Steph Curry = SOFT

[k4cowboys4k]

"I was cutting down the lane, not really involved in the play and somehow I get an elbow to my chest"

Give me a break Steph, complaining about a little contact. One of the first things taught at a young age is to make sure you bump the cutter. If you can't take some contact get out of the NBA.

[NYSportsGuy210]

NBA players today are soft. If he played in the 1990's he wouldn't be b*tching like a 5 year old.

[ThaTopMoron]

[Deuce]

You think he uses lotion to jerk off or wanks raw dog?

[TheMoneyShot]

I think Steph Curry is the next to come out of the closet.

[NYSportsGuy210]

Looking like Reggie Miller out there....

[Potentate]

Thread title should've been:

Steph Curry = Gamebreaker

[BigDeem5]

He needs to gain 15 lbs

[bjb7223]

Rick Mahorn is laughing at this.

[survivalinstinct]

He needs to gain 15 lbs

what's funny.is he was about 15 lbs lighter his rookie season. he's gotten bigger every off season

[MoneyLineDawg]

Curry is unstoppable when he gets hot......Like right now......

[Louisvillekid1]

Really? Post # 12???

Never fukkin heard of ya, pal!

[Aaron McCrevice]

Looking like Reggie Miller out there....

[Louisvillekid1]

I don't like or follow hockey but isn't calling steph curry soft along the lines of calling Crosby soft?

In philly, I understand why crosby is called soft, but this is a different game...

I think the kid is balling, but what do I know about basketball...

Granted I'm high, but sounds like a hater to me...

[Louisvillekid1]

did you guys see the kid clapping after falling short of the comeback last game? I thought that was awesome

[Q.ueue]

Stephen Curry, a magnificent player

[mikefromsd]

cornball brother!

[Scorpion]

choking in the 4th, dumbass

[k4cowboys4k]

I don't like or follow hockey but isn't calling steph curry soft along the lines of calling Crosby soft?

In philly, I understand why crosby is called soft, but this is a different game...

I think the kid is balling, but what do I know about basketball...

Granted I'm high, but sounds like a hater to me...

6-14 with 7 turnovers is not balling. I was referring to him as soft because of the initial quote, complaining about being bumped when cutting down the lane, thinking the other team was taking cheap shots at him when there was nothing to be seen. Christ, the kid shoved Koufos for blocking his shot right after he got fouled.

[Yazworm91]

6-14 with 7 turnovers is not balling. I was referring to him as soft because of the initial quote, complaining about being bumped when cutting down the lane, thinking the other team was taking cheap shots at him when there was nothing to be seen. Christ, the kid shoved Koufos for blocking his shot right after he got fouled.

I agree with you on this. I grew up to the pistons/bulls series beating up on Jordan the entire series. The bulls/Knicks series of the 90s. I watched Jackson himself in many playoff series. A hard foul back then was just that a hard foul in the playoffs. Today's game that same hard foul is a flagrant 2 and you are getting ejected.

[bubblebuttluv]

You can afford to be soft in the soft, modern game...especially when you have the purest shot in the league. The kid drains three's as easily as we do on NBA 2K13 and that is the only thing you care about if you are a GSW fan. He also is an un-selfish player who will gladly hand off the rock. I am hoping GSW picks up Seth Curry whenever he enters the draft (I guess next year). That would be nasty, even though there is a gulf in between the two of them talent-wise.

[Menses]

Curry Soft? Nonsense....Compared to the 90 pistons...everybody is soft.....I seen men twice his size afraid to do this....

[lakerboy]

NBA players today are soft. If he played in the 1990's he wouldn't be b*tching like a 5 year old.

werent you a 5 year old in the 1990"s?

[Aaron McCrevice]

Curry Soft? Nonsense....Compared to the 90 pistons...everybody is soft.....I seen men twice his size afraid to do this....

more like suicidal

[tatddy]

"I was cutting down the lane, not really involved in the play and somehow I get an elbow to my chest"

Give me a break Steph, complaining about a little contact. One of the first things taught at a young age is to make sure you bump the cutter. If you can't take some contact get out of the NBA.

It all posturing. It's tertiary thinking. But you're not sharp enough to see that.

[Potentate]

The guy with a bionic ankle, a bloody eye, and a team on his back is soft... funny.

[k4cowboys4k]

It all posturing. It's tertiary thinking. But you're not sharp enough to see that.

Wrong, he was visibly frustrated in the game. Jawing with the refs, other players, and like I stated before shoved Koufos for no reason. He was bitching because they played physical defense on him and he didn't sit wide open like a few of the other games.

[k4cowboys4k]

The guy with a bionic ankle, a bloody eye, and a team on his back is soft... funny.

None of that stuff has any correlation to being soft

[Potentate]

Wrong, he was visibly frustrated in the game. Jawing with the refs, other players, and like I stated before shoved Koufos for no reason. He was bitching because they played physical defense on him and he didn't sit wide open like a few of the other games.

