It wasn’t. Jackson also said Curry was the league’s most valuable player and a champion because he was “a complete player.” He was lamenting the imitative effect: high school players everywhere pulling up from behind the 3-point line, thinking they can be him.

“You are not Steph Curry,” Jackson said. “Work on other aspects of the game.”

We took Jackson’s argument to two coaches of successful public school teams: Steve Finamore of East Lansing High School in Michigan and Ron Naclerio of Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens.

While Naclerio, after 35 years of high-level scholastic coaching, leaned old-school, Finamore nixed the notion that the game was in danger of turning into a 3-point-shooting, bricklaying circus.

“I totally disagree with that quote from Mark Jackson,” he said.

Finamore has been at East Lansing for six seasons, the most recent concluding with a 23-1 record. He formerly worked on Coach Tom Izzo’s staff at Michigan State, where he developed a working relationship with Green.

Knowing his players are watching the N.B.A. closely, Finamore admitted that the games occasionally had their wince-inducing moments — J. R. Smith’s backing up behind the 3-point line and shooting an air ball in Game 4 came immediately to mind.

“And Steph at times does take what we would consider to be bad shots,” Finamore said. “But he has actually influenced the way we play. We run a high-powered offense, look for the 3-point shot, even from way back, if they can make them. We encourage our kids to take them, practice them, and I use a lot from Steph — mostly quotes about how hard he’s worked at it — with my guys.”