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Shooters are better now than they used to be. Part of the reason is that shooting is more valuable in today's NBA than it was 15+ years ago. The two big reasons for that are the move from illegal defense to defensive 3 seconds & the end of the hand check.
A player like Korver probably wouldn't make it in the NBA of the 80s. His skillset--a picture-perfect jumpshot & the ability to shoot coming off of screens--just was not valued with the different league rules & playstyles that dominated that era.
The poster's non sequitur was at best the prelude to a good old days argument.
More likely, I think s/he objected to my inclusion of Klay Thompson. Klay Thompson has textbook jump shooting form and shoots with great accuracy at high volume with his shots spread all over the floor. A belief that Klay could not be in the conversation is merely representative of an anti-recency bias that has no basis in reality.
Larry Bird won 3 straight 3 point contest. I think he’s one of those natural shooters that would be even better in today’s NBA. Bird only attempted 1.9 3s per game, but in today’s NBA he might be putting up 6 or 7 per game at 40+%.
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