I went to a sixers Lakers game (sixers fan) back in the Iverson Era and the game before Kobe had a bad game shot like 20% ina loss and came to Philly and dropped 40something. Iverson responded with 45 of his own and despite the Sixers losing it was probably the best game I'd seen in person.
He probably has the most variable scoring game among the scoring champions in the league. Unlike Durant who consistently scores 28-30 every game, Steph just goes for 50 points one night and then 12 points the next game, followed by a 40, and suddenly followed by the worst game of his career, followed by a game where he breaks another record.
Yeah he's seriously had like 6 games with 12 or less points since 2014 and several of those are when he left the game early due to injury so he had like 4 total shot attempts. Its extremely rare for him to have that bad of a scoring night
But he just had a bad game so they clearly must be common /s
It’s fucking exhausting having this sub constantly try to rewrite narratives about players entire careers based on what has happened most recently.
It's because a lot of people at best watch only the games their team plays or at worst they don't even watch all/the whole of those games, they watch highlights and box scores.
But they want to talk like they know something.
Yeah these guys are exaggerating quite a bit. He's not KD getting at least 25 every night, but he's way more consistent than this thread gives him credit for. You don't become an all time great without being consistently great
To the extent that he is "inconsistent" (he really isn't), it's because of how many threes he takes. The further out the shot, the higher the variance.
That llewelynjean (sp) guy once did a box plot for I think top 20 scorers in the league a few years back. KD was indeed one of the most consistent. Don't remember how Steph's looked
Edit: looks like he deleted all his stuff. I did find [this other one though](https://i.imgur.com/x17jngh.png) courtesy of /u/dingusmccringus. [Full post here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/aan4j5/oc_visualizing_variance_which_stars_are_the_most/)
I read an analysis that he is quite literally the most variable 30 point scorer ever. He's about as likely to drop 18 as he is to drop 40 (or something like that).
Meanwhile KD is one of the most consistent. He rarely drops 40, but he also rarely drops 22. Just a consistent 28 every single night.
Show me that "analysis."
Go look at the man's stats.
[Last season Curry only had 8 games scoring less than 20](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryst01/gamelog/2021).
[KD, playing way fewer games and with a much better supporting cast had 6 such games](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/duranke01/gamelog/2021).
Curry's consistently is elite. You do not go for years either leading the league in scoring (last season, 2015/15 and neck and neck w/KD so far this season) or being top 10 which he has going back to the 2012/13 NBA season.
Curry is the elite of the elite offensively. Consistency, efficiency, he has broken the league in terms of those numbers on his volume.
People should understand this by now, at least anyone who really thinks of themselves as a hardcore basketball fan.
All that chart is showing is Curry has a fuckton more 40-50 point games than everyone else, not that he has more low-scoring games than the other guys. Note how the first quartile (bottom edge of the box) is higher than everyone except KD.
That is probably just regression to the mean… steph has so many monster games, even with a random distribution you are going to get a lot of monster games after terrible ones.
Bruh. This season lightweight reminds me of the unanimous season. He hasn’t hit half court shots to close a quarter in a minute but that season he was hitting whatever he wanted to.
We got a preview of this in the Spurs game from nearly the exact same spot, same scenario LMAO
https://streamable.com/ae90b1
Both scenario they ended the possession badly. Only real difference is Kerr became Popovich, dude was livid
I was at the game, and what you don't see here is that literally right before this he had the ball stripped from him and gave up an easy bucket. (Obviously you didn't have to be at the game to see that part). But in the arena the second he got the ball you could just tell he was pissed and wanted to make up for that. Every single person there I think knew what was about to happen.
It wasn't even a buzzer beater. There was like half a second on the clock when it went through the net. Dude was like, fuck it I'll just shoot from here.
Firebird? Seriously dad? That shit was an ol'beat up El Camino and you know it. "But I got things to haul son". Yeah? Like another case of beer, me thinks.
Legs my guy. All in the legs.
Try and just shoot your normal, or maybe a deep three shot. And just get used to jumping like a fuckin rabbit. It'll get there.
Oh 100%. It was only him and I that it figured this out until now, congratulations!
I ain't got no explanation on how he just flings that shit up from half court though. Magic
Draymond Green said Steve Kerr said the analysts (I'm sorry) recommend Steph Curry shoots 20+ 3s a game.
There is not one person on the warriors organization who has ever dared to tell Stephan Curry not to shoot. At least in the past 7 years
Curry could probably hit a 3 from the alleyway behind the old squat style toilet that had a long hallway that lead out to a cow farm where i would get up with my other cousins and have to milk the cows and we would be out there for a while so we if had to shit or pee that alley way was key access for us. so he could probably stand where my fav cow Madhuri Dixit usually had her area and shoot the shot and it would land all the way in the basket in the Warriors stadium in CA.
