"Sublime … ridiculous … unfathomable."
Steve Kerr is running out of words to describe Steph Curry. pic.twitter.com/n5RtvWO7uR
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) February 7, 2021
The Warriors wasted a 57-point performance from Stephen Curry, and they know it. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s a night to remember. Another accolade from Curry in a season in which he looks like he might just win another MVP.
Steve Kerr’s plaudits for the two-time MVP seem to know no bounds. From his perspective, the way Curry is playing now isn’t just the same old ridiculousness we’ve become accustomed to seeing from him. Curry, who is healthy and no longer with Kevin Durant and without Klay Thompson, is fiending in a way that echoes back to that time when the league was just beginning to take notice of Curry.
Kerr said he thinks Curry is stronger. Curry concurred, saying he’s, “feeling those gains over the summer, for sure.”
“Sublime. It was ridiculous the shots he was hitting; the degree of difficulty, the ease with which he made them,” Kerr said. “He’s never he’s never played better. We’re talking about a two-time MVP three-time champion, I’ve never seen him like this. He just looks so strong to me. He’s always, obviously, been an incredible shooter but he looks stronger to me, just getting by people, fending them off on drives to the rim, finishing. And of course the shotmaking is almost unfathomable what he’s doing out there.”
Kent Bazemore recalled laughing on the bench after Curry hit this absolutely absurd shot, saying he and Brad Wanamaker were appreciative both of the fact that they got to witness Curry in the flesh, but also of how easy he makes it all look.
Good grief Steph pic.twitter.com/esbaGcEu77
— KNBR (@KNBR) February 7, 2021
What’s that like to defend? Andrew Wiggins recalled being on both sides of a Curry inferno, and obviously prefers this side of things.
“Very demoralizing,” Wiggins said. “They can play good defense for a whole 20 seconds off the shot clock… and then with one second, he can hit a jumper from 30 feet out.”
That seemed to fit with Luka Doncic’s assessment, who, despite coming up clutch and nearly having a 42-point triple-double, said this was a painful game facing Curry.
“It was suffering,” Doncic said. “Every time he shot the ball, I thought it was going in.”