I would have never predicted Steph Curry becoming this good

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I'm trying to tell y'all steph really ain't that skilled offensively like some of the great scorers like mj, Kobe, AI even penny.

It's just he's such a threat from three he can easily have defenders at his will. They're always jumping at him expecting him to shoot at any moment. Steph is smart so he's just reacting to them and hitting em with the same fakes, string of moves to set up the 3/mid range or he can just blow by you if play him close up at like 25 feet

On top of that he gets almost half of his 3s off random broken plays or transition where teammates are always looking for him and know he'll be waiting for the open shot

And then there's the pick and roll which Goldenstate has perfected.

And their ball movement is amazing and it usually ends up at curry for the open shot.

So my point is that.
Currys really good at the 3 so that makes the rest of his offensive game so much easier. He appears more skilled than he really us. M It ain't like he's breaking you down in a Iso, or post or dunking over 7 footers.

He's hitting like 5-8 3s any given night. That's 15-24 points. When a player is this hot from downtown, the rest just comes easy.

You ever notice how easy it is to get past a defender when your 3 point shot is hot? That's what it's like for curry right now all day every day.

Defenders fear his shot so it opens up the rest of his game.

Tell me how good would curry be if there was no 3 point line?

Jordan would still average 30+
Kobe and AI would too.

Penny could politically get 30 on you just using post moves.

Take away currys 3s and give him some bums as teammates and how well rounded offensively is he really?

He's not even in the same category as Jordan or even Kobe.

Do you even believe half the shyt you post?

 

[Ironman]

i never thought steph would be this good, but i said on draft night he would be an mvp one day if d'antoni drafted him, because i saw that he was steve nash on steroids (better handles, better shooter, better defender)

Stephen Curry Wanted Knicks To Draft Him In 2009 - RealGM Wiretap

One pick....steph....Melo...smh

 

[Texas2step]

I always thought he would be a great player since Davidson but I didn't know he had what it takes to be the best til I saw him step up to Roy Hibbert and didn't back down.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I'm trying to tell y'all steph really ain't that skilled offensively like some of the great scorers like mj, Kobe, AI even penny.

It's just he's such a threat from three he can easily have defenders at his will. They're always jumping at him expecting him to shoot at any moment. Steph is smart so he's just reacting to them and hitting em with the same fakes, string of moves to set up the 3/mid range or he can just blow by you if play him close up at like 25 feet

On top of that he gets almost half of his 3s off random broken plays or transition where teammates are always looking for him and know he'll be waiting for the open shot

And then there's the pick and roll which Goldenstate has perfected.

And their ball movement is amazing and it usually ends up at curry for the open shot.

So my point is that.
Currys really good at the 3 so that makes the rest of his offensive game so much easier. He appears more skilled than he really us. M It ain't like he's breaking you down in a Iso, or post or dunking over 7 footers.

He's hitting like 5-8 3s any given night. That's 15-24 points. When a player is this hot from downtown, the rest just comes easy.

You ever notice how easy it is to get past a defender when your 3 point shot is hot? That's what it's like for curry right now all day every day.

Defenders fear his shot so it opens up the rest of his game.

Tell me how good would curry be if there was no 3 point line?

Jordan would still average 30+
Kobe and AI would too.

Penny could politically get 30 on you just using post moves.

Take away currys 3s and give him some bums as teammates and how well rounded offensively is he really?

He's not even in the same category as Jordan or even Kobe.

Cant agree wit that fam, Curry is 100% skills, like literally. Even his rebounding and defense is skill based (positioning and quick hands). nikka is literally making a case for the most skilled ever if he keeps this play up and gets more rings. Only Jordan, Kobe, and Hakeem is in that category imo. Wade and Lebron coulda been up there, but neither are near the one on one skills of the others and both thrive off athleticism. U are wrong about Curry on a skill level

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Do you even believe half the shyt you post?

That's straight hateration dude who wrote that quote. Sure that isn't LeBron?

 

[bobbiewishbone]

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Tell me how good would curry be if there was no 3 point line?

Jordan would still average 30+
Kobe and AI would too.

Penny could politically get 30 on you just using post moves.

Take away currys 3s and give him some bums as teammates and how well rounded offensively is he really?

He's not even in the same category as Jordan or even Kobe.

You can ask how Good Curry would be without the 3 point line, but I would say that that's like arguing how good would Shaq really be if dunking wasn't allowed. I mean there is a 3 point line, and shouldn't we argue and debate within reality? Curry is smart for using his hot hand to open up the rest of his offense. I wouldn't argue that he's a Kobe or Jordan type of player. They're were shooting guards and he's not, so naturally he's not going to be able to slash and go to the rim with the kind of power and technique that MJ or Kobe could. He's not the same category, like you said. But he is just as offensively efficient right now, just in a different way. He's smaller than most of the offensive greats and obviously a 3 point shot is going to be key to that.

If you aren't big enough to be able to have a post game, or slash to the rim, or you've got to rely on shooting heavily. For sure it's almost impossible to defend someone that pulls up from 25+ feet out, but if shooting from way past the 3 point line is an easier or less impressive skill, then why haven't other people been able to do it to the level that Curry has?

He may not have the same skill sets as them but he's figured out how to be just as offensively powerful as anyone. I mean some of this just can't be replicated, because Golden State has 2 of the best 3 point shooters of all time on the same team between Curry and Thompson. Has anyone else ever been on the same team and been the #1 and #2 leading 3 point shooters in the league at the same time?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

That's straight hateration dude who wrote that quote. Sure that isn't LeBron?

I honestly think @DoubleClutch is crazy.

