In the spirit of the All Star game...

[Deez]

Imagine if Bird had the three point line during his entire career including college and actually practiced it as much as today’s game. Or if his right index finger wasn’t fucked up his entire career. Oh but but the league average says bird wouldn’t be able to get better and clearly wouldn’t have practiced it more , lol. Bish, sometimes you need to lay off reading fucking stats.

[Bush4Ever.]

Imagine if Bird had the three point line during his entire career including college and actually practiced it as much as today’s game. Or if his right index finger wasn’t fucked up his entire career. Oh but but the league average says bird wouldn’t be able to get better and clearly wouldn’t have practiced it more , lol. Bish, sometimes you need to lay off reading fucking stats.

He shot 32 percent from three in the playoffs, over his entire career, and 33 percent after six+ years with the line in the playoffs, after his volume increased within the playoffs (1986, at 3.1 a game).

You are literally arguing against things that actually happened in objective reality.

I guess six years as a professional basketball player isn't a long enough time to develop this futuristic magical shooting touch in the playoffs (although allegedly it would be enough when he was 14 years old...somehow).

By the way, Bird never led HIS era in three-point shooting percentage either.

[elmouse03]

Bird is the

[Deez]

Imagine if Bird had the three point line during his entire career including college and actually practiced it as much as today’s game. Or if his right index finger wasn’t fucked up his entire career. Oh but but the league average says bird wouldn’t be able to get better and clearly wouldn’t have practiced it more , lol. Bish, sometimes you need to lay off reading fucking stats.

He shot 32 percent from three in the playoffs, over his entire career, and 33 percent after six+ years with the line in the playoffs, after his volume increased within the playoffs (1986, at 3.1 a game).

You are literally arguing against things that actually happened in objective reality.

I guess six years as a professional basketball player isn't a long enough time to develop this futuristic magical shooting touch in the playoffs (although allegedly it would be enough when he was 14 years old...somehow).

By the way, Bird never led HIS era in three-point shooting percentage either.

So you know the game has changed and people literally shoot more threes today by a fucking humongous margin compared to when bird played? Bird would have been more than capable in today’s game. It’s like you can’t translate shooting more threes in a game that has evolved to three point shooting, would help a player increase his accuracy. The game back then wasn’t a three point type of game. Players of that caliber have more than enough skill to increase their shooting. Hell, we have a slower version of Bird in Luka who is managing quite fine. Bird would and is better than Luka.

[Bush4Ever.]

So you know the game has changed and people literally shoot more threes today by a fucking humongous margin compared to when bird played? Bird would have been more than capable in today’s game.

Don't move goalposts.

No one is arguing he wouldn't be reasonably *capable* in the modern era.

The claim being addressed was that he's the best three-point shooter ever, which is absolutely absurd.

Especially in the playoffs, where was actually pretty mortal, even relative to HIS era (not the modern era...HIS era), and AFTER KC Jones opened up Bird's game for three-point shooting.