Steph Curry Is Still Insane... But It Doesn't Matter 

Weak, you guys know nothing! For many, many years, the Brazilian Portuguese announcer Rômulo Mendonça (goat basketball announcer), calls Curry "JARARACA" and "brinquedinho assassino". Among other things. You gotta know a bit of Brazilian Portuguese to understand where Rômulo is coming from and the tone on his voice. It's absolutely brilliant and hilarious. We're priviledged to have such a guy announcing NBA games with Curry and others. Of course Rômulo has nicknames for everyone and also manages to come up with hilarious and exciting lines in any game with any team and for any situation. He's a total master. It's sad all you guys got is "baaang". Omg! 🤦‍♂️ This is like 0,5% compared to what Rômulo does during a single match.

@@Paulo-1999 Thanks for the insight! I like learning about things I'm ignorant of - especially on subjects of interest. I fell in love with the sound of Portuguese thanks to Getz/Gilberto.

@@Paulo-1999 emo

@@Paulo-1999 Well I guess you do have a good announcer you really need to work on your basketball team. It seems weak.

@@Paulo-1999 Ok but sorry "bang" is all our announcer has - but we have Curry as a Warriors fan so its been MAGICAL. UN MILAGRO - how about that!!!

Fax😂😂

No need to be a warriors fan to know what Steph Curry does. I still think he's easily a top 10 player in the NBA, ahead of anybody else on this team USA roster and the second best pointguard in the league after Luka.

@@pinobluevogel6458 *top 3

@@Yangmang Who you have over him, SGA? I can buy that, I think SGA is a better overall player, I wouldn't say he is a more effective pointguard though, even though Steph is partially a shooting guard as well. If you mean top 3 NBA, I think that is a bit much. He was that for the longest of time, but I think he lands somewhere between 7 and 6, maybe 5 if we give him the benefit of the doubt because of these clutch performances.

@@pinobluevogel6458 I meant he's top 3 all time haha

At this point, I'd give up the NBA rather than root against Steph. Shit he's the only reason I started watching the Dubs again after We Believe.

Winning in this way is remarkable, a celebration of the sport. While winning from forcing stuff to bait out freethrows is the opposite of this. That is why everyone disliked Harden at his peak and loves Curry.

@@pinobluevogel6458 Lakers are the worst culprits for being Freethrow merchants😊

@@Zerocyxone9 They have been for ages, insane freethrow rate.

I'm a Warriors fan and I know how loyal and dedicated Sacramento Kings fans are. Tickets are always selling out no matter if you're above .500 or not. So to hear that from a fan of a rival team like the Kings is truly awesome. Respect bro.

Been saying that

He’s the Kobe of our generation..Kobe was adored by fans but shaded by media..the same media that shades Curry.

Of shooting yea

@@CARLOSLOPEZ-r9the’s the best player in the league. Y’all keep discrediting this man . He was fuckn being doubled team while lebron and kd was on the court gtfoh lol ! 😊

💯🐐

There is no way the Warriors will ever willingly let go of Curry. However, their FO should really give him a bit more of a team to work with, as even though his best days are behind him, he is still insanely good at this time and possibly for years to come.

Oh stop. HE DOES RIGHT NOW. YES HE HAD TO STRUGGLE to get it. BUT God works in strange ways and that OLYMPIC PLATFORM WAS A GIFT from the Basketball gods especially for STeph!!!!!!!!!!!

@@sueprator9314 Brother, I might not have made it clear, but I was trying to say that he does not get the recognition on an overall scale. He did get praised for the last 2 games, but you still find people who would say that he was the main reason they won. I watch and listen to what others are saying, and it is crazy. You got PG13 say that, as well as many other “basketball analytics”.

Great post but you gotta factor in his volume of shooting as well. The dude shoots a fuckton of threes every year and throughout his career. Hitting 43% with his volume of shooting only happens if you get unbelievably HOT at times. If those factors were taken into consideration then his likelihood of hitting 4 in a row goes WAY UP. Fuck 4-4 , how many times have we seen him go 6-6 or something like that??

Shooting can be a mess, there are a million factors to how well a certain player shoots. Clearly though, having a player like Steph Curry, that most of the time can increase his percentage when it counts, while also shooting the largest volume is exceptional and very rare. On the podcast of greatest shooters of all times, the boring answer was always Steph Curry, as he litterally blows everyone else's insane stats out of the water.

