I get what you're saying, but has any other "pure shooter" carried a team to the playoffs and won the title?
He should already be in the HOF .. if he can win 1-2 more titles, he could be considered the best shooter ever. Fullstop.
Steph Curry is the best shooter ever
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I get what you're saying, but has any other "pure shooter" carried a team to the playoffs and won the title?
He should already be in the HOF .. if he can win 1-2 more titles, he could be considered the best shooter ever. Fullstop.
DutchJazzer
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let me tell you this i can beat Neil Armstrong records, if the track goes only downhill on a large enough incline.
does that make me the best cyclist ever.
all i see is a shooter playing under different rules.
don't know if you remember the 90's but physicality was way higher there was MORE allowed.
physicality takes it tolls.
if he has to fight through malone, oakley like screens everysingle time getting FLOORED.
and on offense not having benefit of so called "handchecking" rule, and lots more physicality.
so you are saying even with all that physicality which causes mental and physical fatigue his shooting numbers would still reflect best ever.
i dont think so, dont get me wrong he is a great shooter.
but greatest ever naah compared to guards in 80,90's he is on a bicycle going downhill. while those guys had to drive the bicycle uphill.
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You plan on going to the moon with a bicycle?
Elite players like Curry kick arse in any era. He's making a case for top 10 player ever if he keeps it up for a few more years and wins another championship or two.
Joe Bagadonuts
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I don't know what your point is, but I do know that this post represents an incredibly epic misunderstanding of bicycle racing. You come off as a complete moron.
DutchJazzer
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not saying he does not kick arse.
not saying he is not a great player.
all i am saying it is unfair to people in 80's and 90's to call him the BEST EVER.
because more physicality means more fatigue and more exhaustion. that is jsut a fact.
first thing that goes when your tired and fatigued is fine motor skill
shooting needs fine motor skills, so if he is tired/fatigued his shooting percentage drops.
so calling him the best ever is unfair towards people who had to deal with more physicality. simple as that
Hotdog
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Bruh. Life isn't fair.
Please stop with the 90's was so much more physical. That's a myth. Can you provide any evidence to back up your claim?
Miggs
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The eyetest and common sense are enough for me.
Hotdog
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It's not common sense and your eyes must be bad.
It's romancing the past. That's all it is. People tend to look at the past and talk it up to make it seem better than it really was.
The physicality of the NBA is about the same. That's the truth. The NBA is still a physical game. Banging with someone down low is still the same. Bodies don't change. Certainly not for the worst. If anything, it can only be argued that players are bigger faster stronger now. Not the other way around. Players were a lot less informed and conscious about what goes into their body than ever before.
There are slight differences. Like more power forwards shooting threes, and the hand check rule. But not much.
I can argue that stars like Jordan had it much easier than stars of today. It seemed like if you even got close to Jordan a foul was called. What about that aspect? Why doesn't that make its way into the argument of whether it was more physical?
Maybe there were more fights. But that don't mean anything. Most the fights were comical anyways. And it's only because the emphasis on staying on the bench changed it a little.
I watched 90's NBA too. I can turn on old highlights and look back on it. It doesn't appear to me to be any more physical or harder to play in, or the players were better.
Steph Curry would still light up the 90's. He'd probably average more ppg tbh since the refs would send him to line more. That's really the biggest difference. The game was officiated a lot different. A lot less fair.
DutchJazzer
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the hand checking rule!
Hotdog
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That's so over played. It barely changed anything. People still put their hands all over other players. It's not like players were using that to stop other players. You did anything that looked like it stopped or slowed Jordan, a foul was called. How do you explain that?
Everything is about the same from the 90's til now. We aren't talking about to completely different eras.
Please provide some evidence that shows how much harder it was to play in the 90's. Otherwise I can just assume you are making it up.
