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Throughout the entire 2015-2016 regular season, the Golden State Warriors were able to remain healthy en route to a league record 73 wins.
They seemed to be a team of destiny. Stephen Curry, without a question, easily topped his MVP form from the previous season. Draymond Green had a breakout year. Klay Thompson was his old lethal self. Everyone was having fun.
But they knew that the playoffs, especially when they go deeper, aren’t going to be a stroll in the park. It was definitely no cake-walk, and to support that is the fact that none else than Stephen Curry had to endure an ailing knee, shoulder and elbow.
Curry continued to play to his MVP-level standards, but come finals, the tables were turned and he failed to find his shot more consistently, resulting to one of the most historic meltdown in the history of June.
Curry’s trainer, Brandon Payne, did not hold back in Sam Amick’s recent article for USA TODAY Sports as he bared to everyone how he saw a different Stephen Curry play in the NBA Finals.
“As bad as I wanted it to be him (in the Finals), it wasn’t him. We don’t like to make excuses, and we’re not going to make excuses because all that matters is what happens in the 48 minutes when you’re on the floor. (But) I wish it was the other version of him, the version that we saw for 82 games.”
He might be right, or not. Maybe the Cavs just did a great job at putting pressure on him that it affected his shot. Because at that point of the season, almost everyone felt something wrong with their body.
