Posted by SupremeCommander:
Posted by BigC:
Defense I feel has to be taught at an early age. It's not something you just acquire. Curry would have to get better at timing, foot speed, and strength. Some players will never be good defenders no matter how hard they work at it. Either their physical state or lack of technique won't allow it.
Curry can play good one on one defense, as far as help defense he is one of the worse I have seen.
[Edited by - BigC on 11-23-2008 1:18 PM]
It's all about motor. Either you just care about playing defense or, like you said, you're taught to. My coaches always pulled players if they were slack assed on defense, regardless of offensive ability... except in traveling, where the coach's kids played all the time, even though they had no offensive ability or defensive ability. And they coached the Isiah thomas style of ball.... I mean, I was in the eighth grade and they were having us play the triangle offense. Anyway, that was an all-time awesome back court, let me tell you.
exactly. I know for me I was taught defense at an early age. The grown men use to pull me aside and teach me how to play defense and I use to play against the grown ups not kids my age to work on defense and offense. At this point in Curry's life who is going to teach him when he lacks motivation, timing, foot speed? He would have to workout for hours on his defense and find real competition to play against. Plus NBA schedules are tough. What coach is going to spend time working on Curry's flaws when practice is not long and there are other things to get your team prepare for. Not to mention there is a game every other night. It is easy to work on offense because you don't need another person with you to practice.
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What you said about the coaches son is so true I had to laugh. I remember back in the days when my coach told the team that he was going to start his son over our point guard who had game. We were all like," WTF his son can't even make a layup." The coaches son lasted about two games starting. lol
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