,
Speaker 1: nine time All NBA overall, won the scoring Champion, was
Speaker 1: the scoring champion in twenty sixteen in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: led the league in steals in twenty sixteen, won back
Speaker 1: to back regular season MVPs in twenty fifteen in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and won the NBA Finals MVP in twenty and twenty two. Now,
Speaker 1: to be clear, I credit Steph as a two time
Speaker 1: Finals MVP. I thought he deserved to win the in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. That stretched, there was a really bizarre stretch
Speaker 1: from NBA voters where they did this really weird thing
Speaker 1: where they kept like just hawking the box score and
Speaker 1: following narratives instead of looking at the obvious structure of
Speaker 1: the basketball team, like Steph was getting blitzed on every
Speaker 1: single pick and roll out thirty feet from the basket,
Speaker 1: and the Warriors were playing four on three in the
Speaker 1: back end, and Andrea Guadala was getting wide open back
Speaker 1: door cut dunks out of the weak side corner and
Speaker 1: wide open threes out of the weak side corner, and
Speaker 1: everyone looked at his points per game numbers, and then
Speaker 1: the fact that he held Lebron to below average efficiency,
Speaker 1: which was more a product of Kyrie and Kevin Love
Speaker 1: being out and the Warriors really loading up on him.
Speaker 1: There was really no legitimate case for Andrea A. Guidala
Speaker 1: to win the Finals MVP in twenty fifteen, except for people,
Speaker 1: especially in the media, buying into narratives and box scores
Speaker 1: and not really understanding what was happening on the basketball team.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry was by far the best player on the team.
Speaker 1: He was the engine that made everything work. That was
Speaker 1: the case from the first game of the season all
Speaker 1: the way through to the end of the NBA Championship.
Speaker 1: Steph was the one who played super well in the
Speaker 1: pivotal Game five game at home in Golden State, like
Speaker 1: he deserved to win Finals MVP. That's just the way
Speaker 1: I see it. I think that anybody who points to
Speaker 1: you know, one Finals MVP as a downside for Steph
Speaker 1: is being dishonest. In that particular case, I think that
Speaker 1: he was clearly the best player on two championship teams
Speaker 1: and deserves credit as such. His claim to fame is
Speaker 1: that he was the best shooter ever. Now, to be clear,
Speaker 1: simply referring to Steph as the best shooter ever is
Speaker 1: a really big underrepresentation of what Steph can do as
Speaker 1: a basketball player. He was also a top five ball
Speaker 1: handler ever. He's a very gifted scorer. Remember, scoring to
Speaker 1: me is like an art. It's like an improvisational shot
Speaker 1: making thing and like it's hard to explain, but like
Speaker 1: a good score has just a natural feel for how
Speaker 1: to generate baskets in the margins of basketball, like outside
Speaker 1: of your wide open stuff that comes in the flow
Speaker 1: of offense, and Steph has always been very good at that.
Speaker 1: He's the very best off ball player in NBA history.
Speaker 1: He's also an excellent passer. Remember when Mark Jackson had
Speaker 1: him on the ball for the most part, he averaged
Speaker 1: nine assists per game in twenty fourteen, before Steve Kirk
Speaker 1: came in and moved him into a lot more off
Speaker 1: ball situations. He's also a savage competitor. I think he's
Speaker 1: the best leader in the game right now. There's no
Speaker 1: drama with Steph. There's no highs and lows. He just
Speaker 1: keeps a good, even keel throughout the season. He only
Speaker 1: cares about winning, doesn't give a shit about media or
Speaker 1: the way that he's talked about. That's why he invited
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant into that situation. I don't think many stars
Speaker 1: in NBA history would have done so. Steph just only
Speaker 1: cares about winning, and I think that that speaks very
Speaker 1: highly to the type of leader that he is. But
Speaker 1: make no mistake, he is the greatest shooter to ever
Speaker 1: touch a basketball as well. So for fun, I put
Speaker 1: together three stats for you guys to demonstrate just how
Speaker 1: far ahead of the field Steph is as a shooter.
Speaker 1: Y one, Steph has made three point eight threes per
Speaker 1: game in his career. Nobody else in NBA history is
Speaker 1: over three point two points per game, so a significant
Speaker 1: gap there. He also, since the twenty sixteen MVP season,
Speaker 1: is averaging four point seven three pointers made per game.
Speaker 1: Number two, Steph has four seasons with at least three
Speaker 1: hundred made threes. The rest of the players in NBA
Speaker 1: history combine for only two. Last, but not least, in
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen season, Steph made two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: threes off the dribble. Nobody else in the league made
Speaker 1: more than one hundred and twenty six ninety four more
Speaker 1: off the dribble threes than anybody else in the league.
Speaker 1: Among the other eighteen players in the league who made
Speaker 1: at least fifty pull up threes that season, not a
Speaker 1: single one of them managed to crack forty percent, and
Speaker 1: Steph shot forty four percent on them. He basically invented
Speaker 1: high volume pull up three point shooting, and since then
Speaker 1: the league has been trying to catch up. And the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is, even though the league has been trying
Speaker 1: to catch up, Steph has still maintained his lead as
Speaker 1: the best pull up jump shooter in the league. This season,
Speaker 1: there were forty seven players who attempted at least three
Speaker 1: hundred pull up jump shots, and Steph was the only
Speaker 1: player in that list to crack sixty percent in effective
Speaker 1: field goal percentage. He shot forty six percent on pull
Speaker 1: up twos in one hundred and made one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine pull up threes at forty three percent, which
Speaker 1: came out to his sixty one percent effective field goal percentage.
Speaker 1: Only guy in the league with over three hundred makes
Speaker 1: to be over or over three hundred attempts to be
Speaker 1: over sixty percent effective field goal percentage. The very best
Speaker 1: shooter in NBA history, and it is not close now.
