Do you know what this reminds me of? Its like that meme where it says “One just doesn’t…” In this case it’s one just doesn’t stop Stephen Curry from shooting threes.
But to be fair to Walt Frazier, Knicks legend, he isn’t blindly hating on Steph Curry like Oscar Robertson. He knows that Curry will always be able to get buckets, but as we all know, the three is more valuable than the two so by that logic, if Walt Frazier was guarding Steph, he would try to get him inside the arc.
“Defense was my forte,” Frazier said Thursday during an interview on ESPN’s “Mike & Mike” show. “I had to guard Oscar (Robertson). I had to guard Jerry West, Earl the Pearl (Monroe), Dave Bing. Any phenomenal player, I had to guard. So when I’m guarding these guys, I’m trying to take away what they do best.
“So today if I’m guarding Curry … he might have 25 2s on me, but he’s not going to have 13 threes because I’m going to be forcing him inside of the arc.”
“To me, I look at the most phenomenal seasons in the NBA,” Frazier said. “Wilt Chamberlain averaging 50 points a game one season. Nate Archibald led the league in scoring and assists. The Big O averaged a triple double. But they didn’t do that every year. You know what I mean? They never reached that pinnacle once they did that. So to me, this is where Curry is. He’s having a phenomenal season. To me, a signature season. But is he going to do this for the next five years? I don’t really think so.”
Now that is a good critique. He’s not totally waving off Curry and what he’s doing as an individual. With the guarding thing, it sounds good on paper but we will never know if that plan would pan out well or not.
But that last paragraph was good, it’s certainly one of those legendary seasons like Oscar’s triple double season and Wilt’s 50 PPG season. I think even Curry knows that he will never have this great a season again. But hey, won’t put it past him to have a go next season.
