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As a side note - I'm kinda surprised to learn he's only 23. Dude is not aging well.

Pretty much can any high level player actually play well in the playoffs against good teams and actually good defenses.

Very few (LeBron, warriors players, Giannis, Jokic, Durant, Taytum) have demonstrated they can with consistency.

Lots of players are good in the regular season when a lot of the teams are mid or suck, very few step up when it matters and they need to take over (ex. James Harden, Chris Paul).

Upcoming players will be eventually be judged by the same standard because end of day - NBA is a league of superstars.

I wonder if the In-Season tournament MVP ends up being one of those cursed awards where the winner never wins the NBA Finals.

Curry is definitely way more 185 lbs.

Ya but we have gunz!

Is it me or is he not getting as high as usual?

I don't think he'd be remotely as good. Melo wouldn't have been able to operate and develop as he did on the Nuggets cuz he would've never been "the guy". Repetition is key in anything and he would've never got the same shot or playmaking reps on the Pistons as he did on the Nuggets.

A lot of people are posting comments about players stats from decades and eras ago and comparing them to modern NBA. A lot of them are not remotely fair comparisons.

The NBA used to be much harder to score as you go progressively further back and much more difficult to score at high efficiency including from the 3. The defense used to be way more intensive with less spacing. I guarantee a lot of modern players including top tier players would've been way worse even like 15 years ago compared to 20 or 30. For the longest time very few players in the league would break 25+ ppg and nowadays multiple break 30+.

Reddish whole draft hype was him being on the same time as Zion and RJ.

The NBA was A LOT different when he played. Very few players even touched 25+ points per game, maybe like 3 a year. Miller was consistently near the 20 mark and that was extremely impressive for the time.

He was also VERY good at defense. He slowed down defensively by the time he got to the Bulls but the Bulls picked him up cuz of his D.

Zion would be an MVP candidate by now.