NBA: Steph Curry or Russell Westbrook? Who's better?

[Raven]

Right and having your number 1 option shooting terrible FG percentages and having poor shot selection doesn't hinder your chances of winning games?

of course it is, but if you're playing from behind you're bound to lower your % and also it means that you have less fastbreak opportunities, which again lowers the %, and it also means that you need to run more to compensate for the lack of D from his teammates which again contributes to lower the fg %

[BD24]

Just posing the question that people will be discussing quite a bit this season when it comes to who's the best PG in the league..now that the mainstream media have moved on from Rose, Rondo, etc

I don't remember stating my opinion on the matter though you balding auntie ing .

[Spurs9]

Westbrook any day cant stand curry

[Kawhitstorm]

Westbrook is average off the ball.....

[tlongII]

Curry

[313]

Bestbrook tonight

[Kawhitstorm]

You are nt a bigger Russ fan than me ... but I would still take Curry. People forget how good Russ has gotten at creating for his team-mates. he doesnt draw defenders at the 3 point line like Cury but top of the key in he is probably only second to Curry and Lebron at drawing attention from the defense only Harden is also in that class. As PG it's Steph followed closely by Russ.

Russy's kryptonite is speed on defense. The Warriors were able to keep him bottled up when he was on a tear last season b/c they had 3 perimeter defenders that could move laterally (Klay/Iggy/Livingston) & a mobile big guy to switch on PnRs (Draymond). He didn't have a clear run way for take off which cut down his FT attempts & even when he got into the paint Draymond was lurking behind him thus the majority of his shots were contested. If he's making his outside shot then there isn't much you could do but his penetration can be minimized.

[313]

Russy's kryptonite is speed on defense. The Warriors were able to keep him bottled up when he was on a tear last season b/c they had 3 perimeter defenders that could move laterally (Klay/Iggy/Livingston) & a mobile big guy to switch on PnRs (Draymond). He didn't have a clear run way for take off which cut down his FT attempts & even when he got into the paint Draymond was lurking behind him thus the majority of his shots were contested. If he's making his outside shot then there isn't much you could do but his penetration can be minimized.

Curry can also be slowed down by a team with good perimeter defenders(Spurs last year).

[Seventyniner]

I'd say curry too, but three years ago curry the chucker was inferior to Westbrook the chucker. Then Mark Jackson was dumped, curry wins mvp.




Let's wait more than one game with Westbrook and a coach who isn't running archaic schemes(Brooks> Jackson obv, but Kerr> Donovan) before we settle this debate. We've never seen Westbrook with a team built like the warriors. It was Durant's team until Westbrook bullied his way to team alpha.

Good point about the coaching aspect. Westbrook has had bad coaching his whole career, jury is still out on Donovan.

I would take Curry for reasons already discussed: he is much more dangerous than Westbrook without the ball and almost as dangerous with it.

If Westbrook ever developed the mentality to be a shutdown defender too, he would be my preference. He obviously has the athletic ability. He's actually the ideal PG to put someone like Patty Mills next to. Westbrook could easily guard SGs.

[TheGreatYacht]

These s making it hard to choose smfh.

Would they have done this against Stockton and Starks though?

[HemisfairArena]

Curry,,,dude has been there,,,done that and experience is half the battle,,,,

[spurraider21]

most impressive aspect of curry's progress is that despite his limited athleticism, he's become a reasonable defender

[BillMc]

Let me know when he throws a fadeaway 3 that goes off the side of the backboard in the closing minutes of a series finale.

This.

[DMC]

Here's the difference between Curry and Russ (other than the obvious eye test), Curry dropped 53 last night. Russ knows that now and will go after that instead of playing within the scheme of the team's offense. Curry doesn't chase Russ. Steph makes bad shot decisions but a lot of them pan out. I am not sure he would be able to contribute in the same way on a team like the Thunder that has KD, because Curry would defer to him constantly. He'd get his points as well, but he wouldn't be scoring 50. They might win a championship though.

[313]

Sometimes I feel like he doesn't even have to arc the three so high but he's trying to see how far up in the air he can throw the ball and still make it