Since 2014, Curry has been the Warriors' most important player, not to mention — he was also the most important player in team history.
What is the second most important player?
If this question had been asked in 2015 or 2016, many would have answered it as Clay.
After all, at that time, everyone said Splash Brothers.
If Durant had asked in those years, the answer would have been a different story. After all, at that time, Duku joined forces and swept the world.
Now that the time is long, looking back, the answer seems to be clearer?
Some fans will chant, "Why don't you let Curry take control of the ball and let go of the squeeze" — that's what Mark Jackson used to play when he led the Warriors.
In the 2012-13 season, the Warriors actually had Curry + Clay + Barnes + David Lee + Bogut starting. David Lee was an All-Star averaging 19 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists per game. The Warriors won 47. Playoffs lost to spurs.
Iguodala arrived in the summer of 2013, and the following year the Warriors won 51, the first round being lost by the Clippers.
In the regular season that year, Curry averaged 24 points and 8.5 assists per game — yes, he also had 8.5 assists per game.
That season, Curry held the ball for 7.4 minutes per game.
In the 2014-15 season, Kerr arrived, and the Warriors made a bold change: David Lee, an All-Star who averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists per game in the previous year, was put on the bench.
Dream Chaser Green starts.
Curry's average possession shrank to 5.6 minutes per game, but won the MVP. The Warriors won 67 to win the championship.
The following year, 73 wins.
After that, we are all familiar with everything: Curry creates space, chases dreams and distributes the ball.
The first start on the dream is the key to the Warriors Dynasty to start everything.
As mentioned earlier, Curry's meaning.
If you talk about ball holding creation, the peak existence of the past decade is LeBron. If you talk about the extreme play of holding the ball and pulling away from space, there is Harden. Even in the past two years, the routine of blocking and dismantling + three points, Lillard has played very slippery.
But neither Harden nor Lillard has a championship.
Curry is unique in history as a no-ball threat and an excellent possession threat distribution.
Since 2014, the Warriors have played a style that is well known but difficult for other teams to replicate:
It's not "Curry throwing difficult three-pointers." To talk about this, Harden in the 2018-20 season has gone to extremes.
What's unique to the Warriors is the passing cut after the space is opened, a lot of forwardcourt transfers, and a lot of changes/communication/rotation.
This system allows all kinds of smart and hard-working defensive players (Livingston, Payton Jr.) to be reborn, and various wing players to change their strategies to the elder (Iguodala and Porter on the No. 4 position, Bjelica on the No. 5 position).
One is due to Curry's unparalleled no-ball threat and gravitational displacement in history.
The second is the strategy of chasing dreams, the distribution of ball rights, and the all-around of the defensive end.
Since 2010, every division of kings has had such a key hub of space + defense.
For example, the uniqueness of The two years of the championship is that Bosh can stand in the No. 5 position, the team has Battier/ Lewis / Miller these defensive positions, the attack can open up the space of the front, so as to maximize LeBron's influence.
For example, the Spurs usually use Split + Duncan to start the inside line, and in a hurry, they directly let Dior/Bonner + Duncan start, and the space is opened.
For example, the Warriors' death five small, to put it bluntly, the dream is a small ball lineup center.
In the finale of the 2019 Raptors Finals, Ibaka's no. 5 small ball has surpassed Marc Gasol.
The 2020 Lakers won the championship, a few games after the Finals, and also Davis directly stood 5.
Last season's Bucks won the championship, but also directly let Giannis stand 5, directly hit Ayton.
This is the unique value of chasing dreams:
His presence allows the Warriors to have enough resilience on the defensive end; the offensive end can take advantage of the space that Curry brings. "There is room for attack, and there is room for defense to protect the basket." In the past decade, this type of player has been the rarest. Chasing dreams is also a little more advanced: he can change defenses indefinitely.
One fact:
In the 2012-13 season, the Warriors were 14th in the defensive league.
Next year, fourth.
The next year, chase the dream on the first, first.
Next year's 73 wins season, fifth.
Next year, second.
Last season, the Warriors attacked the league no. 20, Curry's scoring champion supported everything, but the defensive league was fifth.
So far this season, the offensive league is 12th and the defensive league is the first.
Colorful three-pointers and passes cut to the highlights that fans love to watch.
The inside of winning is the defense.
The core of defense is to chase dreams.
In the history of the NBA, he can change defenses + guard the basket + pass a grasp like this, so as to liberate the possibility of the team's attack and defense, perhaps only KG, De Boucher, Bobby Jones and a few others.
Dream only started in 2014.
So far, his assists and steals cover are in the top four in team history and seventh in rebounding history.
There are statistics of defensive rebounds and triple-doubles in the history of the first team, vorp team history third.
So far, the NBA's playoff total, dream assists 33rd, steals 32nd, block 26th, defensive rebounds 21st - NBA history, all four of these statistics are higher than his, only one person: LeBron (of course, LeBron has twice as many playoff games than dreams).
So the 2014-2021 Warriors have stretched out, in fact, it is Curry + dream era.
Although not many people will say that.
But it's not surprising.
The Pistons of 1987-90 are well known to be the Assassins' team; the second most important part of the team, seemingly Joe Dumas (after all, the 1989 Finals MVP, and was named one of the toughest guys by Jordan), but everyone who has seen them play knows:
The pistons' second-in-command, and the layer of the team's ferocious temperament, was Bill Lambier.
It's just that The image of Lambier's evil man is too harsh and he is a blue-collar worker, so everyone does not mention this stubble.
Or, when it comes to the Philadelphia in 2001, everyone knows that AI is one-armed; but in the playoffs, Mutombo played a remarkable role.
Or, when it comes to the Dallas in 2011, everyone says that Dirk won the single-core championship; the deputy attacker Terry, Commander Kidd. Few people would mention the significance of Tyson Chandler.
When people talk about nuclear weapons, they generally only look at the attack, so the blue-collar workers around the super attackers are generally not looked at as nuclear.
Probably the same is true of dream chasing.
Although in fact, from a technical and tactical point of view, since 2014, dream chasing can be regarded as the warrior's second most important player, he and Curry, together to construct the Warriors system.
But because of his consistent media image, he has not had an All-Star since 2018 – this year? I don't know.
Although his influence is really worthy.
Finally, speaking of influence... List the total rapm value of all players in the playoffs in the twenty-one years from 1998 to 2019.
Curry tenth (offensive third).
KG ninth (defensive fourth).
Durant eighth (offensive fifth).
Duncan seventh.
Embiid was sixth (but he only had 612 minutes to playoffs, a very small sample).
Leonard fifth.
The admiral was fourth (defensive first, but his sample was only 2137 minutes, which was on the low side).
Ginobili was third (not unrelated to his large number of substitutes).
The first is LeBron (a stunning sample of more than 10,000 minutes, offensive first, defensive seventeenth).
The second is chasing dreams - sixth in offensive influence and third in defensive influence.