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Regardless of advanced stats and accolades i think it's more impressive and harder to dominate against Horford and Williams than to dominate against Smart (just using the most recent example)

i get what you are trying to say with this (dominating vs bigs is better for you vs dominating vs guards)... but this also just makes me think you didn't watch or study all of the finals games in full. There are multiple ways to dominate. One of the most popular stories from this finals was how Celtics chose not to blitz Curry, and he completely rinsed Horford and Williams in the pick n roll.

Curry vs Horford
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/steph-curry-shot-attempts-against-horford-2022-finals
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/steph-curry-field-goal-percentage-against-horford-2022-finals

Curry vs Williams
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/steph-curry-shot-attempts-against-robert-williams-2022-finals
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/steph-curry-field-goal-percentage-against-robert-williams-2022-finals

Giannis vs Horford
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/giannis-shot-attempts-against-horford-2022-playoffs
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/giannis-field-goal-percentage-against-horford-2022-playoffs

Giannis vs Williams
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/giannis-shot-attempts-against-robert-williams-2022-playoffs
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/giannis-field-goal-percentage-against-robert-williams-2022-playoffs

Well Curry is a big mismatch for those guys, you simply cannot give him space and his abillity to create his own shoot is elite, it was a bad strategy to not have him man-marked by Smart all the time.

they tried the Smart strategy, it failed too. There's no one in this league that can guard Steph Curry. You have to scheme against him, and hope it works out. That's why Ty Lue said they focused mostly their defense around blitzing Steph during those Cavs - Warriors finals, even with KD there.

I presume the reason Celtics didn't blitz more often is that they thought the rest of the Warriors team was too good to take advantage in 4 v 3 situation. Which is what kinda happened in game 5 to some extent.