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Steph Curry’s careless mistakes contrasted with Kerr’s ability to “see where we are as a team.”
At the Memphis postgame, Stephen Curry revealed to Anthony Slater of The Athletic that he committed five turnovers. He was surprisingly unapologetic about it.
This particular detail bothers me, but I’m willing to dismiss it as an attempt by Raymond Green to grab the initiative and help the team overcome its defensive problems rather than Curry merely accepting that the defense was the reason for the game’s loss.
To get right to the point, I’ll provide evidence below refuting Steph’s claims of not taking ownership of those five freebies, which he made the excuses for above.
This is the “Season of Humility,” as I have previously written. In chronological order, Draymond has expressed thoughts of retiring, and Klay Thompson has had a heart-to-heart with Steve Kerr about savoring the “last chapter” of his career. This conversation effectively refocused Klay’s attention from split stats to simply playing basketball the correct way, and the results have been evident—just think of the lead passes to Trayce Jackson-Davis.
Does Steph also need to speak with Steve about that?
Maybe not, I had thought, since in the last post I saw that he had been averaging about two turnovers per game instead of three, a decrease of about 33%. Additionally, I suggested long ago, following the Christmas Game, that actively involving Jonathan Kuminga in “pet plays,” as “30” likes to call them, would be another demonstration of humility. However, as I noted in the previous article, which is linked above, and as I saw at Memphis, see below, there is no indication that this will happen anytime soon.
Curry appears to be in denial despite the fact that he only had five giveaways, each of which had a significant impact on the eventual loss.
Since I only have personal experience with psychology, I’ll admit that this section is more for entertainment than education. However, I did some research and found that this graph corresponds to the “five stages of grief.”
Dray seems to have gone through the upper graph. But I’m not positive about Klay.
Steph appears to be implying in the postgame quote that playing “timid” is the opposite of committing the kinds of turnovers he is.
In response, I would say that he turned up for a Game 7, scored 50 points, and only made one turnover. It’s impossible to characterize that Sacramento performance as “timid.” However, he would undoubtedly bring up the 43 (five turnovers) in Game 4 at Boston.
When asked about the team total of 19 (again, hats off to Slater), Kerr pointed out that all of Curry’s turnovers occurred after the game in Memphis:
The other unfortunate thing is that Jacob Gilyard, another unknown player, made a clean pick, defying Vince Williams, Jr.’s pressure when he dribbled off the foot.
Indeed, Steph’s floor shimmy play against Williams in the second quarter was impressive.
I know he got you back, buddy. And then some, both in the crucial fourth with Gilyard. These are embarrassing “AAU turnover,” as I like to say on the ManningCast play-by-play.
I felt Draymond said it best:
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