Stephen Curry is doing things on the basketball court at a professional level that haven’t been seen before, yet that hasn’t stopped some old-school NBA players and coaches from throwing shade his way. In response to the haters, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr had a great line after Curry’s unbelievable game-winner from 32 feet on Saturday night.
Steve Kerr drops a bomb on Oscar Robertson! #Dubs #Curry @WojVerticalNBA pic.twitter.com/KAm25TBNVz
— Footlong Zaun (@RNs_Funhouse) February 28, 2016
This was an obvious dig at Oscar Robinson, who essentially called coaches today dumb for not being able to figure out how to shut Curry down.
“If I’ve got a guy who’s great shooting the ball outside, don’t you want to extend your defense out a little bit?” the 77-year-old Big O said Thursday during a phone interview on ESPN’s Mike & Mike show. “I just don’t think coaches today in basketball understand the game of basketball. They don’t know anything about defenses. They don’t know what people are doing on the court. They talk about analytical basketball and stuff like that.”
This happens all the time. Older players always think they would be able to do a better job than the young kids playing the game. But Robertson is just wrong here.
And, in case you missed Curry’s brilliant shot, here it is, in all its glory — a game-winner from way downtown to keep the game from going into double-overtime against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
https://twitter.com/sixsecsports/status/703798628578680833
In addition the game-winner, Curry also broke his own record for most three-pointers in a season, sinking 12 from long range to make it 288 on the season…and we’re still in February.
Curry is simply unstoppable right now. He makes guys like Kawhi Leonard look ridiculously over matched all too often for this to be any issue of poor coaching.
Just put someone in his face from half court they say, that's the defensive player of the year https://t.co/bE6ObeWUlJ
— Sir Psycho T (@SirPsychoT) February 28, 2016
Robertson and guys like him need to just enjoy the show like the rest of us. It’s a darn good show.