r/nba • u/_KendrickPercocet • 2d ago

The way defenses used to guard Steph pre-2016 is crazy to see

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u/rorank Rockets 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is truly incredible how good players got at shooting 3’s once they were allowed to do it and worked on it actively in the off-season. I don’t even think we’re done seeing the effects.

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u/RS994 Pacers 2d ago

The current draft class was about 10 years old in 2016

We are just now getting to the players that have been shooting like this since childhood, will be interesting to see how that plays out.

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u/usagerp Raptors 2d ago

Steph is still an anomaly with his efficiency with the level of difficulty of his shots. I don’t think we’re gonna see many more quite like him I think he’s truly an exceptional talent

Also defences are gonna keep adjusting and getting better at making things difficult as possible for elite shooters. It’s only gonna get increasingly difficult to replicate prime steph

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u/usagerp Raptors 2d ago

You don’t think players actively worked on 3s pre steph? lol

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u/rorank Rockets 2d ago

Obviously not to the same extent that they do now lol or do you think there were always this many high volume pull up 3 point shooters?

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u/usagerp Raptors 2d ago

I was just responding to you implying that players used to not ‘actively’ work on their 3 point shooting in the off-season

And ofc there are way more volume shooters now but also there were guys shooting tough threes on a nightly basis even before Steph