But really though, almost all players getting smothered or banged around do the same thing... Kobe, Chris Paul, even big dudes like Blake Griffin, LeBron... they all jaw and complain when the defense is shutting them down or being extra physical. Getting frustrated is not the same as being soft though.

[k4cowboys4k]

But really though, almost all players getting smothered or banged around do the same thing... Kobe, Chris Paul, even big dudes like Blake Griffin, LeBron... they all jaw and complain when the defense is shutting them down or being extra physical. Getting frustrated is not the same as being soft though.

Obviously. The point you fail to recognize is Kobe, Paul and those guys aren't going to go to the media and say, "those guys are so mean, I didn't even have the ball and they bumped me!" I can only imagine the initial thought from players around the league when they heard this baby

[Potentate]

Obviously. The point you fail to recognize is Kobe, Paul and those guys aren't going to go to the media and say, "those guys are so mean, I didn't even have the ball and they bumped me!" I can only imagine the initial thought from players around the league when they heard this baby

Really... Are you seriously that biased? You're saying no other NBA player has spoken out to the press about a play they thought was dirty or excessively physical? You're kidding right? Let's not argue, but I'll say this. You've got your blinders on right now.

[19th Hole]

It all posturing. It's tertiary thinking. But you're not sharp enough to see that.

Bingo!


WTF..OP is a whiner with nothing to talk about..
Get over your hate for Curry.
Steph is a man playing a man's game.

[k4cowboys4k]

First off being biased doesn't make any sense here, do you even know the meaning? Secondly, I didn't say no one else has ever complained to the media, don't put words in my mouth. But back on topic, complaining about a dirty play (ibaka clubbing griffin in his junk) is more than understandable, but nothing dirty even remotely happened with curry. The nuggets got a little physical and it got under his skin, imagine what would happen if he played Memphis in the playoffs!

[visualrealism]

Lmao. get the fuc.k outta here. CP3 ALWAYS whine and cry about stupid bullshit. Is he soft?Hell no. Same with Curry.Raw as hell.

[Potentate]

First off being biased doesn't make any sense here, do you even know the meaning? Secondly, I didn't say no one else has ever complained to the media, don't put words in my mouth. But back on topic, complaining about a dirty play (ibaka clubbing griffin in his junk) is more than understandable, but nothing dirty even remotely happened with curry. The nuggets got a little physical and it got under his skin, imagine what would happen if he played Memphis in the playoffs!

This is what you said:

Obviously. The point you fail to recognize is Kobe, Paul and those guys aren't going to go to the media and say, "those guys are so mean, I didn't even have the ball and they bumped me!" I can only imagine the initial thought from players around the league when they heard this baby

Yes, I know what biased means, and I'm going to imagine you are probably an intelligent person, but perhaps your bias or leaning towards the Nuggets is betraying your perspective.

Below, find players "going to the media" and saying those guys are so mean... etc.

LeBron James unfazed by comments

NEW ORLEANS -- Miami Heat forward LeBron James said Friday that criticism of his comments about the hard intentional fouls he encountered Wednesday night didn't faze him.
"I actually didn't know anything about people's responses," James said. "I don't care what other people's responses are."

Bulls forward Taj Gibson said he was surprised LeBron James complained about the Bulls' fouls after the Heat's win streak was snapped at 27 at the United Center.

James was on the receiving end of two especially hard fouls in the Heat's Wednesday night loss to the Chicago Bulls, which snapped their 27-game winning streak.

After the game, James took issue with the fouls.

"Those are not defensive ... those are not basketball plays," he said.

Since Wednesday, both Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge and Bulls big man Taj Gibson -- who administered one of the fouls James termed hard -- called out the Heat star, characterizing him as a complainer. James rebuffed those assessments Friday.

"I'm not surprised to hear anything from Boston," James said of Ainge's remarks. "I stated what I felt and left it at that. I haven't even went on about it at all. I know everything that I say is going to be either blown out of proportion or taken the wrong way. But I had to say what I had to say and I move on."

Asked whether officials needed to be more vigilant about deterring hard fouls, James didn't express an interest.

"It's not my concern," James said. "I'm just voicing my opinion on what I've seen."


James pointed to Shaquille O'Neal as a precedent for the physical strategies devised to neutralize his effectiveness and the potential consequences when players retaliate in kind.

"As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Laker games," James said. "And I used to see Shaq get hammered. He would get two free throws. And then he'd finally deliver a blow and it would be a technical foul or a flagrant foul. I've seen it before. We're not ones to complain."

James declined to take a position on whether intentional fouls had a place in the game.
"I'm not one to really judge that," James said. "The rules are the rules, so I'm not one to say whether it should be part of the game or not."

The Heat visit New Orleans on Friday night.




Lakers filed complaint with league about hard fouls on Dwight Howard

Kurt Helin
Feb 5, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT

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Shaquille O’Neal used to complain about the same thing as a Laker — he would get fouled harder and more often than anyone in the league because he was so strong and could take it. He thought a lot of calls against him were unfair.

Of course, if he had knocked down his free throws and made teams pay a bigger price for those fouls there would have been less of them.

