Steph Curry has opened up about how he and the Warriors are adjusting to playing without his former Splash Brother Klay Thompson.
The pair played in over 600 games together and won a historic four championships together, along with Draymond Green.
Of course, sharing the court with one another for 12 years and then to suddenly not be is taking some getting used to, Curry says.
“The emotion of it is always the hardest part because you’ve built such equity and experience and trust,” Curry said on Dubs Talk. “Me, him and Draymond (Green), obviously KD (Kevin Durant) for those three years he was here, Andre (Iguodala), Shaun (Livingston), Andrew Bogut. You could go down the list. David Lee is another one of the guys that we won championships with. We built chemistry over the course of many, many years playing together.”
Steph added, “It’s kind of unheard of in the history of basketball what we were able to do.”
As a team, the Warriors are definitely still finding their feet and there is still a lot to iron out, but they are doing so from the top of the Western Conference – so things could certainly be worse.
“But for me and Klay, there was always that level of trust and nonverbal communication on the court that we always could rely on,” Curry said. “And that’s built over time. The transition has been attached to not just Klay not being here but us trying to figure out what this specific team needs to be successful.
“It’s kind of all blended in together. It’s not really an ultra-focus on, ‘Oh, this is where Klay would have been.’ Or ‘This is a play that we would have run.’ It’s more just generally about how are we playing? How are we going to figure out how to win games this year?”
Despite their impressive 11-3 record, the Dubs have the worst free throw percentage in the league (69.5%) and are still working out the best rotations.
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