Chris Broussard thinks we continue to take Steph Curry for granted | FIRST THINGS FIRST 

I expect them to lose

First Things First: Cris Carter and Nick Wright They should swap Cris for Chris B, it would be so much better.

No, switch Jenna with Chris B

The Truth kawhi is a phenomenal. He could probably take anybody in history one on one except possibly Wilt, Russell, dream or Kareem but in a team setting I like his chances against anyone but the bad boys. They played together.

If they didn't have one of them they bring in someone else. Warriors GM is an active dude he will get what they need

true. a long with IT. look at the odds of a player his height being in the nba

Will go down as one of the greatest

I don't wanna put IT there. He is a good player, but not of the same caliber as Curry.

+Uchawi Beatz Official ye that's VERY true

Confidence is so big man, it’s been players in the nba who’ve practiced more than steph, shot more jumpers a day & all that but it takes confidence to shoot from far. He was doing it at Davidson too, but my point is u can work harder than any man in the world an still not be able to do this because u need confidence

Solomon's Tech What about Steve Kerr??

Jay Will he shot 46% from 3 a record but he only attempted 2.2 of them which means he only made like 1 a game he was a great 3 point shooter but only took them if he was wide open

Jay Will nobody has shots 3s like Steph with the success he has had and the range... nobody pulls up like Steph either

Solomon's Tech got that from first take

Yo

1mfilms already agree... but Harden doing good too

Lol tell Curry to get a finals MVP then we’ll talk.

Keep this up, I don’t see why Curry can’t win his 3rd MVP even with KD on the team.

tell kd to win a final mvp without opposing players double teaming curry on almost every play .

If not for Durant he'd have more work and that takes a toll on the player...ex 2016

@Nuckchorris yeah right These idiot so called analysts all they want to do is split up golden state because they know LeBron is road blocked to win another finals, cc s right, this warriors team cant beat the okc, rockets n cavs in 7 without kd

NuckChorris not the most sense but he is the only one that makes any sense. By far THE best nba analyst in today's era

NuckChorris ..normally i would agree with chris but i really have trouble with anybody saying steph curry is being taken for granted?

deranged Durant is better but Steph is more important

Kenny aka TI That literally makes no sense and KD isn't better why do you think he joined warriors

BillyClutch KD is a better overall player but Steph changes the offense for the whole team.

Because in order to appreciate Curry's impact you need a higher level of understanding of the game. We've never seen a player like Steph before. It's not like other great players didn't have gravity, it's that nobody has had the kind of gravity Steph has coupled with his WILLINGNESS to play off ball. If you imagine a dominant center, they have to gain post position. Sure they might draw a double team and be able to kick it out to an open teammate but the number of options this scenario creates is limited because of how static the player posting up must be and also the angles available to him. Curry can draw double teams 5ft beyond the 3point line with a simple PNR action, usually with Draymond. This creates way more opportunities than in the post-up scenario as Draymond has a clear path to the basket and can pass anywhere once Curry dumps it off to him. Curry takes this to the next level by being incredibly active off ball, so his gravity isn't fixed to any 1 point, it's constantly moving, disrupting and disabling opponents defensive schemes as communication breaks down from multiple switches during 1 play due to just 1 player. Let alone having to worry about Klay and Durant.

At their peak performance Steph is better offensively than KD.

Shaud Kelly as he should. Curry has been lights out lately

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Shaud Kelly Harden, Irving, and Lebron are top 3 in the mvp race but Curry is sneaking in there

CSC LeBron? Lmaoo have u seen his team record ? And curry is over Kyrie.

Shaud Kelly how they still won when he missed games

He gets the respect he deserves, he is a great scorer and plays a nice defense, but he is a catch and shoot player being a 3rd option. The team needs him, but is not like he is a superstar and they dont talk about him.

Klay Thompson is a top 5 shooter ever but also the most overrated player in the nba (along with Draymond Green). They fit in so perfectly in their team but would never be able to carry a team by themselves.

