Seth curry: The most valuable role player.

Compile/Mo Jing

In the latest red and black list of offensive efficiency, seth curry ranks first in the red list with a jump shot of 1.24, and the offensive efficiency ranks first in the league among all players who have made 300 shots this season.

Seth curry knew that he would never be the focus of NBA attack like his brother Stephen, so he followed the example of his father Dell. Through his own efforts and transformation, he has become a perfect combination of the two: a role player that every superstar wants to have.

When he joined the Philadelphia 76ers, Seth knew his role on the court, found his position on the outside and tried his best to create more offensive space for the inside. 76ers coach Rivers pointed out earlier this season: "As you can see, he created a huge space for our offense." Ben Simmons should attract more peripheral defense, make room for the inside, let the ball transfer to the inside in time and so on.

Of course, Simmons is not only absent from the lineup for a long time, but also has not been traded. This fact highlights the deficit that the team must face. The deadlock between Simmons and the 76ers or, in fact, the 76ers and their potential trading partners has entered the fourth month. Simmons' teammates have no choice but to grit their teeth and continue to work hard on the court.

For some people, such as Tobias Harris, the responsibility of this "inheritance" is now as unresolved as a curse, which is why fans boo him at home, just because he can no longer take on more responsibilities. For others, such as seth curry, this is an opportunity to go beyond their usual role.

Seth was originally brought to Philadelphia as a "supporting actor". At that time, Embiid was one of the most dominant stars of his generation. He politely told the front desk that he wanted to play with teammates who could open up the space. Embiid said: "I don't think we have what we need, except the projection." So the 76ers not only traded one of the best long-range shooters in the league, but also one of the best long-range shooters in the history of the league. When Seth has enough space to throw the ball, he can be compared with almost any player, even with his brother Stephen, who has a higher three-point shooting rate than his brother in his career. In fact, since 20 15 joined the NBA full-time, only one player (Joe Harrison) Bises's jump shot is more efficient.

All this means that no one is better suited to divert the defensive attention of the team's best player than him. Seth did the same thing for Lucas Hong Chen before making room for Embiid. Before he cooperated with Dancsics, his projection ability was compared with that of damian lillard. If a team already has a superstar, Seth's name will probably appear on the whiteboard in the general manager's office, because such an efficient jump shot is so effective for any player.

Morey, the current chairman of the 76ers, tried to build such a lineup when he led the Rockets. However, when Houston intended to sign Seth as a free agent on 20 19, he did not agree in a hurry, but consulted his father, former best sixth man Dale Curry and his father-in-law, his current head coach Rivers, and finally he chose to sign a contract with the lone ranger.

Seth only stayed in Dallas for a season, and Morey took Richardson and a second-round draft pick to Philadelphia.

Seth is perfect for the 76 ers. Like his father, he can easily adapt to various tactical arrangements regardless of whether the ball can be kept in his hand for a long time. He can attack his opponent at the right time and pass the ball to his teammates at a better time. He said: "I don't think I need to play that many balls, I just need to seize the right scoring opportunities."

But as long as Simmons' problem is not solved, this pure auxiliary function does not exist. Seth is so attractive to the 76ers, not only because his projection can make room for Embiid, but also because he can make up for Simmons' shortcomings. Seth used to be the perfect bridge between Embiid and Simmons, and the only answer that the 76ers could find to solve Simmons' projection loophole, until the relationship between Simmons and management deteriorated and this balance was broken.

Now, as a supporting actor, Seth has a chance to try to become a star player. But Seth doesn't think so. He doesn't seem to care about comparison.

He said: "I know what kind of player I am. I really don't need to win extra honor or outside recognition to verify who I am. "

In 20 14, after going from the cold Canton, Ohio to the colder White Plain, new york, Erie Bay Hawks coach Bill Peterson arranged a temporary video conference for his star players on the sofa in the lobby of the Economy Hotel. Seth plans to play in the D League for another two years if necessary, but his patience with minor league basketball is declining. He had to audition for some NBA teams in the first season. When he experienced dozens of such interview scenes in the hotel, it became more and more difficult for Seth to imagine how long the road to the highest level of basketball was.

Peterson once said that when he first saw Seth play, he knew that Seth belonged to the NBA, and all he had to do was help him successfully open the door to enter the NBA.

