ESPN Carmelo player projections

[Cippy91]

Steph Curry is most comparable tooooooooo MICHAEL JORDAN. lol http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/stephen-curry/

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Steph Curry is most comparable tooooooooo MICHAEL JORDAN. lol http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/stephen-curry/

Most like. Hah. Look at the likeness percent. Very low compared to some of the others for which comparisons were done.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Steph Curry is most comparable tooooooooo MICHAEL JORDAN. lol http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/stephen-curry/

The fuck?
MJ was a defensive beast who relied on penetration, Curry can't defend like 10+ opposing PGs in the league so he asks Klay to do it for him and his offensive game relies on threes.

The only thing they have in common is the fact that they both score a lot (even though Curry does it under SOFT defensive rules).

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Lillard's closest comparison is a 2011 Brandon Roy.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/damian-lillard/

 

[Blazers Roy]

The guy who resembles Harkless the most (59%):


I think the resemblance is kinda spooky.

 

[Cippy91]

The guy who resembles Harkless the most (59%):


I think the resemblance is kinda spooky.

That jump shot though. Fire

 

[Blazers Roy]

That jump shot though. Fire

Yea, those are the guys you hate to defend with the delayed,over the head release.

 

[jlprk]

Terry Cummings lol

That's no disparagement. Cummings and Marques Johnson were the 2 best small forwards in the league for a few years. Anyway, I don't like this Carmelo stat. I look at Evan Turner, it says one of his top 10 comparisons is the Gerald Henderson of last season. So I look at Henderson, it says he's a scrub. He's no scrub.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/carmelo/gerald-henderson/

 

[Minstrel]

Curry's highest comp is Jordan because Jordan is the only player in history who was anywhere near as efficient a scorer as Curry while also being a volume scorer. In terms of playing style, they're obviously very different and Jordan was a significantly better defender, though people underrate Curry on that end--advanced stats have him ranging from average to good. Jordan was great, though.

So the similarity score is weak. Jordan is the closest, not close. Curry is essentially a historically unusual player with no great comps, and that makes sense, IMO.