Warriors coach reveals Curry’s hidden talent

Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors are in fantastic form on the court, and their recent 118-104 victory over the Nuggets at Chase Center was their fifth straight win in the league.

During this time, Curry has upped his game and is playing at levels only seen by the true greats of the sport. He managed seven 3-pointers and scored 36 points in his most recent outing and across the past three games, the Ohio native has scored a total of 125 points, putting him behind only LeBron James for most points in a three-game span by a player age 37 or older, say ESPN.

‘As the stakes rise, we tend to level up”

On the sensational run of form, Curry admitted to reporters that there is a “sense of urgency down the stretch, the feeling of where you are in the standings, every game mattering. And the idea that the chess match of ‘how do we win this particular game?’ becomes a little bit more important.”

“We thrive off of that”, he was quick to add. “That’s why we’ve been so successful for this many years. Because as the stakes rise, the lights get brighter, we tend to level up.”

‘All the things that championship-calibre teams do, we’ve been doing’

Curry also admitted that his team is playing at the level of champions: “We have a lot of work. I’ve been saying that since this run started. We still have a lot of work to do to finish the year strong. You are seeing an identity on a night-to-night that we understand how to win games. Whether it’s games where tempo is a lot faster, you got to score or if it’s a grind-out defensive game. We’ve played better in fourth quarters with leads. All the things that championship-calibre teams do, we’ve been doing, and it’s clearly different than two months ago.

After the win over the Nuggets, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said that Curry “looked so fast out there tonight” adding that his conditioning is in fact “the most underrated part of his game.”

“It’s just incredible what he does out there, especially considering how much attention he draws defensively, how much pressure people put on him, and he handles it night after night and flourishes.”

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“We’ve got momentum right now,” Kerr added when asked about the mental state of the team. “The Memphis one was probably the big one to kick off this three-game stretch. And so to string these wins together against three teams all ahead of us in the standings at the time, massive. We’ve got five games left. We know we’ve got to win four of them to guarantee a top-six spot, so we just got to keep going.”

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