NBA: The obsession with PG's?

[ambchang]

Paul has no chance, but Curry looks like a historically good player, he's probably going to do it and finish as the #2 PG of all-time, ultimately..

That's pretty damn high.

Magic, Thomas, Stockton, Kidd, Payton, Cousy, West, CP3.

I know you love to laugh at the 80s/90s PG, but Curry is very much put in a system that really maximized his value. He was surrounded by competent offensive players (shooters) that teams cannot leave open, which means that you can't really double Curry without paying the price. As any superstar should, Curry produced. But to say that he looks like a historically good player is really stretching it.

He is in the 6th year in the league at 26, right at the beginning of the prime of most PGs. So basically, he may have a little more room to go, but he is getting about as good as he can get (which is still pretty good), but his numbers aren't really that staggering. Yes, he led the league in VORP, but that won't even crack top 40 all-time (Lebron has 8 seasons with a higher VORP, CP3s got two, even Wade had a couple), his OBPM ranked him top 6th of all time, but it's a deeply flawed metric as it is heavily opposition dependent, his ws/48 ranked number 20 all time, but then we all know you are not a fan of the metric. Besides, all the all-time greats have MULTIPLE seasons with better numbers in any of those metrics than Curry.

We will see, he may blossom into an all time great, or he may just end up being a Mark Price on steroids (which is still really good).

[lefty]

Price was awesome tbh