OT: Is Steph Curry Turning Into One of the Greats?

ESPN has Curry as 4th on the top 10 all time PGs already.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarankPGs/ranking-top-10-point-guards-ever

Listen, Curry is amazing! The guy is very dang good (understatement of the century perhaps) BUT I don't think I would put him that high already. I know he can score at will and has certainly improved at assisting others but I just think some of the PGs from the history of the league were more pure playmakers in terms of getting the ball to finishers.

 

Not yet, I agree. But if he continues this, then he's at the very least top 3. (So maybe the #1 point guard now, and thats why he's #4... if that makes sense)

 

Someones gotta be able to stop him, until then, I cant say that he's not. This is one of the all time great runs for a team and a player if this continues for the next 3 seasons like it could, he HAS to be.

 

Agreed. I prize play-making over scoring from my PGs. That said, Curry is amazing. He's like a hybrid of Steve Nash and Reggie Miller.

 

Steph Curry is easily one of the greatest if not greatest PGs in the last 30 years we've ever seen.. EASILY

Actually he is the greatest PG we've seen in the last 30 years

 

Not counting his injury year (2011-2012) his assists have gone up each year except for last year (and they still won the 'ship)

from 09-10

5.9
5.8
5.3 (26 games)
6.9
8.5
7.7
6.5 (This year, through 36 games)

So I think he's doing a fine job of both, IMO.

 

Curry over Zeke is a joke! Zeke led the Pistons to Back-To-Back titles in an era when he had to go up against the Showtime Lakers, Bird's Celtics, and Jordan's Bulls ... the path the Warriors went through last year to get their ring was, well, not a gauntlet to say the least.

Curry needs 2-3 more seasons like this before we start ranking him that highly among the All-Time greats.

Side note: John Stockton might be one of the most overrated players in NBA history. Malone carried that Jazz team, especially when they made the finals in 97 and 98. I'll always remember Porter besting him big time during the 91 and 92 playoffs.

 

Step Curry is so great you have to ask copyright permission to praise him.

Stepg Curry is so great that the atomic movement of his crossover confounds the rules of modern physics.


Steph Curry is so great his cosmic aura can outshine the Northern Lights.

.... no but seriously, he's pretty great.

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Agreed. He's no slouch on the play-making front. But there are others I'd rank higher in that regard - that's all I was saying.

 

Oh, that makes sense, then.

 

I mean, I did say he's a cross between Nash and Miller!

 

I remember it slightly different. Porter played the best ball of his career and battled Stockton to a draw. I don't see how Stockton can be considered overrated. He's basically the definition of your typical underrated player, all go no show.

 

Yeah. I do too. I meet a lot of guys who always go off on Stockton as the most overrated player in NBA history. In fact, Stockton is the "one" player they feel this way about. Are they f-cking kidding me? I heard Isaiah Thomas say recently that Stockton is unquestionably one of the greatest PG in league history. And he hated the man.

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During the 1992 Western Conference Finals, Terry Porter averaged 26 pts, on 55% shooting (46-84), including 53% from downtown (18-34), 8.3 assts, 4 rebs, and 1 stls to help power Portland past Utah 4-2 in that series. John Stockton put up 14.3 pts, 40% shooting (27-68), including 23% from distance (6-26),11.2 asts, 2.2 rebs, and 1.3 stls.

Advantage: Porterland.

 

Stockton was never a big scorer, although those shooting percentages were low by his standards. You can't ignore an extra 3 assists per game, though.

 

Porter nearly doubled his scoring average for those six games. Stock can take those three assists and kick rocks.

 

Those extra 3 assists are nearly 50% more than Porter's average. The scoring gap impact isn't nearly as big as your numbers make it seem. And you also have to factor in Stockton's elite defense and all-around game management.

 

You are talking about just the six games and stats mentioned?

If so you should quit now. I'm not worried about overrated but these numbers don't lie. Elite defense and game management can't be factored if Porter put up 26 a game and won the series. Just concede the point and move along.