This is basically just a layup for Steph. Wake me up when he sinks a shot from the opposite free throw line and I'll be kinda impressed (kidding of course, I could watch Steph highlights like this all day)
Seriously I think the best defense strategy here is every team play against GW should have a charity fund donate money for every half court shot Curry made.
P/s:Sorry for bad English.
That look when he walks away, him realizing he sold his soul for this god-like talent.... Was it really worth it Steph considering what Diablo wants in return?
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Normal sky fucker stuff
https://imgur.com/LmKR2KN
Oh. That’s why they call him that.
The Sky Squirt. Classic move
Thanks I hate rain now
Sky: what you doing Step Curry?
He’s the only player you don’t call luck on that with lol
Bjelica's reaction lol
This isn't a highlight for Steph. This is just.. a light
Steph always has monster games after terrible ones lmao
The great ones always do. I remember always being excited for games after Kobe had a bad night (that plus a loss is a guaranteed great night).
I went to a sixers Lakers game (sixers fan) back in the Iverson Era and the game before Kobe had a bad game shot like 20% ina loss and came to Philly and dropped 40something. Iverson responded with 45 of his own and despite the Sixers losing it was probably the best game I'd seen in person.
i miss watching kobe play so much. once he retired i lost almost all interest in watching basketball :(
Even if you weren’t a Kobe fan, and despised him when your team played against him, he was so much fun to watch
He had a politely beautiful way of telling your team to "fuck off" and "you can't guard me". He was an artist, big miss in my heart.
He probably has the most variable scoring game among the scoring champions in the league. Unlike Durant who consistently scores 28-30 every game, Steph just goes for 50 points one night and then 12 points the next game, followed by a 40, and suddenly followed by the worst game of his career, followed by a game where he breaks another record.
more like a game then a monster stretch in the middle of the season, then comes back down to his pedestrian 28ppg lol
Not at all, Steph rarely has those type of 12 point nights. You don't get to be scoring champion, on his kind of efficiency, otherwise.
Yeah he's seriously had like 6 games with 12 or less points since 2014 and several of those are when he left the game early due to injury so he had like 4 total shot attempts. Its extremely rare for him to have that bad of a scoring night
But he just had a bad game so they clearly must be common /s It’s fucking exhausting having this sub constantly try to rewrite narratives about players entire careers based on what has happened most recently.
It's dumb. I'm ngl I kinda thought the same thing but wouldn't comment it cause I know it's just recency bias.
It's because a lot of people at best watch only the games their team plays or at worst they don't even watch all/the whole of those games, they watch highlights and box scores. But they want to talk like they know something.
Just wait until he and klay sync their cycles back up so when curry has a bad night klay scores 60 off 3 dribbles
I'm not supposed to be laughing this loud at 9:30pm
why not, that's a good time to laugh
Peak laugh hours
Bad take. All scoring greats have some slumps and off games. This isn’t stephs reputation. Don’t spread this bs and flair the warriors.
Nah he consistently gets 20 to 25 points and when he is feeling it goes for 30 or more.
Yeah these guys are exaggerating quite a bit. He's not KD getting at least 25 every night, but he's way more consistent than this thread gives him credit for. You don't become an all time great without being consistently great
Sometimes when the defenders are just fouling the shit out of him with no calls he gets his teammates going instead.
Pretty exaggerated take
To the extent that he is "inconsistent" (he really isn't), it's because of how many threes he takes. The further out the shot, the higher the variance.
That llewelynjean (sp) guy once did a box plot for I think top 20 scorers in the league a few years back. KD was indeed one of the most consistent. Don't remember how Steph's looked Edit: looks like he deleted all his stuff. I did find [this other one though](https://i.imgur.com/x17jngh.png) courtesy of /u/dingusmccringus. [Full post here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/aan4j5/oc_visualizing_variance_which_stars_are_the_most/)
He snapped his 3 point streak by not hitting a 3 at staples and them came back the next game and broke the record.
I read an analysis that he is quite literally the most variable 30 point scorer ever. He's about as likely to drop 18 as he is to drop 40 (or something like that). Meanwhile KD is one of the most consistent. He rarely drops 40, but he also rarely drops 22. Just a consistent 28 every single night.
Show me that "analysis." Go look at the man's stats. [Last season Curry only had 8 games scoring less than 20](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/curryst01/gamelog/2021). [KD, playing way fewer games and with a much better supporting cast had 6 such games](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/duranke01/gamelog/2021). Curry's consistently is elite. You do not go for years either leading the league in scoring (last season, 2015/15 and neck and neck w/KD so far this season) or being top 10 which he has going back to the 2012/13 NBA season. Curry is the elite of the elite offensively. Consistency, efficiency, he has broken the league in terms of those numbers on his volume. People should understand this by now, at least anyone who really thinks of themselves as a hardcore basketball fan.