Speaker 1: Steph's crowning achievement, in my opinion, was winning the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two NBA Championship and Finals MVP. Now, a lot
Speaker 1: of you guys might think unanimous MVP in twenty sixteen, right,
Speaker 1: But I want to tell his story because I think
Speaker 1: Steph's career path is one of the more interesting career
Speaker 1: paths from any star in NBA history. And there was
Speaker 1: a narrative that formed from twenty fifteen to right before
Speaker 1: he won the Championship in twenty twenty two that I
Speaker 1: don't think was particularly fair, not really close to fair,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of the prevailing opinion around the
Speaker 1: NBA fan bases outside of Golden State. Obviously Golden State fans,
Speaker 1: you got to remember, like within that like specific kind
Speaker 1: of bubble. Everyone thinks Steph's the best of Most of
Speaker 1: them think stepfs of buff Lebron all time. A lot
Speaker 1: of them think Steph has been the best player in
Speaker 1: the league for the better part of a decade. So
Speaker 1: obviously you got to kind of set the Warriors fans
Speaker 1: aside for a second and look at the rest of
Speaker 1: the league and the rest of fans. The vast majority
Speaker 1: of basketball fans kind of bought into this narrative for
Speaker 1: a while. And I think that Steph resoundingly got rid
Speaker 1: of and proved that narrative false in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two NBA Finals. And so I want to kind of
Speaker 1: paint a picture of Steph's career and kind of explain
Speaker 1: just what was at stake when we got to that
Speaker 1: NBA Finals series against Boston. So again, we got to
Speaker 1: look at the beginning. Steph does not get recruited behind
Speaker 1: major college programs, go to Davidson and kicks everyone's ass
Speaker 1: in college. Anyway, he slips to seventh in the draft
Speaker 1: and goes behind guards like Tyreek Evans and Ricky Rubio
Speaker 1: and Johnny Flynn. A lot of concerns about his size
Speaker 1: and athleticism right from scouts. His early career shows some promise,
Speaker 1: but then he runs into some ankle injuries. He ends
Speaker 1: up sitting out most of the twenty twelve season to
Speaker 1: get his ankles right, and as a result, ends up
Speaker 1: signing a discounted contract. If I remember correctly, it was
Speaker 1: four years, forty four million that ended up being one
Speaker 1: of the primary factors in them being able to sign
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant as we look into the future, So he
Speaker 1: comes back in twenty thirteen and immediately pops averages twenty three,
Speaker 1: four and seven. The Warriors go forty seven and thirty five.
Speaker 1: They win a first round series against Denver, and then
Speaker 1: Steph has this crazy Game one against the Spurs. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like his coming out party in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: drops forty four in a double overtime loss. They end
Speaker 1: up taking the Spurs to six games, but the Spurs
Speaker 1: do eventually get him under control, but Steph kind of
Speaker 1: pops onto the scene as a legitimate playoff performer. Right
Speaker 1: then we go into twenty fourteen, You're going to see
Speaker 1: a rapid is set here from Steph makes the All
Speaker 1: NBA team for the first time, finish his second team
Speaker 1: all NBA finishes sixth in MVP voting. The Warriors go
Speaker 1: fifty one and thirty one and they lose a seven
Speaker 1: game or heartbreak to the Clippers. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: the Warriors were actually up by one with just over
Speaker 1: two minutes left in Game seven, but Blake Griffin takes
Speaker 1: over down the stretch. The Clippers would run this like
Speaker 1: high iso for Blake Griffin right at the top of
Speaker 1: the key, and he did it twice against Draymond in
Speaker 1: the final minutes and got two big buckets. And then
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan had a massive block on Steph Curry at
Speaker 1: the rim. So the Clippers end up pulling out a
Speaker 1: Game seven and the Warriors go home in the first round.
Speaker 1: But then in twenty fifteen and the summer coming into
Speaker 1: that season, so summer of twenty fourteen, they get rid
Speaker 1: of Mark Jackson. They bring in Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr
Speaker 1: fundamentally changes the way the Warriors play offense. He has
Speaker 1: this obsession with the total number of passes that the
Speaker 1: team has and he wants to lead the league in
Speaker 1: total number of passes made. They immediately do their offense skyrockets.
Speaker 1: They finish sixty seven and fifteen, seven games ahead of
Speaker 1: the rest of the field in the NBA standings that year.
Speaker 1: Steph finishes the season averaging twenty four points, four rebounds,
Speaker 1: and eight assists, makes First Team All NBA for the
Speaker 1: first time, wins his first MVP award, and the Warriors
Speaker 1: win the NBA Championship. And like I said, he didn't
Speaker 1: get the Finals MVP, but Steph absolutely should have gotten
Speaker 1: the MVP in twenty fifteen. It was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest travesty award decisions in NBA history in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So twenty sixteen, again, I'm not putting this as Steph's
Speaker 1: crowning achievement. What I am putting this at is what
Speaker 1: I think is the coolest moment of Steph's career. So
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the context here. He's already the
Speaker 1: NBA's defending MVP, He's already the defending champion and should
Speaker 1: be defending Finals MVP, but Steph is such a psychopath
Speaker 1: that he decides he's not good enough. Steph since then
Speaker 1: has said that he was obsessed in the summer of
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen with leg strength. Thing that I talk about
Speaker 1: all the time with young basketball players and I've talked
Speaker 1: about a lot on this show, like strength is one
Speaker 1: of the most under one of the most underrated elements
Speaker 1: of skill development that doesn't get talked about or or
Speaker 1: emphasized enough with young players. And the reason why is
Speaker 1: a lot of people think of it as just this
Speaker 1: thing that's loosely associated with dunking. But like, the reality
Speaker 1: is is leg strength is the number one element in
Speaker 1: any sort of movement jump shooting. So again, if you
Speaker 1: think of your jump shot as like a machine, right,
Speaker 1: like a muscle memory machine. If you're a really good
Speaker 1: jump shooter, you have crafted a form that you can
Speaker 1: replicate thousands and thousands and thousands of times. And as
Speaker 1: a result, like in any sort of static, stand still environment,
Speaker 1: like most of the best shooters in the world shoot
Speaker 1: over seventy percent on stand still jump shots, right, and
Speaker 1: the very very best will be up over eighty ninety,
Speaker 1: Like STEP's over ninety percent on stand still jump shots.
