Robertson said Curry shoots so well because modern National Basketball Association defences are trash. I made a bunch of threes in the third quarter and finished with that one. Even Dick Vitale was there to see firsthand just how awesome, baby, these Warriors really are.
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With Curry, everything is possible. He leads the league with 30.4 points per game and has elevated the Warriors to an NBA-best 52-5 record.
Stephen Curry scored 51 points, connecting on 10 of 15 three-pointers to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 130-114 victory over the Orlando Magic Thursday night.
“The three-point shot is like a layup to him”, Kerr said.
The last time Steph Curry did not make a 3-point shot in a game was on November 11th, 2014. While Kerr won’t be happy with 20 turnovers for the game, they were mostly a result of the Warriors’ sky-high ambition when it comes to finding teammates with open lanes to the basket, whether through back-door cuts or fast-break leak-outs. Gordon says he’s playing with a small, stabilizing brace on his finger but hasn’t had trouble getting shots up in practice.
“And then you go with K.J…. With Steph, it’s actually true”.
He got a running start, pulled up at midcourt and banked in a 44-footer at the buzzer at the end of the third to give the Warriors a 99-91 lead and himself 24 points in the quarter and 46 points on the night. “I swear I did”.
“[Curry is] probably going to go for 300”, Korver said recently, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While this may seem like a slim chance now, they will presumably be favored to win every game they play for the rest of the year and, barring injury, will trot out a deep team aligned with role players and superstars that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. So for Curry, a half-court shot in a game is taken with confidence.
There’s a lot more, including me grilling Curry about his recent round at Augusta National-he said he walked out to the spot in the trees on No. 10 where Bubba Watson hooked his pitching wedge onto the green in the playoff to win the 2010 Masters. “I know right away if it has a chance or not”.
The reigning MVP topped 50 points for the third time this season, becoming first player to do it that many times in a season since LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in 2008-09.
As the last tweet mentioned, Curry, despite all his activity Thursday, only took one free throw (hitting it, of course). He also surpassed his father, Dell Curry, on the career three-pointers list earlier this season. San Antonio never trailed again and held the Jazz to just 12 second-quarter points. Scott Skiles, too, knows the exploits of Stephen Curry as well as any coach. And in the fourth, he added another shot from long distance for good measure.
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That Golden State team was good and very fun.
