Who is the biggest winner of the All-Star Game? Of course, it was James and Curry of LeBron, who won the All-Star Game in their hometown of Cleveland, with Old Jen hitting the deadlock and Curry taking the first All-Star Game MVP of his career. On the familiar Cavaliers home, Curry played 36 minutes, shooting 17-of-30, including 16 three-pointers, 50 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, proving to fans his status as a three-point god.
However, curry didn't feel that way before the All-Star Game, and in two of the three games before the All-Star Game, he had a bad performance of 7-of-7 and 1-of-8 shooting, so in tomorrow's game against the Blazers, we have reason to worry about Curry because he will face a small guard who is in explosive form , A-Simmons. In 2022, Simmons averaged 23.6 points per game, a three-point shooting percentage of 41.8 percent, and 4.4 shots per game, his true shooting percentage exceeded 60 percent, and in addition to scoring efficiency, he made up for Lillard's absence, averaging 6.1 assists per game.
That's why the Blazers are determined to rebuild, Simmons is younger than CJ, but the performance is not inferior, although the Blazers took an early leave of Lillard, but Simmons did not surrender. In early February, they experienced a wave of six consecutive losses, Simmons did not perform well, but he quickly adjusted to the situation, the last four games to win, won the Lakers, Knicks, and bucks, Grizzlies and other strong teams, Simmons averaged 30.2 points in four games, shooting 5.7 three-pointers. Curry definitely ran into an opponent, and if he didn't deal with it carefully, the AMVP could be snatched up by A Simmons.
Curry's form this season has been high and low. At the beginning of the season, he averaged nearly 30 points per game to lead the team to the first place in the West, and won the player of the month in December last year, ranking first in the official MVP list. But as the season progresses, Curry slowly magically ceases to be, and now he averages "only" 25.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, and the data alone has been fully surrounded by junior Morant. The most important thing is that Curry's three-point shooting efficiency has declined, leaving aside the 19-20 season, which was reimbursed after only 5 games, Curry's total three-point shooting rate in the remaining 11 seasons is more than 41%, but this season has played 54 games, Curry averaged 4.6 of 12.3 shots per game, and the three-point shooting rate was a career low of 37.9%.
So this season we can see a lot of scenes of Curry's hand struggle, such as the last time against the Blazers, Curry shot 6 of 17 three-pointers, which is an abnormal play. However, after the All-Star Game, Curry has a saying, curry shot a career-high 6 three-pointers in the All-Star in 16 years, and then averaged 30.6 points in the next 29 regular season games, and the three-point shooting rate increased to 45.4%, which helped him win that year's scoring champion and unanimous MVP. And last year, curry in order to take the team to the playoffs, the All-Star after the game full of fire, averaging 34.9 points per game, three-point shooting rate of 43.1%, took the Warriors to the eighth place in the West, but unfortunately lost to James and Morant in the playoffs.
This year's Curry does not have the pressure of last season, the Warriors have long locked in the upper half of the West, but they will not give up every victory, the first Sun will lose Paul in the remaining regular season, Curry has the opportunity to lead the team back to the top of the West, so the Warriors better not give up every victory easily, Curry's best game of the season is not so stable!