Cheap Shot, poor form.....

Delly is playing at the level he is supposed to and a couple of heroic games have probably avoided the Cav's being swept !!

NFI....

At least he's doing more than dud bogut

Ripping the guy playing his heart out on less than $1m yet no comment on the useless Bogut stealing $13m a year?

Nice

Making fun of how much everyone has overhyped Delly, that's all.

Dare say he sold his Bogut jersey years ago when he busted his elbow.....

20 points in an NBA Finals game the biggest stage in world basketball, was just the 3rd undrafted player in NBA history to do that? The lowest paid player on either of the Cavs or Warriors?

Overhyped? Seriously now?

GWB up to his/her usual nonsense

What's he done the other four finals games?

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You're talking him up from one good game. Complete spud games 1, 4 and 5 and a decent game 2

He has played at a standard in the other games which is far from "Spud Standard"....

Get a clue FFS and stop embarrassing yourself.

"20 points in an NBA Finals game the biggest stage in world basketball, was just the 3rd undrafted player in NBA history to do that? The lowest paid player on either of the Cavs or Warriors?

Overhyped? Seriously now?"

This guy doesn't know what over-hyped means.

He really has. He's played some defense. That's it.

"Kerr on Bogut
"Hes resting for the upcoming olympic qualifiers, we don't need him anyway cos we have Chef Curry"

Didn't Kerr really say that?

If Delly isn't overhyped then Jeremy Lin wasn't overhyped either

Delly 15 made shots, 13 turnovers in the Finals

Bogut DNP is due to Kerr's new tactic of punishing Cavs for using 7 players: "Run them to death"

Bogut is not consistent with running a team into exhaustion. Doesn't mean he isn't a great starting centre on the best team in the league.

Hang on did someone call Bogut a dud... such stupidity, humans can be very bad at life.

All you dipsticks that want to hang crap on delly , what have you lot ever done your pathetic

So because I'm not a politician I can't 'hang crap' on that idiot Abbots decisions?

The average NBA player has a Player Efficency Rating of 15.
If your PER is 15 you're considered an average.

Dellys is 8.

"Bogut is not consistent with running a team into exhaustion. Doesn't mean he isn't a great starting centre on the best team in the league."

Yes it does.
Last time I checked you had to actually start to be called a starting centre and you definitely had to actually play!

"20 points in an NBA Finals game the biggest stage in world basketball, was just the 3rd undrafted player in NBA history to do that? The lowest paid player on either of the Cavs or Warriors?"

actually Ognjen Kuzmic and james mcadoo are getting paid less, so that is incorrect ;)

gwb, how dare you slander delly. the guy is a deadset ledge. those above who are infuriated with your thread post have absolutely every right to be. it's utter slander, garbage, excrement, filth, just pure vulgarity and anyone who thinks the same as me is not at all overreacting

"actually Ognjen Kuzmic and james mcadoo are getting paid less, so that is incorrect ;)"

Actually this statement is incorrect.

https://vine.co/v/eOQvD622q1v

Delly played some great defence today, forcing Curry in several bad shots, turnovers and tricky situations, as well as denying him his usual catches numerous times. But great offence usually beats great defence and that's what happened today. Anyone who thinks he's a spud or he 'just played some defence' really has little understanding of basketball.

Curry shot 10 of 15 and two turnovers should have been called kicked balls. Wouldn't call that great defense. And YET ANOTHER cheap little bitch move because he's such a spud.

James mcadoo $167,000 this season seems a hell of a lot less than Dellys $816,000
but it's not like Delly fans really care about the truth anyway.

I love how everyone says facts count for shit unless they're for Delly. Yes he was the third undrafted player to score 20 points in a finals game, he's also the first Australian player shorter than 6'7 to shoot 25% from 3 for the finals while recording one cheeky/dirty play a game

"How dare you slander delly. the guy is a deadset ledge. those above who are infuriated with your thread post have absolutely every right to be. it's utter slander, garbage, excrement, filth, just pure vulgarity and anyone who thinks the same as me is not at all overreacting"

Bruh you need to chill. He's a basketball player who doesn't know who you are, not your dad. Relax

Here are Curry's stats in the last 3 games since Dellavedova became a national hero:

31-for-60 FGs (51.6%)
18-for-33 3pt (54.5%)
28.6 ppg

National zero*

No wonder Lebron has to do everything, would you pass to a guy shooting 25% for the series? That's absolute garbage

Steph misses open shots in the first two games = Delly is the best defender ever, locking up the MVP, no excuses are allowed for why stephs shooting terribly
Steph starts hitting contested shots = Delly is undrafted/ plays with so much effort he can't keep it up forever/ blah blah blah excuses

Delly has returned to his regular season form. That's all. Played out of his skin a few games but now dellsanity is over.

Can't wait for the excuses when he has another regular game in game 6.

@DesmondHoward: Remember when people actually believed that Dellavedova was stopping Curry from scoring? Same shots...just going in now.

Couldn't put it better myself

But he locked Steph game 1. Why couldn't he do it the last couple of games. You're ignorant if you actually think Delly can stop him on the regular.

"locked him up" in half court offence when the Warriors did not run a pick and roll anyway. 3 of 8 were pick and rolls where Steph gets straight passed him but misses, and one where he gets the ball with three on the clock to shoot.

Made him miss 4 shots. Locked him up. Okay

And a load of posters need glasses that have corrective lenses, not green and gold tinted ones

"Just because a great scorer gets points, doesn't mean an individual or team played poor defence."

Then why does a great scorer not scoring points instantly mean the defence was fantastic?

Two games ago there were people calling him the finals MVP, the MVP stopper etc

Now we have to remember he's a back up point gaurd?

Make up your mind

Delly's defence has been outstanding all series but yeah overhyped, jersey for sale etc

Starting by default because they don't have any others on the list.

Jono mate none of that means shit. He's a professional athlete. Part of being an athlete on such a big stage is that you're going to be criticised. Just because he's Australian and we live in Australia doesn't mean he's instantly immune to people thinking he's playing averagely when he is

You're a fool. $100 says you've talked shit about someone this series.

I find this hilarious. I dont care how Delly is getting a start or how he is getting a game for that matter. I dont care what his PER is or how it compares to the league average. The guy is gettinh paid close to a million bucks to play in the NBA finals. If the Cavs have no one else on their list is their fault...injuries occur. List management or who they sign is the role of the front office.

I also love all the keyboard warriors and how some on here react to trolls just trying to stir you up.

Its quiet conceivable that Delly isnt sitting on his computer back in Cleveland reading Hoops and worrying about what a handful of twats post.

I agree. Makes you wonder why people can't be honest instead of wrapping him up in cotton wool saying his play is acceptable for an NBA player starting in the NBA finals instead of making up excuse after excuse for why Steph is killing him and why he's shooting 25%

You don't care that pretty much every stat available shows he's an incredibly underwhelming player because he's getting basically the least amount of money the Cavs can legally pay him. Fair enough