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Quote: Originally Posted by 24ct

Are you comparing 36/37 year old Kobe to Prime Steph Curry? Regardless...I get what you're saying. I get what Sundown is saying but the bottom line for me personally is stats never tell the whole story. Yes Curry shoots a respectable percentage on shots good or bad. But 41% on tightly contested shot for a 37 year old Curry would definitely be lower. What I'm ultimately saying is a bad shot is a bad shot no matter what your skillset allows. It's kinda similar to Blake Griffin trying to dunk on everything before Doc. Now he's become a more complete player. He can jump over you sure, but a midrange is still 2 points. Curry doesn't shoot a contested 3 every possession but if he did his percentage would be terrible lol. I agree with you guys tho. Curry doesn't take consistently bad shots. But sometimes he does. Sometimes he makes them. But a bad shot is a bad shot. Curry doesn't shoot over doubles like Kobe has lol but Kobe was also taller and more athletic. Steph isn't driving baseline and doing double pump reverses either. It's just for me personally some of the shots I've seen curry take are like "really bro...?" Sometimes they go in lol. But no matter how many bad looks you make it doesn't mean it's necessarily a good 1. Just my opinion.

I may have to disagree with this sentiment. I think a bad shot is subjective depending upon one's definition and the player being discussed.

I think it's a sliding scale. As in, the most ideal shot for, say, David Robinson, is a dunk. For Stephen Curry, it's a wide open layup. From there, one works their way out to less and less reliable forms of scoring until that line between "less efficient" and "bad" is crossed. A David Robinson mid-range jumper is less efficient and accurate than his layups, dunks, and jump hooks, but it was still a worthy and dangerous weapon. Would Robinson's field goal percentage dip if all he took were mid-range jumpers? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean it was a bad shot for him. Robinson wouldn't likely hit "bad shot selection" territory until he backed up around 21 feet.

Similarly, Curry's penchant for taking and making seemingly difficult shots at odd times and from weird angles is unlike any shooter I've ever seen in my life. Obviously, if Robinson attempted any of the shots Curry did of that nature, they'd be awful, awful shots, because the chances of hitting would be so low. However, Curry's ability to succeed in that realm is akin to Robinson's mid-range game in that those shots may go in at a lower rate than open J's, but the rate at which he does hit them (more accurately than anyone I've ever seen) is a huge part of what makes him so dangerous.

My wording feels poor but basically, what may be declared a bad shot for one player is not necessarily so for another.