In my next life I want to come back as Klay Thompson

Some of y'all are underrating Klay. He's the perfect 2nd option to Harden. He's no superstar but certainly a top 20 player in the league

 

Thompson is an excellent player. His impact is muted quite a bit with Durant on the floor. He requires extra attention to keep in check.

The guy holds the NBA record for most points in a quarter, most 3s in a game, and he reached 60 in 3 quarters once. He can easily get on a hot streak and drop 20 in a quarter. It’s kind of weird to see people acting like he’s just some role player.

 

This is just silly.

Excluding Harden, how many other current SGs are better than Klay?

 

OP wants to come back as a human cyborg. Duly noted.

 

Klay for CP3 get it done morey

 

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It's hard to argue with that without any fixed criteria by which you're ranking players as 3 pointer shooters. It doesn't appear you have any such criteria, given the names of the players you put ahead of him.

Example: Klay doesn't shoot a lot of threes off the dribble? OK ... how many did Miller, Kerr, and Legler shoot off the dribble?

Here's what I know about Klay and 3-point shooting:

Klay holds the record for most 3s made in a regular season game and in a playoff game.

As I already said, he's second all time in 3s made per game.

Klay has been in the league for 8 seasons. He has attempted 250 3s and hit at least 40% of them in every single one of them. Only three other players in the history of the game have done that in more than 8 seasons (Korver 10, Curry 9, Miller 9).

Klay has hit at least 200 3s in his last 7 seasons -- so every season following his rookie year. No other player in the history of the game has had more than 7 seasons hitting at least 200 3 pointers (Curry has 7, next on the list is Ray Allen, Harden, and Lillard with 5).

 

I would take him on the Rockets if he wants to change teams.

 

I was just discussing this with a friend. Klay is basically a role player on steroids.

Any other team and he would be completely lost in the noise. He's so lucky he landed where he did.

 

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It’s funny how you fixate on the headline and completely miss the point he was trying to make.

 

Oh I didn’t miss the point, as I completely ignored the post like I said in the initial post. I also apologized because I admit the title of the thread during game day triggered the response. I used to have very competitive nature on court basketball and still do with Rockets as a team and more so against a team like Worriers during our championship window.

 

I don't see why he's not top 15...I think he's a fantastic player just not a superstar. I'm not sure anyone thinks he is.

 

EoF

 

Was Thompson good enough to get any praise this series? If not he still beat the Rockets without Cousins and Durant.

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