Speaker 1: But most of the top tier shooters in the world
Speaker 1: are over eighty percent, and the really really good ones
Speaker 1: are up over seventy percent, right, Like that's your muscle memory, right,
Speaker 1: But then you get into a game and you're running
Speaker 1: up and down in transition, you're chasing guys around on defense.
Speaker 1: The game is physical, and so that kind of muscle
Speaker 1: memory gets disrupted, and that gets even further disrupted when
Speaker 1: you start taking movement shots, because now not only are
Speaker 1: you fatigued from the other elements of the game, but
Speaker 1: you're flying off of screens or you're making a move
Speaker 1: off of the dribble to get into a dribble, combination, footwork,
Speaker 1: whatever it is to get to a pull up three
Speaker 1: right or a pull up jump shot right. So in
Speaker 1: those situations, all of the movement that precedes the shot,
Speaker 1: your leg strength is what allows you to stop on
Speaker 1: a dime wherever you're at and get the appropriate amount
Speaker 1: of lift so that you can go to your muscle
Speaker 1: memory that you practice so much in standstill situations. That's
Speaker 1: how you get to your release right. And obviously you
Speaker 1: practice that leg strength outside of the weight room on
Speaker 1: the court when you're practicing those dribble jump shots and
Speaker 1: movement jump shots as well. But essentially, your leg strength
Speaker 1: is what allows you to get into that shot off
Speaker 1: of any sort of movement or any sort of fatigue situation.
Speaker 1: And Steph was obsessed with leg strength in the summer
Speaker 1: of twenty fifteen, and so he goes up a massive level,
Speaker 1: raises his scoring average by six point three points per game,
Speaker 1: makes one hundred and sixteen more threes than he did
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, including sixty nine more pull up threes,
Speaker 1: averages a career high five point four rebounds per game,
Speaker 1: leads the league in steals. So, like, imagine how insane
Speaker 1: of a competitor you'd have to be to literally be
Speaker 1: sitting on top of the basketball world raigning MVP, should
Speaker 1: be raining NBA Finals, MVP defending champion, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm not close to as good as I want to be.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get way better. He literally finished fourth
Speaker 1: in Most Improved Player voting in twenty sixteen. I think
Speaker 1: it's one of the coolest stories from Steph Curry's career
Speaker 1: because it demonstrates that he's a legitimate psychopath competitor. What
Speaker 1: ended up happening as a result, the Warriors win seventy
Speaker 1: three games, which was an NBA record, They make it
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals, and then they run into the
Speaker 1: second best basketball player ever to touch the earth at
Speaker 1: the absolute peak of his powers in Lebron James and
Speaker 1: a red hot Kyrie Irving and they end up losing
Speaker 1: a heartbreaker in seven games, and so from there, that's
Speaker 1: where the narrative starts to form. This is the narrative
Speaker 1: that I'm referring to that culminates in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two finals. So in twenty fifteen, Kyrie Irving and Kevin
Speaker 1: Love are hurt, right, and so the Calves still take
Speaker 1: them to six, with guys like Timofey Mozgov and Matthew
Speaker 1: Delvdova and James Jones getting significant minutes in that series,
Speaker 1: and so you know, everyone's like, okay, like maybe there's
Speaker 1: some luck at play there. Then in twenty sixteen, Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving and Kevin Love are healthy and the Calves win,
Speaker 1: and so the narrative starts to form. Right, Steph got lucky,
Speaker 1: didn't even win finals, MVP. Right, people start to undercut
Speaker 1: Steph as a player. Then we go into twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: and Steph's again. We talked about Steph's leadership earlier, but
Speaker 1: like Steph's leadership and him not giving a shit about
Speaker 1: the narrative and him not giving a shit about what
Speaker 1: people outside of the Warriors organization thinks. He just cares
Speaker 1: about winning basketball games, So he invites and takes good
Speaker 1: care of KD in his transition coming into Golden State. Right,
Speaker 1: and again, you have to understand Steph's smart guy like KD.
Speaker 1: I don't think knew any better. Like I said this
Speaker 1: in the KD video, I think KD looked at the
Speaker 1: situation and was like, I just want to play the
Speaker 1: best basketball of my career. All I care about is basketball,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go play with the Warriors, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna help me become a better basketball player. I think
Speaker 1: KD was kind of oblivious to the potential downsides of
Speaker 1: that narrative, right. I think Steph knew and just didn't care.
Speaker 1: I think Steph knew that if he brought in KD
Speaker 1: that it would do some damage to his reputation around
Speaker 1: the league. And I just literally think he doesn't give
Speaker 1: a shit. I think all he cares about is winning.
Speaker 1: And again that's why I say he's the best leader
Speaker 1: in the NBA. So naturally, the KD Steph Warriors, whoop
Speaker 1: everyone's asked. They won sixty seven games, they won fifteen
Speaker 1: consecutive playoff games, they win the title, they win again
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Now, to be clear, like I said,
Speaker 1: Steph doesn't care. He's a three time champion. The Warrior
Speaker 1: are now the most valuable franchise in the NBA. So
Speaker 1: Steph's doing great in this particular situation. But the narrative
Speaker 1: is growing, right because KD wins both finals MVPs in
Speaker 1: those two years. Remember KD and Lebron are filming commercials together.
