On February 15, Beijing time, the Warriors lost to the Clippers 104-119 on the road, of which the Warriors' sudden collapse in the third quarter (Q3) was the key to the final fiasco. However, their performance is not accidental, and Stephen Curry has ranked third from the bottom in the league with a stat so far this season.
In the first half of this game, the Warriors were also able to compete with the Clippers, and the Warriors entered the half-court break with a 2-point difference in the case that both sides shot more than 50%, but in the third quarter, the Warriors suddenly lost the feel of the whole team's 19 shots in a single quarter and only hit 7, only 36.8% of the shooting rate, and the Clippers hit 14 of the 21 shots in this quarter, playing 66.7% of the shooting rate, after playing a 19-33 score in the single quarter, the Warriors' fiasco was doomed.
Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Andrew Wiggins started against the Clippers without Leonard, George and Powell, and it was a disappointment. In the third quarter of this game, the "Splash Brothers" played no less than 8 minutes, but the two only scored 4 points in total. It's understandable that Thompson, who was recovering from a serious illness, didn't score in eight minutes of the quarter, but Curry's only one athletic goal in 10 minutes of playing time is really unacceptable.
So far this season, the Warriors' net win over opponents in the third quarter of the regular season is the highest of the 30 teams in the league, the Warriors have always had a tradition of "three-quarter clock-in", many times in the third quarter "a wave of flow" to take away the game, many people may feel that the Warriors' game against the Clippers collapsed in the third quarter there is a lot of accident, they If you really pay attention to Curry's performance this season, you will not be too surprised by such a situation.
So far this season, Curry has averaged 9.5 minutes per game in the third quarter of 53 regular season games, averaging 5.0 shots per game but only 41.4 percent from the field. What is this concept? Curry has the third lowest shooting percentage of any player in the league so far this season who has averaged at least 5.0 shots per game in the third quarter of the regular season, only slightly better than Damien Lillard and Shay Giljes Alexander.
In the past, Curry had a high offensive efficiency in the regular season, but so far this season, Curry's shooting percentage in the regular season has dropped to 42.5%, which is the first time in Curry's NBA career that he has shot less than 46.0% in a single season except for the 2019-20 season, which has only played 5 games, and only 31.3% of Curry's shooting percentage at key moments in the regular season so far this season (in the time period where the game time is less than 5 minutes and the difference between the two teams is not more than 5 points). Such a Curry, what to lead the Warriors to the championship?