I sent a text to my buddy Josh at the 17:49 mark of the first half of last night's Davidson at Oklahoma game. It read: "The only guy I'm watching this year is Curry." He texted me back and said that he is the man, but there are a lotta good players and teams out there. NO THANKS. Stephen Curry is must see TV. Have you ever seen anybody like this guy? On a shitty night, against a sexy pick team, in their house, he goes for 44. HE DIDNT EVEN PLAY WELL. And if the refs hadn't fucked that game up by making him sit the last 8 minutes of the first half, they would have beat Oklahoma.
This year, Curry has the ball in his hands all game. He's gotta handle it and instigate the offense. He never gets a break anymore, and when he gets rid of the ball now, teams try to make it impossible for him to get it back. And he always seems to just walk around, yawn, orders dinner and comes off a screen for a WIDE open look. He moves without the ball so naturally that he makes it look so easy. And they dont even do that much for him. I watched pretty closely last night, and they didnt have a ton of sets and moves to get him open. He initiated the offense, ran to the block, hung out for 13 seconds, and came off a half hearted single screen and that was usually enough. Davidson runs a lot of motion, but Curry doesnt do a ton. At times, he moved without the ball a lot. But its mostly a lot of action from the other 4 players that leads to Curry getting loose. But he's just so good when he has the ball. He can create space to get his 3, he can get space to shoot a fadeaway in the key, he can hit the floater. And he can really create opportunities to get the line where he's automatic. Im pretty sold on Bob McKillop. He seems like hes a pretty smooth operator. His teams are always so fundamentally solid. But I mean above all things, hes just got the sweetest stroke in the world right now. I mean there is no doubt when that thing comes off his hand. Fran Fraschilla said he has never seen anyone in his life swish so many 3's in a practice session. Guy barely hits the net. And Stephen Curry has some stones. Hes a big game player. Hes always there in the last 5 minutes. I fear that they are gonna start to triple face guard him with three guys. That might be the only way to stop this cat. But I think you can pencil him in for 5 40 point games and 2 half-100 games. In addition to Stephen Curry, my other guy is BC's Tyrese Rice. Guy is un-guardable. Peg him in for 4 40 point games. NASTY.
JC III
