Yes, because the MVP doesn't have to play for them to beat the Rockets, look at Game 2 and look at the second half of Game 4. I don't know if the coach or player made the decision or insisted, so I've merged them both into Steve Curry.
The decision for the Warriors best player to play is all on Steph Kerr.
His ankle was fine, you don't rest your stars in a close game in the playoffs.
The decision for him to play in the Playoffs is on the coach, yes... Is he not supposed to play the best player in the league? Are they not trying to win? what point are you trying to make here, because your analysis of steve kerr's coaching is as good as james hardens defense.
This is the Rockets we're talking about, any fundamentally sound college team that plays hard and has a center has an outside shot at beating the Rockets most nights (I'm speaking of effort not talent). They're gonna win the series no matter what. The only scenario in which the MVP should have come back is if the Rockets pushed the Warriors to elimination.
Curry will pull an Ibaka on the Clippers. He will miraculously heal in a week and the media will make him out to be some sort of hero for playing through the pain.
I say again, the MVP is not needed to beat the Rockets. There was no reason to think the Rockets could beat the Warriors while Golden State was up 2-0 or even 2-1, the Rockets held on for dear life and were lucky to escape Game3. If you have an excuse to rest your stars, you do so and save them for bigger and more challenging battles than a team that's clearly given up on the season. Had the Rockets gone up 3-2 or tied it 3-3, then game on and throw everything you have. Now the best player on the Warriors and the NBA may miss the Clippers series and may be 50% for the Sours series if they even get that far. This is all on Steph Kerr.
You mean a Willis Reed. Shows the type of youth we have on the board [insert old man yelling at cloud headline from The Simpsons].
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Grandpa Simpson is the shiznit!
"In a world of thirty-one flavors, we're the cup of water they rinse the scoops in. Grampa out."
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Meh, it....
ok so what if they lose every game without curry? then what?
LOL! I was going to say Willis Reed, but I didn't think many people would know who I was talking about. I went with the closest, most recent playoff "miracle" return from injury which was Ibaka.
It means they shouldn't have played him versus the Rockets.
Curry won't heal magically. He's not someone who can stand around scratching his nuts, goaltending a shot now and then. He moves non stop without the ball (like Rip Hamiliton and Ray Allen used to) and that requires his knees and ankles to cooperate (and his mind to believe they will). His shot mechanics don't rely as heavily on his jumping ability as they did for Allen, but he's still going to be taken from Mt Olympus level down to something a bit easier to guard. With CP3 out though, the Blazers might see round 2. If they do, I think the Blazers give GS fits.
Some of that falls on Curry himself. He as to tell his trainers and coach if he's in any pain. If he plays through it, he's taking a huge risk with his future. It doesn't matter what kind of prodigy he is (and he is), with a bum knee and ankle he's just an average player if that.
You a racist breh?
Why do you think I called the person responsible Steph Kerr? They're both responsible.
Well you might as well add whoever wins Clippers/Blazers to the list of teams they can beat with no Curry.
Bull hindsight talking.
You can get injured more if you're already injured. You can get injured if you're 100% healthy.
You can get injured playing 45 minutes a game. You can get injured playing 4 minutes a game.
It's sports at the highest compe ive level. Injuries is a risk any moment a player is on the court.
I don't get why there are some trying to throw around the blame game on Kerr, getting boners just so they can say "I told you so" on a messageboard. Hilarious.
i dont think kerr was responsible for currys injury
look at how he fell, kerr had nothing or any rocket had anything to do that with that knee bending like a curve into his mouth, fck him
My point is they didn't need their best player to beat the Rockets, unless the Rockets pushed them to the brink of elimination, he shouldn't be playing.
This wasn't Thibodeau playing Rose in garbage time when his team was up by 15. It happened at the end of the first half. You don't sit your best player for the playoffs, especially coming off a loss. Even against a team like the Rockets, going home tied at 2 games apiece in the first round is something you'd want to avoid.
If the knee injury had anything to do with the ankle injury I might agree with you, but he slipped on a wet spot on the floor. There's no correlation. Even the ankle injury wasn't related to his earlier ankle problems.
Did the Warriors not lose game 3? If Curry felt fine to play and was cleared by doctors, then he should have played. It's not the regular season. Every playoff game is important. You don't rest key players in the playoffs "just in case." Not even Pop does that. In a 7 game series, the tides can turn fast even in a lopsided match-up.
You lose another game in the first round as a 1st seed, series tied 2-2, and it's a new series and you never know what could happen.
What happened to Curry in game 4 had nothing to do with his ankle injury or overplaying him in the regular season. Whatever criticism you have of Kerr, justified or not, it's silly to blame him for Curry slipping on a wet spot on the court and getting injured. Absolutely silly.
Dammit OV. Beat me to it. Essentially said what I just posted.
Great minds, mah brotha.:
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