Klay famous in China

d tay we expect that from him now

d tay yeah curry is better thn KD

d tay they needed KD inorder to beat Lebron and a fully healthy CAvs

Duane Crooms they're better as teammates because they can rest. Beginning of the season either is great. Playoffs it's whose still healthy. They're playing easy. Expect them to be healthy.

Or Lebron needs GSW injured to win. GSW were up 3-1 when both teams were practically healthy (Except bogut, and curry mildly injured). Then iggy got injured, and green got suspended by Lebrons whining. Cavs have a fake championship and thats the truth. They can't beat the warriors when they're healthy. Durant was insurance for the injuries.

will a steph is injured too.

Ikr. Lets ignore that when completely healthy on both sides gsw was thrashing the cavs before kd got there.

Such excuses, Draymond suspended? He did that to himself he should've been suspended against the Thunder even the refs said this. Curry had good games but when he had bad games all of a sudden it was because of an injury, stop making excuses they choked a 3-1 lead. The entire warriors recruited him there leader Draymond stated they needed KD moving forward you sound dumb

D Tennn What is excuses ? Weren't the warriors 3-1 up in the finals ? By your logic a team which can be 3-1 up has no chance of beating the opposing team ? A team which has beaten the opposing team has no chance of beating them ? Lol.

JAM say it again for the people in the back lol..................The CAVS historic comeback only happened because the Warriors lost their 2 defensive anchors in Bogut and Green the series literally turned around the moment Bogut got injured. Which is to be expected when up against the team with the freight train known as Lebron James. It'd be hard for anyone to beat that with no decent Center and the loss of a DPOY talent 4 spot

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*Quay* cris at the end said Klay was underrated

Klay is a great player but a product from Curry being the system, the numbers show his %s go down a good amount when Steph doesn’t play because all the attention on Steph isn’t there anymore

Klay is just fun to watch because he's like the new Dell Curry. That shot is iconic. Steph's is so quick you don't get to see it. When they want to, they're likely to have Klay at least an 82 point game to make a statement. Everyone has an easier game with Steph. However he's so nice I'd expect your 27 average prediction is purt near. It's splash brothers.

Jada Esprit I agree so much

I'm not a warriors fan at all but that's facts. Statistically he's shooting the three even better than Steph and still avg 20 a game as the third option which is scary

He did that whilst missing a whole bunch of 4th quarters too

That year was the most efficient season for a 20ppg+ scorer (66.9 TS) ever. This season he’s upped that to 68 TS

Emad Talukdar 3-1 lead

Tren Clen They were winning at such a huge margin he didn’t have to play those fourth quarters. Don’t forget all those 20 point quarters he had.

Emad Talukdar 3 - 1 regular season wins don't matter

Durant will end his career in top-12 in Bill Simmons book and curry is only top-30 with guys like harden and westbrook

@@maxiqums1549🤣🤣 curry is now inda top 10 and kd is in the top 15 🤡

Joe James fax

Actually, 2016 is still Steph's best year, shooting 30.1 ppg, 5.4 rpg 6.7 apg on 50/45/90 shooting splits. Literally better in every category. Still, his numbers are still ridiculously amazing. Steph can average nearly the same numbers in his unanimous MVP season and he's barely in the MVP conversation. How ridiculous is that. And BTW, he's leading the league again in +/- (at +377, though Klay is just -2 behind him). He's almost +100 better than both Harden (+280) and Westbrook (+279). Lebron's +1 (lol). Oh, and Curry did it in just 35 games. Everyone else needed 40-45 games to get there. Give Steph another 10 games and he'll be close to +500. What's true is that KD coming to the Warriors diminishes Steph's chances to claim another MVP title. Steph would easily be front runner this year with his numbers without KD. Westbrook can win MVP with just 47 wins. At this point, if the Warriors don't win at least 65 every year, Steph's not winning MVP.

