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Everyone knows Curry's 60 points a few days ago, and he directly broke a career high, and 60 points also made Curry's single-game score ** squeeze into the top 20 in NBA history, but in fact, looking at the whole game, my feeling is that Curry's dominance in the game is actually not as high as the top 20 in history.
Taking Curry as an example, Yan has a very big problem, that is, the current guards in the league are actually overrated.
At present, Curry's historical status, with the 75th largest in the league as a reference, is generally believed to be in the 14th-16th place in history, and there are some radical fans who think that Curry can compete with Kobe Bryant for the position of the top ten goalkeepers, indeed, with Curry's honor, four championships, 1 Finals MVP, two regular season MVPs, 8 All-Star teams (four times) and the blessing of the league's three-point king and various three-point records, Curry is a matter of course or even a little low in this position.
But if you put Curry and Julius Irving, Moses Malone, Olajuwon together, the two words Curry are still a bit incompatible, and what if you add one more sentence that Curry's all-time ranking has surpassed Jerry West, Kevin Garnett, David Robinson, Isaiah Thomas and even George McCann? I'm afraid some people are going to fry.
The 75 team also featured four active guards, Chris Paul, cousin Lillard, Russell Westbrook and James Harden, and we're just going to check two of them.
First up is his cousin Lillard, who is ranked 76th out of the league's 75 big 75 — how can that be so weird to say ......Don't be surprised, because at the time of voting, there were two stars who had a tie vote, so it was said that it was 75, but there were actually 76 people in total.
My cousin has nothing to introduce, it can be summed up in one sentence, others entered the 75th National Congress by honor, and my cousin's honor was to enter the 75th National Congress.
Let's talk about Wei Shao, Wei Shao's reputation in the Thunder back then was not as good as it is now, especially when Du Xiaoshuai left Oklahoma for a period of time, such as Wei Shao's brushing board, brushing points, and brushing assists, but doubts are doubts, Wei Shao has averaged three doubles per game for two consecutive years, and he has successfully won a regular season MVP trophy with this achievement under the unsatisfactory results of the team, with such an honor, but the great contrast is that Wei Shao is also ranked 76th in the 75 majors, yes, It said that two stars were tied, and these two were Lillard and Westbrook.
These two men are full of honors, but why is the league's historical status so low?
First of all, we must understand that the quantification of honor is brought up after the whale is on fire, before the whale is not on fire, there is no so-called honor competition at all, and winning two MVPs is more powerful than taking one MVP? Is it a star who wins two championships with a higher historical rating than a star who wins one championship? Not really.
For example, it is rumored that Curry can touch Kobe Bryant, Kobe Bryant's entire career is a regular season MVP, five championships, three second championships and two big championships, but he can put a star including Curry behind him, Lillard's selection of the 75 has caused many fans to be dissatisfied, thinking that Maddie and Howard are more qualified than his cousin, Dirk Nowitzki, a career championship, and a regular season MVP, but he is close behind Curry with five championships, ranking 17th in history.
We can't help but ask, why is that?
The reason is simple, because the defenders are overrated these days.
The so-called overestimation actually points to a problem, that is, the data is beautiful, but the dominance is insufficient.
The current stars can be said to do everything in order to brush points, Wei Shao will not mention how crazy it was to brush a triple-double back then, the Suns were beaten by the Celtics all over the ground looking for teeth, the Suns couldn't beat the disgusting Green Shirts, and gave all the ball to Booker in the second half, so that Booker brushed out 50+ in the half, and successfully disgusted the Celtics, Brother Alphabet is a league supergiant, double-even MVP, logically it is an absolute league boss, he can even do things to brush the board to make a triple-double, and even cousin Li guided, I also like to brush up on three points when the game is decided, but the Trailblazers don't have any ** degree, and no one mentions it.
Stats can disguise the illusion of a lack of dominance on the pitch.
What the hell is dominance? It's a fictitious term, but if I had to quantify it, it would be a reflection of the star's performance on both ends of the floor.
The former guards must not only be able to attack, but also must be able to defend, Jordan, Kobe, Kidd, Stockton, not to mention these bigwigs, even the league grass kings who are three grades lower than them, must also be able to defend, the meaning of being able to defend, not just to let you lead the defense all over the court, but to be able to play at critical moments, such as Carter, Iverson, Billups, Arenas, Baron Davis, Ray Allen, etc., at the last moment of the game, they usually go to the opponent's arrows.
On the other hand, these current stars, Curry, Lillard, Wei Shao, Brad Beal, CJ McCollum, Devin Booker, James Harden, Wei Shao, etc., are all weak links in the team's defense, and at the critical moment of the game, some of them, the opponent's arrow even has to point to the list, as a historical superstar, when the game is finalized, it is inevitable that people feel that time has changed, and offense and defense have changed.
