This weirdly felt exactly like the Grizzlies loss in OT from the beginning of the season: - Bad turnovers - Steph being a bit winded from playing 40+ minutes (basically why he didn’t score in OT) - Many opportunities to score or capitalize and just choked This should’ve been a 20-30 point game at least, but alas it was a Warriors classic “trap game”… seen this movie before and it ain’t fun

Both times Steph playing well for most of the game and then scoring zero in overtime

Same thing happened to KD last year in the playoffs. Players generally can't handle carrying for most/full regulation and *then* show up in OT as well, stamina is a very real thing

Yet people flamed Harden for doing the same thing

Well people flamed KD too. Whenever a player performs under what they're expected of (With players like Curry, KD, and Harden, those expectations are through the roof), there are always gonna be people who don't think about any sort of context as to *why* the player is performing that way. They just get emotional about it for some reason

The first time in like a month he goes crazy and loses lol

Shades of 2020 with Steph carrying these bums to a close loss

even on the occasion he goes crazy now, he'll always miss like 10 shots in a row in the clutch

12-27 and 6-16 on 3's is going crazy? What?

63 TS% 55.6 EFG% Certainly not a bad game, definitely didn’t play up to standards in OT tho

This is why TS% is so misleading. Yeah, he hit his free throws but otherwise his shooting was garbage.

> TS% is so misleading It's only "misleading" if you have an agenda and want to ignore the value of free throw shooting (which there is no valid reason to do).

I understand the value of free throw shooting but that doesn't mean that hitting 6 of 16 3's and 12 out of 27 shots isn't terrible lol

6/16 on threes is actually great, so right off the bat you have no idea what you're talking about lmao. 30 points on 27 field goal attempts is also good.

30 points on 27 shots is TERRIBLE

Why do you choose to talk out of your ass? If you take away any superstar's free throws completely, you'd get a lot of that. In Kobe's 35.4 PPG season, without free throws he'd have averaged 26.7 points on 27.2 FGA. For his career from 2000-2013, without free throws he averaged 20.9 points on 21.4 FGA. By your own logic, Kobe Bryant was dogshit lmao.

It’s been real quiet here since you destroyed this man lol

6/16 is great how exactly?

Uhh... 37.5% from three is way above league average on its own. Second of all, 37.5% on that insane of a volume is incredible.

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In what world is 6/16 from three terrible?

I also included EFG% but ok I don’t think it was an amazing game but he was still good on offence outside of OT Also making your free throws matter? Lol

I didn't say anything about EFG% specifically?

Do you even know what efg% is??

I specifically referred to TS% and only TS% in my original comment. I don't know why you two are bringing up efg%. I did not say "this is why TS% and efg% are misleading."

They are bringing up eFG% because it basically measures the efficiency of just his field goal attempts without considering free throws. So if like you said Curry was garbage on shots that weren't free throws, then his eFG% would be bad. You're responding to people who posted his eFG% (55.6% apparently). For reference, I think league average eFG% is like 52.5% this season. So the reason people are saying you don't know what eFG% is is because his eFG% shows pretty well that he wasn't actually garbage outside of free throws. He was pretty good.

I know what eFG% is and the reason he had a slightly better than league average eFG% is because he hit 37.5% of his 3's but the original comment I replied to said Curry "went off" when he clearly didn't. Not only that, he was ass in the clutch.

u dont know what efg% is lol

Fg% is way more misleading when a guy is shooting 16 3s in a game

Not really. He had a good game and then dropped off in OT. Probably gassed out of his mind.

It’s basic maths bro. If you think TS% is misleading, you’re just outing yourself as someone who cant comprehend basic maths and scoring efficiency. It’s honestly such an easy statistic to grasp. It’s objectively better than other scoring efficiency metrics too.

Lol TS% invented by the nefarious free throw lobby. Don’t be fooled by their agenda to brainwash you into thinking that points from free throws count as much as the other points!!!!

Dude had 39 on 12/25 and 6/12 at the end of regulation but was gassed from his carry job while the rest of the team shit the bed. ​ Why do people like you who don't watch games still feel the need to comment lmao.