Speaker 1: Remember that Uber commercial with I think it was the
Speaker 1: two of them and carry Champion if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: But they're riding around in an uber like openly calling
Speaker 1: themselves the two best players in the world. And now,
Speaker 1: to be clear, I thought that at this point it
Speaker 1: was a tier of three players. I thought it was Lebron, Steph,
Speaker 1: and KD all on the top tier of the league,
Speaker 1: with Lebron having a slight edge over the other two guys.
Speaker 1: But Lebron and KD were painting this narrative like it
Speaker 1: was them too and then everybody else. And I to
Speaker 1: be like, like I said, not only do I think
Speaker 1: Steph was on the same tier as those guys, but
Speaker 1: I think Steph is clearly demonstrated that he's a better
Speaker 1: player than Kevin Durant in his career, right, So like
Speaker 1: so again, he's got four championships and two of them
Speaker 1: outside of the KD years, Right, So Steph has won
Speaker 1: that battle. But again, I'm just talking about the narrative
Speaker 1: and the narrative that's building at this point in time
Speaker 1: circa the summer of two tenty eighteen is that it's
Speaker 1: Lebron and KD and then everyone else, and Steph needed
Speaker 1: KD to come in and save him, right, Like, that's
Speaker 1: the narrative. Right. Then it gets worse because from twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen to twenty twenty one, KD gets hurt in the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen playoffs and they lose in the finals, which
Speaker 1: only furthers that narrative. Bob Myers makes a couple of
Speaker 1: tough decisions, bringing in guys like Kent Basmore and Kelly
Speaker 1: Ubre who weren't great fits in the Warriors system, and
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson obviously is out for two years with the
Speaker 1: Achilles injury and the ACL injury. Steph ends up missing
Speaker 1: the playoffs twice in a row, and at the same time,
Speaker 1: Lebron wins his fourth championship in fourth finals MVP with
Speaker 1: the Lakers in twenty twenty and KD has this kind
Speaker 1: of heroic playoff run in twenty twenty one where he
Speaker 1: nearly beats the Bucks by himself with injured Kevin excuse me,
Speaker 1: with Kyrie Irving out of the lineup and James Harden
Speaker 1: playing on a bad hamstring, right, So like, now the
Speaker 1: narrative is just officially out of control. Right, steph isn't
Speaker 1: even on the same level as these guys. In a
Speaker 1: lot of these conversations, everyone's saying he got lucky in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, and Kad came in and carried him in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. In twenty eighteen, now he can't even make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. To make things worse, Lebron hits a game
Speaker 1: winner over him in the in the play in tournament, right,
Speaker 1: so like or not like, it's just it's just completely
Speaker 1: out of control at this point. So it gets so
Speaker 1: out of control that NBA players are starting to take
Speaker 1: shots at the Warriors. You guys might remember in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, at the beginning of the season, we get
Speaker 1: an actual quote from Damian Lillard after the fifth game
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Damian Lillard says, quote, He's seeing
Speaker 1: that it's tough to get those quality looks. Now it's
Speaker 1: different than what it looked like in the last four
Speaker 1: to five years. Actual quote from Damian Lillard, actual peer
Speaker 1: in the league, dancing on Steph's grave, for lack of
Speaker 1: a better term, finding a respectful, passive, aggressive way right
Speaker 1: to kind of dance on Steph's grave. This what was
Speaker 1: funny about it. That was the fifth game of the season,
Speaker 1: and I think the war were two and five in
Speaker 1: the or two and three in the first five games.
Speaker 1: Steph was shooting forty two percent from the field and
Speaker 1: thirty two percent from three through the first five games.
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. The Blazers have to play the
Speaker 1: Warriors two nights later and Steph drops a career high
Speaker 1: sixty two points. Davian Lillard did a win, like I said,
Speaker 1: an absolute savage competitor in that season. In the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one season where they missed the playoffs, he won
Speaker 1: the scoring title. He averaged thirty two points per game
Speaker 1: on sixty six percent true shooting, which is absolutely bonkers.
Speaker 1: Makes first team All NBA, finishes third in MVP voting.
Speaker 1: The Warriors actually went thirty seven and twenty six when
Speaker 1: Steph played, which is an excellent record. But like I said,
Speaker 1: the roster was weird. They had some poorly fitting role players,
Speaker 1: and Steph gets that bizarre tailbone injury where he falls.
Speaker 1: I think it was like he fell down and landed
Speaker 1: on a step in the stadium if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: Golden State goes two and seven in the games where
Speaker 1: Steph doesn't play that year, so they end up in
Speaker 1: the play in tournament. That's when step hit lebron hits
Speaker 1: that game, winning three. Then they dropped that game to Memphis,
Speaker 1: and suddenly Steph's like kind of ridiculously good season just
Speaker 1: gets swept under the rug. And that narrative, like I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, is kind of stronger than it's ever been.
Speaker 1: Coming into twenty twenty two, Bob Myers makes a couple
Speaker 1: of really smart adjustments to the roster. He brings in
Speaker 1: gets rid of Kelly Uberan camp Baysmore, brings in really
Speaker 1: smart ball movers that are like good players that fit
Speaker 1: in the Warrior system, and Namanya bi Elitza out of
Speaker 1: Porter and Gary Payton. They come out the gates red hot.
Speaker 1: They win eighteen of their first twenty games. Steph looks
Speaker 1: like he's in peak form. In the first twenty games.