Joe James L

This not better than that 2015-16 season

Definitely not complete when he can actually guard his OWN position, we can talk

Brandon Brown tbh I think steph likes the idea of having someone as great as kd to share the burden. It'll increase his longevity as a top player . These pundits have agendas man!

Brandon Brown they needed KD to get over Cavs.

No, they didn't need him. The Warriors had a 3-1 lead. They should have easily won that series. They blew it, not for lack of talent or skill. Even still, it took an heroic effort by LeBron over the series and then a few clutch shots by Kyrie at the end of the game 7 to even beat the Warriors. KD just puts the Warriors over the top where it's not even competitive. They didn't need him to beat the Cavs.

and severely limit your chances of winning? if durant was on the thunder, you really think warriors would have beat them again? It took the warriors having homecourt and durant and westbrook choking for them to pull through

fau2an100 they still beat okc fair and square... LeBron needed suspension and injuries to beat the warriors in 7 lmao

Noah Rogers L when we shoot we yell KOBE

PoWer_UpXx x but do you rather have curry shooting ability or kobe shooting ability

Christian Jean curry but he saying it like if people didnt want to shoot 3's before curry

PoWer_UpXx x not as much as now though

That’d be Duke University.

Forever Gooner what does minutes hate to do with it

@@treyjones4020 Efficiency. He also has the least touches. So it's like saying he's so efficient that it takes less effort for him to get those points vs other players.

Abdullah Khalifah 100% Facts

lol

Still can’t guard his own position 🤷🏽‍♂️

ASP2778 he guarded Kyrie last game

\\xxᴀɴᴀx// {sʜʜ} Kyrie had 37

Sir Smiles injuries hurt all teams not just the warriors

Sir Smiles You are on point! KD is the ultimate insurance policy.

Fidel Cashflow Very true sir

I think you mean an uncontrollable Draymon that year..

injuries against the cavs also won them a championship in 2015

And we know it wasn’t curry

Love Trumps Hate potentially? No. He already is a top 3 PG with Magic and I. Thomas. Yes he’s already better/greater than Stockton/Payton/Kidd/Nash Etc....

Say he is a better guard , but i do not know if is the best point on his team. The main reason Kyrie Irving left Cleveland is he wanted to be the point. He was off the ball half the time, Curry is off the ball alot of the time. Watch Magic Johnson and Johns Stockton play . They are always the point.

See, i think there's two ways to look at this. He may not be a top 5 point guard in terms of distributing the ball/getting guys involved/not turning the ball over, etc, but he could be a top 5 player at the point guard position.

Obed Cherubin distributing is not the main role of a PG. It’s making teammates better and basically being the engine of offense. When ou include stats/achievements/eye test Steph top 3 PGs ever

Top 3

bluboysss this whole show is LeBron bias, they never give the smaller guys credit

bluboysss same thing I thought!!!! like come one !!!! We talking about steph where the heck LeBron come in .???

These idiot so called analysts all they want to do is split up golden state because they know LeBron is road blocked to win another finals,...

oj oj that's true but the thing about going to state is that outside of Kevin Durant the team was put together from the ground up so even if Kevin leaves, golden state who would still be the favorites to win every year. I guess thats why LeBron seems so flippant about wining finals now

bluboysss topic about Steph, and watch the pause when CC brings up LBJ.

He always woke when other analysts are ignorant af

william hardenbergh Russ better

@@Erick-io5xi 😂😂😂 No bruh

@@theefamgod ik i should be ashamed lol

@Lord Beerus the reason i said Russ better was cause Melo was playing for OKC tbh. Steph the goat.

Please with the MJ comparison.

Stop with the MJ dicksucking... there are players that can compare to MJ

Plus Boogie Cousins..............