Agree!

You guys fought hard , you should stand proud. Love from California ❤

France was legit one of the best teams to come out of the pack. If the team has a little more balance and slightly better offensive (guard) play, they will have a great shot again at the next big event. Winning from Germany was unexpected, but well deserved.

That means he's the goat 🔥

MJ.....

He's a one of one. He's a unique both pg and sg and has thus created his own position. To call him the greatest point guard of all time is difficult because he doesn't play the position traditionally. He's revolutionized the position. His off the ball movement operates like a point guard court generalship creating massive openings for other players. It's why even if you have Lebron and KD on the same court with him you double STEPH CURRY. He can just cut your heart out and put you to sleep. If I'm creating my all time starting 5 Steph Curry is my PG. Lebron is my 3 operating as almost a point forward. MJ is my Shooting Guard. Tim Duncan is my Power Forward and with Steph cutting he will probably feast on the block. And I can never decide between Shaq or Hakeem for my Center.

he has legit NEVER. NEVER PLAYED SHOOTING GUARD IN HIS CAREER. AND EVEN IF HE DID HE WOULD STILL NOT BE THE GREATEST SG OF ALL TIME

You sure you know what Shooting Guard means

Lauri ain't that dude anyway. If he was, Ainge would never give him up. If he ain't that dude, then he's not worth the price Danny Ainge was charging. If I was anyone in the basketball world, I would never deal with him. He is incapable of agreeing to a fair trade.

Buddy is not 30% of a player Klay is. Just mentally it’s not comparable. You people forget it’s comparing a hall of famer and champion against some dude who NEVER did anything

Boston built there team from trading KG and Paul pierce for picks. Warriors should have done something similar.

I think in this case, Steph is this popular and this good (still and maybe for a few more years) that there is no need to reset the roster fully. They do need other players to make sure they have at least a shot. If Pod can improve and Kuminga can keep up his slow increase in effectiveness and they can rely on Wiggins again (which they could not for the last season) they have a solid core for a playoff team. They just need more size and maybe another high volume threepoint shooter.

Let's put this in perspective. Would you trade JK, Podz, Moody and all your picks for Klay Thompson? Lauri isn't going to give us that much more output as a 2nd option. He's good but he's not a Shai or Anthony Edwards and def not a Doncic/KD. You would need that caliber player for the trade to make sense. I get the desire to want to bet it all on Steph but that type of trade is actually worse for Steph because it makes us completely inflexible in the likely case that the Lauri trade is a bust and doesn't get us far in the playoffs.

@@Urbrosfriends2ndcuz That is where you are wrong. While Klay historically has been the better threepoint shooter, he isn't that good of a slasher, nor is he even close to the consistancy and production that Lauri offers. Also, having a way larger body helps shoring up defenses on a position that normally doesn't offer a 7 footer, while losing nothing offensively. While I do think Lauri isn't as good a fit next to Steph as with more ball dominant guards, he still would have made the team a ton better. That is not to say having Podziemski is wrong, that guy is showing a lot of promise and has been a productive player even his early years.

@@Urbrosfriends2ndcuz for Klay? Like a 27 year old Prime Klay that could throw down 11+ 3's in a game and have lockdown elite perimer defense? I'd do that deal forsure 😂 For 34 year old Klay that went for 2 2nd rounders? 🤣

@@pinobluevogel6458 a ton better doesn't mean championship contender. We're basically betting everything on whether adding just Lauri makes us better than everyone else in the west and the Celtics. And on whether Lauri was actually going to stick around and not demand too much. Betting our whole future with and without Steph on someone who's never made a playoff run. We're at a good spot now, because if a proven all star becomes available before the Feb trade deadline, we'll be better off than if we went all in now. And if they don't, we still have our assets to make moves in the next offseason.

@@Urbrosfriends2ndcuz To be fair, I understand those points and it is sound reasoning, but I think the problems are with the roleplayers, which is not getting solvedf by having an added proven all-star. Look at the Suns, they have 3 all-star caliber players and barely made the playoffs. It is about team construction most of all, finding all the pieces that work and have a deep enough roster to both survive setbacks and being able to rest your lineup sufficiently, but also to have greater matchup versatility.

