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Steph Curry
Doogles
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The dude is must see TV. By far the most exciting player in the game and has taken over Kevin Durant as the guy to take the crown from Lebron as best in league.
If he gets back to back MVP and titles it's going to be hard to argue for Lebron as the true #1.
If he gets back to back MVP and titles it's going to be hard to argue for Lebron as the true #1.
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If you're captain of a pick up game you pick Lebron 1st, but the team that picks Curry will probably win. He's insane.
I don't mean this as a put down to Curry but the NBAs rules allow him to be great. All credit to him because everyone plays by the same rules. But if defenders could get into his body on the perimeter, like they would in a pick up game, he wouldn't be that good.
A couple years ago the Warriors played the Clippers in a playoff series. One of the games came down to a last shot by the Warriors. Chris Paul got all up in Currys jersey because he knew they wouldn't call a foul and Curry barely got a shot off. That would be every possession of a pick up game.
Chris Paul, for all his faults, can always get a decent shot. Curry can't.
But I do stand behind the comment that when you hear people talk about attributes of players in HS, college, and even entering the NBA, people don't often talk about a player's ability to shoot or flat out score. There's a skill in that. Granted, you can be a great shooter/scorer and if you are outmatched physically the NBA will expose that. But at the same time, if you are a truly great shooter, you'll be successful at the NBA level one way or another.
This fallacy that the game today is so soft is only because it is being compared against to the 90s when the physical play was at levels that are not consistent with the rules of the game and the league allowed to go way too far. If you go back and watch games from the 80s you'll often find that the number of touch fouls called were significantly greater than what is called today. The one thing that they did though during that time frame was at the end of games allowing bloodbaths to take place without taking over the game with the whistle (think early '81 Celtics vs Sixers Game 7 where the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter turned into a giant wrestling match).
Great players will be able to play against any kind of situation and come out the other side. You can't tell me guys in the past like Tiny Achribald or even a young Isaiah Thomas were physical beasts that excelled playing physical games in a time period where there was far more opportunities for bigger players to put a physical shot on smaller players with minimal repercussions (brawling was prevalent in the game in the 70s). Far more important to be mentally strong than physically strong if you're a guard in my mind anyway.
And BTW, the thing that will always translate with a shooter like Curry, Reggie Miller, etc. is the space that they create on the court. If you don't want to go out and guard them it doesn't matter how physical the game is.
LeBron would be the best player on the playground because he's a physical monster, but Curry would be a close second.
It will be fun to see Lebron lovers backpedal when Curry will have as many rings as Lebron this year in a third (or less) of the attempts.
I'm surprised you of all people would put so much stock in a media award. The real hardware was won on the floor by Curry, not Lebron.