Chapter 231 Curry's Outbreak
The 11-12 season is a nightmare season for Curry in another time and space.
His ankle sprains frequently, causing him to play only 26 games in this shrinking season, averaging only 14.7 points and 5.3 assists per game.
Frequent injuries caused the Warriors management to lose trust in Curry, and finally chose to issue a four-year offer contract worth $44 million at the end of 2012.
Four years and 44 million are a pretty generous contract for most players in the league, but it is obviously not for Curry, because immediately after returning from injury, Curry efficiently scored 22.9 points and 6.9 assists per game. In the following two seasons, Curry also won 24+8 All-Star data and helped the team win the 24-15 season championship trophy.
In the 16-17 season, Curry ushered in a real explosion period, averaging 30.1 points per game, and made 402 three-pointers with a shooting percentage of 45.4% in a single season, leading the team to an unprecedented 73 wins and 9 losses!
At that time, Curry had become the emperor superstar who could shake James's position as the first player in the league. However, his salary was only over 10 million due to injuries in the 11-12 season, and he was not even as good as Nuggets point guard Tay Lawson, who ranked 18th in the first round in 2009.
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Now, thanks to Wang Xiao's appearance, Curry's career has undergone earth-shaking changes.
He made his debut in the 26.5 points and 6 assists per game and was elected the best rookie.
In the 10-11 season, he averaged 27 points and 6.9 assists per game, becoming the youngest regular season MVP in history.
So far in the 11-12 season, Curry averaged 31 points and 7.8 assists per game, shooting 48.0% from the field and 44.3% from three-point shooting. He is already at the level of the top superstars in the league.
From the perspective of strength, Stephen Curry seems to be no less than Kuritian, who changed the development trajectory of the entire league in the 2015-16 season.
Wang Xiao was not surprised at all.
Curry, in another time and space, was a younger brother to others at the beginning of his career and also encountered an injury crisis. Under various factors, he became a latecomer and took six seasons to accumulate strength and make a big splash.
In this time and space, Wang Xiao trained Curry as the main core from the beginning. The tactical system of the entire team was almost built around Curry. In addition, the training system has not been fully operational for the full power for two years, and the daily training effect is far better than that of ordinary people. In this case, Curry's progress rate is still like that of another time and space, Wang Xiao would be strange.
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The five-game winning streak allowed the Wizards to top the league record, but there was another team in the league that had a five-game winning streak like the Wizards.
That is the Miami Heat, which has the Big Three.
This summer, the biggest gain of the Heat, who suffered a tragic failure in the playoffs, was the joining of defensive player Sean Bathir.
The Heat are not short of scorers, and the scoring ability of the Big Three is at the top level in the league.
However, in terms of role players, because the Big Three occupies most of the salary space, the Heat's rotation players seem shabby.
Bathir, who joined the basic salary, obviously greatly alleviated this dilemma.
Bathir's defense is top-notch in the league, and his three-point shooting ability is also outstanding. He, together with Haslem and Mike Miller who has returned from injury, finally barely supported the Heat's weak rotation lineup.
In addition, the Heat have another change that surprised many people... On the court, people can clearly find that James' time and number of times he held the ball has increased significantly, while Wade began to play more offenses without the ball.
Although there were only five games, this was the Heat that Wade had been with for eight years. How could Heat fans who knew Wade's style of play could not see it?
Wade finally made his choice. He didn't know whether this choice was right or wrong, but for the Heat, it was obviously the most correct one.
One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and a team will definitely not have two leaders.
Although Wade is very strong and great, James is obviously the one who is more suitable for being the core.
James, who was completely liberated, immediately showed extremely strong dominance.
The first five games in the opening game were actually not friendly to the Heat. The Celtics, Knicks, Spurs... encountered several strong teams in the league in succession, but all won.
In 5 games, James averaged 28 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists per game, second only to Curry's 31 points, Kobe's 33 points and Durant's 29 points.
Wang Xiao remembers it very clearly that this season, James, who had 100% strength, won the third regular season MVP trophy in his career, and also won the championship and FMVP honors for the first time in his career.
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Originally, that should have been the case, but now...
"hehe."
The Heat, which won five consecutive victories, was full of momentum, but at this moment, their winning streak came to an abrupt end because they encountered Wang Xiao's Wizards in the sixth game of the regular season.
The enemy was particularly jealous when they met. The hatred that was eliminated by the Wizards in the Eastern Conference Finals last season made all the Heat members red. James showed shocking fighting power like a Super Saiyan. He scored 38 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in the whole game. He scored 38 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, and Leonard, who faced him, would not even lose his scum.
However, in the end, the Wizards won again.
The reason is very simple.
In this game, Stephen Curry made 28 shots, hitting 18 goals, with a shooting percentage of 64%, including 11 of 13 three-pointers and 7 of 7 free throws, scoring 54 points in the whole game!
During the whole game, Wade, Bathir, and even James tried to switch to Curry, but it was useless. Curry, who had a hot touch, was simply a rhythm. As long as you can't block me, it wouldn't stop my shooting.
The Heat were terrified to discover that Curry had evolved into a very terrifying and irresistible existence...
The Wizards, who defeated the Heat and won six consecutive victories, once again became the veritable league number one after the last season. No team in the entire league can still match it in terms of record.
At this time, people gradually began to find something was wrong.
Wait, isn’t it said that if Harden leaves, the Wizards’ offensive efficiency will decrease?
In 6 games, he averaged 113 points per game. Although he was 5 points lower than last season, he was still the first in the league and a full 9 points higher than the Nuggets, the second in the league. This is also called a decrease in offensive efficiency?
And what is even more terrifying is that in 6 games, the Wizards averaged only 93 points per game, ranking fifth in the league, second only to the Bulls, Celtics, 76ers and the Heat.
Chapter completed!