In a game against the Celtics, Hummer Smart pounced on Curry's ankle in order to grab the ball, and Curry left the game injured and never returned to the game. We all know that the ankle is almost his life goal, and most of the injuries he has suffered in his career have come from this, and Curry's injury has cost the Warriors too much. Fortunately, the team has accumulated enough win rates at the beginning of the season that even if they lose, they will not fall out of the playoffs, and the team has enough capital to sit in the playoffs.
But we also found that even if Clay's state picks up, Green returns from injury, and the role players Poole and Cuminga are brave and good at fighting, but without Curry's Warriors, it seems that the mollusks who have been stripped of their backbones have lost their hardness. Everything needs to be objective, so let's look at Curry's importance to the Warriors from a data perspective: In the past two seasons, the Warriors are currently 82-45, with a winning percentage of 64.6%, without Curry's Warriors, a total of 21 games, 5-16, with a win rate of only 23.8%, lower than the league's penultimate win rate (26.3%).
That is to say, without Curry, the Warriors' winning percentage is the league's penultimate fish belly team in the 21-22 season, not to mention playoffs, directly running to the top sign. In the past, we all thought that Curry was the warriors' defensive black hole, after all, he had become the offensive target of Harden, James and others in the playoffs many times. But Curry's defense is also underestimated, since the increase in his defensive strength is above the average level of league defenders, and being targeted by the opponent multiple times is also to consume his physical strength.
So why did the Warriors, without Curry, become less like themselves because they lost dominance? You must know that when there was no Curry in the past, Klay and Green could also tangle with the full Blazers a few times, but why did they become untested? We can analyze from the offensive and defensive points of view to see how much influence Curry has on both ends of the team's offensive and defensive ends!
First of all, Curry is the supporter of the Warriors' passing system and the source of the unsolvable smooth offense. As the leader of small-ball play, Curry's no-ball and ball-free are historical, and he can shoot ultra-far three-pointers with any defense, and is the first shooter in basketball history. Based on such a terrible shooting threat, which led to the opponent having to change his defensive strategy because of his presence, his teammates got a lot of opportunities to easily score in the process. We often see Curry running to the top of the arc without the ball after borrowing cover, such a feint strategy allows the cover man to get the opportunity to cut into the basket to make a layup, as long as he cooperates with tacit understanding, he can score.
In addition, Curry can also hold the ball and quickly advance, complete the three-point shooting of the pursuit and play the opponent's unstable footing. The team can't find such a star who can play curry's role, so he is an irreplaceable presence.
Second, offense is the best defense, and Curry's offense destroys everything. This sentence was said by an NBA championship coach, which means that the terrifying scoring ability can quickly hit the opponent's confidence, causing the opponent's defensive mentality to collapse, and then the game attitude becomes loose. When Curry's offense exploded, his teammates also unleashed a strong desire to fight, so the team's defense became stronger, and then it went smoothly. It's like a grain of Mars igniting a pile of dry firewood, and Curry is such a fire.
In the end, this is no longer the young and energetic Warriors team of the past, and now it is no longer human. The reason why the Warriors in the 14-15/15-16 season were able to play a wonderful game without Curry was because Klay and Green were at their peak at that time, both offensively and defensively in the best form, and they had a lot of physical strength. But now they are all over 30 years old, and they have also suffered different degrees of injuries, and they have long since lost their courage.
In the end, the Warriors still want too much luxury, not only to take advantage of curry's peak tail to win the championship, but also to cultivate young players and win the future. But in this way, when Curry is attacked by injuries, he will lose his combat strength because of his special dependence, and the Warriors will suffer consecutive defeats. Perhaps Iguodala has seen it very clearly, the Warriors are also in need of reform, how to maintain a good record without relying on Curry has become the biggest proposition, and the management and coaching staff should also have a headache.