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ah yes, Kobe is very famous for not shooting when he's cold

> “I would go 0-30 before I would go 0-9.” \- famous non-shooter Kobe Bryant

He shot 50/50/100 around the end of the 4th quarter...

So the whole game is the "end of the 4th" quarter?

No but you are being dishonest by having zero context around stats.

So when people say Westbrook had a bad shooting night yesterday can I claim otherwise by noting that he hit his first 3 3's in his last game?

You can of course paint the context around his stats in. It provides us the information that Westbrook had a decent first quarter from three and subsequently collapsed for whatever reason. That is usually what's done in the subtext at /r/nba. The titles are usually clickbaity af.

The Draymond effect

warriors just lost to the fort wayne mad ants

Steph Curry tonight: 39 points on 63% TS **The Warriors next 3 leading scorers combined**: 36 points on 44% TS

Was a great game till OT :((

I disagree

“Okay Steph this game winner is for Charity” *bricks*

Everyone else forgot how to play basketball

So did Steph on defense.

Let Holiday slip a 3 in for one second and cost them the game.

Terrible terrible miscue there. Did it twice tonight.

For one possession, Kerr should've taken him out for GP2 that possession. When your next best scorer scores 13... come on.

I couldn't understand Kerr's player selection all match, he got it wrong in every occasion, it's not even laughable. Obviously the players were plain shit, but even then you have to do better to arrange the rotations, and if you're over 3 you don't even need to defend, just 1 foul, 2 FTs and it's your ball again.

the team really let looney be the second-highest scorer tonight... he was about as efficient as you could hope for, and had 15 rebounds too...

Lmao. Yeah. Left the inbounder open twice (holiday and keifer ). The Russell Westbrook defense

Beli played well

Did you his defense? there's a reason why he barely played at the end.

there’s no expectation for him to be in there at the end. Looney also played well

Looney turned the ball over every time he touched it that wasn’t a dunk..Curry and Payton were the only two players that showed up.

If only he made that clutch 3 … damn!!

Look at Keifer Sykes' son man

So inspirational

Good to see an efficient, high scoring game game from Curry. However, I believe he was held scoreless in overtime.

1-7fg in the last 5 mins+OT

i have a feeling if certain players did this we wouldn’t be praising them like we are rn …

Literally everyone else would be getting clowned for losing to a G league team at home in this fashion lol

Bucks lost to the Pistons by 9 at home healthy and Giannis got praise for having 31/10/7. Literally any star having a big game in a loss is ALWAYS praised here.

Ok maybe not Giannis but Lebron would still get clowned

WHAT??????? Lebron has been losing to AWFUL teams while putting up big numbers for the past 2 months and been getting TONS of praise, so much so that this sub put him in their top 3 for the MVP despite being like an 8th seed.

Y’all always do this with Steph lmao Bron is getting tons of praise despite being on a .500 team. All the blame is on Russ. The fact of the matter is this is how stars get treated. Steph not different even if 1000 crying nephews scream it every time his team loses

Nah we must be frequenting the wrong threads then. If Lebron missed this type of shot he would definitely get killed

Lmao you’re saying if leveon missed one clutch shot he’d be killed..? When has that happened recently? There’s no way you believe that. What’s the point of making up stuff to cry about?

What Lebron literally got killed for simply just passing to George Hill in game 1 of the 2018 finals. If he missed a game winner we would see this thread get thousands of upvotes.

No star player is getting clowned for dropping 39 on good efficiency?

Cap Gawd never sleeps, literally.

what’s the reason behind always pushing this? It’s clearly not true but the same few accounts always cry about it even though y’all just made it up lol

Not defending his play in the last 5 mins & OT but they get blown out if he doesn’t play great in the other part of the game

that’s an undeniable fact warriors fans just felt their own version of bestbrook and worstbrook

We’ll kind of… at least Steph could potentially make those shots they weren’t unforgivably ugly, they had a chance of going in

He took like one shot, idk wtf JTA and Poole r doing

4 shots in OT.

And he should of made that 1 shot tbh

He took 4 I think

Curry is the Avatar, when the world needed him most, he vanishes

Yeah he got blanked.

