That’s the big question the basketball world was asking, and we certainly got a clear answer tonight. After planting 5 three-pointers against the Pacers, Stephen Curry will be expected in the most famous hall in the world on Tuesday evening to beat Ray Allen’s all-time record: meet at Madison Square Garden in New York at 1:30 am, for an unforgettable Knicks – Warriors!
We can’t wait for this story to be in the rearview mirror, Golden State fans must tell each other. Because if there is one story that takes over the collective performance, and which again almost put Steve Kerr’s team in the sauce on Monday, it is that of Ray Allen’s record for the greatest number of career three-pointers that should crush Stephen Curry. For weeks, for months, the countdown has been in place and fans are hanging on to their seats. Just last week, in the world of basketball and even elsewhere, some were wondering. Will it be against Portland at home? Will it be in Philadelphia, facing his brother? Or will it be in Reggie Miller’s lair in Indiana? The fourth answer was the correct one, and we will most likely have confirmation of it this Tuesday evening. It is at the mythical MSG of the Knicks that Steph will have to put 1 shot to equal Jesus, or 2 to overtake him, a case almost in the bag when we know that this season Curry has only finished 2 games out of 27 played with 1 or 2 successful shots from distance. This Monday, we were far from seeing a recital from the leader, he and his teammates falling on a very hard bone, all yellow and white in the person of the Pacers. On an excellent recent launch, and in particular behind a Domantas Sabonis elected player of the week and who gorged himself well in the racket of Golden State (30 points and 11 rebounds at 12/17 shooting), the men of Lloyd Pierce have long stood up to the Californian army which had just bowed in Philadelphia. Between the penetrations of Malcolm Brogdon, the caviars of Caris LeVert and the muscles of Sabonis, Indiana dominated the first half and didn’t really take a special Warriors wave in the third quarter. It must be said that opposite, for each child born on Earth a balloon was lost by the visitors, and Steph first (7 turnovers). Golden State’s awkwardness coupled with defensive laziness kept the game from turning to the Warriors’ advantage, except that in the last quarter the wheel turned and… Curry was obviously the center of attention.
On the verge of history.
Stephen Curry’s five 3-pointers in the @warriors win leave him one away from tying the NBA’s all-time record.
26 PTS – 6 REB – 6 AST pic.twitter.com/GbC2idw1k7
— NBA Fantasy (@NBAFantasy) December 14, 2021
One, two, three, four, five filoches from afar when it comes to the race that everyone is watching, but above all a huge attraction that will allow Draymond Green and Kevon Looney to feast on the racquet, the pivot being to elsewhere the hero of the meeting thanks to his decisive basket in the last minute of play. Defensively, the Steve Kerr gang will release the lock in the money-time and prevent the easy baskets of the first period, with this ultimate penetration as a symbol of LeVert who ends up on the ground because impeccably defended by the unbreathable Gary Payton II. When it has been necessary to lock the opponent and put baskets right to left taking advantage of the free spaces in the racket (Otto Porter also), the Californians will respond and therefore ensure the main thing: victory. Because yes, in all this media circus surrounding Curry and his record, we almost forget that Golden State plays basketball games and that they have better interest in winning them. Very average in Philadelphia and not inspired by Indy, it is clear that these Warriors will have to find their collective mojo and no one doubts that the distance from the cameras by next week will help the whole group to refocus on the main thing of the day. .
However, we cannot deny that we are experiencing something historic. And that the ideal scene, as in a dream, has been set up before our eyes.
Tuesday evening, 1:30 a.m., Madison Square Garden.
Nationwide match in New York’s basketball mecca during a match commented live by Reggie Miller.
What more ? Spike Lee in the front row with a Davidson jersey? Father, mother and brother Curry gathered in the stands?
In a sport where the main objective is to shoot a ball and try to put it in the big circular orange thing located 3m05 from the ground, the strongest man to have achieved this gesture will achieve his most symbolic work. live Tuesday evening. Most three-point shots in history for a player. How many shoots from the other side of the world have we seen? How many evenings have we ended with our heads in both hands, trying to understand what had just happened? How much connect, Steph is on fire! How many nights ended up smiling stupidly, enjoying the exploits of this genius of the orange ball? So yes, we can debate the ranking of the greatest performances, and we do not yet know what the phenomenon has in store for us against the Knicks. Maybe it will be in a poor performance and a loss… maybe it will be in a legendary act leading his people to victory. What is certain is that the entire basketball world will be brought together in one place this Tuesday night: New York at 1:30 a.m. To see one of the greatest of all time hit one of the greatest records of all time. And to see a transfer of power, between Ray Allen and Stephen Curry, two of the best shooters in the history of this wonderful sport. If that isn’t enough to keep you up tonight, we don’t know what to tell you.
Sorry for Knicks fans, but the sentence seems final. It is at Madison Square Garden that we will have to be this Tuesday evening at 1:30 in the morning, to see the story unfold before our eyes. Have we been talking about bigger live moments recently? You have one right here at your fingertips. So connect with us, because we’ll be in front of Stephen Curry in New York in a few hours. Can’t wait.
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