Warriors assistant coach Bruce Fraser stood below a basket at the Golden State practice facility and engaged in an admittedly ridiculous exercise: explaining how to shoot like Steph Curry.
Ridiculous because, of course, no one can shoot like Steph Curry. The only way to shoot like Steph is to have a father who is one of the best shooters in NBA history, spend your entire life honing your craft and even then, based on Curry family history, you’ve still got only a 50–50 shot. This is not to belittle Seth, who is a fine shooter; it’s just the reality. Rarely have nature and nurture collaborated as enthusiastically as in the case of Steph.
Surely you’re familiar with the stats by now. You’ve seen the half–court swishes and the stepback jumpers and all the rest. As you’re reading this, somewhere out there, Steph is probably absent-mindedly tossing in a 40-footer off one leg just for the hell of it, or wadding up a napkin at a Starbucks and banking it off a far-off espresso machine into a tiny trash can.
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