Everyone is waiting for Curry to be crowned the king of three points, in the NBA's 75-year history, in fact, from the development of basketball to the present, from the arena to the cartoon, the three-point ball has always been just a "little trick" of the sword to take the side, even "Slam Dunk Master" said: "Whoever dominates the basket will dominate the basketball court." "Inoue's understanding of basketball is not too bad, the closer the basketball concept is to the basket, the more certain the attack, and since Jordan raised the jump shot and back to the artistic level, we have locked the appreciation of offense within the three-point line, for more than 20 years.
Popovich still hates three-pointers and small balls is not unreasonable, flashy porcelain era breeding business products, NBA ambitions to move towards the top of the four major professional sports leagues at the same time, abandon too many basic skills and mid-range basketball origins, will certainly make people like the old man scorn. But from the Warriors and Curry alone, the three-point shot has become less hateful, even a little cute, this small ball product based on the Phoenix system and the Sacramento Kings variant, mixed with the Spurs offensive sharing and the Heat's big three era of the area pressing, Kerr's "seasoning" plus Curry's "knife work", really pushed the three-point ball to a historical high, no longer dog meat can not be on the table, but the real tabletop dish and dinner. If there are any people who are going to define, reinvent, and save basketball in the new century, there are certainly a few names you can't skip.
Vince Carter saved the dunk contest with a shocking all-Star, directly pulling the art of dunks to the ground of recovery, bringing the depression and malaise brought about after the suspension season to the land of recovery; Garnett reshaped the sense of space of the basketball court with a subversive style of play from the mid-1990s, until the new century influenced the interior line for the next 20 years, and you can see the role and figure of the Wolf King from all the current top fours and the spindle of the ball. O'Neill almost pushed the three-second zone to the top in the process of promoting dominance, and had the privilege of witnessing the four major quarterbacks competing for glory, and Curry was obviously among them, it was not difficult to change the style of play, it was not easy to change cognition. In The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman says, "These walls are really interesting. At first you will hate it, then you will get used to it, and after a long time, you will still rely on it. ”
Habits make people institutionalize and stereotype the process from resistance to flocking to people are driven like cattle and horses, and they are so unaware.
After basketball entered the 80s after taking over the banner of Dr. J, the NBA began to have signs of internationalization, breaking new ground while basketball followed the most fundamental thing of competitive sports: confrontation. In the past 40 years, what has really changed in basketball is not the way of playing, but the perspective of cognition and appreciation, we cannot define the upper and lower limits of "aesthetic and ugly", but basketball play has players who have changed their rules and gameplay in each era.
After the Pistons appeared on the basketball court in a brutal way, Jordan's law came into being, and the NBA's real definition of "malicious foul" also began with Jordan in that era, and the all-out confrontation averaged nearly 14 offensive rebounds per game in the 7 years of the 1986-1993 season. The 87 season once reached 14.7, and what is more subversive is that the league's pace was faster at that time, averaging about 110 points per game, which was especially like grafting the rugby game to the basketball court, rampage while bringing huge body language in an endless stream, not a slow slash of your knife and an axe, but an orderly blood and death, and the law of the jungle prevailed at that time. In those 7 years, when Jordan completed his first triple crown, the league averaged only three three-pointers per game, which is not too little, because in the 86 season, it was only 0.9 three-pointers, so few can almost be omitted.
The need for three-pointers at that time was the gentle stubble in the normal regular meeting, listening to the music and it was over, or taking the occasional juggling of showmanship, the most impressive thing about the three-pointer was Bird's flirtation with the opponent in the All-Star Three-Point Contest, which basically represented the role play of the three-pointer at that time, and Patterson's divine stroke of killing the Sun in the 92-93 Finals G6, when the three-point shot was hidden in the corner of the eye, and it was an unruly technique that saw the light and died. It is the Colosseum short soldiers who meet you and you actually fly out of a dark weapon of the stinky face, in the top 50 three-point shooter list in history, can not see a character at that time.
In the 10 years or so around Jordan's second triple crown, the Rockets' victory really pushed open the door to three-point shooting, and the 1993-1994 season's dream-and-pop style of play was fundamentally or for the first time to see that three-pointers had a fatal impact on basketball games. The Rockets' style of play has a really far-reaching impact on the later running bombardment, including the Kings of Princeton after the new century, the Suns, the Mavericks, and then the Spurs, the Warriors, the Heat, all of which have the shadow and charm of the Rockets' offense that year, just an Olajuwon standing in the clouds, and then the director of the running bombardment team no longer has such a popular person. In 1994, when the Rockets played the Knicks, they still held the scene, but a year later, the Rockets were born in the unformed conventional record, and you have to admit that the poor regular season record made the tactics that Tang Shuai boldly conceived at that time become a reality. So the 1995 season of the NBA ushered in a real three-point shock, that season the league averaged 5.5 three-pointers per game compared to the previous increase of 2.2, is already the highest in history, in addition to the NBA's first three-point shot more than 10 grand spectacle, from the 9.9 times in the 94 season before the cocoon, directly broke through to 15.3 times.
