The doors of the Madison Square Garden Arena are often open, you will fall in love with it, no matter how far away you are a guest, please don't be polite.
At this age, Stephen Curry didn't have to be formal, and in just 124 seconds, he tied the all-time three-point shooting record, and in another three-and-a-half minutes, he would catch another "fuck you" three-pointer in front of Burks, hit it, and then withdraw from the half, flying kiss and locking shoulder and arm roaring.
Cole was so emotional that he immediately called a pause, and the camera shook to the high stage, where Curry's mother, Sonia, clapped, the camera shook to the sidelines, and Curry's father, Dale, clapped. The child of the divorced family was smiling, he was old enough to see a lot of things, not to mention that he already had a child of his own, and Cole's mouth when he hugged him seemed to be saying "Daddy". Taking the ball from Cole's hand, Curry walked back to the bench with the ball at one point giving me the illusion that the game was over: yes, everything was over, the child left the swaddling, the fallen leaves were buried in the dust, a cigarette burned to the end, the Yangtze River flowed into the East China Sea, Li Yundi entered the cage, and Wang Lihong escaped from the grave. You know that there is an end to everything, and Ray Allen also knows that in addition to the stupidity and three-pointers of being tricked into wen ai by the big dick, he has left little legacy to this league, and now it is less. Maybe the most important one.
At least Ray Allen himself thought so.
When Ray Allen came to China in 2014 for a training camp, the cadets asked him, "When was your most glorious moment?" Was it the 2013 G6 three-pointer? ”
Allen thought about it and said, "No, I think it was the moment when the Lakers overtook Reggie Miller to set a three-point record. ”
Now Curry pulls him off the record he's held for a decade as ruthlessly as Garnett cuts him out of a group photo. Aaron clapped, the smile on his face still professional, and he could only offer praise: "Curry's standard is unparalleled in the world, he is the only one in history." Then Aaron may need to change to the "most glorious moment", which is fine, life is too long, you never know what will happen next.
For Curry, "Ah finally broken" and "ah just broken" are intertwined, drowning out the expectations of the past week, and now only a little tiredness after the passion is left. Curry certainly has expectations, and after the recent home game did not eat 16 three-pointers in one go but played 11 times of iron, he has been relieved to have himself and his fans: "Philadelphia has my brother, Ind city has Miller, New York Madison is self-evident, Boston is where Allen broke records." It makes sense to break records anywhere. ”
Before playing the Pacers, Curry said: "My career is still very long, but it is an important milestone that I have been thinking about for many years. ”
Rivers said after the 76ers beat the Warriors: "We know what Curry wants, but this is Philadelphia. New York is very different, Madison Square Garden does not want these faces, they immediately posted social media praises: "A legendary moment in the world's most famous venue." ”
Madison Square has become accustomed to it, not because they have been rotten for so many years, but because this is indeed a tradition, playing the NBA at the beginning, in order to increase ticket revenue, many games are arranged in third-party venues, Madison Square Garden Arena is the best choice. This best option may not have changed much to this day, the big ball market is the big ball market, the scalper ticket price of this game has soared, the high-rise stands exceeded $474, the bottom stand exceeded $850, and the best position ticket prices were as high as 5 figures.
Compared to Madison Square Garden Arena, the Bradley Center in 1999 was much bleaker. One day George Carr finished his training session, only to find that the players were reluctant to disperse, and they were watching a shooting game, Ray Allen and the Bucks' most accurate three-pointer Dale Curry, and a 10-year-old child teamed up, the 10-year-old was Steven Curry.
In the same year's AAU game, Durant first met Curry, he recalled a kid who liked to shoot through the midfield and scored 35 points in a game. He never imagined that 16 years later his team would be reversed 1-3 by this kid's team in the NBA Western Conference Finals. Nor would he have imagined that he would become a teammate with this kid next. Even more unexpected things were still to come, and after winning two championships with this child, he still didn't feel happy enough.
There are so many things you can't think of. In 1988, Rex Chapman wouldn't have imagined that he would have to learn to change the diapers of his teammates' children when he was just 21 years old. That year Chapman was the Hornets' rookie, the Hornets were also the first year to join the league, and second-year Dale Curry had just ushered in the birth of his eldest son in Akron's hospital, and he was going to take the family to Charlotte and be neighbors with Chapman.
Curry has always been a shooter, shooting 47.5 percent from three-point range in the Bucks' season. Curry recalls having a vague influence on the Hornets game he watched when he was three or four years old, saying he watched his father play and fell in love with shooting ever since. The advantage of having a professional shooter as a father, in addition to appearing in the Burger King commercial, is to be able to participate in training and competitions above the age level earlier.
This means that Curry is always shorter than others, and he must constantly hone his basketball skills to adapt to the environment. So for the basketball world, Curry has never been a vegetarian, and his future achievements related to three-point shooting may have been doomed from the day he was born.
