In any era, HoF or not, Who is/was the best shooter (not scorer) of all time ?

Originally posted by nicedraw94080:
Surprised that Reggie Miller has no votes, so far..

Originally posted by vrabbit:

Originally posted by nicedraw94080:
Surprised that Reggie Miller has no votes, so far..

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:
Larry Bird is the best I've seen.

Bird had bad form only 37% career for 3's.

Ya.. He was horrible.

We're talking about "pure" shooters. Bird was better than average but it wasn't his shooting prowess that made him who he was. Yes, he had bad form, and yes he doesn't compare to guys like Ray Allen, Dale Ellis, Drazen Petrovic. So Bird won the 3 pt contest once, so did Paul Pierce, and yet Paul was laying up bricks the other night...

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:
Larry Bird is the best I've seen.

Bird had bad form only 37% career for 3's.

Ya.. He was horrible.

We're talking about "pure" shooters. Bird was better than average but it wasn't his shooting prowess that made him who he was. Yes, he had bad form, and yes he doesn't compare to guys like Ray Allen, Dale Ellis, Drazen Petrovic. So Bird won the 3 pt contest once, so did Paul Pierce, and yet Paul was laying up bricks the other night...

Sorry but you lose any credibility when you say that Larry Bird, one of the greatest shooters in league history, had bad form. You might want to check your history books too. Bird won the 3 pt contest in 1986,1987, and 1988 and not just once.

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by fortyninerglory:

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:
Larry Bird is the best I've seen.

Bird had bad form only 37% career for 3's.

Ya.. He was horrible.

We're talking about "pure" shooters. Bird was better than average but it wasn't his shooting prowess that made him who he was. Yes, he had bad form, and yes he doesn't compare to guys like Ray Allen, Dale Ellis, Drazen Petrovic. So Bird won the 3 pt contest once, so did Paul Pierce, and yet Paul was laying up bricks the other night...

Sorry but you lose any credibility when you say that Larry Bird, one of the greatest shooters in league history, had bad form. You might want to check your history books too. Bird won the 3 pt contest in 1986,1987, and 1988 and not just once.

Dude--he has BAD form--but he's used to it and that's just the way he shoots. Same with Reggie Miller and Peja Stojakovic.

He is most likely top 10, but he's not the BEST. This is all I'm arguing and this is the subject of this thread...who's the best SHOOTER of all time.

Bird career 3 point fg%: 37.6
Ray Allen career 3 point fg%: 39.6
Dale Ellis career 3 point fg%: 40.03
Reggie Miller career 3 point fg%: 39.5
Peja Stojakovic career 3 point fg%: 40.0
Glen Rice career 3 point fg%: 40.05

Originally posted by TheSixthRing:
Steve Nash - he's gotten better with age.

He's shot over 50% from the field, 40% from 3 and 90% from the Free Throw line 4 times in a season, and was 3 made free throws away in 06-07 from doing it 5 times.

Only 5 guys in league history have done it once. Larry Bird was the only other guy to do it more than once, having done it twice.
Nash is 20 consecutive free throws made away from surpassing Mark Price as # 1 on the all-time FT% list.

Originally posted by crzy:
Bird, Maravich, and Rick Barry were obviously good shooters.

But it's difficult to evaluate their shooting ability relative to the modern game since the three point line was adopted in 79-80, and wasn't really used much until the mid-late 80s.