So many guards play similar to steph now...it has watered his game down...
He was the first guard to come off a screen and just pull up and shoot a 3 like it was nothing...now every no name guard in the nba will shoot that shot
He was the first guard to pull up 2 or 3 steps past halfcourt if you didn't press him...Dame literally bounced the Thunder out the playoffs with that shot...
Steph has never been a guy who really attacks the rim so he not going to get to the line...if you can stay with him from halfcourt to the free throw line you going to be alright...
Like I said in another thread...he is just another guard who had a great 5 year run...maybe the greatest 5 year run ever since he got 2 mvp's and 3 titles out of it...but lots of guards before him and after him will have great 5 year runs so...meh
People have always talked about how much better Steph is than Westbrook yet Westbrook carried OKC to at the least the first round of the playoffs as the lone superstar on his team...don't seem like Steph is going to be able to do that...
Steph was always playing on easy mode...Klay always took the other best perimeter player on defense...Draymond actually ran a ton of the offense...Iggy was a swiss army knife and just about always came through in the clutch no matter if it was hitting a 3 or getting a rebound or getting a stop or making a great pass...once KD was there forget it Steph could really just stand around and wait for the ball to find him...but shyt get different when all that is gone and you got to create your own shot from nothing AND you got to create shots for other people AND you got to be the guy who gets to the line AND you going to have to play some real defense on somebody cause Andrew Wiggins and Oubre sure as shyt aren't and Draymond is old and washed now...
Dude just isn't good enough at basketball to have to do all that shyt night in and night out and be able to get a W more often than not...
No shame in that...there are only maybe 5 guys who can...and Steph is clearly not one of them...