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[Rusty]

cmon man

[Down Under]

Curry is still pretty tall at 6'3", as well. Combine that with his quick release (which developed as an undersized kid playing against bigger kids) and he's virtually unguardable. Just have to hope he chokes. But in general, you're right. A modern NBA team would ideally like to have 6'5" to 6'10" players at every position, who all can shoot and switch. I'll be a stick in the mud yet again and lament this as another sad thing about the "evolution" of the sport. Unique athletes like Shaq or Nate Robinson would be marginalized in today's game (Robinson probably never gets drafted). Shaq would still probably put up a nice PPG and RPG, but he would be a traffic cone on defense (Orlando Shaq fares better in this regard). Shaq is probably a 3ish RPM player in today's game.

My brother's been crapping on about every player being exactly that - 6'5" to 6'10" & switching/attacking everything for years funnily enough. Hopefully they do something with the 3 point line eventually - I think with Houston taking 60 in a game several times this season & Milwaukee & Brooklyn shooting close to that, people will start to get sick of it. The amount of times I see the ball come up the court with Houston & it's just passed to a guy 2 or 3 feet behind the 3 point line & they just jack it up, that's not basketball. It's impossible to guard that amount of space (close to 27-28 feet) with 5 players.

[TDMVPDPOY]

a dominant big down low can still dominate games

yes there are bigs who can shoot the 3, but how efficient are they?

dominant bigs like snaq oatmeal, only needs to play zone defense and dominate on the offense...helps if he also improved his ft shooting...