The Corey's wrote:Danny1616 wrote:The Corey's wrote:
A guy like Jeff Hornacek was a role player at best.
Hed be a superstar in today's league with his sharpshooting.
People just ignore "evolution" and all it entails.
Lol what?
So why aren't guys like Reddick, Korver, Ilyasova, Ellington, Otto Porter Jr., Ingles superstars?
Guys like Ingles, Ilyasova, and Korver have really good size and are excellent shooters, but they are still role players, not superstars.
Terrible analysis. Just because you have good size, can defend and can shoot doesn't mean you are a star player, even today.
One thing I can't stand is people thinking that anybody who was a great 3 point shooter in the 90s would be a superstar today. Yeah Dell Curry was a fantastic 3 point shooter, but he would basically be Kyle Korver today, not a superstar.
You've edited over your post.
Your last paragraph is all we need to know about how you feel.
Great shooters of the 1990s wouldnt be better players in today's league but great shooters of today's game would still dominate in the 90s
Over a myth that the defense was better in the 90s.
The defense was better there is no defense today.
No one said thst there wasnt ridiculous fouls.
You arent playing within the parameters of variables. You assume everything is equal and everything can not be.
Terrible reasoning.
What makes guys like Curry, Klay, KD etc. great players are not simply the fact that they are all-time shooters, it's that they are elite offensively.
Curry is one of the greatest off-ball players in NBA history and has one of the quickest releases of all time and can keep his efficiency up despite crazy range. The guy has incredible endurance, great awareness of where to go, and uses screens, is deadly on the pick and roll, uses head fakes very well, footwork etc. as good as anyone that has ever played. His ball-handling is also elite and he is very good at getting to the basket, and has an assortment of floaters that keep the defense worrying about what he's going to do. Not to mention that Curry is a very, very good passer, so it's difficult to double team him because he'll always usually make the right play. Not to mention that Curry is incredibly shifty as a player. This is what makes Curry a superstar player, not simply that he can just shoot. If you think Curry is just a great shooter, you really don't understand basketball that well.
That is why guys like Ingles, Korver, Ilyasova etc. are role players today even though they have great size and are excellent shooters.
So no, guys like Hornacek or Dell or Kerr etc. wouldn't be great players in today's game.
On the other hand, you hand excellent shooters like Mark Price, who was barely 6 feet tall, and wasn't athletic, dominate the NBA in the late 80s. Price was an elite 3 point shooter, who had a deadly mid-range game, was amazing on the pick and roll, had great ball-handling skills, was very shifty etc.
If there is no defense today then how did the Raptors win the championship last year? Also, defense was pretty bad throughout the 80s, and teams were scoring at a very, very rate. The most defensive era in NBA history was in the early 2000s.