Stephen Curry has not made a lot of mistakes in his career. But he did a big this week on national television.
He did not stress back on defense.
And just as it was the warriors convicted.
Forget the brilliant driving that arrived from Miami with Jimmy Butler and the rest of his luggage.
Forget the return of Jonathan Kuminga, a guy 29 or different teams asked about the trade deadline, and Warriors refused to bite.
Forget Draymond Green, which returns the clock to become a defensive player for this year’s candidate again.
And forget that Warriors was pretty much a reflection in 2015 and 2022, before stunning the experts with championships that were not directly associated with Kevin Durant.
Like this year … including the so -called experts but without still having a chance to pull their magical game plan after the season from Mothballs.
Everything because Curry looked at Nuggets Prance Downcourt for a scheme in an embarrassing poor performance of a Warriors team that would be because of one.
Oh my goodness, Curry’s limp. They caught it on TV.
These are the knees.
It’s his back.
It’s mental fatigue. (Does it make you limp?)
It’s …
Enough already.
Will Warriors win the championship this season? Probably not.
Take it back … definitely not. They are just not as good as a handful of teams, including the one who beat them the other night without Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.
But will it be because Curry is 37 years old and has been run in the ground by a strenuous coach who doubles just want rings and discs?
(It’s just a coincidence that Steve Kerr passed Al Atles on top of Warriors ranking for most victories in franchise history last week. He did so by burning curry for all 35 minutes that night.)
Yes, Curry is 37. Yes, knees, thumb and even back disturb him once in a while.
And don’t tell anyone, but about once a game he doesn’t go Wile E. Coyote and chases a guy who has stolen the ball and goes in for a can. Shame on him.
But not shame on Warriors, or Kerr or anyone else.
Curry has missed eight matches this season. Everyone has been a night stand-downs. The league demands that Warriors have listed an injury every time, but let’s be honest: more times than not, it has been to sleep in.
Is curry tired? At Mil 21 in a marathon, most runners are. Especially 30-Seckenhings. Ask Lebron or Durant.
But these numbers don’t scream: “I need a month in Cancun.”
– Curry has played 1,929 minutes this season. It’s not even the top 50 in the league.
In fact, there are about ten matches worth fewer than James Harden, who at the age of 35 had enough in the idea to get 30 points Friday against Memphis Grizzlies.
Have you seen him win any races lately?
– Curry has had enough strength, not only to reach the proximity of the bow 125 times from 23 feet or longer in the last three weeks, but do so with a 42.4% accuracy.
Maybe it has been the problem with Anthony Edwards. He was so far ahead in his bid to put in the reigning 3-point master, he stopped looking over the shoulder.
But with the end in sight, he saw the old man Curry cut that deficit in principle in half, and exploits the 23-year-old’s youthful enthusiasm. With 12 matches left, we have a ball game.
– Curry had 56 and 40 points in recent road games, when he was probably out of gasoline, 32 and 28 in victories over two teams that tried to stifle him – the pistons and knicks.
Warriors have won 16 of their last 19 matches. Curry has an average of 27.5 points in these games – more than he on average the last time he led the Golden State to a title.
Curry does not play Saturday at Atlanta when Warriors opens a trip with five games.
Exhausted? No. He was beaten on the butt on Thursday night against Raptors … and it hurts.
Look for him Tuesday or shortly thereafter to get back on his feet and return to throwing hawks.
Here hopes that one knocks out each of its NaySayers.
“Curry is tired” gets tiring.
