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An Andrew Wiggins five-point possession — an and-1 layup, missed free throw, offensive rebound, made 3 — cut Dallas’ lead from 14 to nine with 3:43 left. The Warriors had momentum. They’d just need a back-breaking Steph Curry flurry to pull out an escape job.
Their next four possessions went as follows: Curry turnover, Jordan Poolemissed 3, Curry missed 3, Curry turnover. Warriors timeout. Bench emptied. Steve Kerr white flag. Mavericks win, 99-82.
But the lead was still only 89-80 with 2:05 left. Curry curled off a high screen, found himself open on the right wing and pulled up from 26 feet out. The shot rattled in and out as he slumped his shoulders and then laughed heading down the court.
“He had at least four shots that were in and out,” Kerr said. “It was the exact same in and out. It was a half-inch short, grazes the back of the front rim, hits the back rim and comes out. All four 3-point shots. He’s gonna break out of this pretty quickly.”
This is a historically bad shooting slump for Curry. He went 5-of-24 against the Mavericks after a 3-of-17 night against the Heat. That’s 8-of-41 over a two-game stretch, which includes a brutal 2-of-19 from 3.
But the performances, though similar in their inaccuracy, did feel a bit different to Curry.
“They all felt good (tonight in Dallas),” Curry said. “Last game, I felt like all of them had no chance. Tonight was different. All of them felt good.”
The team stats against the Mavericks on Wednesday night were ugly: 82 total points, 40 percent shooting, 5-of-28 from 3 and 17 turnovers. Jordan Poole was quiet two nights after his bench eruption. Andrew Wiggins didn’t pick up the slack. Otto Porter Jr. rested. Nobody on the team scored more than 17 points.
But the postgame spotlight shifts almost primarily to Curry, who didn’t just string together two unfortunate shooting nights. This is the latest in what he deemed the worst shooting stretch of his career.
“I haven’t (had a worse stretch),” Curry said. “Over the course of the last 10 to 15ish (games). Usually there is mechanics I can focus on. But now it’s dealing with (swarming) defenses and dealing with the shots I’m going to get.”
Let’s rewind it to the Blazers game at home early last month. That was the first time Curry publicly acknowledged his chase for the 3-point record, something he said he later regretted, believing it dragged him into a fatigue-related slump. In the 12 games since, including that Portland game, Curry has made only 33.5 percent of his 3s and 38.4 percent of his overall shots. That has dragged his season percentages down to 42 percent overall and 38.8 percent from 3, career lows in both categories.
“Everyone is throwing everything at him,” Kerr said. “Their best defenders, double-teams, trying to make it as difficult as possible.”
WIGGINS AN ALL-STAR??
WEST:
STARTERS:
G- CURRY
G- PAUL
F- LEBRON
F- GREEN (NORMALLY KAWHI WHO IS OUT)
C- JOKIC
BENCH:
F- TOWNS - TWOLVES (SUB .500)
C-GOBERT
G- D MITCHELL, LILLARD, BOOKER, MORANT
THAT’S 11….
QUESTIONS:
-PAUL GEORGE AND KAWHI ARE OUT
-LUKA HAS PLAYED IN 23 OF 37 GAMES…. BUT LIKELY IN…. FOR #12…..
-ZION OUT….
OTHERS:
Anthony Davis (Lakers) - ONLY PLAYED IN 27 OF 39– HAS MADE 8 STRIGHT AS TEAMS- , Russell Westbrook (Lakers), De’Aaron Fox (Kings), Brandon Ingram (Pelicans), Andrew Wiggins (Warriors), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder), Kristaps Porzingis (Mavericks), Dejounte Murray (Spurs), Jonas Valanciunas (Pelicans)
KLAY:
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| Matt Barrows |
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-TRUTH ABOUT STEVE V JOE — I FEEL LIKE STEVE HAS FILLED IN A LOT OF THOSE BLANKS— IT WAS AWKWARD….
-THE TRADE TO KC…..
-MORE ABOUT THE CATCH….
-MANY HAVE CONFORMED THE JOHN CANDY HUDDLE STORY….
-MORE ON JOE AND DWIGHT LIVING TOGETHER….
-WALSH/ JOPE DYNMAIC
WHAT ELSE DO I WANT TO KNOW?
E- IF 49ERS DONT MAKE PLAYOFFS…. 4 WINS…
-2 SEATTLE LOSES TO A 6-10 TEAM (WEEK 4 28-21, 30-23 WEEK 13)
-TENN LOSS — NO WAY…..20-17 WEEK 16 —
-PACKERS :37 (WEEK 3)
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Falcons tight end Kyle Pitts was not involved in Wednesday's practice, per a participation report issued by the team.
The rookie Pro Bowler suffered a hamstring injury in the first half of Sunday's loss to Buffalo and wasn't able to continue beyond the first offensive series of the third quarter.
Head coach Arthur Smith said in a pre-practice press conference that, at this stage, he wasn't ready to rule anyone out of Sunday's home game against New Orleans.
FULL REPORT— SAINTS/ FALCONS—
Saints….
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MORE THAN A month into Major League Baseball's lockout, well aware that the league and players haven't had a single substantive negotiating session since the work stoppage began and that spring training is fast approaching without an iota of progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement, a longtime baseball man very calmly said into his phone earlier this week, "What the f--- are we doing?"
This man is not an alarmist. He has intimate knowledge of how the relationship between the league and the players' union works -- or rather, doesn't work -- and he has grown increasingly cynical about the parties reaching a deal anytime soon. He's not yet ready to say baseball will lose games on account of its labor war, but he's not ready to say baseball won't lose games, either.
B- A BARRY HALL UPDATE:
35.2% IN…….
OTHER:
BURRITO AS A FOOD STAPLE— HOW MANY PER MONTH? VS. PIZZA, BURGER… WHERE DOES BURRITO FIT IN?
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Here’s hoping your New Year’s resolution doesn’t preclude you from eating fast-food tacos every single day for a month. trib.al/pnRypjw 1/6/22, 8:50 AM
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