The Golden State Warriors have quickly become the gold standard of the NBA by following up their 2014-15 championship season with a pursuit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls' record of 72 wins.
Yet one of the game's legends, Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson, is taking the Warriors' accomplishments with a grain of salt. On Thursday, he spoke with ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike (via Matt Moore of CBS Sports):
If I've got a guy who's great shooting the ball outside, don't you want to extend your defense out a little bit? I just don't think coaches today in basketball understand the game of basketball. They don't know anything about defenses. They don't know what people are doing on the court. They talk about analytical basketball and stuff like that.
They double-teamed me an awful lot during my career. I look at games today, and they'll start a defense at the foul line. When I played, they were picking you up when you got the ball inbounds. So it's a different strategy about playing defense.
Robertson, of course, was referring to guard Stephen Curry, who is smashing the record book when it comes to three-point shootin ...
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Oscar Robertson Comments on Stephen Curry, Modern NBA Game
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