Explain One Play: How Steph Curry scored 25 first quarter points
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Stephen Curry poured in an amazing 25 first-quarter points in the 2021.10.21.LAC-GSW game. In addition to using his usual sublime shooting and dribbling, Steph had key help from Draymond Green, Jordan Poole, Nemanja Bjelica and Andre Iguodala.
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It's an explanation and yet it isn't when you show how a Certain Guy gets open at midcourt and flings it up after holding it for .4 seconds and it goes in. Anyone here ever TRY that? It's really really really hard.
How do you recognize the Klay Play so fast? I've seen it so many times in games, plus E1Ps, etc, but when it actually happens I still just feel like, "looks like we've got some off-ball motion and here comes a guy to—oh wow, there's the shot!"
Which, like, there's some kind of off-ball screen or split more plays than not, so telling them apart is not easy.