Seriously this man was ahead of his time… He could have dominated this era like some of the guards do today. So underrated.
In retrospect, the frustration at not beating Jordan is even worse considering that perhaps the Cavs already had the very weapons on hand to do it (more so had they not traded fucking Harper or exposed Curry in the expansion draft).
These old school teams never took enough threes.
A Warriors small ball concept perhaps would have given the Cavs an edge. They had some excellent shooters on those teams.
Like I was saying to
@RchfldCavRaised, in 87-88 Price shot
48.6% from three over 80 games.
48.6%. That is insane.
He shot over 40% from three over the course of a season on five occasions. And he only averaged more than four threes a game in two seasons.
A shooter like that should have been dropping 8-10 threes a night. Between him and Ehlo, at least 12-14.
One considers the team could have had a small ball line-ups of Price, Ehlo, Curry, Nance, Hot Rod, or Price, Harper, Ehlo, Curry, Hot Rod, and they could have shot the three ball incredibly well.
(Of course I could be way off, defensively those small ball lineups are potentially bad on defense, and hinge on Ehlo and Harper being able to keep forwards in line enough to not overwork Hot Rod or Nance, but the point is that they had a number of three point shooters and the strategies of the day squandered one of the greatest shooters of all time).