Kevin Durant Exposes Chris Paul's Overrated Defense - 2018 NBA WCF
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In the 2014 WCSF while Chris Paul allowed Westbrook to shoot the highest FG% of any series in his career, revisionists claimed that Paul supposedly "locked down" Durant based on a few anomalous plays when Durant scored on or was fouled by Paul far more often. The results were the same in the 2018 WCF when Paul was matched up with Durant again.
Chris Paul averaged his least assists (5.8) in any playoff run and least assists in any playoff series (4.6) during the 2018 WCF, proving that the only way for him to be successful on the team level is by having someone like Harden do most of the work for him. He also shot his 2nd-lowest FG% in any series during the 2018 WCF, second only to his horrendous performance against the 2012 Spurs.
Fortunately for Chris Paul, Andre Iguodala was injured during his clutch performances in Games 4 and 5 or else his numbers would have been even less impressive and the Rockets would have been eliminated earlier (According to ESPN, Iguodala held Harden and CP3 to 1/41 FG from Games 1-3, though I feel these numbers may be exaggerated).
James Harden and Clint Capela led all players or tied all leading players on both teams in PPG, RPG, APG, SPG, and BPG for the 1st and 2nd Rounds of the 2018 Playoffs to carry the overrated Chris Paul to his first WCF, since he was clearly never good enough to do this as the leader on his own team.
This is now the 4th time in 6 career playoff series wins that Chris Paul's teammates had to lead all players on both teams in PPG, RPG, and BPG (Blake/Deandre in 2014 and 2015, Harden/Capela in 2018)
One example of why NBA.com player DFG% is not accurate, for all who are citing this to argue Chris Paul played good defense
Through 2 games of the NBA Finals, nba.com claims that LeBron has not scored on Curry
- stats.nba.com/player/2544/matchups/?Season=2017-18&SeasonType=Playoffs&DateFrom=05%2F31%2F2018&DateTo=06%2F03%2F2018
However one can clearly see that LeBron has scored on Curry at least 3 times through Games 1-2.
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so NBA.com's DFG% is not at all accurate and citing it does nothing to hide Chris Paul's poor defense.
2018 1st Round and 2018 WCSF
Harden and Capela lead all players or tie all leading players on both teams in PPG RPG APG SPG BPG for both the 1st and 2nd Round to carry Chris Paul to the WCF for his first ever 2nd-round series win.
2018 WCF
Paul's only great performance in the 2018 WCF was Game 4 after Iguodala, the Warriors' best perimeter defender was injured and his next-best 4th quarter was in Game 5.
Prior to Iguodala's injury he had 17.3 - 8.3 - 4.3 on 40/25/75 with 2.0 TOpg and 4.3 fouls per game for Games 1-3, and that is even with him stat-padding in Game 1 and Game 3
Game 1 - 6 points on 3/3 FG in the last 80 seconds down 12+
Game 3 - 8 of 13 points, 1 of 4 assists after being down 20+ late in the 3rd quarter
The 2018 Warriors are the only team he faced that made the NBA Finals or won it all, and he averaged his least assists in any series (4.6) and 2nd-lowest FG% (40.7%) in any series against them.
Showing that he only has such good career playoff stats because
- 10 of his 16 series are in the 1st Round
- and because he never played a Finals or Title caliber team prior to the 2018 Warriors.
The only 60-win team he faced was the 2012 Spurs (adjusted for 82 games) and he shot 37% with 4.5 TOpg against them. When Chris Paul does face the highest level of competition, he has mediocre or poor performances.
The Rockets already made the WCF while beating Chris Paul in the process in 2015, and with injured Patrick Beverly missing the entire playoffs. The only way for Chris Paul to have playoff success on the team levels is by joining a team that already had more success without him then Paul did on his own teams.
Kevin Johnson, Jason Kidd, and Steve Nash all joined sub-30 win teams and immediately took them to 2 consecutive Conference Finals (NBA Finals for Kidd) despite KJ and Nash dealing with injuries to themselves or teammates, respectively. No excuse for Chris Paul failing to reach the WCF as the leader while losing to 0 Finals/Title teams prior to riding Harden's coattails.
Just say you don't like Chris Paul, it's way easier than trying to rationalize being a dumbass LMAO!
@@NobodyTouchesJordan This guy is so dumb no knowledge for basketball lol
lol what next?
lebron exposes steph curry's defense?
maybe shaq exposes nate robinsons defense?
fau2an100 Lol W
Lmao W
😂😂
oh yea a 6'11 SF scoring on a 6'0 PG.
sSnipeR can't wait until the Disney movie about how against all odds KD was able to score despite being only a foot taller than CP3.
7'0*
Covered every game of the series and could only come up with 3 minutes of film against the most unstoppable offensive player in the league who has a full foot on him… half of the film being either fouls or legit good defense? I think this makes CP3 look even better defensively. 😂😂😂
In my eyes, CP3 threw everything he had at KD defensively and KD basically showed us you can’t teach height.
I'm not one to complain much with your work, I cite it regularly in debates and discusssions.
But to be frank, and pardon my language, but these videos are utter bull shit. Chris Paul was easily the Alpha of this Rockets team. Sure, Harden had him beat statistically, but the impact was clearly seen in his absence Games 6 and 7. While Iggy was out, and this indeed hampered the Warriors chances, I think the CP3 injury will be one of the biggest "what ifs" of modern Playoff history.
