NBA 2015-16

[Color Me Badd Fan]

So he ties the NBA record for most 3s in a game and probably all but guarantees Golden State breaks the 96 Bulls record. If they win all their remaining home games, they get to 70 wins and only have to go 3-4 on the road.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Steph Curry is good at basketball.

He keeps this up and Bron Bron has some competition for second best of all time. What he is doing right now is insane.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Steph Curry is good at basketball.

Right now he is as unstoppably dominant as MJ was in my mind.

[Joe Public]

Right now he s as unstoppable dominant as MJ was in my mind.

It would be fun to see how he would do in that hand check era.

[Non Sequitur]

Reports that Andre Miller will sign with the Spurs. If true, I'm all in rooting for the Spurs to win a championship.

I had no idea Andre Miller was still in the league. Whose roster is on this year?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Steph Curry is good at basketball.

He's like the Jimmer of the NBA!

[Art Vandelay]

He keeps this up and Bron Bron has some competition for second best of all time. What he is doing right now is insane.

Competition with LBJ as an offensive player.
Shooting: Curry>>>>>LBJ
Assists: LBJ>Curry
Defense: LB>>Curry (Steph gets a lot steals, but Bron can guard 4 different positions, and is a far superior on-ball defender)
Rebounding:LBJ>>>>>Curry
Leadership: Probably a push. I don't know

None of this a knock on Steph. He is amazing- best shooter I've ever seen, and so fun to watch play. I'm a big fan of SC. He is also in the perfect situation - Klay is likely the 2nd best shooter in the league and Draymond is a chameleon. Curry on the Net/Twolves/Bucks gets them 10 more wins. Lebron on any of those teams, based upon previous history, makes them a contender.

[smokymountainrain]

It would be fun to see how he would do in that hand check era.

Hand check "era" is overrated. Wasn't that big a deal. You breathed on Jordan, you got called for a foul. Just watched the flu game and MJ's 63 point game in the Garden, among other old games recently. Guys just didn't use the hand check (or at least nothing more than what we see today) - on Jordan, Stockton, Pippen, Horny, Kerr, anybody.

In the 80s, in particular the defense was just really soft. Guys should back pedal and give all kinds of space. It's laughable what Curry would do in that era pulling up and shooting threes.

Looking for it in those two games, I didn't see any plays that didn't get called then, that would be called today.

[smokymountainrain]

watch this (play starts at about the 1 minute mark) and imagine Curry in Jordan's place pulling up from three. it would be like a lay-up drill for Curry. just soft defense overall and essentially no hand checking in a game that boston's wings should have been doing everything possible within the rules to stop Jordan. Jordan shot a ton of FTs and many on very iffy calls.

[bluegoose]

Hand check "era" is overrated. Wasn't that big a deal. You breathed on Jordan, you got called for a foul. Just watched the flu game and MJ's 63 point game in the Garden, among other old games recently. Guys just didn't use the hand check (or at least nothing more than what we see today) - on Jordan, Stockton, Pippen, Horny, Kerr, anybody.

In the 80s, in particular the defense was just really soft. Guys should back pedal and give all kinds of space. It's laughable what Curry would do in that era pulling up and shooting threes.

Looking for it in those two games, I didn't see any plays that didn't get called then, that would be called today.

I agree. Granted he was earlier than this era, but this is why I find Oscar Robertson's comments last week so laughable. The defense was lousy back in the 80s. The intentional fouls were much more violent, which makes for some great highlight reels of 80s NBA fights, but the defense overall was pretty soft.

[smokymountainrain]

I agree. Granted he was earlier than this era, but this is why I find Oscar Robertson's comments last week so laughable. The defense was lousy back in the 80s. The intentional fouls were much more violent, which makes for some great highlight reels of 80s NBA fights, but the defense overall was pretty soft.

another thing I find interesting about Robertson's comments is that he is the only guy ever to average a triple double, while Curry is the only guy ever to make 300 threes in a season - both the type of accomplishments that may never be touched. Guys from today could say they would never let anybody average a triple double - that coaches back then didn't know basketball or they wouldn't have let a 6'3" dude who couldn't shoot score 30+ ppg while getting 11 assist and 12 rebs.

[cougjunkie]

another thing I find interesting about Robertson's comments is that he is the only guy ever to average a triple double, while Curry is the only guy ever to make 300 threes in a season - both the type of accomplishments that may never be touched. Guys from today could say they would never let anybody average a triple double - that coaches back then didn't know basketball or they wouldn't have let a 6'3" dude who couldn't shoot score 30+ ppg while getting 11 assist and 12 rebs.

Pretty sure Oscar was at least 6'5 if not 6'6. He might be 6'3 now.

[smokymountainrain]

Pretty sure Oscar was at least 6'5 if not 6'6. He might be 6'3 now.

basketball reference lists him at 6'5".

[Joe Public]

This Spurs/Warriors game feels like a playoff game.

[PaloAltoCougar]

An interesting (at least to GS fans and to anyone interested in how to run an NBA team in today's environment) NYT article about how the change in ownership lifted the Warriors from the depths of mediocrity to become a very strong franchise.

Among the interesting bits was the infamous moment when at the Mullin award ceremony the fans booed the new principal owner for trading Monta Ellis:

In March 2012, Lacob took the microphone during a game at halftime to honor Chris Mullin, who played for Golden State from 1985 to 1997. From the moment he began speaking, Lacob was booed. It had nothing to do with Mullin. The previous week, the Warriors sent Monta Ellis, the team’s most popular player, to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Andrew Bogut. With time, that would take its place among the most effective trades in basketball history. The Warriors did more than acquire Bogut, a seven-footer who had missed half the season with a broken ankle. Trading Ellis allowed Curry, the point guard, to look for his own shots instead of mainly facilitating Ellis’s. In truth, Lacob hadn’t wanted to trade Ellis. His basketball advisers, including West, persuaded him. “They made their case, especially Jerry,” Lacob says, “and I accepted it. They were right.”

Lacob understood that the Warriors, who had a losing record, needed to be dismantled before they could be rebuilt. He often had to implement a similar strategy with struggling companies. But the fans had been hearing about long-range plans for decades and had little confidence in them. And now they no longer had Ellis. The booing continued for so long that the former Warrior Rick Barry had to beseech the crowd to allow the ceremony to continue. By then, Lacob was shaking. The humiliation was so public, so raw, that Lacob’s friends were moved to send messages of support. Many mention it now, four years later, as a rite of passage.