NBA: The night Curry returned between rookies, temps, bounces and meritorious: “As if it were Jesus Christ” | NBA 2019

The Warriors star, who lost 45 of the 58 games during his low, now focuses his plans on the Tokyo Games.

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For one night the eyes were not going to the right hand of Stephen Curry, the one that has put more than 1000 triples, but to the left, the one that fractured four months ago under the 118 kilos of a rival pvot. Curry needed two operations and therapy to repair nerve damage. In some areas the touch is not as before, but that is the last month of the course, to start preparing next season And before, an objective: Tokyo 2020.

The injury has cost Curry 58 games, of which the Warriors have lost 45. The year has been so disastrous that it has not been worth considering the 'and sis'. What if Kevin Durant The Achilles tendon would not have broken. What if Klay thompson He would not have broken his knee. Of that team that was looking for his third ring followed this other, colista and unrecognizable: of the players who played the last Finals, the only one who went on the track was Curry.

Thompson doesn't play all season. Draymond Green Y Kevon Looney They didn't do it for inconvenience. Of the rest there is no one left. Instead, Curry was accompanied by five rookies and a handful of seasonal, bounced and meritorious. As the exmadridista Chasson Randle, who just left China because of the coronavirus. The year turned into a preseason of 82 games. “These 20 games are the springboard for next season,” he said. Steve Kerr.

Looking at his hand

Curry scored 23 points in just 27 minutes, but the numbers, like defeat, were the least important. It had not been three minutes and he had already released an assist from behind with the left for a mate of Andrew Wiggins. He defended again looking at his hand, as if recognizing the sensations he had lost. When Golden State squeezed in the last quarter, Curry stood up to the pavilion by simply raising his arms. “As if it were Jesus Christ,” I resumed Juan Toscano, one of many young stuffing.

The Warriors had planned this return with patience. With the 'peace of mind' of knowing that this year there was nothing more at stake than a good position in the draft. And for that, the better the more defeats. On Monday he had a general rehearsal: he was assigned for a few hours to the affiliated team, Santa Cruz, to train with them. In the individual session he had later, he got to get 26 triples in a row. All in order.

Quin and how

The last Finals opened a parenthesis in the Warriors dynasty. They will be able to resume it because they follow the three main pillars of the project – Curry, Thompson, Green – but, Kerr himself admits, is necessarily different from the last five years. All continue to revolve around Curry, but who and what will be decided in the next six months.

Tokyo 2020 enters those plans. Curry won gold in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, but has never participated in an Olympic Games. “It's the goal,” he confesses after the game, reiterating the commitment he had already announced with his selection. By April 16 we will be done, so you can get an idea of ​​how to paint the calendar until the concentration begins in Las Vegas in July. “