Last season Steph Curry achieved his very dear dream: Another championship ring. This time, it was more memorable because of his first Finials MVP. This season(2022-2023), Stephen Curry aimes directly towards his fifth championship ring with returned Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins who signed an extension to prolong their exciting stays in the Golden States Warriors.
Steph curry is having the best season so far
All his shooting stats were higher.
Especially the FG%(field goal) and 3P%(3point) was higher.
Steph as a first option of Golden State Warriors is having a better season than last year in which he won his 4th career ring.
Though, his voyage is tough. Golden States Warriors is currently(2023/Feb/17) on the 9th place with 19-19(50%) seeding in the playin tournaments. What is the problem??
Warriors successfully signed extensions with Andrew Wiggins and Jordan Poole during the offseason after their finals win in the TD garden. Both players had an impressive season and magnificent playoffs.
Although warrior secured decent options like Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins, they lost majority of the bench members and had to rebuild another second unit for the team.
In 2023, there are average of 16.4 turnover per game(58games played)
In 2022, there were average of 14.9 turnover per game(Full-game)
Both rates are very high but in this season, there were more TPG. This is very crucial as GSW takes many high risk offense patterns which creates many turnovers. These Turnovers in clutch time made lots of loses for GSW.
The net rating of the GSW in clutch time is 4.0 where their previous winning seasons were like 17.2, 7.4 and 8.8. This shows the struggle GSW suffers and needs to reorganize and manage the offensive stratagies to win more games.
There were two injuries by Steph this season
Shoulder(Left)
partial tears in two lower-leg ligaments(at least two weeks)
Steph usually have injury once a year though getting it twice is an unusal occasion. This injuries hugely impacted on GSW struggles in the league.
Especially when there is no Steph Curry, Increased turnovers causes more severe impacts on clutch times.
During the 1st match between Atlanta Hawks, Jordan Poole made serious turnover due to his inefficiencies and stupid over dribbles which led the game to the over time. It was a pain soaring turnovers solely because there was no veteran like Steph Curry. These crucial turnovers in intense game by a stupid mistake cause severe consequences. Though the game was won by the GSW these moments surely are pain in an ass.
Steph's injury is therefore very crucial in many ways. For example, in a such situation like clutch time. But other than turnovers, losing a valuable players, the best shooter in the league is a very big lost for GSW. The fact that Curry was maintaining his good season, is making his injuries more painful.
Stats explicitly show that warriors without Steph is devastating.
GSW with curry scores 111.0 on average where with out curry they score 104.7, 6.3 points lower.
Without steph the win rate is (9-11)0.45
With steph is (20-18) 0.526
With the new team, it is iterative process to built up in to the dynasty that GSW had prolonged. It will take some times though tuff time fallows.
GSW had been building up their dynasty with their anti-fragile teamwork though it seems to be like "nah" nowadays.
Not often but sometimes, warriors shows their lack of click between each other.
<-- Like this play, dray though there was a player on the corner but no one was there. It might be a casual stupid shit that draymond do but in other sense, we could interpret this as a lack of teamwork with the new teamates.
There are some players who plays better with out steph like Jordan poole, averaging 27.6 points, 5.0 assists and 2.8 rebounds in 20 games.
Draymond green's synerge with curry is feneominal
Draymond Green has averaged 7.7 rebounds, 7.3 points and 6.8 assists in 15 games with out steph and 8.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.9 assists with steph. Slightly, the stats with steph is higher than stats without steph.
Steph is the best shooter existed. Due to this, draymond can do handoff and pass for space for steph to shoot.
Or it could be handoff fake that draymond frequently uses which is very critical in opponent's PoV.
Draymond green's tempo push is one of the techniques oftenly used by GSW. This tempo push with the small line ups is deadly to big centers like yokic an Dranymond was the core of it.
This scene were draymond watched steph cutting in an open space is brilliant and shows his dedication towards team's win.
His fast offense and front passes are very skillful