Fr, Utah was just playing around testing his market value in free agency otherwise they wouldn't have given him a contract extension.

The Lauri trade was never a realistic option. Ainge just wanted to see how desperate we were. The only thing we could've done differently in 20/20 hindsight is offer up JK in the Clippers trade for PG. But honestly I don't know how much better that makes us, especially if PG was asking for max right away. This was definitely not the worst possible outcome for this offseason.

This is a big issue for the Warriors, they do not know yet how good their young players will hold up over the next season(s). Losing Klay was bad from a legacy kind of perspective, but it does open up a lot more possibilities and it is not like he was his best self over the last years. Offering Moody, who seems to be the person that gets the least love from the organisation for some reason, wasn't even a horrible idea, as long as it came with enough value in picks. Personlly I love Moody, he has had not a great percentage from three over his 3 seasons, but I've always seen him perform very well in the playoffs and the numbers do improve even though it is a low sample size. He seems to be a reliable option for them, even lategame. A decent to good defender, who works hard and can make solid decisions on the court. Unlike Kuminga, who came in the league at the same time, we at least know what he's worth. At points it almost felt unfair that a team that used to be as good as the Warriors got draft picks that were this solid and playable, like Brandon Podziekmski for example, he was a total steal. Now, when they aren't great and need to do a lot better, it doesn't feel as bad anymore. The WC is stacked with good teams and they will have a hard time going anywhere even if their young guys are good.

The true best option might be giving Moody a real chance. Treating them, in their minutes, as highly valuable and trying to win a more 2011 Mavericks type of title. By that I mean 1 MVP level player and the others around him maybe not popular stars.

@@jordanclark8437 That might be the thing, even just solid players like Moody that have been good when the Warriors themselves (minus Steph) were horrible can make a difference. I'm not saying he is some massive force that will solely save the Warrior's franchise, but he is good enough to warrant serious minutes, while others have been very inconsistant.

Their lineups made sense last year

Kerr is either GREAT or an absolute donkey.

@@binary yes, the three guard lineups that choked multiple 20 point leads were fine

@@oephry3253 their roster wasn't very good. It is what it is. Kerr is top 5 all time

@@oephry3253 Uh exactly what was Steve Kerr going to do different? He literally did everything he could to get that sorry performing team to win. Started playing Kuminga more, put Klay on the bench, leaned on Chris Paul (when he wasn’t injured. Again.) to help the 2nd team, sent their two rookies to the G League to develop and gave them minutes sporadically until they were ready to assume bigger roles in the last half of the season… they were one of the winningest teams after the all star break.

Are you legit comparing Lauri Markkanen to Willie Cauley-Stein and Ky Bowman? We are talking about a guy that in his 2022-2023 season had comparable shooting numbers to Kevin Durant, while being a more fit, stronger and younger player .. on a contract that was smaller than most roleplayers would get on a team. He is by far the most plug-and-play scorer that will fit on any team in the league. Sure he isn't the best defender, but he still has length and size to bother people and fitting him next to other stars as a legit stetchable scoring option is probably easier than with almost any other player in the league.

And I’m not even a warrior fan I’m actually quite the opposite I don’t like the warriors but even I know curry is a warrrior for life the only way he isn’t a warrior is he decides he doesn’t want the be anywhere

It's all good & then you FAN boys come out talking crazy.

as the biggest steph fan, its ppl like u who represent the absolute worst of us... quit putting down other legends and just appreciate them all for what they accomplished 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@@Moshuun facts

bruh. I would 100% rather watch steph than LBJ or KD. But.... this take is just bad.

Respect that you Curry fan, but Lebron went to 9 straight finals. The Chef is one of one but come on bruh😂.

😂😂😂 LeBron always has great help, it's the system they play that kills the. And why the team looks bad without LeBron, Curry outside of 2014-2018 hasn't had a really good roaster, 2019 was top heavy, 2020-2021 was trash 2022 had potential but egos weren't managed so we never saw it grow, 2023-2024 were bad and Kerr hasn't been a good coach since 2018

@@isaacdebeila8085 LeBron doesn't need help. He needs to play a different role. He needs to become the number 3 option with another great player leading his team or leading the scoring load.