Speaker 1: He averages twenty nine, six, and seven and shoots forty
Speaker 1: two percent from three on thirteen three attemps three point
Speaker 1: attempts per game. But then Steph, if you guys remember,
Speaker 1: Steph gets close to the all time three point record
Speaker 1: and it kind of just triggers this like weird phase
Speaker 1: of Warriors games where they're a little distracted and Steph's
Speaker 1: shot selection isn't as good as it usually is because
Speaker 1: he's jacking up three, he's trying to break the record,
Speaker 1: and he ends up shooting just thirty six percent from
Speaker 1: three for the rest of the season. Then the Warriors
Speaker 1: start dropping games. They had a two to eight stretch
Speaker 1: with Steph in the lineup. Steph ends up spraining a
Speaker 1: ligament in his foot and missing the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season. The Warriors finish in their last twenty eight
Speaker 1: games twelve and sixteen. You know, And again the reason
Speaker 1: why I tell all of this story is just to
Speaker 1: build up what was at stake going into that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two playoff run. You can imagine had they not won,
Speaker 1: just the way that Steph's career would be talked about. Right,
Speaker 1: everything was teetering on the brink right around the time
Speaker 1: of that foot injury right, because Steph had just finished
Speaker 1: his first full regular season of his career where he
Speaker 1: shot below forty percent from three. He averaged just twenty
Speaker 1: five and a half points per game, which was his
Speaker 1: lowest mark in five years. Steph is thirty three years
Speaker 1: old at this point. Those of you guys who'll listened
Speaker 1: to the show, you'll remember I was saying at the time, like,
Speaker 1: it's one of two things. It's either just a really weird, bizarre,
Speaker 1: extended slump or this is the beginning of Steph's decline.
Speaker 1: And I said, we're gonna find out in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And boy did we find out, because now every championship
Speaker 1: team catches a break, right, And the break that this
Speaker 1: particular championship team broke got was the Denver Nuggets right
Speaker 1: in the first round because Jamal Murray Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: are out, so Denver's just doesn't have the talent. So
Speaker 1: Steph gets to work his way back in. Because Steph
Speaker 1: didn't play at all in the regular season after the
Speaker 1: foot injury, he came off the bench in the first
Speaker 1: four games of the Nugget series and got to kind
Speaker 1: of work his way back against the limited Nuggets team, right,
Speaker 1: which was super important for the Warriors because it just
Speaker 1: kind of gave him essentially like a mini little training
Speaker 1: camp in the playoffs to get ready for the rest
Speaker 1: of the playoff run. But most importantly, Steph got out
Speaker 1: of his slump. But he averaged twenty eight points per
Speaker 1: game in that series and shot over forty percent from three,
Speaker 1: which are big indicators of what we expect from Steph
Speaker 1: when he's at his absolute peak. Then we go into
Speaker 1: the Memphis series, Game four, they're up two games to one.
Speaker 1: Steph scores eighteen points in the fourth quarter to go
Speaker 1: up three to one. Not Steph's last great Game four
Speaker 1: in that playoff run either, We'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a second. They close the Mountain six. They beat Dallas
Speaker 1: in five. That was the only time I was stupid
Speaker 1: enough to pick against the Warriors in that playoff run.
Speaker 1: I thought Luco was gonna have some success against Golden
Speaker 1: State's lack of perimeter size, just a hunting matchups the
Speaker 1: way he did against Phoenix, but Wiggins just did an
Speaker 1: unbelievable job on him, and Luca never really look a
Speaker 1: put up numbers in that series, but he never really
Speaker 1: had control of the series. Warriors put together a really
Speaker 1: good team effort. They had six players in that series
Speaker 1: average double figures and they advanced to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: So the Boston series was interesting because Golden State was
Speaker 1: a slight favorite going in in Vegas. I think they
Speaker 1: were right around a minus one fifty favorite. I actually
Speaker 1: picked Golden State to win in seven. But if you
Speaker 1: guys remember what I said before the series, it was
Speaker 1: gonna be tough, and the reason why I picked it
Speaker 1: to go long was because I said Boston had the
Speaker 1: most talented roster in the NBA. They had demonstrated in
Speaker 1: the first three rounds of the playoffs that they were inexperienced.
Speaker 1: Basketball at Q was a shortcoming. They had really bad
Speaker 1: transition defense, they struggled with decision making from their stars,
Speaker 1: But in terms of sheer talent, they were the most
Speaker 1: talented roster in the league still are to this day.
Speaker 1: And in addition to that, I thought they had the
Speaker 1: best half court defense that I've seen in this last
Speaker 1: like five to ten year era. Right they were outstanding
Speaker 1: half court defense, and they jumped Golden State to start
Speaker 1: that series. They had that crazy fourth quarter in Game one,
Speaker 1: then they win Game three at home and they're up
Speaker 1: two games to one, with an opportunity at home to
Speaker 1: go up three games to one. That's when Steph in
Speaker 1: Game four goes crazy. So Boston jumps out to an
Speaker 1: eleven to four lead. The crowd's going crazy. Steph scores
Speaker 1: forty three points. I was going back to watch the
Speaker 1: game today. He hit five pull up threes off the
Speaker 1: dribble in that game. Just go watch every bucket Steph
Speaker 1: made in Game four of this Boston series. This sheer
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty was off the charts on almost every
Speaker 1: single shot he made in this game. It was one
Speaker 1: of the most incredible shot making performances in NBA history.
