#146: Top 40 careers | Steph Curry and Chris Paul

Thinking Basketball

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In episode 6 of the top-40 career series, we make the case for Chris Paul as one of the most underrated players in NBA history – has he had the worst “playoff luck” of any modern player? How great was he in the postseason? And what do we make of his defense? Also, how far has Steph Curry moved up the list? How much does he decline in the playoffs? And are his individual and team numbers underwhelming, or actually really impressive in the postseason? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back to episode six of the top 40 career list.
0:17.4	Cody, I feel like we're moving a mile a minute.
0:20.4	A second ago we were talking about Clyde Drexler and the 90s blazers and last
0:25.2	episode we got really lost in the sauce on Julius Irving and Kevin Durant and
0:31.5	today I think I mean everyone can read the episode name you know they know who we're going to talk about
0:37.8	But I was thinking about this episode and I think today we are basically talking about at least in terms of career and maybe even
0:46.6	peak the two best small players in basketball history.
0:50.9	I like that and I think the thing that's going to like keep coming back in like the
0:55.1	macro level and even the micro level is the fact that they're two of the best smaller players
1:00.4	but they have such dramatically different styles and way to do that.
1:03.7	And I'm really excited about getting into the ways that they differ.
1:07.4	Yeah, it's so fascinating.
1:08.7	They're incredibly different.
1:10.4	I think it makes sense, given the kind of history of the rule changes and the way the game has been
1:16.6	officiated, the three-point line coming in, that it was harder to have smaller players impact the game at this outlying level in the earlier
1:26.6	days of the league.
1:27.6	It was truly a big man's league.
1:29.0	You know, in like the 50s, they would talk about banning players over six foot eight
1:33.0	sometimes you'd get like the fan letters you know how fans they're like the
1:36.4	three-point shot is ruining the game or in back then it was like I don't know about
1:40.0	these tall guys they're too good maybe we should not let them play in the league so
1:44.0	it took a while and I think the great small players we've talked about some of them
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