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Steph needs an All-Defensive team selection to be Top 5 All-Time? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by wolff_james@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Steph is one of my favorite players ever and he is playing out of his mind right now. However, I can’t in good faith put him as a Top 5 of all time, even though I want to.

Curry’s next mountain to climb is an all defensive team. That’s the only thing missing from putting him in the same conversation as MJ, Bron, Kobe, Kareem, & Duncan imho. They were all top of the league two way players. Steph is no longer a defensive liability, but is it unrealistic to expect modern players to be All NBA and All Defense if they want to be considered all-time greats?

Maybe I’m trying to force a player into a conversation that they don’t belong…

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[–] Ragnar_OK@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Duncan was a world beater at what a PF is supposed to do. Curry changed what it means to do a point guard job. Curry changed the game.

Curry > Duncan purely from the standpoint of influence on the game, what Curry accomplished with his gravity in 2016 alone makes him a top 5 candidate. Winning 73 games, scoring 400 3s in a season, winning the only ever unanimous MVP, being an entire offensive engine unto himself are just things that have never been accomplished before and will never be accomplished again (probably)