Speaker 1: Two massive shots at the end of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Drives around Robert Williams for a big floater to put
Speaker 1: him up three, and then hits the dagger over Derek
Speaker 1: White on the right wing, a little jab step three
Speaker 1: to put him up by six, and they steal Game four,
Speaker 1: and then they go home and win again. You gotta think, like,
Speaker 1: if they lose that game, they're down three games to one,
Speaker 1: like Boston probably wins the series. If Steph doesn't do
Speaker 1: that in Game four instead, they go home and they
Speaker 1: win to go up three to two and then Steph
Speaker 1: pours in another thirty four in Game six, and the
Speaker 1: Warriors win the NBA Championship. Steph finally gets the Finals
Speaker 1: MVP he deserved a long time ago. And now the
Speaker 1: narrative looks stupid because again, like as we look back,
Speaker 1: everything hinged on that stupid narrative. Everything hinged that Steph
Speaker 1: was not at the same level as these guys at
Speaker 1: the top of the league, that he needed injury luck
Speaker 1: to win in twenty fifteen, that he couldn't beat Lebron
Speaker 1: when he was healthy with his whole team, That he
Speaker 1: needed KD to come in and win a championship. Oh look,
Speaker 1: KD got hurt and they lost in the finals. Oh look,
Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs twice after KD left. Like, the
Speaker 1: narrative was hinged on this idea that Steph wasn't very
Speaker 1: good and that he wasn't capable of doing something like
Speaker 1: beating a more talented team, you know, as the sole
Speaker 1: offensive engine on a basketball team on the way to
Speaker 1: an NBA championship. He totally crumpled up and threw that
Speaker 1: entire narrative in the dumpster. And most importantly, now it
Speaker 1: kind of paints everything else in a different light. Now
Speaker 1: as you look back, you don't look at it as
Speaker 1: Steph getting carried along the way. Now you look at
Speaker 1: it and you have to you have to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: consistent greatness from Steph from twenty fifteen through to this year.
Speaker 1: And like I told you guys in that playoff run
Speaker 1: that I was rooting for Steph and that was the
Speaker 1: reason why, because like you know how it is. I
Speaker 1: hate the narratives personally because like I'm a big basketball
Speaker 1: fan and so like you guys know, I'm a huge
Speaker 1: Lebron James fan, and like there's this narrative push with
Speaker 1: Lebron to try to make him the goat. I literally
Speaker 1: saw a Rich Paul go on a podcast the other
Speaker 1: day and say that he's the goat because he dealt
Speaker 1: with media pressure. And I'm like, can we make a
Speaker 1: basketball case for anything anymore? Like can we just be
Speaker 1: like you guys heard, like my goat case for Lebron
Speaker 1: was longevity and variety, all the different ways that he
Speaker 1: led different teams to success along the way. It's like
Speaker 1: people can't just talk basketball anymore. It can't just be
Speaker 1: like it can't just be like, oh, Steph was a
Speaker 1: bonafide superstar, top tier superstar. And yeah, Kevin Durant coming
Speaker 1: in as another bonafide top tier superstar helped them win
Speaker 1: two championships. But that doesn't make Steph not a superstar.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean Steph's not as good as KD or
Speaker 1: not as good as Lebron, Like he was very much
Speaker 1: on the same level as those guys. The narratives took
Speaker 1: away from the basketball that was taking place. And again,
Speaker 1: like in that twenty twenty one season, they missed the
Speaker 1: playoffs and Steph was easily the best regular season player
Speaker 1: that year. Opinion like do you remember the springtime? Do
Speaker 1: you guys remember the springtime? In twenty twenty one, Steph
Speaker 1: was must see television. I still remember to this day,
Speaker 1: driving from a ski trip from Breckenridge back into Denver
Speaker 1: in a blizzard, watching on my phone as Steph Curry
Speaker 1: was lighting somebody on fire in a random regular season game,
Speaker 1: going crazy in the second. I don't even remember who
Speaker 1: they were playing, because there were literally dozens of games
Speaker 1: like this in that spring. Like what bothered me is
Speaker 1: like and again like this is where it gets to
Speaker 1: we talk about like the benefit of the doubt and
Speaker 1: why I hate minimizing championships. Why do I hate minimizing
Speaker 1: championships Because in twenty fifteen, Steph Curry won an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: His team was seven games better than everybody in the
Speaker 1: regular season. He won regular season MVP. Did they catch
Speaker 1: a break in the NBA Finals, Sure, but every championship
Speaker 1: team catches a break. Like I said, he hoisted the
Speaker 1: damn trophy. That should have stamped him for the rest
Speaker 1: of his career as a proven, bona fide superstar. That
Speaker 1: should have colored everything else that we saw from Steph
Speaker 1: for the rest of his career. But instead, because of
Speaker 1: the narrative based culture outside of the Warriors fan base,
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to undercut everything Steph was doing. Like I said,
Speaker 1: even Dame Lillard was stepping up and taking shots at
Speaker 1: his expense. And So what I loved about that twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two championship is it just recolored and redefined everything
Speaker 1: from Steph's career. Now there's these book ends right now.
Speaker 1: It's like, instead of twenty fifteen being the beginning of
Speaker 1: his phase of luck, now it's twenty fifteen is the
Speaker 1: beginning of Steph's incredible superstar career. In twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: is potentially we'll see Steph has an opportunity again in
Speaker 1: the future to win. But twenty twenty two is like
Speaker 1: that crowning achievement that just solidifies and proves that everything
Speaker 1: that took place over the over that eight year span
Speaker 1: was at the same level as everybody else that was
Speaker 1: at the top of the league. Now, I think Steph
Speaker 1: is firmly the second best player of this era. And
Speaker 1: when I say era, I mean just like this this
Speaker 1: particular era, not the since nineteen ninety eight, like this list,
Speaker 1: but in this particular era, I think he's firmly the
Speaker 1: fifth best perimeter player of all time. I moved him
Speaker 1: past Larry Bird after that twenty twenty two championship, and
Speaker 1: as we go back over the last twenty five years,
Speaker 1: I think he's the fourth best player in the post
Speaker 1: MJ era to ever touch a basketball court. So I like,
Speaker 1: and you know what's great is remember that slump that
Speaker 1: we were talking about. Well, not only did he prove
Speaker 1: it wrong in the playoffs by shooting forty percent from three,
Speaker 1: but in this regular season this past year, twenty nine
Speaker 1: six and six on sixty six percent true shooting and
Speaker 1: forty three percent from three on high volume, same old
Speaker 1: dominant Steph. Now all this other stuff went wrong for
Speaker 1: the Warriors. I won't get into it because we've talked
Speaker 1: about that at length on this show, but like I
Speaker 1: just it just feels good. It feels good as a
Speaker 1: fan of the game and as a fan of staph.
