Highlights of warriors and wizards: Steph Curry lost his points with 51 points and continues the season of the most useful player

Stephen Curry had one of those nights on Wednesday when he burned the Washington Wizards 51 points out of 11 of 15 points … out of three. The Warriors won the game, 144-122, and could have threatened something close to 160 points if Curry had played in the fourth. Seriously, take a look at some of those hits that he has hit:

Even by Curry standards, are you joking with some of them? When this guy starts, it's a complete joke about what he can do to make the world's best players totally helpless. Hands on his head, wide-eyed, like, "What am I supposed to do with that?" Newsflash: You can not do anything. Well, I guess if you're John Wall and Bradley Beal, you can stop that nonsense of trying to put yourself in the same clbad as Curry and Klay Thompson, but other than that, no, you can not do anything.

That said, the amazing thing about Curry in his most matured basketball state is that even when he cooks like that, he does not completely forget the other elements of the game. He fires shots, without any doubt. Like he should when he's hot. But as Kevin Durant noted, he continues to play the game immediately, even in his increased state of aggression. He continues to enjoy the nervousness of the defenders to go to their side and create for their teammates. He continues to move without the balloon, reaching his points on an autopilot. He just keeps making things so easy.

"He did a great job staying aggressive and making good shots, not just doing heat checks every time," said Durant about Curry. "He was about to get stuck in. And a professional scorer like that, he was just in an area at that time … It was a pleasure to be on the same pitch as [Curry]. It was awesome. … it's a pure artist and tonight it was no different. "

Some notes: The 51 points are tied for the third part of Curry's career. The 11 trios are two less than the NBA record in singles match with 13 triples that he beat against New Orleans last season. This is the sixth time that Curry has hit at least 11 games in a game, and if you need to see how ridiculous this is, no other player in NBA history has had more than one such part. In fact, there have only been seven games of this type – in total – for all other players in the combined history. Curry has six alone. Think about it.

So let's move on to the MVP conversation, are we going?

We all know that it is early and that by the end of the season, Curry and Kevin Durant – who, by the way, finished with 30 points on 13 of 19 on Wednesday – are probably going to go down. cancel one and the other. candid, as stupid as it is. But if we have to have an honest conversation with the most useful player and Curry keeps the secret, there will be no way to keep him out of the way. In five games, Curry averaged 34.6 points on 52% against three. The 33 triples that he has touched so far are more than four whole teams. When you take into account the difficulty of the shots it takes, this 52% bar is mind-boggling.

Curry has long since entered this counterintuitive realm of the NBA superstardom, where his greatness actually pits him against public perception. The standard that he has set is so astronomical that it takes nights like Wednesday to get excited about everything he's doing now. During the televised broadcast, the great warrior Rick Barry asked Curry when he was the greatest shooter of all time. Do we still have to ask this question? Barry called his answer saying that Curry was the best distance shooter of all time, but it was a bit like saying that Michael Jordan was the top scorer in the mid-range. No, he was just the top scorer. No qualifications required. But, yes, if we insist on continuing to treat Curry as if it's just an anomaly related to a long bombing, let's take at least the absurdity of the following career numbers to from three:

Is that bad? The guy hit six or more hits in a game 106 times? Do you know how hard it is to hit six in a game? It's an absolute career game for most NBA players. Seven for three is almost unthinkable for 99% of NBA players, and Curry did it 61 times? Curry, the biggest shooter in the world, may not even be the most flammable marker on his own team. Do you remember Thompson accumulating 37 points in a quarter and 61 points in 29 minutes? I mean come on. These guys play with a little problem.

Last remark: with Curry for 51 and Durant 30, this is the first time the Warriors have scored 50 and 30 points since Wilt Chamberlain (61) and Paul Arizin (31) did it for the Philadelphia Warriors of 1962. In in other words, these warriors are really good. Curry is really very good. Even Steve Kerr does not know what to say about this guy.