falcolombardi wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:MyUniBroDavis wrote:
I would be astonished if chuck was serious
I absolutely am serious. Now don't get me twisted, I think Steph Curry is an incredible basketball player. I just disagree he "solved" basketball or is the greatest offensive player of all-time. I
don't think he's even the best offensive player of his own generation.
The best example i can think of to exemplify this
If curry + kyrie reached the same offensive heights as lebron + durant, the "not a ceiling raiser" criticism on lebron would be somethingh he -never- would live down. It would be used as unarguable proof that curry is easily the best offensive "ceiling raiser" over lebron
Except that is exactly what happened in real life with lebron + kyrie vs curry + durant and people still say lebron is too ball dominant to create a high offensive ceiling like curry
The ceiling raiser stuff has always just been people liking certain aesthetics more I think
I feel you need guys to fit around your best guy in any team, modern day most high ball volume guys need good spacing, or good coaching + something in order to create reads when teams overhelp, with guys like Curry who primarily operate p and r vs mismatch hunting, you need a roll man that operates off the short roll well and good coaching/passing overall
I like evaluating guys off of profile, I’d take second stint cavs bron and Jordan over Curry gun to my head offensively probably.
I think Curry doesn’t have the same ability to get a bucket on command 1v1 when the team offense stagnates, but outside of that there isn’t really an area he lags behind other ATG in a general sense, maybe playmaking but he’s elite at that and honestly he makes the right passing read I think super consistently, but it’s gonna be pretty normal ones
If you construct the perfect team around bron, and the perfect one around Curry, I really don’t think it’s a given at all currys team would be better offensively, and I’d wager that I’d prefer brons even if it’s off rtg is a tad lower
Otoh I think currys probably the perfect partner for more guys altho that’s a comp different thing too