James Lackey was one of the first to have underestimated the best basketball players in the world. 15 years ago was, the Canadians then coached a high school team in Toronto. “One day I heard that an NBA professional wanted sign his son with us.” Dell Curry was playing for the Toronto Raptors, the only Canadian team in the NBA. Lackey was sure that Currys 13-year-old son also had to be tall and athletic. “But when I saw Stephen the first time, I was disappointed he was so thin and tiny I thought still:… He’s probably not a good basketball”
Stephen Curry taught his coach better. The following season, the small point guard scored per game on average more than 30 points, the small high school in Toronto lost with him any single game.
Curry has since not ceased to surprise the experts. 2015 he led the Golden State Warriors for NBA titles and was named Most Valuable Player. It looked as if the 28-year-old reached his limit. Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that. The point guard evolved once more: This season, he boosted his points average of just 24 to 30 points per game and improved his throw ratio to more than 50 percent – an outstanding value for a player who throws especially from a distance and a few points achieved on the basket.
Led by curry are the Warriors on the verge of breaking a record that seemed made for eternity. 72 wins in 82 games, this was the balance of the Chicago Bulls 1995/1996. Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman – the team that won three championships in series, is considered the best NBA history. And now Golden State needs only five wins from seven games to break the record. It would be a sensation.
Because Curry is not a typical NBA superstar. He is not as tall as Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan or Kevin Garnett and not as athletic or a tremendous jumper as Jordan, LeBron James or Kobe Bryant. Curry is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 86 kilos and creates just such a slam dunk. But he combined the basic skills in basketball as good as any other player in NBA history: dribble, pass, throw.“Stephen fits as creative as Magic Johnson, he dribbles as skilled as John Stockton, meets his three-point shots as safe as Reggie Miller and is as fast as Isiah Thomas,” says his high school coach Lackey.
In addition, a thing that makes Curry unique. His throwing motion occurs so rapidly than any other player in the NBA. Just 0.3 seconds it takes from the Ball Up until that moment when the game machine curries leaves hand. The average NBA professional needs at least one tenth of a second longer. This difference may seem minimal, but it is the crucial reason why Curry can throw against much larger players at any time
With his playing style has the “Killer with Babyface.” – So is his martial nickname – the NBA revolutionized. This season there are more successful three-point shots than ever before. The record is 55 137 hits, until the end of the main round there could be a loud ESPN grossing about 58,500. No team has so successful distance shooters like Golden State, with Klay Thompson plays the second best thrower the Master. And in the crucial final stages of the Warriors playing mostly without center, without a player directly to the basket, but with five approximately equal players, all of which are able to take three points throws.
The system of Golden State stands and falls with curry. To explain how intense his former student has trained his throw, Lackey tells a little story. During the high school season in Toronto he watched his best players, as applicable in the training suddenly began throwing different. He presented to his throw, from childhood throw at shoulder height for adults throw over his head. ” ‘What are you doing’, I asked him, ‘are you doing in each game 30 to 40 points, you need nothing to change But Stephen said.” My father said that my union is no longer good enough, when I am older. Therefore I must therefore begin now ‘ “
Video:. Stephen Curry with a show game at his high school
Even today operates curry every day at its union says NBA professional: “I like my hit rate, but I want to increase it further.” he has 360 three-point throws transformed this season and thus his own record of 286 hits already exceeded
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Although his marksmanship was in college striking doubted experts can about whether he would be in the NBA prevail long. in a scouting report from 2008 states, curry lie in things explosiveness and athleticism “well below the NBA standards “, he was for a shooting guard” extremely small. And even more: “Although he runs a point guard this year, he is not a point guard who can lead an NBA team.”
The sponsors underestimated Curry. Before he signed the sportswear manufacturer Under Armour, market leader Nike had twice the chance to sign him. But the US giant abandoned and had to watch as the newcomer sales and profits increased every year by 30 percent. Also thanks to Curry Under Armour rose to number two in the US business
His high school coach Lackey it still can not believe, if he is asked about it. “I’m not the only one who underestimated him has. But I was the first and I am not particularly proud of. “
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