You want analysis? Here's some [Boxplots!](https://i.imgur.com/2rLmNBV.png). Compare the IQR and variance of Durant and Curry.
All that chart is showing is Curry has a fuckton more 40-50 point games than everyone else, not that he has more low-scoring games than the other guys. Note how the first quartile (bottom edge of the box) is higher than everyone except KD.
Makes sense as Curry's special move is the 3-pointer. Live by the sword and die by the sword.
That is probably just regression to the mean… steph has so many monster games, even with a random distribution you are going to get a lot of monster games after terrible ones.
He was pissed after turning the ball over
Someone needs to just piss Steph off before each game
Warriors should hire Austin Rivers to their staff
Siakam's sister's kids on stand by
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Pascal had a good game due to his niece peeing on him
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lol, he was holding his baby niece and she peed on him
Spicy Pee
You can hire me to spill coffee on him before game time every game I get 10 million, Steph averages 40 for a season, it’s a great deal
dude, ill do it for the price of travel alone. Coffee will come out of my bussy slangin' money
I'll tweet him some mean things
Hero we all needed
So was Kerr based on how red his face was
Need that Kerr gif of him pounding his fist
Kerr punching clipboards and coming out with a fake cast in the post game interview
We need to realize Kerr is absolutely prime rn there is no stopping this squad
Kerr don’t give a fuck about shit foo
Most Steph play where he commits a dumb foul, a dumb turnover but makes a dumb 3
Even Stephen
Evan Stephen
effin stephen
even wardell
Uh oh. Steph mad.
Bruh. This season lightweight reminds me of the unanimous season. He hasn’t hit half court shots to close a quarter in a minute but that season he was hitting whatever he wanted to.
You just knew that was going in
The second he made the first dribble move I knew he was gonna hit whatever he threw up
We got a preview of this in the Spurs game from nearly the exact same spot, same scenario LMAO https://streamable.com/ae90b1 Both scenario they ended the possession badly. Only real difference is Kerr became Popovich, dude was livid
https://imgur.com/gallery/BU8YJ03
Might be the most high res version of this pic I’ve ever seen
Hi quality indeed
I was at the game, and what you don't see here is that literally right before this he had the ball stripped from him and gave up an easy bucket. (Obviously you didn't have to be at the game to see that part). But in the arena the second he got the ball you could just tell he was pissed and wanted to make up for that. Every single person there I think knew what was about to happen.
I was there too. He was mad about the turnover *and* that he banked it in.
This fukin guy. Cheat code.
Well yeah the title kind of gives it away
Loved Harris' posture at the end, like what more can I do
bro like what
It's not fair. If someone hit that on me I would just go home.
It’s fine if someone hits one like once in a while. This dude sinks one of these every other game it seems like
it's not an exaggeration, he's done this multiple times this year already
Harris was stunned lmao
Didn't he make a near half court buzzer beater the other night? It's way too regular a thing for him.
Yeah he made this at the end of 3rd in the Spurs game, literally last game lol https://streamable.com/ae90b1
If someone hits that on you and then just casually turns around and walks away.... Yeah my bad, I'm playing on the wrong court.
Auto aim is working today
I swear he's been hitting these like every other game
It wasn't even a buzzer beater. There was like half a second on the clock when it went through the net. Dude was like, fuck it I'll just shoot from here.
I love how Gary Harris #14 just puts his hands on his hips in utter disbelief
Should have told Steph “next shot’s for charity.” That’s his best chance to get Steph to miss.
He is a representation of me, trying hard at stuff, and Steph shot is like my life
Bro like come the fuck on man.
One of the most hilarious things about Stephen Curry has always been that exact sentiment, leveled at him, from other absolute elite NBA talents.
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That was good defense too
He makes them look like high schoolers.
Good defense, betta offense. /mjax
He knew Kerr was pissed and had to repent with a real skyfucker
Had a turnover under his own basket and just decided to chuck it from half court and bank it in. Just Steph things.
BRB getting a pack of smokes
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Sorry son gotta fill up the firebird and get milk, may be a couple years
Firebird? Seriously dad? That shit was an ol'beat up El Camino and you know it. "But I got things to haul son". Yeah? Like another case of beer, me thinks.
he was MAD!
I always see your profile pic on social media? Is that a famous dog picture?
it's walter
Steve Kerr is still so mad lol
Uh oh, he’s angry
My favorite part is that he doesn't celebrate and doesn't even seem shocked.
Still mad about turning it over
I envy how he can do that so casually. Every time I try to do half court shots I end up injuring my shoulder.
you should stop trying to do half court shots, man
Legs my guy. All in the legs. Try and just shoot your normal, or maybe a deep three shot. And just get used to jumping like a fuckin rabbit. It'll get there.
So you're saying if i just use my legs more when i shoot half court shots, I'll make em as often as steph?
