Curry's explosion against Denver last night is the highlight of the postseason so far, and a continuation of his breakout season.
Via: David Zalubowski / AP
There's a theory about playoff basketball: the best player in the series usually wins. Coaches gonna coach, role players gonna role play, but at the end of seven games, it's the team with the most nuclear star who'll end up moving on. Opinion goes both ways on whether this is true, but the Warriors-Nuggets series is giving us a great case study. Based on the regular season — and key Warriors forward David Lee's injury in Game 1 — the better team is far and away the Denver Nuggets. But the best player is the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry, who had a breakout year in 2012-13 — he set the record for most three-pointers made in a single season — and he showed it Tuesday night.
Curry started slow, going 1-5 to begin Game 2, giving off the impression that he might replicate his rough performance in Game 1. The second quarter dispelled that very quickly, starting with this stepback two.
From there, Curry absolutely caught fire. He showed why he might be a wild card to win a league-wide 1-on-1 tournament by shedding Kenneth Faried with a back-and-forth crossover.