You're 100% right whatcha smoking on

Unbeatable Rhino cuz they ruined the NBA?

trevon windley no one playing any form of defense has ruined the nba.

trevon windley Because he loves Lebron

Honestly, Klay and Draymond arent that good.. especially Draymond. KD is special. Steph is not human. But Klay(and Draymond who isnt a real all star)? There are 50 players better than Draymond, and I will take Kyrie/Russ/Paul George/Derozen/Jimmy Butler/Kawhi/ Harden/CP3/ Dame /Embiid /Giannis/ Davis/ Cousins/Booker /Oladipo /Porzingis and Wall over klay thompson

Nadav Oneplus 50 players better than Draymond? It is constantly said that Draymond is the most important player on the team. The guy might be the most intelligent player in the game. Not only is he the best defensive player on the game, he runs point on a nightly basis.

jaliu he’s not their most important player he’s their toughest. Without Steph this Warriors team is average af lol

NoGlory Ent. Those are facts without Steph there offense drops quite a bit

jaliu what do you expect when you have 4 all stars on a team. Easy buckets.

These idiot so called analysts all they want to do is split up golden state because they know LeBron is road blocked to win another finals,..

oj oj facts! 💯💯💯

I agree George Shehata. I think Steph is thinking long term - how to maintain his career. He and the GSW are playing a comfortable game of basketball without too much risk of injury and whatnot - not too much hard contact when driving to the basket, no crazy physical contests for the ball - just good vision, good passes, good shooting, good teamplay, smart plays. As long as it's just enough to win, it's good. Sometimes I ask myself during a game when GSW lead by like 15 points and they are demonstrably the more active team on the court, why they don't push their points even further. They could, but they don't. This happens in a lot of games. I think it's long term thinking. Steph is 29. He has another decade to go in the NBA. Why should he or KD go all out in every single game they play. It's just dangerous. As I said, as long as they score just enough to win, it's good. A win is a win. After that it's all about having a long career, staying healthy, spending time with your family, etc.

Pogi is it dominating when it's only one side of the ball? Can he defend and score like kd?

AnswermykoL Have you not seen his defense?? Sure he’s not the best defender in the league but you’re just a part of the huge basketball population that overlooks his good defense.

AnonymousPickle I've seen the warriors defense. He's actually not a very good defender. Klay does the job on the best opposing guards.

Pogi the game is too easy for him

He makes it look... STEPHORTLESSSS

Maurice Webb Bro, he’s not that good defensively. That’s where he’s overrated. Y’all just think he’s some elite defender cos he guards the star point guard of the opponent. 1. That leads to a small mismatch as Klay is taller than most elite point guards and 2. You ever asked yourself why Klay even guards them?? Oh yeah because curry is a liability defensively one on one. Even the 2016 finals prove it, the cavs wanted Curry to be switched onto Kyrie game 7.

Damian Lillard L

@damian lillard exactly. Klay is barely above average on defense. People talk about defense like it some sort of check box and if you say he's good on defense that's all it takes... no. Klay is good on defense like Jamal Crawford is "good on offense", but Kiwi Leonard is good on defense like Michael Jordan is "good on offense". It's a big differece

jamarcus boyd he has his own podcast

Because he is just an nba analyst he will never get an own show

Brandon Wavvy i want u to watch that series and tell me who was assisting klay on exactly half those shots.

Noob statement brandon

watch your words kid

Brandon Wavvy i think people take gs system for granted. This system is built perfectly for curry and klay. Kd too but i think it benefits steph and klay more.

Brendan Bloom u realize the system was built by steph and klay with their abilities to put their egos aside and play off the ball

Exactly

Go do more research on basketball kid.

Fantum Wow, going out on such a limb.

Fantum I've been saying that he is a shooting guard.

BIG FACTS

Mj's first MVP season was pretty dope as well

Abdulla Alaidie they have no idea what they are talking about.

It was a different team with a lot more depth, barnes, ezili, bogut, barbosa, speights, mchaw etc

you mean when kyrie and love were hurt?

