Checked my preview here. I think the stuff I was wrong about was pretty much a consensus. I underrated Phoenix, Portland, Charlotte and Toronto. And the negative surprise were New York and Orlando.
The strange thing is that I had almost no faith in OKC, they were #7 at my rankings and they were the second best in real life. Really surprised by the way they played.
Now the thing about Curry I wanted to ask, do you guys agree with Gary Payton? That Curry is not a real point guard, to me that's an absurd statement. I would dare to say Curry was the best point guard this year, and maybe even #3 overall player.
The dude was amazing this year, last year he had already improved his playmaking a lot and this year he continued that path and also improved driving.
He became a threat on a range almost no point guard is, the area that he can pull up off the dribble, he can pass, he can drive is very hard to cover.
And also huuuuuuge credits for him that the team runs almost zero offensive schemes and he still able to make something of it. I dream about him running the Spurs floor. Parker is a real threat moving at speed but from the midrange zone to closer, imagine with a dude that has a wider zone to move, he would be unstoppable.
And finally the defense, that every lazy journalist pick up on him, Curry is not a bad defender at all, Golden State runs team defense, and you will almost never see him messing up rotations, you will also see him knowing exactly where the team wants to angle the other team ballhandler. Surely 1-on-1 he is as bad as they say. Overall though he is not great, but not awful either.