 

[DillaTUDE]

You guys who brought up Iggy winning the Finals MVP just proves how overrated MJ is. He won the 1996 Finals MVP despite shooting 41.5% from the field, 31.6% from 3 (with a shortened 3-point line) and being thoroughly outplayed by Dennis Rodman, who essentially played the Iguodala role yet didn't even receive a single Finals MVP vote. Curry only averaged 1 less point and shot better from the field than Jordan, yet you have people in here acting like it was one the worst Finals performances ever.

Seattle coach George Karl said, “As you evaluate the series, Dennis Rodman won two basketball games. Game 2 and tonight, he was the reason they were successful.”

In Game 6, in which Jordan shot 5-for-19 (26.3%) and Chicago 39.7% as a team, Rodman had 19 rebounds, 11 offensive, tying the single-game record for the second time, nine points, five assists and three steals.

In Game 2, in which Michael Jordan shot 9-for-22 (40.9%) and Chicago 39.0% as a team, Rodman scored 10 points and grabbed 20 rebounds, an NBA Finals record-tying 11 on the offensive glass, to lead the Bulls to a 92-88 win. “Rodman was definitely the difference,” Hershey Hawkins said. “Rodman killed us,” said Vincent Askew. “There is no question he was the MVP of the game,” Karl said. “His offensive rebounds hurt us. A lot of possessions, the momentum of the game, the style of the game, and even the scoreboard might have changed.”

No one on the Bulls could hit a shot, and Rodman's offensive rebounding with CRUCIAL, giving them second possessions and extra chances. They were talking about it on sports talk radio—I listened to what was being said AT THE TIME—that Rodman should have been MVP, but Jordan got it because he was Jordan, when that was by far his worst finals, and he had an un-Jordan-like deciding game. And there was no way in hell Dennis Rodman was going to be voted MVP.

 

[ryderldb]

One pick....steph....Melo...smh

I think there's a good chance the Knicks would have included Steph in the trade for melo. Especially if Steph had the same ankle problems in this alternate universe.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You guys who brought up Iggy winning the Finals MVP just proves how overrated MJ is. He won the 1996 Finals MVP despite shooting 41.5% from the field, 31.6% from 3 (with a shortened 3-point line) and being thoroughly outplayed by Dennis Rodman, who essentially played the Iguodala role yet didn't even receive a single Finals MVP vote. Curry only averaged 1 less point and shot better from the field than Jordan, yet you have people in here acting like it was one the worst Finals performances ever.

I was just about to post a thread on this - you damn took the quote I was gonna use and everything.

 

[SCORCH]

You guys who brought up Iggy winning the Finals MVP just proves how overrated MJ is. He won the 1996 Finals MVP despite shooting 41.5% from the field, 31.6% from 3 (with a shortened 3-point line) and being thoroughly outplayed by Dennis Rodman, who essentially played the Iguodala role yet didn't even receive a single Finals MVP vote. Curry only averaged 1 less point and shot better from the field than Jordan, yet you have people in here acting like it was one the worst Finals performances ever.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Do you even believe half the shyt you post?

I believe id beat you in a game of "one on one" about as bad as prime Jordan would beat curry

 

[DoubleClutch]

You can ask how Good Curry would be without the 3 point line, but I would say that that's like arguing how good would Shaq really be if dunking wasn't allowed. I mean there is a 3 point line, and shouldn't we argue and debate within reality? Curry is smart for using his hot hand to open up the rest of his offense. I wouldn't argue that he's a Kobe or Jordan type of player. They're were shooting guards and he's not, so naturally he's not going to be able to slash and go to the rim with the kind of power and technique that MJ or Kobe could. He's not the same category, like you said. But he is just as offensively efficient right now, just in a different way. He's smaller than most of the offensive greats and obviously a 3 point shot is going to be key to that.

If you aren't big enough to be able to have a post game, or slash to the rim, or you've got to rely on shooting heavily. For sure it's almost impossible to defend someone that pulls up from 25+ feet out, but if shooting from way past the 3 point line is an easier or less impressive skill, then why haven't other people been able to do it to the level that Curry has?

He may not have the same skill sets as them but he's figured out how to be just as offensively powerful as anyone. I mean some of this just can't be replicated, because Golden State has 2 of the best 3 point shooters of all time on the same team between Curry and Thompson. Has anyone else ever been on the same team and been the #1 and #2 leading 3 point shooters in the league at the same time?

Good to see you understand the point of my post. I'm talking offensive SKILL SETS. In a hypothetical situation. I'm talking basketball. Not NBA.

Y'all in here never played pick up basketball without a 3 point line or in a game that ever shot is worth 1 point? You see how people's offensive and defensive games change. Great shooters aren't as effective. Entire games are played different completely.

Can any of you actually shoot 3s?

Do you know what it feels like when defenders are forced to respect your shot?

If so then maybe you can understand what I posted.

I'm sure @Gil Scott-Heroin cant

Too bad people on the Coli would rather attack posts to make themselves look smart rather than reading and try to understand it and engage in a civil/enlighting basketball discussion instead if what we got going on here.

 

[Dillah810]

Good to see you understand the point of my post. I'm talking offensive SKILL SETS. In a hypothetical situation. I'm talking basketball. Not NBA.

Y'all in here never played pick up basketball without a 3 point line or in a game that ever shot is worth 1 point? You see how people's offensive and defensive games change. Great shooters aren't as effective. Entire games are played different completely.

Can any of you actually shoot 3s?

Do you know what it feels like when defenders are forced to respect your shot?

If so then maybe you can understand what I posted.

I'm sure @Gil Scott-Heroin cant

Too bad people on the Coli would rather attack posts to make themselves look smart rather than reading and try to understand it and engage in a civil/enlighting basketball discussion instead if what we got going on here.

Yeah, but we're not discussing pick-up games or basketball in general, we're discussing Curry's skill in the context of the NBA. So you have to take whatever rules that are in the NBA into consideration.