Give the Warriors any SF in the league who can play decent D and knock down open shots and they'll win the ship. The can win with pretty much any decent SF

Maurice Terrell Are u dumb? Okc are 5th in the west even with westbrook melo and pg13

Cain2k they sleeping on Steph? They only got about 40 videos about him.

Wrong, the best player isn't always the most important one. Pippen proved that playing with Jordan.

v. ska yup! Get a top 5 center and another backup guard and we would have been fine.

Exactly people argue that without KD they can't win. But they're just assuming KD being off the team with no replacement.

Yawn Paular agreed

He was needed to make them the prohibitive favorites. They'd still be the favorite's to most but Cleveland with Lebron and Kyrie was capable of beating GS with no KD.

jaws102585 facts lmfao

No, Cavs still weren't capable of beating GSW. Even when they blew the lead. Warriors were up 3-1 against a healthy Cavs team but the injuries and suspension stacked up and took a toll. Durant was insurnace for that

How was Cleveland not capable of beating Golden State when they had already beat them? Injuries are a part of the NBA, it's just a fact. Cleveland benefited from a season ending injury to Bogut and Curry being banged up but Golden State also benefited from Cleveland losing both Kyrie & Love in the 2015 finals. In the 2017 finals, when Lebron was on the floor, the Cavs played the GS nearly even . So saying they wouldn't be capable of beating GS w/o KD is laughable because they literally did.

Walter Mitchell yeah but hes talking about if both teams healthy Cavs most likely wouldnt win

BmoreBirds22 having more of a chance = being a favorite

Luka Lexi more than they would normally have is what he meant

KD would of had 50 in game 5 if steph passed him the ball. He had 39 with about 5 minutes left and steph started jacking it up. Dont talk about stats

fau2an100 no.

fau2an100 - and maybe they lost

Team. They mostly help each other but they hit moods.

fau2an100 Jacking it up? He only took like 2 shots in the last 5 minutes and made 1...

ShiftyShy Gsw will miss Klay when he gone

DJ The GameBoy if he hey play Boston he will. The Cavs double team him every play

I'll say this. KD will win finals MVP again. Easy you heard it here first

DAWG you can't double team someone who constantly comes off picks my dude

Prithy B it’s not about the star power, Its about the chemistry.

Prithy B Exactly, people try to have both sides of the argument.

Preach bro..i dont understand why this guy's keepin talkin about KD or steph more like Translation of this video KD PLEASE leave the Warriors so LeBron can have a chance to win more championships because he'll never beat the Warriors with you there 😂😂😂

ok bro, tell me what if KD was last season on spurs would the warriors beat the spurs im waitin please peace from Monte carlo

oj oj yes they would

oj oj I'm gonna say yes but it would have taken all 7 Game to do it.

oj oj you have to factor the fact that if warriors didnt sign kd, they would have so much money to sign other players so the argument that they are having that would warriors win without either of them is dumb because they would have extra capspace to sign other free agents

@@ojoj5194 kd didn win with westbrook and harden on the same team.. but he did with steph and klay.. that should tell you something

Kd joined a 73-9 loaded super team who just made it the Nba finals. LeBron joined a good team that barely made the playoffs. They had two different situations.

The Process um the entire warriors recruired him, the leader in Draymond Green stated they need KD moving forward, the entire warriors team including quiet Klay recruited him

The Process different ramifications. The outcomes are the same.

BAMBI The vacuum cleaner 5000 it’s because Lebron fans are so blind man. It’s like this if someone killer someone with a gun vs killing someone with their bare hands. They’d be like it’s different

BAMBI The vacuum cleaner 5000 you can't possibly be serious...LeBron to this day is still getting bashed KD had ONE awful year and now nobody talks about him anymore

Gamemaster Gary it's not that they don't need to be great, it's just that they have to share the shots, you could see how good Thomson felt scoring with Stephen injured. It's just a trade, if they want a ring, they'd better get use to shine everyother day.

hicksworld runshit Cavs try to copy too but didn't work for them, Houston will not beat warriors what so ever!

hicksworld runshit true. Houston is the great value brand of GS.

imbrawler dubz If they played one on one..........

mandel you are correct

stupefying

You must not Watch basketball. Bron scoring efficiency is one of his strengths.

