Steph Curry is the best shooter ever
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DutchJazzer
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how about ruels all hard ls are now flagrant.
heck there where season where malone racked up a gazillion technical fouls.
if you are saying todays nba is just as physical well i guess i am disillusion.
if thats true then curry is the best shooter ever.
heck there where season where malone racked up a gazillion technical fouls.
if you are saying todays nba is just as physical well i guess i am disillusion.
if thats true then curry is the best shooter ever.
Hotdog
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You are delusional. Someone sold you that it was a rougher NBA back then. You know who it was? It was the same people who played back then. You don't think they wanna talk it up and make themselves seem better, make it seem like they fought harder? Of course they want to sell you on that. They are desperate for recognition. They don't want be forgotten. They biased. They aren't going to give you a straight unbiased answer.
Game6Conley
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Good thread.
Durant is one of the best shooters ever too. Curry has earned that top spot though.
He's also the best PG in the league, hands down..
Durant is one of the best shooters ever too. Curry has earned that top spot though.
He's also the best PG in the league, hands down..
Ummm.
I can clearly see that Lebron is being hand checked. Leonard is actually grabbing his jeresy.
The grabbing, pushing, pulling, physicality still happens in the NBA. Some people just choose not to notice it.
You can hand check if they are stationary. Like, just putting your hand on them. It's when they start moving to the basket, you are allowed to push with your hands.
carolinajazz
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...Dutch is correct-o-mundo! Hand checking was a big part of defense in the 80's and 90's so much so that they made it against the rules because the game was being affected offensively to the point of no return! Personally, I think hand checking of sorts is the ONLY way you can slow some of these guys down who are professional "palmers" of the ball, which gives them so much of an advantage it's not even funny! All that being said.....I'm thisclose to believing that Curry is the best shooter ever!!!
addictionary
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Gotta love late 90's early 2000's. New age meeting old-skool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyA76nqXyeQ
By the way I'm a big fan of the talent of T-Mac. He was one of those special ones.
Yes, Curry would have big troubles having the same efficiency on offense in Jordan's league, but he earns a lot of respect for becoming a consistent machine in the heat of the game and showing how one can be so light moving around to his goal.
I would love to see what he could do on a hand-checked D though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyA76nqXyeQ
By the way I'm a big fan of the talent of T-Mac. He was one of those special ones.
Yes, Curry would have big troubles having the same efficiency on offense in Jordan's league, but he earns a lot of respect for becoming a consistent machine in the heat of the game and showing how one can be so light moving around to his goal.
I would love to see what he could do on a hand-checked D though.
Hotdog
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Nope. Curry wouldn't have big troubles.
Newsflash - Humans werent superior beings in the 90's to humans now. If it were so hard to score back then, why were there just as many scorers as now, and just as many points being scored?
Why is this so difficult for people to grasp?
The only difference is that the 3 is used a lot more these days. Can you imagine Curry going up against defenses that didn't respect the 3, like Sloan's teams. Curry would torch them for more points than even now.
I'd bet my mother ****ing life that Curry's handles, smarts, and shooting touch would translate to any era. The further you go back, the more deadly he becomes. Curry only needs an inch. Hilarious that any would think he would struggle in the 90's
Give. Me. A. Break.
Curry is the best shooter ever, and building a case for one if the best players ever. He's the best player in the league, last year, and this year. Probably gonna go down as a top 15 player ever, maybe higher.
addictionary
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Because hand checks would make 3's more difficult for him. There is nothing to grasp. It was a tougher game in Jordan's time. Now they call foul for many contacts that were just intense defense back then. Not to mention Superstar calls that spoil it. If this is a dogma for you, I think you should consider the dogma of "new is better" again too.
my favorite line-up: rudy-favors-gordon-alec-trey
Hotdog
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How in the hell do you figure that? Its just not true. In the 90's the league point per game average was higher than it is now. How do you explain that if the defense was so much more intense?
Example.
League average pints per game
90 - 107
91 - 106
92 - 105
93 - 105
2012 - 98
2013 - 101
2014 - 100
2015 - 101
It's a complete myth than the defenses were tougher back then. It's an urban legend. You've been duped. You aren't thinking for yourself.