Of course, some people are not unable to defend, such as James Harden, when the Thunder first debuted, the label was defense + mid-range shooting, and after coming to the Rockets, he was unwilling to invest too much physical strength on the defensive end, which affected the offensive end, so he contributed many famous scenes of eye defense in those years, Paul and Harden had a falling out, in fact, there is a high probability that it is also a defensive problem, Paul is an outlier, the old gun's career is too long, I have seen Kobe, how he led the team to win the championship, he asked Harden with Kobe's requirements, What can this Harden do?
In the past, a guard who could only attack and not defend could not become a star and the cornerstone of the team, in the past, a guard called Kevin Martin, this brother averaged 26 points per game at his peak, and his scoring ability was not strong, but because the defense was too pulled, he never made the All-Star in his life, and the defense was also used as the cornerstone of the team's building, and the NBA was full of one Stephen Nash, and he didn't win the championship, and the two MVPs are also known as the most water-doubled MVPs in history, Before Embiid's MVP, the most watery MVP was Nash's second MVP.
The problem on the defensive end is actually only a minor problem, and what really makes the defenders feel that they are not dominating enough is on the offensive end.
The skills of the previous defenders were more balanced than the current ones.
With the advent of the small-ball era, the current guards throw three-pointers to the point of being very rampant, Curry, Harden, Lillard, at the peak of the average to throw thirteen or fourteen three-pointers per game, of course, there is nothing wrong with throwing three-pointers from the perspective of basketball, three-point shooting is one of the most efficient scoring techniques, the times are progressing, but if the development of a technology is far ahead of other technologies, this gives people the feeling that the star has a single skill and lacks dominance.
The most telling thing is the lore moment.
Lore, is the most blood-pumping moment in the basketball game, a goal to determine the winner, the star who pulls the crotch at the lore moment, it is difficult to call it a star, when it comes to the lore moment, I have to mention my cousin Lillard, the watch reading moment of Leigh guidance, it has to be staged three or four times a season, and the game level has regular season and playoffs, so it can be said that the lore system is directly full.
However, if you look closely, you will find that the cousin's lore method is basically ......It's all three-pointers, and it's three-pointers that are getting farther and farther away. At the beginning, my cousin read the table a few times, and the fans still felt that the blood was pumping, and it was very enjoyable, and after reading it a few times, the fans felt that it was nothing more than that, and if I read it to you a few times, the fans would be bored, and they didn't even want to click on it**, why?
The technique and tactics are too simple, you can shoot the lore ball, not because of how good your basketball skills are, but simply the skill of shooting three points you practice well, you shoot far, I shoot farther than you, you shoot accurately, I shoot more accurately than you, isn't it over?
So what did the previous defenders do in the lore moment? For example, Kobe Bryant, his lore highlights can be a special topic, there are three points in the lore, there are breakthroughs, there are throws, there are shots, there are shots, among which the shots are also divided into fixed-point shots, retreat step shots, horizontal drift shots, and of course, the back of the hand, the middle shot, and so on.
For example, when Nowitzki played the Finals with the Heat that year, Nowitzki solved the battle with an unconventional breakthrough at a critical moment, as we all know, Nowitzki is a projection player, but the breakthrough at the moment of the final shot made Chris Bosh completely unresponsive, such a game is exciting enough.
In addition to the defensive and offensive performances, I feel that there is another external factor that makes the current defenders overrated, and that is the change in the rules.
In 2014, the league sacrificed Hibbert and came up with a vertical jump rule, which successfully killed the black and hard who occupied the interior line, and also made it extremely easy for the guards to score, rushing in either to score two points easily, or to win two foul free throws, which also caused a false prosperity of the league's guard line, it is no exaggeration to say that if you put these current guards in the previous era, with the previous basketball rules, these guards may not be able to play, let alone dominate.
And then you have these that the league is still very strict blowing the physical contact between offensive players and defensive players, free throws once became the main means of scoring for defenders, at that time the league prevailed three major defenses - Curry's three points, Jordan's two points and Harden's one point, when defending Harden, the defenders in order to avoid fouls, and even appeared to stand behind the players to defend funny scenes, this kind of move, in the eyes of some fans, seems to be a manifestation of Harden's dominance, but in fact, it deviates from the purpose of basketball, Led basketball into a kind of data excitement alone.
In addition, the NBA changed a lesser-known rule in 16 years, that is, the definition of assists, the current assists are not the same thing as the previous assists, and these rule changes have contributed to the false prosperity of stars in statistics, to take the last example, maybe you will empathize with the whole article-
In the first 70 years of the league, there were a total of 6 players who scored more than 70 points in a single game, but in 2023, there will be four in this year, Doncic, Embiid, Beal, and Lillard.
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