A game between the Warriors and the Thunder that ended earlier, relying on the power of the 2nd and 3rd quarters, the Warriors finally won the opponent easily 110-98, extending their winning streak to the ninth game. Curry, the core of the team, only made 12 shots (6 goals), scored a quasi-triple-double of 18 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists, and reduced the number of shots he made, thus making Clay once again the team's top scorer (this time Clay scored a team-high 21 points). If you count the last Warriors game against the Kings, Curry also made only 11 shots, scoring 20 points well below the season average.
That is to say, in the last two games, Curry averaged only 11.5 shots per game, a total of only 38 points, even less than his previous game score, such a selfless choice of sacrifice, to some extent, Curry is also to let teammate Klay Thompson as soon as possible to get back to form, fortunately, Clay did not live up to the good intentions of his good brother, the last two games have won the team's high 21 points, 23 points, a total of 10 three-pointers.
In fact, in the second half of December, Curry's offensive state has declined to a certain extent, compared with October and November, the three-point shooting rate has basically remained at a normal level (38.8% in October and 42.3% in November), but in December, Curry's three-point shooting rate dropped to 37.4%, and even in January, Curry only had 22.3 points, and the best three-point shooting rate plummeted to 32.9%. The successive downturns on the offensive end have also caused Curry's average of points per game this season to drop to 25.7 points, ranking ninth in the league. After Clay's return, Curry also reduced the number of shots he made and began to focus more on organizing tandem and making balls for his teammates.
If Curry continues to do so on the offensive end, the third career scoring champion is most likely hopeless, in fact, in the absence of Curry in Klay last season, he scored the highest scoring average of 32 points per game in his career, becoming the oldest scorer in the league after Michael Jordan. At the beginning of the season, Curry also once sat on the league's scoring throne, and as the season deepened, Curry was in a downturn on the offensive end, and Klay also ushered in a recent return, Curry also gave up the impact on the scoring king and focused on how to get the Warriors back to the top. In the past two seasons, the Warriors have suffered from missing the playoffs for two consecutive years without Klay, which shows how important Klay is to the team.
As of now, Clay can average 16.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3 assists per game for the Warriors, and he has to shoot 14 times per game, which is the third place in the team, and the second Place Wiggins is only 0.1 times. Curry averaged 19.7 shots per game, which is as many as 2 times less than last season. After entering February, Curry only ranked fifth in the team with 11.5 shots per game, and even rookie Cumminga (averaging 12 per game) was more than him.
Since the Warriors do not lack scorers this season, Curry has also made sacrifices to become the backcourt commander who organizes the whole team, focusing on assists, and hopes that Klay can deeply understand Curry's good intentions and let himself continue to play offensive aggression, so that the Warriors can re-attack towards the championship this season.