Videos essentially cherry-picking plays where team defense breaks down or fouls are called cannot be used as adequate evidence against a player's defensive ability. There are plenty of times in this series and others this Playoffs where Chris Paul's defensive IQ led to critical plays, where are those moments? Furthermore, it's a given that a player who is 33 years old will not be at the same level defensively as he was in his prime.
Finally, you feel the need to prove your point by uploading multiple videos of each GSW star faced up against CP3. What does this prove exactly? That a 6'0" player is probably going to be mismatched with a bigger, stronger player? The result seems pretty obvious when this happens, and I'm not sure why you've taken the time to single out Paul when Curry and Durant broke down defensively just as much if not more than him.
The quality in your work has gone down significantly, all I ask is for actual, intelligent criticism. Not more of the "oh, the stats are wrong and he's just padding them."
Andrew Williams If you use this guy as your source for debates that’s a major mistake. Get out while it’s still hope for you this guy doesn’t know basketball never played basketball. His presentation and detailed, 1-sided note keeping is what makes him seem legit. I know better. This is nothing more than his basketball propaganda network.
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He hates CP3 too much that its already affecting his intelligence and knowledge about basketball. Imagine he’s actually legitimately thinking he’s exposing a defensively proven 6’0 point guard matched up vs a 6’11 SF who is known to be the one of the greatest scorers in the world of basketball. Too much hate really eats up your brain.
I gotta admit I use him as my source but only for MJ and lebron debates and he does have informative articles but he has bias on cp3. And doesnt know basketball or either watches cp3. I can take many guards on the defensive end over cp3 like Bradley wall nun also payton and Stockton. But cp3 is a good defender also is underrated at his height at 6 feet hes able to play defense and no one has done that before. Also has given players struggles. All tho stats dont tell. He actually does it well. And if u see the videos of him guarding KD. He does it very well and defenders like him have given kd tough matchups even rivers also trusted Paul to guard great offensive players. But Paul Is great defensive guard and theirs proof
I didn't watch the video I already know his garbage blueprint. The time breakdown of the video is something like 10% of legit plays / 20% of good defense they just made the shot / 30% is showing every foul and anything else to make the video as long as possible / 40% of it is BS where he takes reaching to another level. Video complete.
Cp3 maybe 6’1... Kd 7 ft, cmon now
KD is 6’11, Chris Paul is 6’0, there’s literally nothing else to say
Lmao at 6’0, he should be stripping that ball every chance he gets. He also should be changing defenders.
@Wendel Hierro if Chris Paul was so good, he’d steal the ball through his legs lmao
@Wendel Hierro and, by the way, again, defender swaps are a thing. If it’s a mismatch, you shouldn’t allow it to happen. That simple
@@mlgenderclangaming5470 What a clown statement bro.It's clear you aint touch a basketball.Cp is simply a mismatch for kd and the warriors just switched onto him.There is nothing you can do to prevent it bruh This ain't like a magic were you can simply avoid switches.Nobody on this planet can guard kd bruh.Just cuz you small doesn't mean you can steal,just bcoz you tall dont mean you can block every damn shot.What is this ??🤦♂️🤦♂️
@@joseph1997 lmfao you do realize I’m clowning right?
He should expose it because he so much taller than Paul.
24bigcoop ikr......come on its more like kd offensive mismatch.
@Christian Caballero cp3 isn't at his peak anymore. And that sounds like cap. He probably had decent defense but kd just missed a normal shot
@@jojoprocess2820 nope he legit locked him up there’s plays he ripped the ball out of KD hands on multiple occasions but he’s more small and quick so he was able to get the steals
Why do u hate CP?
Will you make a part 2 of KD exposing Lebron's defense in the Finals ?
lebron is going to get smoked by kd in the finals. as shaq says "bbq chicken"
Makaveli Glad they got Perkins to ZaZa Curry or KD 😂😂😂😂
jaydexe but they never compared KD to MJ, nobody called KD the GOAT
Makaveli idk what you bitches talking about have you seen game 1
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Nobody called Lebrpn the Goat. Career stats :
Lebron 27/7/7 on 50-34-74
Durant 27/7/4 on 49-38-89
Very similar but both aren't top 5 all time.
Cp3 is 5’11
I like you're work but this is a load horse shit. How do you expect CP3(6 foot 170 lbs) to a 7 footer that can pull up from thirty. Would Shaq expose Michael Jordans defense?
he's basically 7 foot of course cp3 ain't gonna do much
Horrible video, all you did is show Cp3 toughness. He will compete on defense even against a 7 footer. Get your iq up cuz
Lol how do folks take this serious ??
@Gino Khalifa thats the only explanation
Cp3 is literally 10 inches shorter than KD he isn’t exposing shit it’s a simple mismatch. Why didn’t you show steph exposing cp3 overrated defense, oh wait exactly.
C'mon man he is a 6'0 feet pg.Clearly it is a mismatch.I think you're a cp3 hater.
Is this a troll video or am I just ruckin fetarded?
He’s 6 foot
6'10" vs 6'1".. Yeah.. He exposed him alright. Fake news and I Fucks with this channel
I mean KD is really hard to guard for anyone even near his size let alone for a guy like almost a foot shorter. Like I don't think MJ could guard KD either
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