Andrew Wikins ran away after he put on the fake cover. The Warrior cleared the middle road and asked Stephen Curry to single out little Kevin PROTONIC. Curry’s left hand broke through fengshui ball. After mobilizing the Defense Center of the small PROTONIC, it connected to the back fengshui ball. After changing to the right hand, it was transported directly. As a result, there was no suspense. The ball formed a pleasant friction with basketable nets, and the scene was boiling.
This is Curry’s seventh third point in the first battle with the Rockets on December 4. Curry scored 30 points and 10 assists in the 17-point three-point shot of the game. Four of the eight three points are receive the ball shots, and four are hit by personal ability.
In the past, no one thought that the technology that was difficult to guarantee efficiency could win the championship, and the Celtic and Wu ducurno thought the same way in last season’s finals. But in the face of the Celtics’s defensive strategy, Curry responded with six games, three points, 55 shots, 23 shots, and a hit rate of 41.8%–
The three points can’t win the championship unless the player is curry.
This season, 34-year-old Curry is pushing this technology to a new peak. As of December 4, Curry dry pulled out three points 133 shots 64, hit rate 48.1%. What is this concept? As the league’s “God of dry pull”, Curry’s highest three points in the 2015-16 season was 43.8 percent. At this level, it is difficult to increase 1%, and the library directly increases by 4.3%. In addition, make another comparison: Russell-Westbrook hit 47.4% in this season.
Before Curry, the three-point shot was not like this. The dry three-point shot was regarded as a “bad shooting choice”. Whoever dares to throw it like this must be directly replaced, the receive the ball three points produced by passing the ball are the “quality shooting choices” in the eyes of the coach “. In the 40 years before the introduction of NBA three point line, the three-point goal assist rate exceeded 85%. Ray Allen’s career has reached 2973 three points, with an assist rate of 84 percent.
Although Curry began to study how to cast three points in fengshui ball and how to create more space for action, Curry’s three-point assist rate in the first three years of his NBA career reached 74.1% respectively, 80.1%, 78.2%, he is not keen on throwing three points.
The turning point appeared in the off-season in 2012. Curry and trainer Brandon Payne met during the offseason in 2011, but because of Curry’s ankle injury, they didn’t really cooperate until the offseason in 2012.
“After the end of the third season of my career, Payne arranged various trainings for me to learn how to create a space through fengshui ball,” Curry revealed.
There are essential differences between three points in receive the ball and three points in holding the ball. Three points in receive the ball pay attention to running position, while three points in holding the ball need outstanding fengshui ball ability as the basis, only by combining fengshui ball ability and projection ability can we create super strong dry shooting ability.
Curry and Payne spent countless hours in the training hall. Payne used “five different footstep concepts, two different orientation concepts, four different ball holding concepts” help Curry polish the ball holding and dry pull and throw three points. His training emphasizes continuous movement and his heart rate must reach the actual combat level, he believes that it is a waste of time to repeat shots in one position at a low heart rate.
Payne designed a training method for Curry: A total of 10 shots of the bottom corner and flank, interspersed with the whole game, and the shooting must maintain a hit rate of 80% or more, and it must be completed within 56 seconds, otherwise it will be repeated.
There are many stories about Payne’s training plan that the players practice and spit. Not long ago, there was news that an active player once trained with Curry and vomited after only 5 minutes of training. According to Payne, this story is not exaggerated. Curry once trained at Stanford University. At that time, several college players from NCAA level 1 League followed him to practice. As a result, they were either tired and paralyzed, or he ran out halfway and vomited.
Curry practice fengshui ball dry and three points, and there has never been a fixed mode. Payne will call the action code and execute it in the library.
For example, “pull the ball to the left, crotch, and throw”, this set of codes means that the library needs to use the left hand fengshui ball to break through to the left first, then quickly do a cross-leg dribble fengshui ball, and finally withdraw the step to throw three points. Payne explained: “The first step is to pull the ball to the left, which we call ‘Reading step’. We need to look at the defensive position of the defender, and we need to force the defender to move horizontally. Then, cross-leg dribble can hold the defender. Finally, retreating shooting can create space for shooting.”
This set of code is only a group of many codes. Moreover, Payne pays great attention to the sentence in Sun Bin’s Art of War, “there is no definite method and no definite formula. Taking advantage of the situation and omitting changes “, all training is just one form. What action and direction should Curry use to break through depends entirely on personal judgment, he just used all the codes he practiced in training together. All types of fengshui ball training, withdrawal or horizontal withdrawal shots were ultimately designed to create space for shooting.
“I just read defense. I know that I can either retreat horizontally or retreat backward. I just read defense to create a space for action, and then keep balance when doing all actions,” curry explained.
Payne’s unique training has created a library that constantly refreshes basketball cognition. In the 2012-13 season, in the fourth year of Curry’s career, he scored 272 three points and broke the historical record of 269 three points in Allen’s single season. At that time, Curry’s three-point assist rate was only 61%, and his three-point score without assist also broke Allen’s record.
After that, Curry was even more terrible. In the 2013-14 season, Mark Jackson allowed Curry to perform a large number of block splits. During the season, Curry scored 158 goals in three points, with a hit rate of 40.3 percent, and its three-point assist rate was only 45.6 percent, which was the peak of Curry’s attack proportion.
After Cole took office, Curry began to combine ball holding and ball-free. In the 2014-15 season, Curry’s number of hits in three points was 151, but the hit rate increased. In the 2015-16 season, Curry reached a new peak in the three points of holding the ball, with 220 shots and a hit rate.
However, during the 5-year and 3-championship period of warriors, Curry’s playoff games always failed to maintain the super-high hit rate of three points in the regular season. His hit rate of three points was below 40%, which was actually in line with the cognitive level. To a certain extent, Curry uses receive the ball to invest three points to guarantee the lower limit. Public opinion believes that it is normal for Curry to vote three points to kill the opponent.
But the 2022 finals is another story. You can’t say that the Celtics underestimated Curry, nor can you say that the Celtics relieve a garrison. The strategy of taking a step to challenge Curry’s ability to hold the ball is wrong, even the Warriors general manager said after the third game that it was impossible to play with curry, and they must increase the transfer ball. Celtic’s strategy is in line with cognition, but they met the library that breaks cognition.
In the whole series, Curry played 9.2 times with three points, hitting 3.8, with a hit rate of 41.8%, with unprecedented output and efficiency.
When Curry refreshed its Cognition, a new question appeared: Can Curry be maintained? This season’s 48.1 percent hit rate of three points is the answer. Curry can not only maintain it, but also upgrade it to another level. When Curry’s three points were so on time, his attack power was more powerful. This season, Curry’s 38 times of breaking down in 100 rounds was the highest record in Cole’s coaching era, the hit rate of 46% in the middle of the block is a new high.
In recent years, Curry’s style of play has led the generations to follow suit. This season, 18 people have shot three points for four times, 15 in last season and 14 in the previous season. However, not everyone can control this difficult technology. The average dry-out three-point shot in dongqiqi field can reach 7.1 times at most, but the hit rate is only. Trey-Yang field averaged 5.8 shots. Row 3, hit 29.5%.
This is the epoch-making significance of Curry. Like Michael Jordan, he changed the playing style of basketball and the way people look at basketball. Their play can be imitated, but even if the latecomers can imitate the essence of technical actions, they cannot reach their level.