Also unknown to fans is Curry. In two games, Curry made 4 of 20 shots outside the three-point line and scored only 39 points. The team lost and his data were not good. The doubts about Curry began to lose.
Over the years, there have been too many fans of teams and stars suppressed by Curry and his warriors. They gathered in the online teahouse, ordered a cup of strong tea, crossed their legs, fanned their banana fans and chatted with malicious intent.
"I told you, Curry, a system player! Without Durant, he can't fight! "
"Hey, he is not 20 16 himself. Without the cover of Green and Thompson's space, how much better can he be than Lei Dike? "
"Let go of Aaron? He must also have this skill. Look at Harden, the letter. Even if the team loses, the data will not be lost. It's not like him. It all depends on the Warriors' passing system. "
A thousand words can be summed up as: Curry, when are you going to let go? Can you still put Karen down? Can you still swing?
Two fiasco, the Warriors win three out of four, beating the Bulls and Pistons may not be enough, but beating the pioneers of the western strong teams? Or fight back with a perfect performance of 3 1 shooting 18, 16 shooting 8 and a career high of 62 points? Curry, where is this? This is a slap in the face! Curry, who has faced countless doubts since he was a teenager, used his performance on the court for ten years to shut everyone up.
Before Curry broke out, the Warriors lost to the Pioneers. Lillard said: "Curry has won many championships and participated in numerous national live broadcast competitions. The Warriors once established a dynasty, so when he hit those super three-pointers, everyone will notice, but I have always been able to shoot super three-pointers like him. "
Last season, Lillard made 54 shots from 30 feet away 130, and hit 4 1.5%. Even in the heyday of 20 16, Curry shot only 45 times (2 1) from 30 feet away, while in the season of 19, he shot 62 times (18- 19). In terms of output and efficiency, Curry's score is not as good as Lillard's.
So, Lillard does have the capital to say that he can shoot more than three points now, but Cole woke Lillard with a word. He responded to Lillard: "He is right. They locked the garage well. Now we need to better create opportunities for Curry. " Cole's words made clear the biggest difference between Curry and Lillard, or other point guards. Let's talk about what happened when Curry let Karen go.
One, Curry may never let Karen go.
20 16 is recognized as the strongest year in the library. That year, he won the NBA scoring championship with an average of 30. 1 minute, and hit 402 three-pointers with a shooting percentage of 45.4%, breaking the NBA single-season three-pointer record. The Warriors won a record-breaking 73 wins under his leadership, and Curry became the first regular season MVP in NBA history to be unanimously approved.
In the hearts of fans, it must be putting down the garage, right?
Let go of your fingers and do everything. When the roll ball faces the restricted area, one person controls most of the ball rights of the team. So I'm sorry, even if it was 20 16, Curry didn't let it go.
In that year, 46.6% of Curry's scores came from teammates' assists. His best 3-pointers are 4.7 shots per game after receiving the ball and 6.3 shots per game after pulling straight. The shooting percentage is 47.7% to 43.8%, and the shooting percentage is higher after catching the ball.
In the choice of attack mode, Curry averaged 6.7 pick-and-roll balls (accounting for 26.2%) and 2.5 pick-and-roll balls (accounting for 10%). What is this concept? There were 23 players with more pick-and-roll times than Curry, including ishmael smith and Moudier. There are also 23 players who average more singles per game than Curry. Last season, Wang Ha played singles 14. 1 time, which was 5.64 times that of Curry.
In Cole's tactical concept, Curry has never held the ball like Paul and Harden. I have the best point guard in the world. Curry can certainly hold the ball like Paul and Harden. In mark jackson's time, Curry played like this. But if Curry continues like that, will it grow into the Curry that you and I know today? It was Cole who designed a set of palace-level tactics for the warriors with his tactical concept of mixing Phil Jackson and Popovich. The core of tactics depends on Curry's no-ball containment.
In the Warriors, Cole can boldly abandon all-star striker David Lee and appease Iguodala, who was signed by the team, and let him go to the substitute position. Cole is an old hand in both tactical thinking and chicken soup, and he also coaxed Curry. Curry was at home in the system that Cole built for him and reached the peak of his career. He and Cole can also be regarded as the story of mutual achievement of star coaches.
So it's not up to him to let Curry go. He trusted Cole and knew that Cole could play his role to the maximum. If those dry shots after dribbling for ten seconds and those mid-range jumpers after picking and holding the ball are not the most suitable attack methods for Curry, then why force Curry to do that?
Second, the tactics can't go on, and Curry can only let go.
Thompson's fall to the ground indicates that the Warriors' season is much more difficult than expected. Although players such as Ubray and Bazemore have been introduced, and these mediocre players are very reliable, the future of the Warriors is not optimistic. In ESPN's prediction at the beginning of the season, the Warriors' prediction ranked second from the bottom in the West.
Speaking of Curry at the beginning of the season, Cole said: "It is incredible good luck for us to have Curry. He is the facade of the team and he can make the impossible possible. " Later, he said that he still wanted to strictly control Curry's playing time to 34 minutes. After the age of 25, Curry averaged only 34.2 minutes per game. At the beginning of the season, Cole knew that the use of the library might be different this season.
