The last time Stephen Curry faced a gotta-have-it game, he blitzed his opponent into oblivion, attacking until submission. It’s understandable the Los Angeles Lakers would be expecting that from him in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals, an unrelenting show in an act of early desperation.
What the Lakers experienced was something eerily similar to their great lineage, although they probably weren’t at all pleased to be on the other end of such a night.
You might as well call him Magic Curry, at least for a night, and even he had to chuckle at the reference.
He played conductor as his Golden State Warriors tied the series at one game each with a resounding 127-100 win at the Chase Center on Thursday night.
Somewhere along the way, they bottled up Anthony Davis and survived an early LeBron James barrage without looking worse for wear.
Curry didn’t resort to playing a prototypical point guard style because his shot wasn’t worlking
he seemed intent on being brilliant in ways beyond the usual, dishing out 12 assists and downright controlling the game in the ways the great floor generals have done this time of year.
It wasn’t necessarily a criticism of Curry, that he didn’t fit the mold of Magic Johnson or Isiah Thomas, but his shooting always obscured his other skills and his shooting is what this team has consistently been built around.
“I mean the labels and all that stuff, I don’t ever get into just because labels usually demean or kind of trying to bottle up greatness,” said Curry, who scored 20 on 7-of-12 shooting. “So like I said, we do it a lot of different ways.
I tried to do it a lot of different ways, however you want to describe it or label it doesn’t matter to me.”
Curry’s in the “whatever it takes” spot of his career now. If it requires 50 on the road, he’ll do it. If it means his mild-mannered approach has to go to the side to call out his teammates before a deciding game, so be it.
“I thought Steph was brilliant. In the first half, he wasn’t really going like offensively but he was just running our team, and Klay [Thompson] got it going,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “Our defense was kind of fueling our offense, and we connected the game really well.”
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