There’s nothing like watching Stephen Curry. It didn’t matter that he went 9-27 from the field, or 4-16 from beyond the arc, when the game was on the line, Stephen Curry goes into attack mode and gets buckets. Check his nasty crossover that sealed the victory for Davidson tonight.
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December 10th, 2008 at 2:35 am
J-Lod says:
would i say I’m First!!
December 10th, 2008 at 2:36 am
J-Lod says:
that nasty crossover is 2K-ish!!! stephen curry= 2k10 A.I.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Gerard says:
Yo did y’all peep Jason Terry’s crossover in OT against the Spurs tonight? “When crossovers go wrong.” He faked himself into falling over, and the Mav’s commentators had the audacity to claim “it was a good move.”
December 10th, 2008 at 8:21 am
jimmhumm says:
IT was a nice move to bad it was against my team. What the highlight didn’t show was curry’s 8 turnovers. Dude is a good scoring option but his playmaking is garbage!
December 10th, 2008 at 8:31 am
dagwaller says:
“Clutch” is the dumbest stat in sports. So he made the last shot – great. imagine if, instead of going 9-27, he had gone 11-27 (still a terrible average, mind you) – his team would have been up a few points at the end.
Points count the same in the first and second half.
Nice move, though.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Sho-Nuff says:
Anyone else peep how sometimes his shot just “settles” in the net, doesn’t really go through it. Like on that step back “J” in transition.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:17 am
JCARR says:
9-27 for 27 points… ouch. Nice crossover though.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:33 am
TWolves Convert says:
I’d put him on my team. Dude is unconscious when he needs to be.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:57 am
chronically_ill says:
Yo Dag
Scoring at the end of games is alot harder than scoring at the beginning of games, just because there’s more pressure at the end than the beginning. If you miss a shot in the beginning, big deal. You can always score again later. But if you miss a shot at the end, when the game is on the line, then that’s IT. It’s OVER.
Ironically though, clutch scorers probably adopt your mentality that points count the same in the first half and the second half. That’s how they prevent the moment from overwhelming them and that’s how they remain cold-blooded so they can come up big in pressure situations.
And Stephen Curry probably needed 27 shots because he’s the primary option on his team. His team needed him to keep shooting, even if he was missing. Obviously his team kept believing in him and kept feeding him the ball. And obviously his teammates couldnt/werent willing to step up in front of a national audience playing a Big East opponent. I’m sure they had multiple opportunities to step up since the entire opposition was geared towards stopping Curry, but they didnt, meaning Curry had to put up all those shots for their team to stay in the game.
Which makes Cury’s game winning shot that much more amazing to me. To come through even after missing so many shots? To still have that self-belief even after so much failure? The man has got some serious testicular fortitude!
December 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am
weezy f says:
dag, your the dumbest stat in sports
December 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
dagwaller says:
Chronically, I see your point. You’re talking about “all else equal”, as in, if you automatically start the game at the last minute, and you need a bucket, you want a killer. I get it.
But in the real world, if you have the choice between a guy scoring 25 points a game and a guy scoring 20 points with a knack for scoring in the clutch, I’d rather have the 25 point scorer every time. Odds are (since they’re AVERAGING 25/20) that the guy with 25 points is going to be ahead by 5 points anyway. Clutch shooters can almost never (except for Reggie and T-Mac) score that many points in under a minute – it’s just generally not possible.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Swimdude says:
Dagwaller how about the guy who averages 31.3 points per game even with a game where he scored 0 points due to a stupid defense set up by a stupid coach?
In the real world, there is more than just putting up the numbers. Looking to score more just for scoring sake sounds good, but doesn’t really work in the real world.