Everyone's attention to Curry will always stay in the game where Curry has not yet appeared. This statement is a bit ridiculous, but it is indeed Curry's real performance on the field. Most fans don't really notice Curry's true value, just know that Curry is important to the Warriors. Some people say that in the season before Curry's break, the Warriors entered the pendulum, which did not reflect Curry's value. That's because most of the Warriors' main players are resting, and the team had to make that choice. If both Green and Clay are healthy, the Warriors shouldn't fall to the bottom of the West. In fact, this statement is not accurate enough.
Warriors management definitely wanted players to get a better break after a long period of competition, so they would allow that season to play that way. But Curry's significance to the Warriors cannot be simply understood as that the management does not want to play, rather than simply thinking that other players do not play, so Curry's role is not so big. Curry must be the cornerstone of the entire team, and it is also the most important offensive launch point and endpoint in the Warriors' lineup. His no-ball technique can even provide a certain amplification effect for his teammates. How many players have done miracles around Curry, it's too numerous to count.
Curry is in good shape, and the Warriors' overall performance is also good. At the beginning of the 22nd season, the Warriors' performance was very moving. Under Curry's leadership, even without Clay, the Warriors' firepower could not be pressed. Driven by Curry, Poole even played the best performance of his career, successfully changing from a substitute player to a main player with a stable playing time. Poole's promotion has a lot to do with Curry's active containment and the creation of reasonable assists. Of course, Poole himself worked hard enough to have the excellent results of the early Warriors. In the early stages of the regular season, the Warriors even finished first in the West at one point. Many Warriors fans see this record and feel that the Warriors have returned to the 15th season, and there is a posture of being inseparable.
At this stage, Curry is the greatest contributor. At that time, Curry's average per game was 27.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists, and Wiggins and Poole both averaged more than 18 points per game, of which Wiggins's overall shooting rate even reached 47%. If you continue to develop according to this momentum, you may be able to compete for MVP in a few seasons. Green's play is as stable as ever, averaging 8.4 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.6 assists per game.
After Clay's comeback, Curry's average score per game began to decline due to personal condition problems. His scoring stats have dropped by 20%, and under his influence, many players have also declined to varying degrees, such as Wiggins, who averaged only 15 points per game after January, down 3.2 points from the 18.2 points at the beginning. For this problem, many people say that it is the factor of Clay's comeback. Because the team needed to cede a portion of the ball to Clay, it had to reduce the number of shots from other players. And because of the bad chemistry between them, the team's performance is not good. In short, in everyone's concept, this is an accidental and comprehensive factor to determine, not caused by Curry's downturn.
In fact, this statement is not objective enough. Since this situation is not an isolated case, we can give another example. In the 18-19 season, the last season of the Warriors' Big Three. Curry's impact on the team and the regular season is basically at a peak level. The addition of Durant and healthy Clay can further illustrate the power that the team can burst out when it has Curry.
Judging from the data at the time, when Curry played, the team's offensive efficiency was 120.4, the first in the league. After Curry came down, this value became 106.1, and the difference between the two reached 14.3. In other words, the Warriors, who own Curry, can score an average of 14.3 points per 100 possessions. Without Curry's Warriors' offensive efficiency, in the league at that time, the ranking was only 10th from the bottom of the league. If you put this value specifically on an individual, Curry's offensive plus-minus that season was 6.79, which is that Curry helped the team score 6.79 points on the offensive end. This value is also the first in the league, and Harden, who was known as the lone hero and savior of the Rockets at that time, had an offensive plus-minus of only 6.78. That's Curry's strength. (Curry's offensive plus-minus has always been the top three in the league, since the 13th season, Curry's offensive plus-minus has basically not been below 6 points in a season, and the worst time is also 5.99, the lowest ranking is also the third place)
Curry is the league's strongest combined ball-handling and no-ball technique. In a season, combining all offensive rounds, he scored more than 1.18 points per round, ranking first among all the main players, and among the players with more than 100 offensive rounds, Curry ranked fourth in this value. For the team, it's an offensive treasure. So at that time, after seeing Curry's super-god performance, Kerr told the media that now Curry's influence on the offensive end can be compared with Jordan at that time. As a player who has played with Jordan, Cole's evaluation is not high. Coincidentally, Popovich, who has seen Curry perform, has also said that this is a player whose influence on the offensive end of the modern league is unmatched.
Before we had a saying, Curry is the engine of the Warriors' progress, and Green is the key to open the engine. That makes sense because Green and Curry can really drive this team at the team level. In any previous season, this has been the case. So you can also see that when Green is not playing, Curry can have good results, but the effect is not as good as when Green is playing. Green can drive tactics, Curry can drive teammates, and the combination of the two becomes a good chemistry that keeps the whole team alive.
In terms of Curry's influence on the team, there is another point that many people overlook: Curry's performance at key moments. It's true that Curry rarely completes a dead end in the playoffs, but every time it comes to a critical moment, he can always hand over a phenomenon-level report card. Even if it is a multi-person bag clip, Curry can calmly resolve it. For Curry, who has entered the championship form, if he has only one defender, it is equivalent to no defense. Curry's absence, teammates have to face more defensive pressure. If you can't resist it, you will only be eliminated by your opponent in an extremely cruel way.