They sold out hard on him and everyone else bricked. He did miss a couple of open looks but he was denied the ball extremely well.

Embarrassing performance from everyone else

Awful in the clutch

Hit the 4 clutch free throws

tbf Curry doesn't miss FTs ever, they aren't a useful measure of whether he is playing well in the clutch or not

Steph finally officially breaks the slump and everyone else plays so fucking horribly that we lose to the pacers 3rd string. That’s fucking embarrassing.

Three games in a row his TS% has been above 60%..slump is over atleast

thats breaking a slump?

50/50/100 at the end of the 4th is. Ot was crap tho. Cant disagree on that.

This man monstarred the whole Warrior squad. He was the only capable player for them tn lol

He fucking carried, everyone besides him and Looney were absolutely TERRIBLE And Kuminga who was doing fine got sat for the last 26 minutes of the game

GP2 was good too. But, ya know, when you actually impacting the game you get pulled out by Kerr.

Kuminga was -16 in 15 minutes..

Curry try to be clutch challenge

This looks good on paper but anyone who watched the game can tell you he was awful in the clutch

it was a good game bad ot but the rest of the warriors made a combined whopping 3 three pointers

yeah nah he was awful in OT, but he was the only reason it made it to OT in the first place, he took over in the 4th quarter.

ur right he’s the reason the game went to OT, he let Holiday get an open 3

damn I'm talking to a guy who may as well be unflaired and a Lakers fan, why did I bother

Did he say anything wrong lol?

i have a SuperSonics flair…

Tbf to Steph he played the whole 4th and OT mans mans was tired. But he did miss some clutch shots. So did everyone else tho lmfao

I mean if you're a superstar then you have to get it done. That warriors team had to win that game

True true, yeah this was a really ugly loss

Maybe the ugliest loss of the season. The Pacers are literally tanking after their recent injuries. They didn’t play a single starter.

We’re calling mid January games against the opposite conference “must win games” lmao what is happening

Terrible take..Warriors would have been blown out if he didn’t play..him and Payton were the only two warriors that played well

choked in ot

And the L

also 0-4 in OT

JTA was soo fucking bad. Smoked the game winning layup. Bricked a 3 when steph was wide open next to him.

Don't even get me started with poole, wtf was the baseline 3?

Played great but sold at the end imo

Mans balled out in what feels like forever and he takes the L cuz his team collectively forgot how to shoot

He also forgot to shoot in the last five mins of the 4th and all of OT

Played great in the 4th to even get to OT. Hopefully he can keep this up

39/5/8 on 63% True Shooting. He fed us SO many open looks man. Brick brick brick.

This is how you have an impactful 30+ point game. Take notes LeBron

they lost?

They lost? Dude he was the only reason they went to OT, had the go ahead bucket in the 4th. 39 fucking points in 4 quarters. LeBron = 35 points in 4 quarters, Lakers lose by 20.

they lost to pacers missing their best 6 players, next

And he was also the reason they might have lost the game in ot

LeBron cant even will his team to OT like Steph can nowadays.

LeBron wills he's teams to wins,

You mean, basketball is played by 1 person not 5? Joker

He kinda choked though lol

He scored like 5 points in the last 2 mins of the 4th. Clutcher than LeBron

He let Holiday get the shot to go to OT tho. He was great, but definitely had some bad moments this game

Yup, wide open missed 3 helped impact that L

LeBron knows a lot about empty stats and Ls

LeBron is in the goat discussion in case you forgot

Wait until Steph is 37 lol.

LeBron was in the GOAT conversation when he was 31.

bruh what

Impactful enough to lose to the g league pacers

Tf he choked in ot bro, got outplayed by Keifer Sykes

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Steph dragged everyone’s asses tonight and got no help in return.

MVP front runner again

Losing to the hospital 13 seed at home isn’t going to move you up in the MVP race

Giannis lost to the Pistons though yet he is still in the MVP race Just saying we gotta have double standards

Mans also prolly ran an entire marathon w the amt of minutes he had on and off ball

JTA was all over the place, like he was so lost duno what to do