A lot of people look at efficiency as something that’s scalable or transferable to another team/role/system etc. that’s not always the case. I do think Nash is, in general, an additive player who elevates his teammates to an extent & has great shot selection & game management, which are excellent skills on an all- time team, but there’s so many potential offensive threats out there to choose from that having any kind of weak link on defense in an all-time team could give the other team a much larger advantage than the offensive advantage that a player like Nash would provide over other players. You really want a PG that’s an excellent perimeter defender, is switchable, doesn’t often allow drives, has active defensive hands, along with the other offensive advantages nash provides. for example, even if you favor Nash’s offense over Chris Paul, the defensive advantages Chris offers more than makes up for the offensive advantages of Nash.

At the same time though, he’s probably at the very bottom of the all-time PG list on the other side of the ball, I’d say even other substandard defenders like Steph and Magic are pretty comfortably better than him on that end. 

Not to say there aren’t obvious major benefits to his wizardry, but definitely makes it tough to slot him in over the other options in that echelon

Curry is the best PG ever and Nash is the first PG I would pick to play his team 5v5.

Magic fans aren’t going to like that, but Chris Paul is one of the greatest “traditional” PGs ever and that didn’t translate into meaningful playoff success in the era of high volume 3P shooting. The sport has evolved.

Stockton, Payton, and Magic are getting shot off the court.

Greatest Sun in my eyes.

He was the all time leader in FT% for a while until Steph passed him and he’s still number 2. I always picked the Nash shooting mechanic in 2K games.. such a pure looking form on his shot

1 free throw actually, insane.

Steve Nash was 1% away from having career averages of 50-40-90 lol

Curry also has 3 separate seasons of ⁴⁹⁄₄₀+/90+ on top of his 50/40/90. I wonder if there are any other players who get extremely close to that mark.

Ironically Steph’s half court heaves actually may have actually been the reason he fell short a few times lol

Yet all of my 12 year old kids’ friends try to trash talk my boy Nash.

He was like a handful of shots off averaging it over an entire decade.

He’s only shot 50% from the field once because he takes so many 3s

He shoots too many 3’s, brings down his FG%.

He’s only shot above 50% FG once in his career, in 2017-18 he shot 49.5% and in 2022-23 he shot 49.3%

So yeah very close and kinda unlucky

He would have done it a second time if they didn’t count heaves. He missed a second 50/40/90 season due to heaves, which no longer counts towards your FG percentage but did back then. 

KD is ultra efficient from the 50/40/90 perspective because he doesn’t take as many 3s and barely took any heaves for his career, since he knows how to maximize his efficiency from a box score standpoint. That’s why his career TS number is still lower than Curry’s number despite having a FG percentage that’s much higher. 

I wish this stat would be 2pt fg%/3 pt fg%/ft %

If you refined it to use 2PT% Curry would actually be on the list 8 times lmao. Wtf

Which brother is that, lol?

Why are you selling him so short like that

SGA was close but his 3 dipped last month and now he’s at 55/38/89

Shout out Cam Spencer, who’s shooting 48/44/93.

He was on pace much of the year but hit a slump and the fg% won’t recover.

If they had a point guard and another big they’d be contenders though

I feel like this is said abt every team he’s on after GSW 🧐

At least you have Brooks

It ain’t over yet boyo. You still have at least a few more years left of him spiking your cortisol levels

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Is this code for “I wish Jokic could be on this list”?

It’s a fun stat but it doesn’t like volume 3P shooters unlike TS%

Which is probably a better stat to judge efficiency

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