Speaker 1: Like I say, Lebron's my favorite player, Steph is my
Speaker 1: second favorite player in the league. Love. I love his demeanor.
Speaker 1: His demeanor is what won me over. Just everything that
Speaker 1: makes him the type of basketball player that he is
Speaker 1: up here is what won me over with Steph. And
Speaker 1: I've become one of his biggest fans, and it was
Speaker 1: really cool to see that crowning achievement kind of change
Speaker 1: the way that he's perceived around the league. And now
Speaker 1: everyone's a fan, a Steph fan, and now everyone's on
Speaker 1: board with it. Right, biggest what if? What if KD
Speaker 1: had not come to the Warriors in twenty sixteen. Like
Speaker 1: I said before, I admire the hell out of Steph
Speaker 1: for bringing KD in in twenty sixteen, but it definitely
Speaker 1: hurt his perception around the league. I think he knew
Speaker 1: it would and I just think he didn't care. But
Speaker 1: let's pretend for the sake of this, what if. What
Speaker 1: if Steph doesn't get KD in twenty sixteen, I think
Speaker 1: he probably still gets a title anyway sometime somewhere in
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen range, Like I think
Speaker 1: Lebron probably gets another one in there, and Steph probably
Speaker 1: gets another one in there. Right, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Does Steph with three titles but no KD does that
Speaker 1: guy get more respect around the basketball world? I think so?
Speaker 1: And so that's the thing, Like we talked about, the
Speaker 1: KD thing kind of was used against Steph in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, Like it's crazy for both players, Like
Speaker 1: that's two NBA championships, legitimate Larry O'Brien trophies, and for
Speaker 1: both players, For both KD and Steph, those two championships
Speaker 1: are viewed as incredibly low level accomplishments by most people,
Speaker 1: again outside of the Warriors fan base, like people just
Speaker 1: don't care. And so had he gotten one without KD
Speaker 1: in the middle there you look back at a three
Speaker 1: championship career where he's clearly the best player on all
Speaker 1: three teams. I think probably avoids some of the narrative
Speaker 1: struggle that he dealt with. But again, Staph doesn't give
Speaker 1: a shit. All he cares about is winning. He wanted KD,
Speaker 1: he got KD, and as a result, he's got four
Speaker 1: NBA championships, which not many people in NBA history do.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to our mailbag question. So
Speaker 1: I've got two of them for you today. First one
Speaker 1: from James Hi Jason. In a previous video, you mentioned
Speaker 1: you don't believe in hypotheticals and are more interested in
Speaker 1: evaluating players on what exactly happened. Why then, is there
Speaker 1: a section with each player that focuses on their what if? So,
Speaker 1: to be clear, the what if section is just for fun.
Speaker 1: We are in the middle of the NBA off season.
Speaker 1: Like I was looking at the calendar this morning, I
Speaker 1: think I think the first preseason game is a month
Speaker 1: from today, October fifth, which good news for you guys.
Speaker 1: I talked about doing fifteen season previews that was gonna
Speaker 1: cut off fifteen teams, but I'm actually gonna push it
Speaker 1: to four weeks and We're gonna do twenty season previous
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do full season previews for twenty NBA
Speaker 1: teams starting next Monday. But like we just have a
Speaker 1: lot of time to kill over the course of the summer.
Speaker 1: This has been just this has been probably the most
Speaker 1: boring NBA off season that I can remember. There's just
Speaker 1: been literally nothing that's happened, and so, you know, we're
Speaker 1: just finding ways to kill time. And so I'll talk
Speaker 1: about what if at the end of something like this
Speaker 1: in a brief context, just for fun. But when I
Speaker 1: really try to think about where I rank these guys,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna factor that in. Like That's why I
Speaker 1: spent you know, thirty seconds on steps what if and
Speaker 1: a lot more time on everything else. It's it's again,
Speaker 1: I don't think it matters when I'm ranking players, or
Speaker 1: I don't think it should for other people. But obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: for fun, I'll do it in a situation like this.
Speaker 1: All right, one more mailbag question. After Lebron retires, will
Speaker 1: you have a new favorite NBA player? If yes, who
Speaker 1: will it be and why so? I After Lebron retires,
Speaker 1: I will have favorite players, but nothing like Lebron. Obviously,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, I became a fan of Lebron
Speaker 1: when I was basically a kid, So uh, for me,
Speaker 1: like that that that like that there's like a weird
Speaker 1: childhood sentimentality thing that's going on there, Right, And so
Speaker 1: I'll never be as much of a fan of a
Speaker 1: player as I was of Lebron. It's just not possible
Speaker 1: because I'm not a kid anymore. I'm a grown ass man,
Speaker 1: and and like, it's just that's not gonna happen anymore.
Speaker 1: But I do. It's funny. I have such a love
Speaker 1: for the game of basketball that I I kind of
Speaker 1: find things that I love in every player, Like even
Speaker 1: as I look back at at players that I dislike
Speaker 1: for various reasons, right, Like not a huge fan of
Speaker 1: James Harden, Right, but like I literally am obsessed with
Speaker 1: his footwork on a step back three, and I copy
Speaker 1: it all the time. Right, literally stole my step back
Speaker 1: three from James Harden. When I look at like Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: who drives me crazy, Like I his outrageous confidence in
Speaker 1: bravado on the court. I really like his footwork out
Speaker 1: of the post. I find extremely impressive. Like I find
Speaker 1: things that I like in players, even that I was
Speaker 1: watching highlights of Trey Young the other day on Twitter,
Speaker 1: just playing pick up basketball over the summer, and he
Speaker 1: hit this like he had this ridiculous like left to
Speaker 1: right cross into a hard forward step back into a
Speaker 1: right to left snatch back dribble into a pull up
Speaker 1: three and just buckled his defender. And I was like,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's one of the nastiest moves I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. And it's like, that's the thing is, like,
Speaker 1: I don't like Trey Young, particularly as a player, for
Speaker 1: various reasons, but like, as a basketball fan, how can
Speaker 1: you not like some of the things that these guys do? Right?