Steph took a pay cut for a lot of his career. He didn’t get his just do until after KDs departure

They should not take less money . Their greedy corporate ownership are raking in billions. Tim Duncan wasn't business savvy. He took a huge pay cut the first 7+ years of his career. Warriors can afford to be competitive but they are just thinking of their bottom line .

Mine as well. Kobe MJ Steph

I hope you're right. I thought '22 would be our year; the team looked stacked at the beginning of the season.

​@@MrBrachiatingApe Thats interesting. We lost in the play in in 2021. Just like this year. We had no major acquisitions that summer. Just picked up role players (Otto, Bjelicia). Upgraded from within (GP2 and Jordan Poole from the G-League) and things clicked for Wiggins. I think that summer was very similar to this summer finding key role players (Anderson, Melton, Hield). I'm pretty optimistic about what this team is goinng to be capable of.

@@jaystack2020 I was high on Poole from the end of the year before. OPJ was a former overall pick who was absolutely snake bitten by injuries however, the word at the beginning of the year was that he was in the best help he hasn't been in for 5 years. Bjelica was a former Euro league mvp, a stretched big man whose defense had been consistently underrated. I actually went to University with GP2's uncle and had watched some of GP2's g league games, so I had both heard and seen that he was something special as a defender. My reasoning was correct... But far less common, it was correct ENOUGH. And way way rarer, bad failed to luck render moot any preseason reason.

@@MrBrachiatingApe Podz, TJD, Kuminga, even GP2 will be guys that level up from their 2024 production. Anderson, Hield, Melton, Plowden are great additions like Porter, Bjelicia. Similar vibes to 2021 in my opinion

Amen

I love that you understand that Nike has backballed curry and under amor

No gold medal, no MVP. But yes, they were going to give it to LeBron if they possibly could.

I never understand these “Lauri is still unproven” takes. Was Wiggins proven when we traded for him? Lauri is already a 23 and 8 guy on shooting splits of 48/40/90. Lauri is already an all-star. How much more proven are you looking for him to be, playing on team that’s been practically tanking since they traded Donovan and Rudy. If he were anymore proven, GS wouldn’t be able to afford him. Like ya make no sense. Imma need ya to THINK, before ya start regurgitating other people’s talking points. Podz is a good player but he hasn’t shown me anything that warrants the Dubs not shopping him for a talent like Lauri. Cus if they really could’ve gotten Lauri for say Podz, Moody, Looney and a couple of picks, then they really dropped the ball. Steph won a ring with an unproven non all-star to become all-star Wiggins and back from injury Klay. If Wiggins could get anywhere near his ‘22 form, I don’t see as to why Steph wouldn’t be able to contend for another ring w/the addition of a Lauri, Buddy, Kuminga, DeAnthony, & Draymond The Warriors dropped the ball. Plain & simple

@@AllStarKydd It's simple. We didn't have to sell the farm for Wiggins. I'm going to need you to THINK before spouting off nonsense. This whole idea that the Jazz just wanted Podz and Moody is a complete farce. You understand this right??? Please tell me you're smart enough to understand this. Danny Ainge had no intention of trading Lauri. He just wanted to see how desperate the Warriors are. If Danny Ainge wanted to trade him, he wouldn't have give an extension for 5 years 238 million dollars. Let me reiterate that so your tiny little brain can comprehend. They gave a 5 year 238 million because that's what Ainge thinks he's is worth. Think about it. Would Danny Ainge wouldn't trade a 5 year 238 million dollar player for Podz, Moody and draft picks. No. You have to be on drugs to actually believe that rumor. So no, the Warriors did not dropped the ball.

I think it was that the overall price was just too high, and they realized that Lauri just didn't move the needle enough. Also, I think they realized that if Danny Ainge was asking a reasonable price, then Lowery was a below reasonable player. If Danny Ainge is asking an unreasonable price, he's trading a rotation player at best. If he's asking for MVP level assets, you're getting a fringe All Star.

@@MrBrachiatingApe I heard that the talks never got to the point where trading just Podz, Moody and picks was really any option. Ainge wanted everything we had.

@@Urbrosfriends2ndcuz Ainge always does. No GM in the league should trust an Ainge deal. The other side gets screwed pretty much every time.

What the hell are you on about

Curry is better than all the other players you just mentioned.

Facts bro