Steph Curry has ruined pickup basketball

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I ball all the time, everyone at the gym plays their game

Even when I play against high schoolers none of them try to emulate steph, they play to their strengths and weaknesses

You know the stupid thing about this thread and all the posters in it? They're exposing themselves not just for their lack of awareness and naivety in thinking that the games they play in are reflective of EVERY pickup game across the country, but for the fact that ONE player in 2015 has just suddenly come across and ruined it all as if pickup ball has been untouched and upheld as this sacrosanct pastime up to this point.

 

[Medio]

theres nothing wrong with shooting the ball if you make it in most of time, which he does

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Can't be as bad as the Iverson era. Had every 5'9 dude with struggle braids thinking they could go 1 and 5

Nah that didn't happen breh. According to @GoddamnyamanProf the state of pickup ball was fine before Curry came along.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

There has alwyas been that one dude who thought he was Steve Kerr. I see no difference.

That's because there's NO difference. This is just another thinly veiled Curry hate thread.

Funny shyt is even though teams like the Warriors and Spurs (been shytty lately though) be hitting a high clip of threes, their overall schemes are still predicated on team ball and ball movement, but mafukkas don't pay attention to that aspect, just the shyt that get the highlights.

Nah breh, it's a lot more fun to try and blame Curry for younger dudes emulating his style in a game of pickup, because we all know that's never happened before. Nobody's tried to emulate Pee Wee. Nobody's tried to emulate Alston. Nobody's tried to emulate LeBron. Nobody's tried to emulate Jordan. Nobody's tried to emulate Kobe.

 

[Noah]

How are y'all blaming Curry when he does all of this.
@Gil Scott-Heroin come get yo people

Of course he does this. Curry is one of the best off-ball shooters ever. But his emulators who only watch highlights don't do that, which was my point.

 

[MJ Truth]

god damn i just got back from playing ball in a long ass time and damn near everybody was shooting threes. shyt was literally a three point shooting contest the middle of a game


plus every body was doing the behind the back move like steph....the kids especially

Man, that's been pickup basketball forever. Either a bunch of long ass pull up jump shots or a bunch of overdribbling Hot Sauce mufukkas. At least that's sorta getting ushered out.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Can't be as bad as the Iverson era. Had every 5'9 dude with struggle braids thinking they could go 1 and 5

The ball in the shirt move from the commercial with Jada


"Jada an AI/Go cop da A-5!"

 

[street heat]

guess u werent around for the And1 fukkery in the early 2000's...this one nikka took his shoe off and threw it at me, and shot a fadeway jumper from 30 feet

:ducktales:

 

[Larry Lambo]

I was shooting damn near half court shots in games of "21" in the early 90's. I'm a shorter dude and not uber athletic, so having range helped me stay on the court.

 

[SuperNintendo Chalmers]

This Curry hate is pathetic.

 

[FaTaL]

This Curry hate is pathetic.

Yea since he gives average athletes hope

 

[The War Report]

It can't be worse than the And 1 wave.

 

[The War Report]

I remember some AI reebok commercial back in the day where he did some 360 spin crossover move. Had everybody on the courts trying that shyt and turning the ball over for awhile.

edit: found it

I was trynna do that shyt in elementary school.

 

[Xerces]

To add on to the and 1 era, guys would dribble so much that I would barely be playing defense, because they weren't going anywhere

 

[42 Monks]

Oh and fukk KD too

If you over 6'5 in a pickup game or rec league, you get your ass in the post.