Stephen Curry is, in my mind, the best point guard in the league right now. You can make cases for Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook etc. But Steph is the MVP and is getting his team ready for the NBA Finals. If that doesn’t scream “#1” I don’t know what will.
Curry still hasn’t reached his personal peak yet, but he’s already putting up astronomical numbers when it comes to shooting. If health was never an issue, that boy could play for another 8-10 years, think he’s dropping 3’s now. This is only the beginning people! I know it and future Hall Of Famer Steve Nash knows it.
“The only pause I have is from fear of being ignorant,” he said. “Am I missing someone? Does he need to play longer or do it longer? Does he have to do it in the playoffs more years? But my first reaction is, ‘Why not?’ He’s as good as anyone I can think of on every level—pure shooting, array of shots, percentage, getting hot, plays to the end—he checks all the boxes….
“Consistency,” Nash said. “Can someone consistently make shots, night in and night out, year after year? That’s the true mark of a player. You could break it down a lot of ways, but that’s the bottom line. How rare are off nights? There are certain guys, they shoot the ball, you always think it’s going in. Steph is able to seamlessly get his feet down, gather his weight between his feet and go up in the air and shoot it in rhythm as if he’d just been standing there, caught it and shot it.
“Truly, from the eye test, he’s the greatest there’s ever been.”
Is it just me or is Steve Nash a NBA analyst waiting to happen? How has a sports network not offered him a job yet? All that knowledge, that basketball IQ. I’d relish doing a TV gig with him.
“Steph takes it to another level,” Nash said. “I was able to do it going left and right, and we can both do it at speed, but I was always trying to get to the three-point line. He can do it from deeper and, frankly, I never took a step-back. He has no trouble taking a step-back and making it. You add that to all the other shots. It could be a clincher in this game of deciding who’s the best.”
Steve Nash was a point GOD back in Phoenix, so if I’m Steph, I’d be taking this huge set of compliments and continue to kill the competition.
