Suppose that we go back in time and get an NBA head coach from the previous decades to watch how the game is played today, he’d probably react the same way Dr. Sam Neil did when he saw a Brontosaurus walk in front of him in Jurassic Park.

The overdependence of today’s players on the long-range shot would stump that coach.  Back in the day, players treat the 3-point shot as a situational weapon and not as the fulcrum of an offense the same way the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets are treating that shot these days.

Just to underscore further how the 3-point shot has become such a ubiquitous part of a team’s offense, consider the following crazy stat shared by Tommy Beer of Rotoworld.

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Total number of made 3-pointers by all players over the 58 games played in the NBA Finals during the entire decade of the 1980's: 146

Total number of made 3-pointers by Steph Curry and Klay Thompson in the NBA Finals since 2015: 148

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson are two of the greatest shooters not only of this generation but of all-time. But, even with that kind of recognition acting as the backdrop, it’s still mind-boggling to think that they’ve bested the 3-point output of all players that played in the NBA Finals in an entire decade in just four trips to the NBA’s grand stage.

The two surpassed the collective total of their basketball ancestors in Game 2 of the 2018 NBA Finals when they nailed 12 3-pointers together in a 122-103 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.