As the saying goes, a dragon gives birth to a dragon and a phoenix, and the son of a mouse will punch a hole. This is probably not bad, but have you ever seen a rat make a river crossing. Curry's three-point shot was already the top in his time, shooting fast and accurately, but the most accurate shot of his career may still bring Stephen. The height of his son's career is unimaginable to old Curry, and once the old Curry saw the ball daddy wearing a hat that said "I said it a long time ago." Old Curry was very emotional, saying that if he also got a similar hat, it should be written "I don't know."
The old Curry is sincere, he did not sacrifice the perspective of God, the limitations of the times tell him that the farther away from the basket the lower the efficiency, if you want to pursue stability, you have to reduce the dribbling, he set himself a rule of no more than 2 dribbles before three-point shots, this rule was 30 years before him, and almost 15 years after him, before he was broken by his son himself.
In 1961, Abraham Sapstein, a Jew who was only 1.6 meters tall, introduced the three-point line to his short-lived league ABL, the founder of the Harlem basketball team, who was keen to entertain the public with novelties, playing basketball and making lions jump in the ring of fire, just sell tickets. The original intention of creating a three-pointer was because he felt that basketball also needed to have its own "home run" like baseball. Sabostan is right, since ancient times humans have a fertility cult obsession with shooting far and accurately, obviously, throwing pots, archery, 10-meter air rifles, golf, you and your male classmates pee on a brick 5 meters away, all reflect this.
There was still a bit of controversy about how to shoot the ball from farther into the basket, when we were more accustomed to seeing Miller push Jordan away to catch the ball and shoot three points, Patterson received a pass from Jordan to shoot three points, Roy took two steps around the three-point line to take a three-point shot in front of Yao Ming's eyes...
Yes, the unifying feature of these great moments is the catch of the ball, which was the norm in Curry's pre-era era, although from time to time we can appreciate Arenas' three-point shot and then turn, Kobe Bryant's oblique shot after burying his head in the head, and Maddy's 35.13 seconds, these sporadic three-point performances are often regarded as miracles rather than routines, and such balls are often classified as "unreasonable" categories - unreasonable, but energetic.
Curry is different. Curry dribbled through the gap between Jordan Jr., Hawes, and Paul, and instead of breaking through to the layup, curry returned to the three-point line and asked Kerr to chant "RNM refund money and wish your family happiness and health... Good ball"; or with the last 0.8 seconds left in overtime, just dribbling through the midline, he shot three points to let Durant relive what he saw in his childhood.
Strictly speaking, Curry is not the one who makes the three-point shot a conventional weapon, since the NBA introduced the three-point line in 1979, the three-point shooting ratio of the league teams has always been in an upward curve, from the beginning of no one to the current nearly 40% of the three-point shot, this is not curry's own credit, smart coaches and players will eventually find the benefits that this three-point line can bring, this is a very simple calculation, 40% of the shooting rate of the 3-point score, You need to score 2 points with a 60% shooting rate to get it back.
Holding the ball and three-pointers is the biggest change Curry has brought to the world, and after him, harden and Lillard have gone further in the three-point possession. But Curry suddenly stopped after holding more than 50 percent of the ball in 2014, when he held more than 50 percent of the ball. Mark Jackson is gone, steve Cole is coming.
Curry found the balance between holding the ball and receiving three points, and his basketball world began to become elusive, and when the ball was in hand, he could crush you with three points at any time, but when there was no ball in hand, you had to spend more energy to care about him. Another of Kerr's great contributions is that Curry gave up a lot of the high-wing mid-range shots of the Mark era, and raised the three-point shooting ratio to 50% of the range, under the basket and three points, and the magic ball efficiency is so high.
And all this is still based on Curry's own super high level on the three-point shooting. "Dream chasing" Green can thus be ashamed: "If I can find Curry, why do I have to shoot and score?" ”
Although not as explicit as daddy, the old Curry is also not afraid to tout his son: "Even if Steven's other skills begin to decline, he can still play for a long time with this shot." I say this not as his dad, but as a fan. ”
The vast majority of people probably hold the same view. Obviously, Curry's goal is not to surpass Allen so simple, his contract is still very long, there is no doubt that the Warriors will continue to use more two-year contracts to continue this length, he will play for a long time, if he is 38 years old with an annual salary of 60 million on the court I will not be surprised, he wants to break through is not the dream of 4,000 three-pointers, before the league introduces the next rule that is conducive to outside defense, he has to do is to raise the three-pointer to an unattainable height. At that time, every woman should envy Ayesha, there is such a woman in this world, 365 days can monopolize the world's most capable man for half a year.
On this night in Madison, Curry finally had a unique honor. Before that, his champions, his MVP, his representation as the strongest player of the last decade, his best lineup, his All-Stars, everything, are like archways in the sun, you go around the field three times, you can always find countless dark sides, you can find the loudest one is still lurking underwater, refracting the light that spills into the world strangely, and these sounds are mostly from the three championships and the three FMVP trophies that fall next to them, including Dela Vidovar, "Team battles can lose, Curry must die", high school tactical Box-1 these are terms specifically designed for Curry.