Mandel Harvey the night Lebron dropped 57 he was 23-34 which was slightly higher than what steph shot that night. Steph is a substantially better long ball shooter Lebron has always been a more efficient shooter. For example steph has had only one season shooting 50 percent while Lebron has averaged it.

AscendingGlory ur being fooled by fg%. If u wanna actually measure efficiency, look at ts%. Steph is a more efficient player than lebron. He’s at 68% ts, Lebron is at 63% this year.

except that Steph Curry is the true reason why the Warriors are great

Dk B You are right except Wade chose to completely fade into the woodwork so his girlfriend(Lebron)could shine brighter. Steph thank God is not letting Nike's Durant take all his shine. I so feel sorry for Wade . He was the face of the Heat and look at him now. Wade allowed Lebron James too much influence in his life for whatever reason. I read that was one of the things that irritated Pat Riley, Lebron James hold on Wade. Now look at Wade, he's coming off Lebron's bench,sad. He was suppose to go out like Kobe,sad.

DynamicUnreal Exactlyyyyy

NillA Gorilla precisely, the warriors are built for regular season games. They can win 90% of teams easily without Curry or KD. This team is special but come playoff time KD will step his game up as will LeBron and you will see the two best players go head to head once again.

D Tennn oh man... font you just wish KD would have "stepped his game up" for just ONE game when they were up 3-1 against the warriors? Kinda funny how KD is this super human whenever the team needs it but couldn't do that with the thunder

AnkleTaker 2 what are you talking about?

AnkleTaker 2 do you even know who KD is? Have you watched him prior to going to GS?

Exactly

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So why did he jump on a plane to the Hamptons to recruit KD?

Kinson Cooper he didnt. Green did

Kinson Cooper Same reason LeBron jumped teams twice . To win. Lol who TF wants to lose Especially when the NBA robbed you and basically have LeBron he championshi

for me those guy's scared of KD Nick so hurt that Durant has wrecked LeBrons plans smh

Exactly, that why I don't get why they keep talking about this dumb topic. All championship teams had good & great players to win. 100% of them

I know 50/40/90 is the slashline that people use, but Steph actually averaged 50/45/90 that 2015 season. 45% from 3 is insane for someone who shoots as many 3s as Steph does, off the dribble and from the distances he does.

kefkapalazzo1 He's not better than KD. Put both players on trash teams, and I guarantee you that KD will win more.

kefkapalazzo1 importance is not the same thing as Better. That's y it's MVP not Best player in the NBA

kefkapalazzo1 not necessarily

Xticuper kd is more steph is the best shooter, best ball handler, best passer, and he has the highest b-ball iq on the team.. in addition to being more important

Kd is better because of his height

Lebron would have better number if he had 3 all stars with him and a normal organization.

he would average 7 more points in little under 4 more minutes?? and we're not even talking about how Lebron average 2.5 more assists and 3 more rebounds.

Easy

And he would be injured. That's coming from a Curry fan.

bkmtf they wipe team out to early for him to play Lebron minutes lol

7 straight finals isn’t ring chasing that’s sustaining greatness overtime. KD is the ring chaser I mean look at the end of the video they’re saying if Steph left GSW right now they wouldn’t be the favorites in the West. Proof in the pudding.

Sam Davis Let me pose you one question....do you think LeBron would have even one single ring right now if he never left Cleveland?

I think Cavs might win a ring but they will not have drafted Kyrie if LeBron stayed in Cleveland. Imagine LeBron never left and kyrie played for another team, nonetheless the Twolves with KLove.

What was stopping him from winning in Miami 🤔

Kinglik7 yes. I believe he would've had wade Bosh or both jus join the Cavs.