Exactly. Teams today must absolutely HATE seeing Curry make the shots that he makes - and the rules today make others pretty powerless to stop him. Before basketball became a no touch game they could have, and would have, stopped him by constantly knocking him down. Lots of people often forget that Curry is a wonderful finisher in the paint for instance. He is right up there with anyone when it comes to percentage at scoring in the paint. Those buckets would have been neigh on impossible for him 15 years ago. Then there is the fact that Curry runs through the paint a lot behind screens to get open. I find it very hard to believe he would have been allowed to do that and come out unscathed before.
You look at Jordan when he first came into the league, he wasn't all that physically developed. Because of the beatings he took going to the basket on a consistent basis, he realized he needed to bulk up. He did, and then he became virtually unstoppable. Had Curry played 15 or 20 years ago, he absolutely would have had to be a LOT stronger physically, and maybe he could have been. However, even in this era with no touch basketball, Curry has suffered quite a lot from serious injuries, and it is a certainty that he would have been subjected to a lot more physicality. When Jordan was at the stage in his career where Curry is now, he out scored Curry pretty much every season, even this season when Curry has upped his scoring by about 6 points per game from last season. In essence, Michael Jordan more than matched Curry in scoring in an era when it was significantly harder to score.
Then we have the often forgotten fact that Jordan was on a totally different level than Curry is, and ever will be, defensively. Jordan was defensive player of the year twice I think, and all NBA first defensive team for 9 seasons or something like that. Curry isn't a very good defender at all to be honest, and before this era of zone defense, he would have 100 percent been targeted in this regard. Nowadays, players very rarely get into foul trouble because the game has become so focused on the perimeter game. Teams very, very rarely target players these days to get into foul trouble. I'm convinced that teams back in the day would have posted up Curry time and again, forcing him to play defense in the post. It wouldn't have worked all the time of course, but in a lot of games he would have surely been in foul trouble quite early, which no doubt would also have been a factor when it comes to his offensive productivity.
Honestly, the person who would have had the best chance to surpass Jordan to date is LeBron James. He had absolutely everything at his peak, but he lacked, and lacks, the determination and drive to win at all costs that Jordan had.