Perhaps this voice will accompany us in the process of evaluating Curry for decades to come, but when we talk about the three points, the history he created yesterday, and the history that he can expand in the future, will become an unquestionable anchor.
But I'm not talking about that, I'm not talking about 2974, not averaging 5 three-pointers per game, not shooting 157 consecutive three-pointers, not those records that can be easily expressed in numbers. I guess the truly outstanding basketball writers had all the material ready half a year ago, sorted out all the history of the three-pointer, Curry's three-point data, or the touching story of his hard training in the offseason, expecting the Kumi to read the article and tearfully tip 2 yuan, which is good, but I don't like it.
What I care more about is the true story behind these numbers, the braces he bites in his mouth, his swing dance, the other strong gesture he left us with so many years of slaughtering or being devoured by the world with three-pointers, a gesture as unique as his three-point record:
"Interesting".
Maybe you have other ways to describe it, but it doesn't matter if we use this description first. When Curry led the Warriors to the strongest regular season team in history in 2016, Carlisle, who was still in Dallas at the time, praised Curry's Warriors for being more popular than the Rolling Stones, and Cole's answer to the lupine scarf was unusual: Then my Bull was the Beatles.
Bulls are not Beatles we do not know, we know the dynasty bulls, and their team crest has a pair of fierce eyes, their leader Jordan, giving people a sense of "bullying", before him, we used "gorgeous" to describe the Showtime Lakers, and further ahead, Russell's bitter and vengeful face passed to us "tough". The temperament of dynastic teams in history depends mostly on their leaders, and almost all dynasty teams have at least a "sense of oppression", a hormonal taste. Even if Cole compares It to Curry's Duncan, of course you know that Duncan is stuffy and the Spurs play in bands, but most of that is off the court or in the repair shop, back on the court, you may still have a correct attitude and describe them as "rigorous".
But Curry's Warriors are different, or conversely, the Warriors' Curry is different, and in the best years, Curry's games are like a flowing feast, full of strong to pornographic flavors. Being powerful is often intimidating, and Curry's mighty won't. The reason for this may be 23.56% because Curry does not have a sword-rattling face, he will be asked for id cards until he is 21 years old when he goes to the bar to order alcohol, and his presence on the basketball court and the number of fans reveal a depressing truth: appearance is justice. Before Curry went crazy, Van Exel and Spuriville had gone crazy long ago, but Curry called "Mengku", "Schoolboy", Van Exel called "Crazy", Spuriville called "Crazy", and the world was so unfair.
Curry himself said: "When we can play funny, we are the most terrible." ”
What is fun?
It's fun to break through a one-handed high-handed basket after shaking the ball, it's ugly to explode the crowd to grab a frontcourt rebound and then put the ball into the basket with a small stiff hooker like a morning erection; it's fun to shoot a three-pointer two steps outside the three-point line to meet the desperate eyes of the defender and then pat your chest and point to the sky; it's ugly to shudder and shoot a three-pointer in the absence of a person outside the three-point line and then go back to defense like a dog; the elbow pass behind is obviously interesting, and the two-handed pass on the chest is ugly without saying.
When you try to mix "fun" and "scary" into your style, the cost is obvious, and the biggest cost may be losing 1 championship, 1 pass mistake without looking at people's backs, and 1 persistent three-point attempt to shoot in front of the singing and dancing Lefu.
When tasting the bitterness of failure, Curry also had a moment of remorse: "That's 89 flat." I should have tried a breakthrough. ”
But you see, now, this bit of remorse has long been forgotten, Curry is still Curry, he is still shooting those unreasonable three-pointers, where the sun can't hit, he can. He was still giving his teammates the opportunity to make pretentious remarks, with Clay saying, "With just 7 seconds left, he started dribbling the ball outside the three-point line, and alas, I don't know why." ”
Compared to all the three-pointers in history who may have been able to but did not end up being superstars, Curry is different in that:
He can shoot at the three-point line in the first second of the dribble half, or he can shoot again in the last half of the third half, and no one will question anything.
Kerr would never nag Curry like he would in Durant's ear, he knew that's why Curry was Curry, and he also understood that's why this Warriors are warriors now.
Dream-chasing biceps and Durant's dry pull may be equally inflammatory for the audience, they can win in Curry's downturn, or even the championship, but the only six-year-old braves who can ignite this field or in front of the screen are Curry.
It's not just three points, but also the personal witness that has accumulated in those long crazy years to weave this complete emotional bond today, with two words written on it: trust.
The dream-chasing statement "I am willing to die for Curry" may be exaggerated, and Curry will not let him die. But one of the most important functions of a so-called team leader, or an idol of the fans, is to provide that sense of security. You know he's going to lose, he's going to play bad games, there may be moments when you're going to bury your head in Coach Cole's arms, but you're not going to get too much sensationalism or gritting your teeth from Curry, it's funny, and you can always trust Steven Curry.
The new UP owner Lao Yang also chatted about Curry at the B station
Did his influence surpass James'?