Woj: Curry left wanting one more shot

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Originally Posted by Chinook

Curry did a good job, but he wasn't THAT good. It took him 43 possessions to get 44 points. The rest Warriors team took 90 possessions to score their 83 points. That works out to 1.02 points per possession by Curry and .922 points per possession for the whole team. I doubt that's even statistically significant. By comparison, Green and Leonard scored 40 points off 30 possessions.

The fact that Curry played 58 minutes, was the focal point for the defense and also got 11 assists is certainly praise-worthy. But honestly, I'm not extremely worried about him after watching last night's game. If him "going off" just means him taking a lot of shots with just above-average efficiency, the Spurs should take it. When you look at it, it doesn't really make too big of a difference who's taking the shots, so why not Curry?

A much bigger concern to me is losing the rebound battle, as it's nearly impossible for a team to win if they're being out-shot AND out-rebounded.

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Yep and yep and yep. The Warriors can't win if their shot attempts are limited, period. The Spurs can't win if Barnes or Thompson or Jack goes for 25 on a given night. Let that motherfucker shoot all night and limit him to a half dozen assists and the Spurs are resting up for Memphis by the end of the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Leetonidas

Average efficiency? Yeah that's only because Jackson wore him out by playing him the entire game and he started bricking when Leonard was switched onto him. He was torching TP and Joseph. He was unconscious in the third. To say you're not worried about him is ridiculous and delusional

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He started bricking because he played the entire game. You can't separate one from the other as though they're unrelated. Jump shooters can't shoot as well with no legs. You wear him down over the series and don't let his teammates suddenly become efficient by letting them get uncontested shots.

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Originally Posted by EricB

People are just going to have to deal with the fact, small ball will have to be used, and won with. No avoiding it.

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Yeah, keep that Duncan guy on the bench. He sucks.

it's the same philosophy we used against kobe back when that rivalry was at its peak-let him get his but make him take a lot of shots to get his 30 points; the key was always not to let the other lakers beat us.

Yeah Curry was awesome, and he probably will go down as one of the best shooters ever, but his ankles have always held him back. It will be interesting to see if he can stay healthy in the years to come. Jeff McDonald of the SA Express News actually had a good point last night on Twitter. He said isnt kind of wreckless of Mark Jackson and the Warriors to play Curry basically the entire game just days after receiving pain injections for his ankle? Pretty good point there...

pretty crazy there's people who rank him lower than kyrie irving, the guy is just freaking unstoppable on O, makes his teammates a lot better and actually has a clue about D.

Such retarded basketball discussion goes on here..