The Warriors aren’t as good as they were in the 15 games they won over James’ teams.
The Lakers are better than the recently departed Kings. Game 1 is tonight and it might come as some comfort to Warriors fans that Curry is 15-7 against LeBron James in the playoff games in which they have met. If Poole is the heir apparent, he needs to start playing like one.Ĭurry shooting and Looney rebounding will not be enough against the Lakers. If Thompson is the same player he once was, he needs to show it. Can’t expect Curry to keep tapping into 50 points. So in the middle of this Hall of Famer game by a Hall of Famer, a concern arises. If the Warriors were so filled with championship DNA, like a forever breath mint that never loses its potency, they wouldn’t have needed Curry to go off like a firecracker. Jordan Poole, once a lock to replace the retired Curry, now a puzzle, was 3-for-9. Kevon Looney is the most under-appreciated player in the NBA.Ĭurry is their championship DNA. Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and the long-departed Kevin Durant are going to the Hall of Fame.
Yes, sure, Steve Kerr is one of the top five coaches in NBA history. Curry built these Warriors, make no mistake. Difference: Curry doesn’t have any netting below him. Practicing falling? Landing? Flipping? Cirque du Soleil comes to the NBA. “It’s our chipping and putting,” Fraser wisecracked. He was referring to the scooping and flipping of the ball while being knocked down, horizontal to the ground in mid-air, when the instinct is to protect the body from the hard, wooden floor. “We work all the time on what we call his ‘short game’,” Fraser. Had to do with those Curry scoop shots while falling. Guppy, the flesh and blood evidence of what hard work can bring, the kind of hard work done when no one is watching and clapping.īruce Fraser, Curry’s shooting coach, was asked a question that contained a certain amount of an unintentional insult. Guppy would have made a great Harlem Globetrotter. Run three miles to squeeze a second advantage for 38 shots? Check. Flip the ball underhanded for a swish while falling? Check. Dribble between two Kings players, TWICE ON the SAME DRIVE? Check. Sink a 3 from five feet behind the arc while falling? Check. When the man plays like he did Sunday, it’s a video game.
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But Curry could as well say the same thing about that quotation - no one scores 50 in a Game 7 of a playoff series and celebrates by talking failure. No one had ever done that before in a Game Seven of a playoff series - the 50 points that is. “I know everybody wants to see you fail,” Curry said AFTER he scored 50 points Sunday in Game 7. Like they are the orca and he’s the guppy.
The NBA will chew him up and swallow him whole. He’s still that skinny little kid from North Carolina. It lingers because Steph Curry decides it must because he can never forget, never relax.
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