Is Steph Curry the biggest impact to basketball since Wilt????

[Rekkapryde]

not saying that

just he is the embodiment of positionless hoops

once they saw bron they started revising the blueprints as to what they were looking for & how they built players coming up

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I see what you saying, but even then you got the Dubs who really started that shyt of positionless hoops because of the Splash Bros shooting and whether we like it or not Triple Single. They literally have the 2 greatest shooters ever and Draymond being a Point 4 for them/DPOY candidate and people trying to copy that model like they can do it. That's not realistic.

Bron is still primarily a 3 even though he can play multiple positions.

What Bron is/does is another thread in itself because he's a unicorn. I always call him the Wilt of his era. Dude is a mutant and no one will ever replicate what he does. As good as I think Luka is, who clearly says Bron was who he modeled his game after, he doesn't have it on the defensive side of the ball. Bron is a different topic as far as his impact, but he didn't change the way the game is played the way Curry and the Dubs have. The entire league has copied their style of shooting, but they don't have him or Klay which baffles me.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I am not denying that he's had an impact. However, certain things that were beneficial were put in place before that. The implementation of the 3 itself was a rule change.

True, but it really wasn't until the Curry and the Dubs came into their own where they broke the game. 3 was around for almost 30 years before they broke it.

 

[010101]

I see what you saying, but even then you got the Dubs who really started that shyt of positionless hoops because of the Splash Bros shooting and whether we like it or not Triple Single. They literally have the 2 greatest shooters ever and Draymond being a Point 4 for them/DPOY candidate and people trying to copy that model like they can do it. That's not realistic.

Bron is still primarily a 3 even though he can play multiple positions.

What Bron is/does is another thread in itself because he's a unicorn. I always call him the Wilt of his era. Dude is a mutant and no one will ever replicate what he does. As good as I think Luka is, who clearly says Bron was who he modeled his game after, he doesn't have it on the defensive side of the ball. Bron is a different topic as far as his impact, but he didn't change the way the game is played the way Curry and the Dubs have.

not arguing he did

it's more likely that you can replicate a team like gsw before you get another bron

ha

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[ISO]

I see what you saying, but even then you got the Dubs who really started that shyt of positionless hoops because of the Splash Bros shooting and whether we like it or not Triple Single. They literally have the 2 greatest shooters ever and Draymond being a Point 4 for them/DPOY candidate and people trying to copy that model like they can do it. That's not realistic.

Bron is still primarily a 3 even though he can play multiple positions.

What Bron is/does is another thread in itself because he's a unicorn. I always call him the Wilt of his era. Dude is a mutant and no one will ever replicate what he does. As good as I think Luka is, who clearly says Bron was who he modeled his game after, he doesn't have it on the defensive side of the ball. Bron is a different topic as far as his impact, but he didn't change the way the game is played the way Curry and the Dubs have.

Miami did the position-less thing first and teams did that before them too.

 

[Rekkapryde]

not arguing he did

it's more likely that you can replicate a team like gsw before you get another bron

ha

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Indeed you can replicate the style, but everyone else sucks at it but keep doing it.

And there's a reason why.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

*since Shaq . And yes

 

[Rekkapryde]

Miami did the position-less thing first and teams did that before them too.

I was thinkin of Miami first, but I do think the Dubs did it better due to Draymond and Iggy.

 

[010101]

Indeed you can replicate the style, but everyone else sucks at it but keep doing it.

And there's a reason why.

all the top teams got hired guns

nah they ain't chef&klay

but teams are burning the nylon now like mad ha

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[JA_Carter]

Curry changed the game more than anyone else and it’s not even debatable. Seems like everyone forgot that there was an entire narrative that jump shooting teams couldn’t win championships until Curry & the Warriors did it in 2015. Even after winning 67 games during the regular season I vividly remember all the analyst saying that’s cool and all but let’s see how successful relying on 3’s will be during the playoffs. Now literally every team is based around the 3 ball.

 

[Rekkapryde]

all the top teams got hired guns

nah they ain't chef&klay

but teams are burning the nylon now like mad ha

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and won't win shyt even though copied the style. there is no Klay and Triple Single on these teams.

everyone damn near playing the same is so wack to me. I do agree that they need to move the line back. Kill the corner 3 too.

 

[get these nets]

Did Jordan changed the game on the court or made it more marketable. You have analyst and people alike discussing moving the 3PT line back.

Shaq caused writers, fans, and front office people to question the interpretation of the rule book also.

 

[JA_Carter]

Nah, after Miami and San Antonio crushed the buildings in the 2012 playoffs with 3-point shooting, everybody started trying to duplicate that model. League average Three-point attempts had been 18 a game for like 6 straight seasons and then in the '12-13 season following the 2012 playoffs, that number jumped to 20 with the Knicks and Rockets leading the way.

The Warriors helped speed it up, but the league had already been trending towards it before the dubs first ring.

From 07-12, the league was averaging 18 three-point attempts. That jumped to 20 in 2013, 21 in 2014, and 22 in 2015

True to an extent but you’re forgetting both teams were built around players that dominated inside (Lebron, Wade & Duncan) and worked their way out whereas the Warriors were built from the back with Klay & Steph

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

Shaq caused writers, fans, and front office people to question the interpretation of the rule book also.

Thank you for saying this breh. All these posts and not one person mentioned him.

The NBA allowed a form of a zone defense because the man was dominating so much. Teams would intentionally foul him just in hopes he miss free throws. The Hack-A-Shaq legit was talked about all the time (when to implement it and how well it actually works). Coaches would legit send scrubs in just to burn 6 fouls on him.

Wtf is happening to this forum? Do you young nikkas not know your history?

 

[FTBS]

True, but it really wasn't until the Curry and the Dubs came into their own where they broke the game. 3 was around for almost 30 years before they broke it.

The zone was a round for a little more than a decade and people had just started using it to it's full potential. Freedom of movement had been around less than a decade. The league was looking for this. Everything they have done over the last 20 years was done to encourage this. It's kinda like talking about McGwire's impact when MLB had smaller ballparks, tighter balls, lower mounds, and turned a blind eye to rampant roid use.

 

[MoneyTron]

Thank you for saying this breh. All these posts and not one person mentioned him.

The NBA allowed a form of a zone defense because the man was dominating so much. Teams would intentionally foul him just in hopes he miss free throws. The Hack-A-Shaq legit was talked about all the time (when to implement it and how well it actually works). Coaches would legit send scrubs in just to burn 6 fouls on him.

Wtf is happening to this forum? Do you young nikkas not know your history?

Shaq changed how the NBA played him. Teams didn't change their entire rosters and players didn't change their games to emulate Shaq. They couldn't. That's not Shaq's fault but Steph has changed how basketball has been played from youth ball up to his peers.