Which brings us to Dwight Howard, who is out for the Lakers after aggravating the torn labrum in his shoulder. Howard has a habit of bringing the ball down by his waist and giving other teams often foul him when he does. Hard. And they do foul because he is shooting 49.6 percent from the line this year.

But the Lakers don’t think it’s fair and filed a complaint with the league, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak told T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times.

Kupchak, reached by telephone, said, “There’s a protocol to airing opinions or complaints with the NBA. And we’ve done that. The game has evolved and like a lot of other sports where attention is now being given to protect players, the NBA is interested in doing so as well. I don’t know if they will review our concerns, but [hard fouls] have resulted in injury to one of our players.”

Why does Howard get fouled hard? Because if you don’t he will power through and get an and-one chance — Howard is strong. If you’re going to foul him, you better really foul him.

At times those fouls will aggravate Howard’s shoulder injury, but that is not on the teams doing the fouling. These are not intent to injure plays, they are basketball plays. Because a Howard dunk is a sure two points and if you send him to the free throw line odds are he gets one.

It’s not complex, it’s simple math. It is not up to the other NBA teams to watch out for Howard’s sore shoulder.
But if you send in the complaint you look like you have your star players’ back. So you do it. And the Lakers did.




Derrick Rose upset with hard fouls
Updated: April 17, 2012, 8:01 AM ET
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</cite>AUBURN HILLS, MICH. -- Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose is fed up with the way some players in the league are trying to defend him.

Rose, who scored 24 points in the Bulls' 100-94 overtime win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night, was frustrated that he had a bloody dent on the bridge of his nose thanks to Pistons' forwardCharlie Villanueva.
With 4:31 left to play in regulation, Rose drove to the rim and was hammered by Villanueva. The veteran swingman was called for a flagrant foul on Rose, held up after a video review by officials, and then was given a technical foul for arguing.

After the game, Rose was still upset with the way the play went down. He argued with Villanueva for a moment before going to the sidelines for treatment from Bulls athletic trainer Fred Tedeschi.

Rose, who has a well-documented fear of needles and said he would not be getting stitches, wore a band-aid over his nose for the rest of the game.

"I was mad," Rose said. "I'm sick and tired of people trying to take cheap shots at me. You got to say something."

Rose was fined $25,000 last month for making comments toward officials after a March 12 game against the New York Knicks.

"I've gotta be the only superstar in the league that's going through what I'm going through right now," Rose said at the time, referring to a lack of foul calls in his favor. "But I can't say too much about it."

This time, he took matters into his own hands. He felt it was time to stand up for himself against Villanueva.
"You got to," Rose said. "He didn't even aim for the ball. At least go for the ball. I felt like he didn't and that's the reason why I got mad a little bit."


Rose isn't sure why he feels like some players go after him.

"I really don't know," he said. "Probably because I don't say anything or whatever, but I'm a man, where in situations like that you have to say something."

For his part, Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau was satisfied with the explanation he got regarding the hard foul.

"Look, these guys are great officials," Thibodeau said. "So (the official) said 'it appeared to be worse than it actually was.' That's what he said to me. Usually when they say that, they know they've gotten a pretty good look at it, so I dropped (the complaining) right there."

Rose, who has missed 23 games this year because of various injuries, is averaging 22 points a game this season.





Kobe Bryant cries foul, Dahntay Jones proclaims his innocence


Kobe Bryant was upset with the way that Dahntay Jones defended him on Bryant's game tying attempt that left him with an injured ankle.

I'm not going to give this much time or effort because frankly it doesn't deserve it. Had the shoe been on the other foot and that been Dahntay Jones missing a final seconds attempt with Kobe Bryant playing tight defense it would have been categorized as great defense. No if it was a Hawks player that was left with an ankle injury it wouldn't have registered as a blip on the NBA's radar.
So a clearly disgusted Kobe complained loudly following the game and then took to Twitter to air his frustrations.

Bryant went so far to say that he would have to wait a year to get revenge on Jones. Yeah I'm sure the league will have a fine ready for that soundbite but I won't be holding my breath waiting.
Jones also took to Twitter to defend himself and the final play:

So first off you hate to see a player get hurt anytime particularly when it is a good player like Kobe Bryant but what is Jones supposed to do on that final play? Is he not supposed to play defense? Is he supposed to stick his hand up and not leave the floor. Kobe didn't land on Jones' foot so what is all the fuss about? It certainly wasn't a Bruce Bowen-Vince Carter situation. What would Kobe have done in that situation?

The fact of the matter is this. If you are the Lakers then it should have never came down to that situation. A Lakers team that has everything to play for shouldn't be down two points to a depleted Hawks team that is missing two starters. Yet there they were and now all the focus will be placed on that final play. Not how Atlanta outplayed the Lakers for four quarters and how it took a superhuman performance from Kobe Bryant to keep them in the game.

Bryant was mad after the game and yes he had to spout his venom somewhere. He should have looked at the players in his own locker room.

Oh yeah one more thing:

If this statement isn't ironic then I don't know what is.