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Thanks.
It's in a comment below but I don't know how you write that piece without mentioning that Klay Thompson's brother plays for the Dodgers.
And speaking of Bay Area athletes who used to play baseball, I wonder if Kaepernick ever regrets not sticking to pitching. Would he have been another Samardzija? Sounds like more fun than what he's been going through lately.
Rockets would have won the West last season.
This line caught by eye: "Then he became a teenager and devoted his life to basketball." Just imagine how much better he would be at basketball if he had been a multi-sport athlete in high school.
JCG posted:Thanks.
It's in a comment below but I don't know how you write that piece without mentioning that Klay Thompson's brother plays for the Dodgers.
And speaking of Bay Area athletes who used to play baseball, I wonder if Kaepernick ever regrets not sticking to pitching. Would he have been another Samardzija? Sounds like more fun than what he's been going through lately.
2019Dad posted:This line caught by eye: "Then he became a teenager and devoted his life to basketball." Just imagine how much better he would be at basketball if he had been a multi-sport athlete in high school.
Much of the talk in the Bay Area and through National media (not Barkley but who cares) has been how much Steph has improved in the last 2-3 years and continues to improve (especially after his severe ankle issues and surgeries).
If the implication is that Steph's current ability and production relates to specializing as a teenager, I am not sure that is a correct association when we see how hard he works at his game NOW and at conditioning NOW, with the associated improvement. Could someone turn around your implication and argue Steph would likely not have had the ankle problems which clearly are basketball related had he been multi-sport athlete and then would have been better, earlier, when he did focus on basketball?
I have to agree with infielddad. The scouting report on Steph in college was not the best if this video is accurate. His brother Seth was more of a prospect out of HS - attended Duke. Steph is known as an amazingly hard worker especially since late college.
Steph Curry - scouting report video
I enjoyed watching their dad, Del Curry, play in college at Va. Tech. He was known for having an incredibly quick release - seems like Steph has taken it to a new level.
Curry is one of those rare athletes in my lifetime that causes me to stop whatever I'm doing to watch him - or schedule my day around watching him. He has really changed the game.
Ask Michael Jordan to see what if
2019Dad posted:This line caught by eye: "Then he became a teenager and devoted his life to basketball." Just imagine how much better he would be at basketball if he had been a multi-sport athlete in high school.
Basketball is not as terrible as an only sport as baseball because it is less unilateral. Baseball only is really not good for body developement because everything rotates to the same side and everything is back to front. Baseball athletes have terrible body imbalances especially in the shoulder area thus there is a very good reason to recommend other sports to compensate for that.
basketball in the other hand really trains all aspects of the body towards both sides and is not conductive to develops unnatural postural habits.
infielddad posted:2019Dad posted:This line caught by eye: "Then he became a teenager and devoted his life to basketball." Just imagine how much better he would be at basketball if he had been a multi-sport athlete in high school.
Much of the talk in the Bay Area and through National media (not Barkley but who cares) has been how much Steph has improved in the last 2-3 years and continues to improve (especially after his severe ankle issues and surgeries).
If the implication is that Steph's current ability and production relates to specializing as a teenager, I am not sure that is a correct association when we see how hard he works at his game NOW and at conditioning NOW, with the associated improvement. Could someone turn around your implication and argue Steph would likely not have had the ankle problems which clearly are basketball related had he been multi-sport athlete and then would have been better, earlier, when he did focus on basketball?
He's been focused on basketball for the last 15 years (he's 28 right now). And he's the best basketball player in the world right now (assuming unanimous NBA MVP = best). Those are facts. If someone wants to argue that he would have been better, earlier, if he played multiple sports as a teenager . . . I mean, sure, people can argue anything I suppose.
Steph was not the "best" coming out of HS and/or coming out of college.
He certainly was hampered by injury during the early years in the NBA.
He has improved dramatically during the last 3-4 years, both offensively and especially defensively.
All of those are facts.
Can anyone link the improvement during the last 3 years to playing year round as a teen?
Sure, I guess anyone can argue anything.
Can his recent improvement on the defensive side of the ball be credited to playing year round basketball as a teen?
As I posted the link I was wondering how this topic could posdibly end up in a debate. Couldn't think of a way. But here we are.
My take? I wouldn't use Steph as an example to have your son do 1 sport. He's just a freak of nature
To me, there are few athletes like him in 50+ years. Willie Mays. Magic Johnson/Larry Bird. Jerry Rice. Michael Jordan. Then there is Koufax.
Is Steph going to be more like Koufax (relatively brief) or Jordan? Injury factors may decide but these last 2 years have been something else.
Dominik85 posted:Ask Michael Jordan to see what if
Michael Jordan had given up baseball for years before playing minor league ball. That he could compete at all says how athletic and baseball talented he was.
Wasn't Curry a 1st Rd pick (lottery pick?)
I remember being amazed by his shooting ability when he played for Davidson in the NCAA tournament.
Will admit, pretty amazing what he has accomplished.
Curry looked like a high school j.v. 9th grader during his senior year at Davidson. Didn't play like one. In high school, he looked frail. D1's are projected early, by their sophomore season, summer after junior year at the latest. Everyone would say YES, I would take him now.
But let's be realistic, if a MLB team could take one player right NOW, Steph Curry or Stipe Miocic, who would they take a chance on.... Stipe