Dan Smith--BYU wrote:Can't believe Vellavedova (?sp) could guard Curry like that.
That performance and Wawrinka beating Djokovic early at the French Open served as a reminder that a lot of guys are a hell of a lot more athletic than they look.
grit, heart, and determination
CaptainFantastik wrote:If the Cavs can pull it off I say focus on the Miami sports media. That'll be the sweetest. They will be so unbelievably butt hurt. He's not even around anymore and he gets as much attention as Heat basketball.......almost all of it negative.
If the Warriors do not win they are a very good team with zero finals experience lacking the front court to win a championship.
superk wrote:The Heat had the Mavs beat until they started celebrating prematurely, them couldn't regain their rythm
Talk about unlikely playoff heros......Dirk played great, ayson found his "J", and Chandler finally put it together. But the guy who absolutely made the difference for them in the playoffs was ....JJ Berea?!?
My speculative scenario up 3-1 may be tomorrow AM topic......
Havoc wrote:Dellavedova went to the hospital after the game tuesday night and spent the night there. He asked to come out of last night's game 2 minutes into the 3rd quarter. His body is messed up.
Interesting chess move by Kerr and his staff going small and starting Iguodala and only playing Bogut 3 minutes. Hard to know the net impact on a night the cavs did not have it.
Report is Lebron was hinting they should go deeper into the bench to give guys a little more of a breather.
Havoc wrote:There is a lot of hype about Stephen Curry's shooting. He is one of the all time great natural shooters. The idea that he is the greatest shooter ever is a laugher.
The 50/40/90 club...
"The 50–40–90 club is an informal term referring to the group of National Basketball Association (NBA) players who have had a shooting percentage at or above 50% for field goals, 40% for three-pointers, and 90% for free throws during an entire NBA regular season while also achieving the NBA minimum number of makes in each category"
"Steve Nash has the most 50–40–90 seasons with four; two more than any other player."
"Since the NBA introduced the three-point field goal in the 1979–80 season, the 50–40–90 shooting threshold has only been reached by six players: Steve Nash, Larry Bird, Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Dirk Nowitzki and Kevin Durant.[2] Nash and Bird are the only players who achieved 50–40–90 in multiple seasons; Bird was the first player to join this club and achieved it twice consecutively while Nash achieved it four times in five seasons.[3] Nash narrowly missed five consecutive 50–40–90 seasons by shooting at 89.9% from the free throw line for the 2006–07 season, which means that one more made free-throw would have gotten him over the 90% mark."
Notice Curry is not on this list. He is a young player though. His name might appear on this list before his career is over.
Free throw percentage is a good indicator of natural shooting ability.
Nash career rs FT% .904
Curry career rs FT% .900
Nash career ps FT% .900
Curry career ps FT% .863
Curry has a little higher career averages in 3P%
Nash career rs 3P% .428
Curry career rs 3P% .440
Nash career ps 3P% .406
Curry career ps 3P% .410
Steve Nash is in the 50/40/90 club for his entire career averages for both regular season and post season. Unbelievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50%E2%80%9340%E2%80%9390_club
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/nashst01.html
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryst01.html
Nash has no problem conceding the title to Curry.
"The only pause I have is from fear of being ignorant," he said. "Am I missing someone? Does he need to play longer or do it longer? Does he have to do it in the playoffs more years? But my first reaction is, 'Why not?' He's as good as anyone I can think of on every level—pure shooting, array of shots, percentage, getting hot, plays to the end—he checks all the boxes."
Nash discounted the value of his superior percentages—listen up, ye who believe numbers are infallible and efficiency is everything—because he approached the game differently and was sometimes chastised for it.
"He's probably going to shoot a lower percentage than me his whole career because he's going to take more shots and he should," Nash said. "It's just a difference in mentality. I would shoot a higher percentage than Steph because I was much more conservative. I would try to shoot as high a percentage as possible to save shots for my teammates and then shoot more in the fourth quarter. I had coaches tell me I was hurting our team at times by trying to set up my teammates, but I always thought I got it back by how I made them feel and incorporated them into the offensive scheme and the chemistry of the team. He's capable of that, but he's more inclined to score. There are things he can do that I can't. He's such a beautiful shooter with such an array of shots and such a quick release, you wouldn't want to take that away from him at all."
The most notable similarity Nash and Curry share is their uncanny ability to shoot off the dribble, particularly from long range, but even there Nash sees Curry as a cut above.
"Steph takes it to another level," Nash said. "I was able to do it going left and right, and we can both do it at speed, but I was always trying to get to the three-point line. He can do it from deeper and, frankly, I never took a step-back. He has no trouble taking a step-back and making it. You add that to all the other shots. It could be a clincher in this game of deciding who's the best."
"Consistency," Nash said. "Can someone consistently make shots, night in and night out, year after year? That's the true mark of a player. You could break it down a lot of ways, but that's the bottom line. How rare are off nights? There are certain guys, they shoot the ball, you always think it's going in. Steph is able to seamlessly get his feet down, gather his weight between his feet and go up in the air and shoot it in rhythm as if he'd just been standing there, caught it and shot it.
"Truly, from the eye test, he's the greatest there's ever been."
