Who is the best shooter you have ever seen??

jazzmatazz23 · Post by **jazzmatazz23** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:24 am

Who is the best shooter you have seen in your lifetime?

to name a few

Hornacek
Kerr
Miller
Ray Ray
Nash
Mullin
Mark price
Larry Bird
Steve Smith
Glen Rice

The prettiest jump shot in my opinion is Glen Rices
The best shooter that I have seen is Steve Nash. jump shooting, three point shooting, free throw. He is unbelievable

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:30 am

danny granger

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:33 am

Damn you mentioned all that I was going to

Hornacek
Miller
Ray Ray
Larry Bird
Glen Rice

Probably forgetting a few but those are right off the top.

axel foley · Post by **axel foley** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:25 am

came in to mention rice.

dude used to practice shooting in the dark

that playoff series where he went head to head with steve smith was some epic shit.

ray's got the prettiest shot though.

dell curry, john stockton and dirk deserve props too

Trub320 · Post by **Trub320** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:29 am

Allen Houston is up there.

axel foley · Post by **axel foley** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:40 am

Trub320 wrote:Allen Houston is up there.

fuck, how'd i forget him.

loved that pistons squad.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:00 am

John Allen Muhammad

Gregg Popabitch · Post by **Gregg Popabitch** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:18 pm

Larry Bird and Ray Allen are the best shooters I've ever seen.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:38 pm

Gregg Popabitch wrote:Larry Bird and Ray Allen are the best shooters I've ever seen.

an-also · Post by **an-also** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:52 pm

dell curry

eris · Post by **eris** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 2:58 pm

Mitch Richmond

(Besides others already mentioned)

Gregg Popabitch · Post by **Gregg Popabitch** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:15 pm

Also need to mention Peja, Kerr, and Durant.

I love Durant's high release point and release. Sooooooo dope.

I also am loving the fact that Jazz mentioned Mark Price and Axel mentioned Allan Houston.

Quotashun · Post by **Quotashun** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:19 pm

an-also wrote:dell curry

came in to mention him.

Jayou Ayen · Post by **Jayou Ayen** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:02 pm

Chris Mullin.

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A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:37 pm

jazzmatazz23 · Post by **jazzmatazz23** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:35 pm

Statistically I think Nash will go down as the best shooter of all time.
From 2005-2010
He has averaged over 90 percent from the freethrow line,
40 percent from 3's
50 percent from the field.

Kobe has never averaged even one of those percentages in any year of his career, let alone all 3 5 years in a row.

jamrage · Post by **jamrage** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:04 am

Larry Bird is the best that I can remember.

Glad to see Mitch Richmond get some love.

Others that I don't think anyone has mentioned:

Chuck Person was dope back in the day. The Rifleman.

Hersey Hawkins

Drazen Petrovic (was a 44% three point shooter before he died)

ric · Post by **ric** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:22 am

for form probably steve kerr. i have never seen anyone with better form ever. dude basically didnt need to look at the basket.
runners up on form were stockton and mark price but they tended to drift.
bird had great form too but not like those 3 guys. he held the ball imperfectly sometimes. i cant recall steve kerr ever holding the ball or releasing imperfectly.

in terms of intuitive ability reggie miller and hersey hawkins. loved watching hersey play. dude had that crazy ass shot where he would rubber band his body and shit, you know? glenn rice too. bird too.

edit: yeah mitch richmond, nice call

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:25 am

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:26 am

jamrage · Post by **jamrage** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:28 am

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@ the soundtrack.

Is that Richard Marx?

Julius Seizure · Post by **Julius Seizure** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:21 am

the 3 best i've seen are bird, reggie miller, and dell curry.

Trub320 · Post by **Trub320** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:45 pm

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@ the soundtrack.

Is that Richard Marx?

bryan adams

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:46 pm

lolz listened to it with/o sound

capable_keL · Post by **capable_keL** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:40 pm

i have vivid memories of glen rice in the playoffs just lighting shit up

Snuggles the DESTROYER · Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:22 pm

Sam "Big Smooth" Perkins three point style with the Sonics and Pacers late in his career.

All mentioned so far were better shots, but no bro was cooler from behind the arc.

HomeSkillet · Post by **HomeSkillet** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:09 pm

Glen Rice, Larry Bird, Sir Charles and MJ were who I tried to model my game after.

Larry is the go to here though, I mean he had multiple multiple games where it literally seemed like he couldn't miss on his jumper.

Liger Woods · Post by **Liger Woods** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:18 am

glen rice always had perfect straight elbow alignment on his jumper. alot of shooters have good release, even if they shoot a high FG, but if there shooting elbow drifts out it takes away from the look of the form of how a fundamentally sound shot should look. he was the one of coldest rhythm shooters.

drobizhek · Post by **drobizhek** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:08 am

jazzmatazz23 wrote:Statistically I think Nash will go down as the best shooter of all time.
From 2005-2010
He has averaged over 90 percent from the freethrow line,
40 percent from 3's
50 percent from the field.

Kobe has never averaged even one of those percentages in any year of his career, let alone all 3 5 years in a row.

Kobe shoots 20-25 attempts per game. Nash hasn't cracked 13. When you shoot that much your % drop.

keepitreal95 · Post by **keepitreal95** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:13 pm

Gotta go with Ray Allen as the best pure shooter...and Reggie Miller for degree of difficulty jumpers in the clutch...and Jordan if you had one shot to win one game