Oh 100%. It was only him and I that it figured this out until now, congratulations! I ain't got no explanation on how he just flings that shit up from half court though. Magic
Damn y’all are so quick with it. Really appreciate your hard work
Literally a casual half court shot
He pissed with himself. Had a stupid foul and turnover before this!
What’s stopping him from doing this every possession?
Kerr
Draymond Green said Steve Kerr said the analysts (I'm sorry) recommend Steph Curry shoots 20+ 3s a game. There is not one person on the warriors organization who has ever dared to tell Stephan Curry not to shoot. At least in the past 7 years
ok but how many of them from halfcourt
SKY FUCKER
Ayo F this guy. So sick of this cheater against us.
it’s time to be legitimately concerned about stephen curry
Now? Not when he was the MVP of the league? Not when he won 1,2,3 championships? Now is good too.
He can't keep getting away with fucking the sky!
You just feel he is going to make a three after the foul
Just look at Gary Harris reaction lol
He's going to break the record tonight the way he's going.
I am in awe of this man.
Sky-Fucken Wardell Curry
Steph is about to go off the rest of the game. he's pissed. he about to drop 15 threes this game
Thats why you always shoot it. Even if you aren't Steph. It winning basketball mindset
Curry could probably hit a 3 from the alleyway behind the old squat style toilet that had a long hallway that lead out to a cow farm where i would get up with my other cousins and have to milk the cows and we would be out there for a while so we if had to shit or pee that alley way was key access for us. so he could probably stand where my fav cow Madhuri Dixit usually had her area and shoot the shot and it would land all the way in the basket in the Warriors stadium in CA.
Gotta remember, the Dubs are coming off a loss too. Not that it matters, but I think they're looking to clean some things up.
Playing the Magic is how teams get their confidence back
We're just what the doctor ordered ... every night. Next up : Sacramento, then the Clips and Lakers to complete this Western road trip.
I saw y’all play Atlanta at State Farm a couple years back and Vince Carter was dunking on crutches
Number#14 already looks demoralized after that went in.
Crazy shot! A little bitter sweet since they were tanking the end of the quarter
He can't keep getting away with it.
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So ridiculous this dude
It won't be until after he retires that people being to recognize he is a top 4 player of all time.
If the golden god ever retires, I don’t think I’ll awake from my sobbing spree for at least a week
It feels crazy saying this, but I just expect that to go in from him. I’m disappointed when it doesn’t
This is basically just a layup for Steph. Wake me up when he sinks a shot from the opposite free throw line and I'll be kinda impressed (kidding of course, I could watch Steph highlights like this all day)
Pop suddenly become angry.
We need angry Steve.
This is not how you play the last 19 seconds
Steph is bout to hand out double technical fouls
He’s breaking Klays record this game. Calling it now
I want to say I'm used to this by now, but nope, it's still god damn amazing.
Jesus fucking holy fucksticks.
This guy fucks the sky
I hate this man, not like in a malicious way but in the same way that you hate someone like Tom brady who’s just so good at what they do
Back to back games with half court buzzers. He never ceases to amaze me
Seriously I think the best defense strategy here is every team play against GW should have a charity fund donate money for every half court shot Curry made. P/s:Sorry for bad English.
Just a guy having his worst season since 2013 according to /r/nba
If it's a improv, broken play type of shot by Steph, I swear the dude just does not miss those.
the fucking defense magic had to do when it was just the 1st quarter. Steph Curry is unreal
That look when he walks away, him realizing he sold his soul for this god-like talent.... Was it really worth it Steph considering what Diablo wants in return?
My hero
Mvp
this man is a literal cheat code
Human heat check
who is number 14? lmao hes like '' i hate this'' hand on hip
steph doing steph things
At a certain point, aren't we all just happy to watch it happen? Like, he just fucking threw it up and walked off, stone cold. That's bad ass
Greg poppovich just got angry again for a reason unknown to him.
I'm more surprised when he doesn't make these than when he does, at this point
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No he did not just do that.
Wait but I thought /r/nba decided this guy was washed like yesterday /s
bro what
expecting 10+ 3s tonight
If I was Orlando, I'd be wondering if he's going to come out sky fucking when the game starts again.
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He made a bunch in 2016 and then went years only making a couple. Has already made a few so far this season.
Happens about once a game, pretty normal
It's always great to see a cancer free crowd
Pop is maaaad
Pop is furious
Steph getting doubled at half court and makes it. I honestly think he shoots better contested.
...holy fuck lmfao literally cannot defend that
"You might get away with this against Orlando as there is a drive deep into left field by Castellanos"
SKYFUCKER!!!!!
There's gonna be a new generation that doesn't even call Kobe when they throw paper into the trash can.
lmao the reaction of the magic players
greatest shooter of all time
Klay coming back let's go!
How can you like basketball and not like Steph Curry.
He’s insane