Steph Curry breaks personal report whereas exhibiting the Jazz they aren’t among the many elite out west

Stephen Curry and the Warriors have been at it once more on New 12 months’s day, taking down Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz, 123-116. Within the technique of exhibiting Utah they aren’t fairly on Golden State’s degree, Curry set one other 3-pt report by making a 3 in his 158th consecutive sport. Curry set the report initially again in November 2016, hitting a 3 in 157 straight video games.

Each three Curry drains, he’s just about setting a report at this level. This may occasionally not sound like some nice accomplishment, however to make at the least one three-point try in each sport for practically two seasons in a row twice is freaking insane. Including the truth that Steph did it this second time throughout a world pandemic the place nothing has been the identical from day after day is much more unbelievable.

By the point Curry is completed enjoying, there will not be a 3-pt record within the NBA report books that doesn’t have his identify subsequent to it. And sure, there are nonetheless a number of on the market simply ready to be taken over by Steph. The report of highest 3-pt proportion (45.4 p.c%) is held by Curry’s coach Steve Kerr and is probably going out of attain at this level. Most threes made in a sport (14) is presently owned by the opposite splash brother, Klay Thompson. Additionally, essentially the most threes tried in a profession (7,429), now held by Ray Allen. Curry is just below 450 makes an attempt away from stealing this report away from Allen.

Together with a brand new report for Curry, the Warriors additionally despatched a message to the Jazz, letting them know they aren’t on their degree within the Wwestern Cconference. Utah is a nice little story, and so they would possibly make it out of the primary spherical of the playoffs solely to be promptly bounced from there like final yr. The one distinction is that they have been the runaway number one seed last season, and this yr they’ll most likely end third within the convention.

The West can be Phoenix vs. Golden State within the convention finals. It’s only a matter of who can have home-court benefit. I hate to rely out each different group, however proper now, it simply seems to be like these groups are performing on a unique frequency than anybody else within the West. The Suns and Warriors are the one two groups that haven’t suffered double-digit losses but and can doubtless be the primary two groups with 30 wins this yr. It’s robust to argue with what they’ve achieved to date over these first few months of the season.