Chapter 231: Curry's Outburst
The 11-12 season can be said to be a nightmare season for Curry in another time and space.
Frequent sprained ankle injuries allowed him to play in just 26 games this season, averaging just 14.7 points and 5.3 assists per game.
Frequent injuries caused the Warriors management to lose trust in Curry, and finally chose to offer Curry a four-year contract worth $44 million at the end of '12.
4 years and 44 million, for the vast majority of players in the league, it is a very lucrative contract, but for Curry, it is obviously not, because in the 12-13 season, Curry, who returned from injury, efficiently cut the average of 22.9 points and 6.9 assists per game, and in the next two seasons, Curry also scored 24+8 All-Star data, and helped the team win the championship trophy in the 14-15 season.
In the 16-17 season, Curry ushered in a real explosive period, averaging 30.1 points per game, shooting 402 three-pointers with a 45.4% shooting rate in a single season, and leading the team to an unprecedented 73-9!
At that time, Curry had become a superstar who could shake the status of the first person in the league James, but his salary was only just over 10 million due to injuries in the 11-12 season, and it was not even as good as the Nuggets point guard Tai, who was the 18th pick in the first round in 09 in the same year as him. Lawson.
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And now, thanks to the emergence of Wang Xiao, Curry's career has been turned upside down.
In his debut in the 09-10 season, he averaged 26.5 points and 6 assists per game and was voted the Rookie of the Year.
In the 10-11 season, he averaged 27 points and 6.9 assists per game, becoming the youngest regular season MVP in history.
In the 11-12 season, Curry has averaged 31 points and 7.8 assists per game in five games, shooting 48.0% from the field and 44.3% from three-point range.
Now Stephen. Curry, in terms of strength, seems to be no less than the 15-16 season that changed the trajectory of the entire league.
Wang Xiao was not surprised by this.
Curry, who was in another time and space, was a junior brother to others at the beginning of his career, and he also suffered an injury crisis, and he was a late bloomer under various factors, and it took six seasons to accumulate and become a blockbuster.
And in this time and space, Wang Xiao has cultivated Curry as the main core from the beginning, and the tactical system of the entire team is almost all built around Curry, coupled with the training system for two years, the training effect is far better than ordinary people every day.
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A five-game winning streak has put the Wizards at the top of the league's standings, but there is one team in the league that has started the five-game winning streak like the Wizards.
That's the Miami Heat, who have a big three.
This summer, the biggest takeaway for the Heat, who suffered a miserable defeat in the playoffs, was defensive titan Sean. The addition of Battier.
The Heat have no shortage of scorers, and the Big Three's scoring ability is among the best in the league.
But in terms of role players, because the Big Three occupy the vast majority of salary space, the Heat's rotation players look shabby.
Battier, who joined with a base salary, has obviously alleviated this predicament to a great extent.
Battier's defense is among the best in the league, and his three-point shot from the bottom corner is also outstanding, and he joins Haslem and Mike Bush, who has returned from injury. Miller finally barely supported the Heat's weak rotation lineup.
In addition, the Heat have another change that has surprised many...... On the court, it is obvious that James has significantly increased the amount of time and number of times he has the ball, while Wade has begun to play more off-ball offense.
Although it's only five games, this is the Heat team that Wade has been with for eight years, how can Heat fans who know Wade's style of play unusually well not see it?
Wade finally made his choice, which is not right or wrong for him, but it is clearly the right thing for the Heat as a team.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and it is absolutely impossible for a team to have two leaders.
Wade is certainly strong and great, but obviously James is the more suitable one to be the core.
Completely liberated, James immediately showed great dominance.
The first five games of the opening game were actually not friendly to the Heat, the Celtics, the Knicks, the Spurs...... Faced several strong teams in the league in a row, but won them all.
In five games, James averaged 28 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists per game, second only to Curry's 31 points, Kobe Bryant's 33 points and Durant's 29 points.
Wang Xiao remembers very well that this season, because of Wade's concession, James, who has given full play to his strength, won the third regular season MVP trophy in his career, and also won the championship and FMVP honors for the first time in his career.
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Originally, it should have been so, but now......
"Huh."
The Heat, who had won five in a row, were in full swing, but at this moment, their winning streak came to an abrupt end as they met Wang Xiao's Wizards in Game 6 of the regular season.
The enemy was very red when he saw it, and the Qiu who was eliminated by the Wizards in the Eastern Conference finals last season made all the members of the Heat team red-eyed, and James was even more like a Super Saiyan explosion, showing shocking combat effectiveness, and the triple-double data of 38 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the whole game exploded with Leonard, who was opposite him, and there was no scum left.
However, in the end, it was the Wizards who won.
The reason is simple.
Stephen. In this game, Curry made 28 shots and hit 18 of them, with a shooting rate of 64%, including 11 of 13 three-pointers and 7 of 7 free throws, scoring 54 points in the game!
Throughout the game, Wade, Battier, and even James tried to switch Curry, but to no avail, Curry, who is hot, simply wants to be in rhythm every day, as long as you can't cap me, then you can't stop my shot.
The Heat were horrified to find that Curry had evolved into a terrifying, unstoppable existence......
The Wizards, who defeated the Heat to win six in a row, are once again the number one team in the league after last season, and no team in the entire league can match it in terms of record.
And at this time, people gradually began to realize that something was wrong.
Wait, doesn't it mean that Harden is gone, and the Wizards' offensive efficiency will drop?
In 6 games, he averaged 113 points per game, which is 5 points lower than last season, but it is still the first in the league, and a full 9 points higher than the Nuggets, who are second in the league! Is this also called a decline in offensive efficiency?
And what's even more frightening is that in 6 games, the Wizards have conceded an average of just 93 points per game, ranking fifth in the league, behind the Bulls, Celtics, 76ers and Heat.
What's the situation? Isn't Jordan Jr., the pillar of the interior defense, already gone? Why is the defensive efficiency even higher than last season?