4-of-13, 1-of-13, and 2-of-10, this is Curry's three-point shooting performance against the Rockets, Jazz and Lone Rangers in the last three games, summed up in one sentence: Iron, Iron, or Iron!
However, incredibly, the Warriors have won all three games, especially today they slaughtered Dallas, who ranked fifth in the West, 130-98, which makes people wonder many questions: Why is Curry's hand so sluggish, and the Warriors can still win consecutive battles? As a team leader, is there a positive correlation between Curry's personal performance and the Warriors' winning or losing games?
Thoroughly researched? Curry's career has reached a watershed
First analyze the first question, in fact, strictly speaking, this proposition does not hold, after all, like the previous game against the Grizzlies, Curry three-point shots 9 shots 2, against the Pacers 16 shots 6, the Warriors all lost, but from the beginning of the defeat of the Rockets, they entered a new realm of not relying on superstars can win, from the game process, Kerr is still obsessed with his own passing system, although Green is injured, but the role of the arc top dealer is not irreplaceable, every player can switch between attacks and passes.
This game against the Lone Ranger, the second quarter of the game just 2 minutes, Poole dribbled to the front, passed to the top of the arc of Bjlitsa, at this time Kuminga shun down to the box, the former immediately offered an assist, completed a two-handed heavy dunk, this round Curry and Thompson are on the court, but they did not touch the ball, purely as an outside fire point to attract defense, creating excellent scoring opportunities for bench teammates, in other words, the Warriors' system has gradually evolved to no stars and role players.
So the answer is self-evident, Curry due to deliberate muscle gain, to a large extent affected his own shooting feel, resulting in his three-point ball lethality plummeted, and the paradox is that if he does not increase muscle, then as the only super giant, once encountered the bag clip, it will also be in trouble, Kerr is for this point, found the best solution, that is, at the cost of reduced efficiency of the three-point ball, improve Curry's ability to break the bag clip and the quality of the ball, so as to open the only bottleneck in the tactical system.
For the 34-year-old Curry, his career watershed has arrived, and last year's failure to make the playoffs has proven that the Warriors can't succeed by relying on the stars' individual play, and if he can learn duncan later in his career, play a supporting role in the system, and put more energy into extending the team's peak, it will be more meaningful than the personal data explosion.
Cole was right! The end of "Cosmic Courage" is still the Spurs after all
As mentioned earlier, since the loss of Durant, Curry is the warriors' only superstar, Green and Thompson are nominally one of the big three, but in fact the former is positioned as a blue-collar and system axis, the latter is a pure shooter, simply look at the hard power and curry position of the star, and the Lakers, the Nets and even the Suns, bucks are not comparable, head coach Kerr is very clear about the nature of the problem from the beginning, in the absence of Durant, the Warriors can still be as devastated as the 73-win season, but in the playoffs None of them can achieve the level of God Blocking God Killing God Buddha Blocking Buddha, and the overall champion is not in the bag.
So Cole has been gambling, he tried to suppress Curry's personal data, using a historical supergiant as a system shooter, hoping to create a stronger team, judging by the fact that they have won three consecutive games in recent times, Cole is most likely to be right.
The core value of "Cosmic Courage" lies in the stars, but the shelf life of the stars is often not long, their real end is the San Antonio Spurs in the period of 2010-2014, from the playoffs by the Suns to the first round by the Grizzlies Black Eight, Popovich has also experienced the pain of change and persistence, since then they have been flat, and finally the whole people have defeated the Heat team with the peak of the big three, Kerr also hopes that this Warriors will reach such a level, the real core is not supergiants but the head coach.
"Curry is the Duncan of the outside" has been heard for many years, and now Curry must also begin to learn duncan in the late stage of his career, using his personal final peak to feed the team, when Wiggins, Cuminga, Poole, Peyton Jr. and other young players grow into pillars, perhaps Curry in the later years of his career can get the most valuable feedback.