Skill level has improved no doubt but the best players would still be the best.
in the 50’s and 60’s? like 75%
And yet the central question before the entire league when Shaq was in his prime was, simply, "What is your team's plan with how to deal with Shaq?"
have you never seen a troll before?
either you’re deliberately lying or you weren’t paying attention. the entire landscape and strategy of the league has changed to try and deal with curry.
No, the entire landscape of the league has adopted a moneyball approach to scoring philosophy emulating the model of the Golden State Warriors, but the truth is this evolution predated him, and the success of the Warriors dynasty only accelerated its embrace. You can see that if you chart the ever-increasing total 3PTA across the league throughout the 80's, 90's, and 00's. Teams in the league have adapted to cope with the omnipresence of 3PT-oriented offenses, not specifically Curry. He has at no point been regarded as the most dominant individual player in the league. As good as he's been, and I've had to scratch my head at the amount of disrespect he's been shown on Sherdog the past several years, everyone is aware he isn't the best player alive, nor the most dominant individual force on both sides of the ball.
sure, now chart the difference from 2013 to now and tell me it’s the same increase. teams attempted 15 3’s a game in 2004, 20 3’s a game in 2013, and 35 3’s a game last year. it’s not natural evolution, it’s steph curry.
fucking hilarious statement considering he’s the only unanimous MVP ever.
Shaq wasn't one-dimensional simply because he wasn't an inside-out player, but tabling that, who cares? Stupid argument. If someone is "one-dimensional", but nobody can stop that player in that dimension, why would he waste his time and energy trying to be multi-dimensional? He's dominating the game by virtue of sheer supremacy in that dimension. It's bad strategy not to exploit your opponent's weakness just because it doesn't satisfy some dumb sports-radio point of conversation about roundedness.
The MVP award isn't given to the player everyone believes is the best player in the world. Otherwise Jokic would be considered the best player in the world right now. He obviously isn't.
plenty of pundits and publications had steph #1 in 2015-2017. i can provide proof if you’d like.
that’s semantics tbh but regardless, more than a few articles and TV segments crowning/arguing steph as the best player in the world. and as a counterargument, when was there ever an undisputed “best player alive” for an extended period of time?
You can always find a few outliers. Nobody seriously had Steph over Lebron during that period.
so we went from “no one” to “a few.” also yes, some people seriously did. hell, people had westbrook over lebron at this point.