In another decade after Jordan opened his second triple crown in 1996, the league entered an era of balanced attack and defense, with an average of 11 consecutive years without breaking through to 100 points, and Jordan's appreciation of basketball confrontation and appreciation was pulled to the fullest in history. In the years of 01-04, when regional joint defense continued to encourage confrontation, the four major quarterbacks reflected the league's style of play at that time, averaging about 95 points per game, 93.4 points in the 2004 season. However, at this time, the three-point shots that emerged at that time were no longer sneak attacks, but slowly became Assassins, such as Van Kessel, Jones, such cold arrows, of course, Miller and Ray Allen have occupied historical highs, and there have been stars who have played like Curry before, that is, Mike Bibby in the peak era of the Kings, is still regarded as an outlier.
Ten years later, the three-point shot has not become the main theme, the Splash Brothers began to emerge in the era, even the Warriors' 2015 season to win the championship league is only the average of 7.8 three-pointers per game, but the person who stirred up the three-point war is indeed Curry. Stephen Curry is from a relatively secluded or even isolated corner of the basketball world, slowly dragging the three-point ball to the center of the stage, the Rockets' founding father naturally can not be slack, involved in the three-point war with the Warriors, successively refreshed the NBA team single-season hit three-point record, until it reached 1000+ did not give up. The Warriors' peak has driven the entire three-point industry chain, the league's average three-point shooting per game in the 17-18 season has broken through to the 10 mark for the first time, so far this season is 12.3, reaching the level of 12+ for three consecutive years, and in the emergence of Lillard, Harden such an equally outstanding peer, why is it only Curry who leads the way?
Because the speed and manner with which Curry broke the ray-Allen historical three-point king record is indeed a legend of this era, at least from the perspective of historical three-point shooters, Curry is becoming the new face, the first person to eat crabs. In the entire lineup of three-point shooters in history, Curry is a model of growth against the wind, and at one time some veteran stars thought that the peak Warriors could not pass the 93 Suns level because Curry could not face the speedy Kevin Johnson, which was not difficult to understand and accept at the time. In addition to Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, as a stallion-like calf ceiling, is also the elite representative of the trapeze ladder, and Terry, who is the weakest in body, also has a scene of a dragon dunk. Maybe of the players who jump and play with amazing three-point explosiveness, only Crawford and Curry have similarities, but Crawford has not become a system, which is the difference.
People believe that if the league is willing to one day expand the field and lengthen the front, then Curry is the initiator, he is not without failure, and even in the playoffs can not prove that he is out of the system, still plagues meng shen. On the night of winning the Blazers, Curry's 17 shots and 15 were three-pointers, Kerr and Chao Meng denied the record, but before witnessing history, no one would not be moved, fans are eagerly awaiting the birth of a new record, is to know that Curry will bring a new three-point concept, history will re-measure and position the meaning of three-point shots, just from the moment he broke the Ray Allen record, and then enter a new era. Curry's three-pointer is no longer a measure of personal success or failure, but slowly being appreciated and discussed, a process that is not easy.
The origin of one star and four shots is Olajuwon, so the three-point shot is "four shots", one star is the king, and 3 points are still with the last seat. But after Curry won the MVP continuously, it is not the situation to create heroes, but the trend to introduce such a person, so that the three-point shot has a destination, has its own right to speak, let the small ball ascend to the throne at the same time, Curry and Nash laid the status of the difference is that Nash to change the team form and the main responsibility, this can only be regarded as a development. Ray Allen's three-pointer is the Terminator, cold and mechanical, in fact, many people are more convinced and inclined to Miller's three-pointer, passionate and indomitable, he pushed Jordan's projection away, which was the highest note in the three-point overture, the original prototype and final dream of the three-point butterfly fluttering wings.
Now Curry tells this story well and beautifully and movingly and interestingly, even for all ages, the three-point shot itself becomes an instinct rather than a need, Curry projects one after another, from the failure of the black 4 minutes of the 73-win season to the determination and courage of the comeback, all built in a process, feathered into immortal, mortal to the peak, failure to climb up, pat the dust on the body without self-hatred and self-determination to move forward, trickle of ideas finally converge into a river. One of the most fascinating places about the three-point shot is the longer flight process, people fold their hands or beat their chests, which are all portrayals of the joys and sorrows of life, and Curry and the three-point shot have opened up the public's imagination of the ordinary to the great process - "Let the bullet fly for a while", which will definitely be wild horses and thunder. And the struggle effect of meng shen's talent to achieve the vision is the encouragement of ordinary people to push away under the pressure, which is the reason why meng shen makes the three points become dignified, so that ordinary life suddenly has more expectations and believes that miracles will come, which is the motivation and belief that the vast majority of us who are driven by fate want to continue to run. Looking back, Curry's ultra-far arc is a rainbow that has shone in the sky after the rain in life.