What are all these former players so threaten by what Steph Curry is doing?

He looks different, and he plays different than has become expected from a superstar. He is the greatest shooter of all time combined with a spectacular system that highlights his talents. The Warriors have almost broken the game.

While the media love affair has at times been eyeroll worthy, Curry is legit. Shooters aren't supposed to dominate, but he is dominating. NBA defenses are more complex than ever, simply being more "physical" wouldn't stop him because you can't hand check around a screen. And if you get in his jersey he will go around you becuase he also has world class handles.

I hated him last year, but they've earned my respect. It's just sour grapes to call him a system player, or that he wouldn't do it in another era.

 

I heard Cedric Ceballos say the 93 Suns would beat the GSW with ease and that Dan Majerle was just as good of a shooter as Thompson, but better on D.

 

Obviously, jealousy is the major reason.

Other than that, how Curry achieved that level probably was the biggest reason. For guys like MJ, Wilt, Shaq, they usually just out physical, out jump, our run people, with their god-giving physicality, that makes other players feel okay to accept the defeat.

For Curry, he had none of that, everything he had today comes from hard working, be a team player, and play smart. That doesn't sit well with many guys, because that makes other look opposite, lazy, selfish, dumb.

 

At the end of the day though he has one championship and Jordan has 6.

Jordan has 6 championships, 5 MVPs, A DPOTY...that is incredible quite frankly.

Now you have people saying Curry is the greatest ever? What do you expect old timers to say? Guys that have also won rings, more than one...they kind of laugh at that. At the end of the day greatness is measured by your awards and right now his stack doesn't compare to MJs or Kareem's, Duncan or even Shaq and Lebron...yet people are praising him as the GOAT?

Don't work that way.

What if they lose to the Spurs this year in the playoffs? Then what if another super team pops up that prevents them from winning again? Then all this GOAT talk will look silly now.

 

He's doing it better than most of them, and it kind of came out of nowhere and when all you have is your legacy, you protect it in any way you can.

Nobody has a legitimate argument that Curry is bad for the game. He's revolutionizing it in the way that so many people had revolutionized it before him.

 

The hype. The internet multiplies whatever hype a star gets by a million times. Older generation players always gripe about "today's players" just like every parent gripes about their children's generation of how they do not hold the same values they did.

I also agree with the point that Curry comes out of nowhere. LeBron was hyped BEFORE he had played a single NBA game. Nobody expected Curry to be this good just two years ago. He exploded on the scene just like that. A lot of people, not just the old players, find it difficult to give credit to a guy like that, sort of like someone getting rich by winning a lottery rather than being born rich.

 

So? That doesn't then validate some of this insane hype he's getting.

All this GOAT and best ever hype he's getting is over the line for a guy that has 2 MVPs and 1 championship to his name.

 

Physically he doesn't look the part.

 

I think the old guard doesn't respect Curry because he hangs out in the perimeter and doesn't take the pounding and the grind. Green & Iggy do all of the dirty work.

I am actually VERY surprised that someone hasn't Robert Horry-ied Curry into the boards. Seriously. Back in the day people would be hard fouling him to disrupt his game. Again, VERY surprised a team hasn't done this yet.

 

Lots of analysts didn't even have the Warriors making the playoffs before last season began. David Lee being injured and Draymond Green starting and showing what he was capable of changed the entire team and culture and turned Steve Kerr into an apparent genius and Curry who was the best player on that team expected to miss the playoffs the GOAT and Klay who was also there before on that team expected to miss the playoffs the best 2 way guard in the league.

 

No sir, you are wrong. The game isn't half of what it is. Players are literally flopping every possession, no physicality, no handchecking, technical for hard fouls etc...


Steph Curry benefits from all of these things. Great player, but simply privileged to play in a very soft NBA. The game is not what it used to be. Not Curry's fault though

 

Old people always hate the younger generation in any walk of life in history. Christopher Columbus probably bashed on Magellan because real explorers don't need maps.

 

Oof, not saying going to that ridiculous extreme. Just saying hard fouls. Curry is slight of frame, if he gets punished through a series, that takes its toll. Or maybe it doesn't and he perseveres. But in that aspect, he probably would then get the respect.

 

Rule changes things. The freedom perimeter players enjoyed today is a sharp contrast to the restrictions low post big men having to overcome. When a touch is a foul and a foul is a touch, you know this is the new era of BB.

 

You can't be serious. lol...

He's regarded as arguably the best two-way player of all time along with Hakeem.