If you’re more of a visual learner, his 3-point shot charts side-by-side before (left) and after (right) explain everything. Over his last 18 games, Curry has seen his field goal percentage dip just below 40 and his 3-point percentage drop nearly eight percentage points compared to how he was shooting before breaking the record. Once he became the NBA’s all-time 3-point leader, he admitted he was relieved the circus surrounding the milestone was over, but his shooting woes have stuck with him since then.Ĭurry’s shooting percentages since setting the NBA’s all-time 3-point record MORE: Inside Stephen Curry’s path to becoming the greatest shooter of all-time ![]() Curry needed three more games after that contest to break the record, eventually doing so at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks six days later. ![]() The result? Curry jacked up 17 3s, only knocking down six of them to put himself 10 3-pointers away from the record. “Absolutely… he’s Steph Curry, so anything is possible,” Kerr stated on the subject leading into that contest. Head coach Steve Kerr even signed off on the idea of Curry burying 16 3s in a game to re-write the record books. He was in hot pursuit of the all-time record and while he needed to do something no one has ever done before in the history of the game, people started to expect the unexpected and assume Curry could make it happen. I think it’s a credit to just how remarkable Curry is as a shooter. 8 matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers.Ĭurry was 16 3-pointers away from passing Allen and even though the all-time record for 3s in a game is 14 (shoutout to Curry’s Splash Brother, Klay Thompson), there was a buzz around this contest as if Steph would break two historic records in the same night. The game that sticks out was the Warriors’ Dec. ![]() NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial)
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