Speaker 1: So I kind of like everybody for various reasons. But
Speaker 1: if I had to, just for fun, I put together
Speaker 1: a list my top five players under the age of thirty,
Speaker 1: in no particular order, just as a fan. Guys that
Speaker 1: I really like. Nikole Jokic is on there. I think
Speaker 1: it's just so unbelievably impressive to be a dominant number
Speaker 1: one in the league with a league this talented like
Speaker 1: we are in a league. Remember our top fourteen. We've
Speaker 1: got Steph Giannis, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Anthony Davis, Jason Tatum,
Speaker 1: Lebron James, Jimmy Butler, Luka, Doncic, Kawhi, Leonard, Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: Shake kills Alexander Damian Lillard, like our league is freaking stacked,
Speaker 1: and Jokic is like a clear number one. I think
Speaker 1: that is super super cool. I've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: it on the show, but his footwork is something that
Speaker 1: has always been super impressive to me. His touch. I
Speaker 1: don't think people realize how hard you have to work
Speaker 1: to be able to make push shots and floaters and
Speaker 1: hooks at damn near seventy percent. So Jokics've been a
Speaker 1: huge fan of shake Yo's. Alexander is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite young players. The old school approach to to offense,
Speaker 1: that like hard downhill pressure on the rim mixed in
Speaker 1: with short range pull up shooting just reminds me of
Speaker 1: a lot of vintage guards. Anthony Edwards, same thing, outrageous confidence,
Speaker 1: the just like kind of vintage throwback two guard thing
Speaker 1: he's got going on. He missed a turnaround fade away
Speaker 1: against Lithuania in the first half the other day where
Speaker 1: he did the d wade like half spin and then
Speaker 1: come back and just buckled the dude and he missed it.
Speaker 1: He shot it along on the back room and I
Speaker 1: was just like, I love this kid, Like like I
Speaker 1: just have this feeling like Anthony Edwards in his mid
Speaker 1: to late twenties is gonna be potentially the best player
Speaker 1: in the league and and be just an incredible watch.
Speaker 1: So Anthony Edwards is up there for me. Love his confidence.
Speaker 1: Luka Doncic at four and again no particular order, but
Speaker 1: Luka donciz is the fourth guy. I uh, Luca, I
Speaker 1: think is you know again? And he's actually a good
Speaker 1: example of a guy who I love hate right because
Speaker 1: like his play style drives me crazy sometimes and he
Speaker 1: could be a whiner, but I am obsessed with Luka
Speaker 1: Doncicic's like the ability he has to sell his moves
Speaker 1: because he's not fast, and he is big and strong.
Speaker 1: That's obviously his physical trait that he dominates games with,
Speaker 1: but he sells every single move with every part of
Speaker 1: his body. As a matter of fact, Like if you
Speaker 1: are a young ball handler, regardless of your athleticism, the
Speaker 1: guy that I would watch in terms of body language
Speaker 1: when he's making his moves is Luca because again it
Speaker 1: goes to show you you don't have to be whipping
Speaker 1: the ball all over the place to get buy people
Speaker 1: off the dribble. All you have to do is get
Speaker 1: a defender to guess wrong, And the best way to
Speaker 1: get a defender to guess wrong is to sell a
Speaker 1: particular move and then transition into another one right. And
Speaker 1: like you'll see Luca setting up for a left to
Speaker 1: right crossover and he'll have his shoulders open to the
Speaker 1: left and his whole body is positioned towards the left,
Speaker 1: and then he'll like cut across, and like you'll see
Speaker 1: defenders take a slide step that way. So many guys
Speaker 1: will just bring the ball out to the left while
Speaker 1: they're squared up with the defender and they'll whip it
Speaker 1: across to the right, but the body doesn't move at all,
Speaker 1: and so the defender stays square it up. And so Luca,
Speaker 1: I think, is a really fun basketball player to watch
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of skill development and kind of learning
Speaker 1: how to beat people off the dribble without an incredible
Speaker 1: quickness advantage. I've always been a fan of Luca and
Speaker 1: then lastly Devin Booker. It's just very similar body type
Speaker 1: to me, that like six five sixty six two guard,
Speaker 1: and he takes a lot of similar shots that I
Speaker 1: like to take. And so as a basketball fan, I've
Speaker 1: always really appreciated Devin Booker because I just want to
Speaker 1: be more like him with when I play on the court,
Speaker 1: and so Devin book like, those are those are my
Speaker 1: five guys under the age of thirty that I'm just
Speaker 1: a fan of. So that's not a ranking of any sort.
Speaker 1: It's just just basketball players that I really like and
Speaker 1: basketball players that I'll be rooting for into the future.
Speaker 1: And then honestly, like, there's a lot of really young
Speaker 1: players that I love, jayde and Ivy, I love Palapankara,
Speaker 1: big big chet Holmgren fan. I'm hearing really good things
Speaker 1: about chet Holmgren and his work ethic and his competitiveness,
Speaker 1: so I'm excited to root for him. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so much to get excited about in the young players.
Speaker 1: Jabari Smith Junior is another one I really like. So again,
Speaker 1: after Lebron retires, I'm kind of looking forward to that
Speaker 1: phase of my career breaking down the game of basketball,
Speaker 1: because like, I'll ditch the childhood sentimentality and just be
Speaker 1: a fan of the game, you know, for the rest
Speaker 1: of my life. And I'm looking forward to that. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: that is all I have for today. As always, I
Speaker 1: sincerely appreciate you guys supporting me in the show be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow with Number three. Have three more shows this
Speaker 1: week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and then we'll head into
Speaker 1: our season previews starting on Monday. The volume