During yesterday’s Warriors-Cavs Christmas day game, former Warriors head coach and ESPN commentator Mark Jackson had a pretty hot take about Steph Curry and how he’s “hurting” the game by influenicing kids to shoot three pointers instead of working on their game.
Steph Curry’s great. Steph Curry’s the MVP. He’s a champion. Understand what I’m saying when I say this. He’s hurting the game. And what I mean by that is that I go into these high school gyms, I watch these kids, and the first thing they do is they run to the 3-point line. You are not Steph Curry. Work on the other aspects of the game. People think that he’s just a knock-down shooter.
After the game, Warriors center Andrew Bogut shot down Jackson’s comments.
“Anything he says you take with a grain of salt, and you can quote me on that.”
While Jackson may have a point it’s pretty unfair to put the blame Steph for what high school kids are doing. I’m sure Mark wasn’t saying the same thing when thousands of kids were emulating his former teammate Reggie Miller back in the 90’s .