TheGoldenBoy said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
Basic logic. If someone wants me to believe they are the greatest shooter ever, I'm going to have to see proof. Jordan was a guard and had a higher FG%. Steve Kerr was a PG and had a higher 3P%. How exactly can someone be the GOAT when they aren't as "great" in the particular area in which they are being called the GOAT? It makes no sense at all.
Curry is a great player, but you're all falling into the same sheep like, media driven trap that has befallen many "next Jordans" since the mid 90's. Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, Vince Carter, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James... they were all "the next" before Curry, which is the new "next". The NBA and ESPN has never been able to fill the void since MJ left and have had to resort to knowingly over-hyping players in order to keep attention on the sport and raitings from plummeting. Take a look at the NBA raitings over the last 30 years. When Jordan was going through his last three-peat, they were at an all-time high. After he retired in 1998, they nose dived and have never returned.
Think about it. Lebron is over 30, and has finally, for the first time, started to decline. Don't you think it's a bit suspicious that Curry is now the golden boy of ESPN and the league? It's all about money and creating buzz and attention. Curry is a great player, no but greater than Kobe or Lebron before him. He'll decline in a view years, and all this buzz will go away as quickly as it came and everyone will move on to the "next thing" and say HE'S the GOAT... it'll never end.
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I already gave you proof, you're just too blind to see it.
As for Jordan, he had a higher FG% because he was the greatest midrange and arguably finisher of all time. The closer you shoot to the rim the higher your percentages will be. I don't see how that's complicated to understand. As for Kerr's 3P%, he was a spot up shooter. He got the ball off of the pressure that MJ and Pippen drew.
As for the other crap you wrote, I don't really care. I was only arguging about Curry as a shooter and never brought him as an overall player.
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If we're just focusing on "shooting", there hasn't been anything Curry has done percentage wise, over other legends before him. There's been some amazing long range shooters like Kerr and others who's lifetime percentage is better as well.
Curry making so and so number of threes a game is not a result of him being a better three point shooter than Kerr, Bird or anything else before him but more about the fact that he jacks up threes like the ball is going to burn his hands if he holds it for too long. When you shoot so many times, you're to MAKE that many shots. Why do you think Kobe once scored 35PPG in a season? Because he was a great shooter? No, because he shot so many times. Curry is taking more 3 point shots than just about anyone else in history, so, 1+1=2.
