With Dubs in 'rut,' Curry saves day again with 40

SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden State Warriors manager Steve Kerr has tally retired of words to picture the play of Stephen Curry to commencement the season. Earlier this week, helium said Curry was "breathtaking." After Friday night's 106-101 triumph implicit the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kerr utilized "spectacular."

Curry scored 40 points against the Cavs, including 18 successful the 4th quarter, marking the sixth clip helium has scored astatine slightest 10 points successful the 4th this season. Curry changeable 15-of-23 from the field, including 6-of-11 connected 3-pointers.

"I classify it arsenic being aggressive," Curry said connected his galore late-game takeovers. "Obviously shots person to fall, but it's astir having assertive attacks disconnected of pick-and-roll, getting different guys involved, getting to the overgarment and finishing, coming retired shooting. A batch of assurance carried implicit from our playoff tally past year. It's knowing the equilibrium of playmaking and scoring."

Curry has present scored astatine slightest 30 points successful 9 of the Warriors' archetypal 11 games. At 34, helium is besides the oldest subordinate with consecutive 40-point games since Michael Jordan successful 2002.

"He's conscionable astonishing nighttime aft night," Kerr said. "Given the circumstances with our squad benignant of successful a rut, trying to excavation our mode retired of a hole, he's conscionable been spectacular. He's ne'er been better, I tin accidental that."

For Warriors guardant Draymond Green, what has stood retired the astir done Curry's scorching commencement are the reads helium is making.

Green pointed retired 1 play down the agelong Friday nighttime wherever Curry heard Cleveland manager J.B. Bickerstaff archer his bigs to enactment successful the paint. Curry came implicit to the Warriors' seat and told his teammates to look retired truthful helium could propulsion the shot person to halfcourt.

The consequent play resulted successful Kevon Looney mounting a surface connected Jarrett Allen, freeing up Curry for a 3-pointer.

"He is mounting each of this worldly up," Green said. "We person seen [Curry bash this] for years, but I deliberation it's however helium is doing it and however helium is putting guys successful the spots that helium wants them in, that's what I'm impressed with. The maturation determination is perfectly amazing.

"To announcement each of those things and really get to the nonstop changeable that you privation to get to and past making it is simply a full antithetic happening ... to really acceptable that up and past spell present is precise impressive."

The Warriors person counted connected Curry to present these kinds of moments and performances each season. He has undoubtedly been carrying a heavier load to assistance his squad find immoderate benignant of occurrence truthful acold this year.

But arsenic it stands, the Warriors aren't acrophobic astir Curry's stamina oregon workload.

"At the extremity of the day, Steph is going to transportation the bulk of the load offensively. That's conscionable who helium is and what helium does," Green said. "No request to panic oregon get weary now. But I deliberation guys are starting to find their bushed and it'll each travel together. It's a process."

Curry got assistance Friday nighttime from Andrew Wiggins, who finished with 20 points; Jordan Poole, who aft struggling to commencement the twelvemonth scored 18 points; and two-way subordinate Anthony Lamb, who added 10.

Kerr says that Curry's fittingness and spot are the areas wherever helium has seen the astir maturation during his 9 years successful Golden State.

Curry doesn't see this to beryllium the champion helium has felt to commencement a play but said it's much astir maintaining the bushed helium had toward the extremity of past play and carrying it implicit to now.

"Considering our struggles aboriginal and however we're trying to get implicit the hump arsenic a team, it's bully to cognize you tin volition your mode into large games similar that to assistance america get immoderate coagulated momentum," Curry said. "We'll spot however agelong it lasts."