Stephen Curry, a record and the revolution of the triple that changed basketball: "Children now shoot from anywhere"

• LUCAS SÁEZ-BRAVO

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Updated on Wednesday, December 152021-02: 05

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"Love never fails" is read in Hebrew on his priceless right wrist, as if his revolution had to do with feelings. The strength of the record achieved only serves to numerically corroborate something assumed for a long time:

is the best shooter ever. The most effective, the fastest, the most compulsive. The most fun and the one with the most variety. Tonight, at Madison Square Garden as an iconic setting, he surpassed (he only needed two, averages more than five and in only two games this season did he score less than three) the 2,973 triples that

he got over 18 seasons and 1,300 games in the NBA. Akron's other genius only needed 13 and less than 790. Being the staggering amount, his merit and his mark go much further: Curry will go down in history for his impact.

Steph's first triple was not immediate. He came in his second game in the NBA; that

fragile

with an illustrious last name had missed the only attempt in his debut, but with

front of him, he managed to start the timer that October 30, 2009. His fame as a shooter came from his cradle and preceded him before landing on the best world league. But not even having grown up surrounded by basketball thanks to his father - that photograph from the

1992

Triple Contest

in which he can be seen at the age of four on the bench with

, on

knees.

- prevented him from having to reinvent himself.

A decisive and adolescent Rubicon: his problems with mechanics made his father force him to change after his second year in high school.

He worked for weeks in what his family remembered as "the summer of tears", the germ of the deadly weapon with which he was going to terrorize the NBA and which he left notices already at his modest Davidson University in 2008.

Curry, in full launch.ANDY LYONSAFP

Later, ankle problems hampered his early years, although the revolution did not take long to break out. And in creating a trend, there the key: Curry has changed the landscape of the game, has set the pace. From 2012 to 2017 he led the NBA in triples attempted and scored. In the 2015/2016 season he was the first player in history to average 10 attempts per night and that year he broke the record for hits (402). Nobody made more than five games with 10 successful triples: he has 22. His influence can be seen in the new generations, in the blessed imitators who shoot compulsively and at the slightest loophole:

...

admitted

, another shooter for history, on Monday in a meeting with international media in which EL MUNDO was present, "the game has changed." «Children now shoot from all sides. They shoot open from any part of the field. They have a mirror that he has a blast every night.

“I think that breaking that Ray Allen record is difficult, but what is more incredible is the time in which he has achieved it. He is the best in history ", confesses

, who already suffered it in the first person:" Playing against him was always a challenge. Someone you have to defend as soon as he crosses the middle of the field makes your job that night more complicated, "he explains about another of Curry's determining points, the distance: before him,

was the leader among the players with more triples from eight meters or more (211). Steph has already accumulated almost 700 shots from that distance.

"That he throws and hits from so far and that he does it after the boat makes it even more complicated", analyzes Calderón. Before Curry, the season with the most triples made belonged to Ray Allen, who in 2005-2006 had added 269 with the SuperSonics. The Warriors leader (three rings) had already broken that mark in just his fourth NBA season (272 in 2012-2013) and since then he surpassed those 269 conversions in five of the next seven seasons, not counting the current one (it goes in rhythm of exceeding 409) nor the 2019-2020 in which he only played five games.

Quantity records in the NBA often have to do with persistence. Longevity had been the key.

played 20 seasons to become the scoring leader,

took 18 years to be the top blocker and

19 to command in assists and steals. Curry, who has hit his mark with a staggering 43% accuracy, is still sane at 33. Perhaps only

rebounding hunger

23,924 rejects in 1,045 games, can match him. And, although his physique may falter (despite the fact that the present nothing indicates it: he is the top favorite with

MVP), he can always have a few years left as a veteran and deadly shooter stuntman.

Currently, half of his attempts are from the triple, incomparable to the basketball of other legends:

was only 7%, Kobe Bryant at 21 and

at 23.

“I don't think there is anyone who can beat Curry's record.

He has changed basketball and made it look easy and fun.

And without being a super athletic player, "Nowitzki concludes.

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