Stephen Curry’s Struggle for Three-Point Success: A Look at His Historic Streak and Recent Challenges

In the modern NBA scoring a three-pointer is not something very new, the tendency is increasing even among great centers to dare to shoot behind the three-point line. For Stephen Curry, the best three-point shooter in the history of the League, the difficulty is not to fail on any day in his specialty. In 268 consecutive games he managed to establish his mark, stopped last December against Portland. To better understand what Curry has been able to do, if he had a game every day of the year Curry would have made a three-pointer until September 23rd.

“It was a difficult night for him. But that’s what a team is supposed to be about: everyone filling in for everyone else, different guys stepping up every night.” Those were the words of Steve Kerr, after seeing how his franchise player was left without scoring from his specialty. Situation that he already experienced in November 2018 against the Milwaukee Bucks. On that occasion he stopped the count at 157 games, the second best in history, opening 268 consecutive games in the regular season. Another record was set in Game 6 of the 2022 Finals against the Boston Celtics. In Game 5, Curry walked away with the victory and went 0 for 9 from three-point range, a total of 132 games in the postseason.

The situation for Curry this season is not good, while the internal crisis and results of the franchise continue, the point guard has added a new game without three-pointers, last Sunday against Toronto, a 0 of 9 to finish with 9 points . That performance adds to the list of zeros in the three-pointers scored box, a total of 41 in 916 games, 4.5% of his career. His great accuracy from that position with 42.6% during his career has led the Warriors to win the NBA title four times.

The negative figure is slightly higher than the number of games with more than nine triples (39). A fact that has allowed Golden State to add 38 wins and a single loss in that situation, last season against OKC. Stephen’s 10 of 16 did not prevent defeat (128-137), the Thunder had seven players with more than 10 points and Shai scored 33. And of the 52 times in which Curry has scored more than 40 points , the Warriors have lost only nine of them. A new demonstration of what this player has been able to do.

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2024-01-11 17:01:38
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