Regarding the team's attack, Cole said: "We will learn from other teams' styles of play. Most teams in the league have three points. They can accomplish a lot of things outside the three-point line and shoot a lot. It is almost unrealistic to let the big man on the team hit the basket and create opportunities for others on the team. Kind of ironic. The fewer shooters in your team, the more space you need on the court. Otherwise, everyone will be crowded together at the offensive end, and there will be no way to run. "
Ubray made 300 3-pointers for the Suns last season, 90% of which were shot by defenders in the open space 4 feet away from him, while his 3-pointer shooting rate in the open space was only 34.7%, which was 6.9% lower than Thompson in 18- 19 season. Wiggins' three-point shooting percentage in the last three years has not exceeded 34%. These two snow peas are almost all points that the other side can empty outside the three-point line. In the Warriors' array, the only shooters are Curry and Damien Lee on the bench.
In the first three games of the new season, 13 Wiggins scored 4 points and 17 Ubray scored 0 points. Curry was still trying the same running tactics in the game, but when he took part in the open space, he found that Ubray and Wiggins didn't follow the tactics at all, or they couldn't throw a simple open space.
This round, Curry covered for Ubray after holding the ball. Ubray should have walked on the right, relying on the cover of Curry and Wiseman to open the Bucks' defense. Unexpectedly, Ubray held the ball without looking at his teammates, and was strong by three points against the defense of the best defensive player in the league.
Ubray ignored Curry's cover and jumped directly.
When Ubray succeeded in breaking through and attracting all the defensive attention of the Bucks, he couldn't see his teammate Wiggins. He was open at a 45-degree angle on the weak side and the attack ended in being blocked.
Ubray ignored Wiggins' request to let the ball go straight to the hard court.
Wiggins, like Ubray, will force the hat when he reaches the deep position under the basket, and he didn't notice that his teammates had begun to cut the air when he broke through.
Wiggins' hard process does not divide the ball and caps it.
When Curry was present, he tried his best to create open shots and empty cuts for his teammates. According to the data of NBA official website, the Warriors' assist rate was 58.2% when Curry was present this season, and it dropped to 48.5% when Curry left. When Curry is away, the Warriors can't guide the ball at all, and the positive and negative values of team substitutes are only better than the Wizards and Thunder in the whole league. According to the data after cleaning the glass to eliminate the garbage in the game, in the presence of Curry, the Warriors scored 12.3 points every 100 rounds, and the effective hit rate increased by 4%.
The second half of the third game of the season against the Bulls may be the beginning of Curry's awakening. At the end of the third quarter, he hit a big three on the buzzer.
Wake up three points in the library.
Since then, he has stopped running step by step. He attacks more and more with the ball, and his desire to attack is getting stronger and stronger. Wiggins, one of the Feng Chu Warriors in Wolong, also woke up in the fourth game against Pistons. 19 made 9 shots, 5 out of 3, and scored a season-high 27 points.
Curry hit a three-pointer through Wiggins' cover.
What makes Curry happier than Wiggins' high score is that Wiggins finally played the sporadic tactics before the Warriors. At the beginning of the third quarter, he hit a three-pointer under the cover of Wiggins. Curry said: "This ball makes me very excited. This is one of our most basic tactics in the past. But this is a process, and we are all trying to understand where the space on the court is, where our rhythm is and where the shooting opportunities are. Especially when I give the ball to my teammates, the players still pose a threat to score without the ball, but at the same time we also know that we can play opportunities on the weak side. "
Cole said that after beating the Bulls and Wiggins, the situation improved slightly. "I now think we need to play simpler and do some very basic things. Wiggins can really bring us changes on the offensive end. His impact on the basket has brought us space on the court, so we must stick to these things. "
It is true that Wiggins and Ubray will not become Thompson and Iguodala in an instant, and the Warriors' attack is unlikely to return to the level of holding the Splash Brothers at the peak. However, with the concerted efforts of Qi Xin, Cole tried to simplify the complicated tactics once possessed by the Warriors, and Wiggins also tried to play smarter and execute more tactics.
Curry is also making changes. So far this season, his scoring and assists rate of 38.3% is the second lowest in his career. The last time he played like this, it was the 20 13-20 14 season under the command of mark jackson (the scoring and assists rate this season was 30. 1%). In each game, Curry instigated 9.8 pick-and-roll attacks, which was the highest in his career and ranked eighth in the league.
Letting Aaron go is an offensive choice Curry has not made in the past six years, but when the team is in danger and the transition is difficult, he has the responsibility to jump out of his comfort zone. In a game, Curry silenced all the doubters.
In the "Star Stand", Curry wrote an article about all kinds of doubts he encountered in his career. He wrote: In the past years, this feeling of being looked down upon has never disappeared, even in 20 19-when people tried to bury us, I would jump out of this grave regardless.
Even though the Warriors are still a weak team, the road to the playoffs is full of bumps, but what about Steven Curry? Don't say let go of Aaron. For him, it is never a question whether he can let go of Aaron, but whether he needs to let go of Aaron is the question. He is just the most correct decision. Where else did he get his three gold crowns?