Hands down the greatest shooter I have ever seen...
But the man who averaged a triple double has a point...
Plus, rules have changed... Curry rules of 80s and 90s would've really worn down the frail curry.
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Oscar Robertson went on The Mike & Mike Show on Thursday and laid down a scathing indictment of NBA defensive strategy when the subject of Curry arose. According to NJ.com's Randy Miller, Robertson believes stopping Curry is simple—”just go out there and guard him farther from the basket, ya dumb jamokes.
"If I've got a guy who's great shooting the ball outside, don't you want to extend your defense out a little bit?" Robertson said. "I just don't think coaches today in basketball understand the game of basketball. They don't know anything about defenses. They don't know what people are doing on the court. They talk about analytical basketball and stuff like this."
Ah, yes...Analytical Basketball—the great millennial bogeyman, sweeping in on the wings of an Excel sheet and spiriting away the soul of good ol' fashioned, peach-basket dadsketball in the dead of night. It started with the three-point line and now these kids are Euro-stompin' and wearing socks on their arms.
Indeed, the landscape of basketball has changed drastically since the pre-three-point-line days of the '60s and '70s, when Robertson played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks. But the fundamentals of defense haven't changed, according to Robertson. Curry is good, he says, but he's good because coaches these days don't get basketball.
"[Curry] has shot well because of what's going on in basketball today. In basketball today, it's almost like if you can dunk or make a three-point shot, you're the greatest thing since sliced bread...there have been some great shooters in the past...but here again, when I played...if you shot outside and hit it, the next time I'm going to be up on top of you. I'm going to pressure you with three-quarters, half-court defense. But now they don't do that. These coaches do not understand the game of basketball, as far as I'm concerned."
http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/...-because-modern-nba-defenses-are-trash-022516