Peterson instilled the idea of defense and passing into his young players. Seth must show the talent assessors in the NBA that he has enough physical strength to stay strong in the most uncompromising basketball league in the world. To this end, Peterson put forward a strange suggestion for Seth's pre-competition exercise plan. Peterson said, "If you don't mind, let's do some push-ups there." Seth had just played at Duke University for three seasons before he was selected, and his reaction was skepticism. Peterson told him, "You can do this at home at night. It doesn't matter. But the fact is that you have to let people see this, which makes you different from other players. "

Seth tried one set of push-ups in Westchester and another set in Santa Cruz. Just a few weeks later, the Bay Hawks received a rare scout from the Spurs. After watching Seth warm up, the Spurs asked Peterson what Seth push-ups are. Of course, this is a gimmick, but it is also the starting point of dialogue about Curry's training and development. This is the beginning of the struggle with perception. Seth didn't make enough progress to get him into the NBA from the D League. He just needs to convince NBA scouts and team executives to look at what already exists.

Seth said: "to be honest, I have to play at a certain level for a year and a half, two years, just to show the scouts who I am." But there is always no bright spot on my radar. "

The team will call Curry on a 10-day contract, only to cancel all his practices and hardly let him participate in the competition. His easy-going attitude did not completely show dissatisfaction. After all, the value of being a "temporary worker" for a week and a half is not important. So Seth will join the NBA club, intend to integrate into it, without any waves, and then be quietly sent back to the original place, with no chance to show it at all. Seth said, "This is the story of my life, my whole career. I have to prove it, not get a chance. " Although his father's NBA pedigree and his brother's influence won the recognition of the Curry family, Seth didn't get a real NBA opportunity until he was 25 years old.

Peterson once begged the Orlando Magic, the owner of the Bay Hawks, to give Seth a chance to play. Orlando had a bad season, one of the worst guard rotations in the league. Peterson said, "I had a big fight with him. I don't want to say his name because he is still in the NBA. I was really grumpy for about 30 minutes. I said, do you fucking know what you're doing? " Seth's "way" to play for the Magic is to dress them in training camp, and the coaching staff just asked him to step aside.

20 15 when Seth finally got the first all-season contract with the Kings, his goal was to become an excellent role player and never gave the team a reason to cut him. He doesn't want a job. He wants a job. He said, "I'm just saying to myself: You must work tirelessly for your goal. You have to do this every night. "

Although Seth's situation has changed a lot since then, he is still like a player who entered the league through the back door. Seth said: "for a player like me, I don't have the ball in most games, so I can't waste my chances." I can't shoot 20-30 times a game like Stephen or james harden. I must make my shots from 10 to 15 get the highest efficiency return. "

But Seth's three-point attempt, from minutes and possession, remained basically the same. Part of the reason is that Seth cherishes every shot more than ever before.

He said: "I know what kind of respect I will get whenever I catch the ball and look at the basket." The opposing defender will step in immediately. In this case, his brother may choose to move to another position and hit a three-pointer quickly. But Seth prefers to take the ball to the three-point line and finish shooting in a safe way. The result is almost irrefutable. Seth's mid-range jump shot percentage this season is 58.2%, which is the highest score in the advanced statistics database of NBA.

If Seth had kept Stephen in his mind, it wouldn't be like this. Seth never really wanted to be his brother. When Davidson recruited him to play ball with his brother, Seth chose to go to Free University, where he became a freshman with the highest score in the country. Then, he gave up all this, gave up having more ball rights and shooting opportunities, and switched to Duke University, where he could play with higher-level players. Seth has been going his own way.

Stephen Curry told chams of TA: "We have different journeys and different roads to get here. Obviously, I check his number every night and try my best to watch his game. He plays the best basketball I have ever seen. "

Seth scored at least 20 points during his stay in Philadelphia, and the 76 ers' record in the regular season and playoffs was 25 wins and 5 losses. In the last playoff game against the Hawks, he wore a sweatshirt that read: "A timely dream blooms". Embiid and Harris added a third important scorer to their flanks, which turned the 76ers, who are currently attacking the ninth, from a decent team into a dangerous team.

Breaking this balance is more complicated than it looks, because it is never clear whether Seth's main job at a particular moment is to score goals or attract defense. Seth said: "Obviously, we want to get more shooting opportunities, but this is related to our offensive threat and maintaining this continuity." When you play with players like Embiid, it is a pity to miss every jump shot, because every wrong shot can be transformed into Embiid who passes the ball to the inside, and he is more sure. As the colleague of the sixth player Niang said, as a shooter, his role is to "ensure that my people will not hinder Embiid and let Embiid score." But Seth is not Niang, nor Danny Green, nor Fourquin Korkmaz-he is not only the best shooter in the lineup, but also an increasingly important dribbler. He shares the main ball rights with Embiid and Maxi, and now the number of balls is almost twice that of Dallas.

Now the 76ers will find Seth by passing the ball. The reason is simple: 76ers and Embiid need him.

When Seth sees himself on the video these days, he seems to see his father, and sometimes their facial expressions are surprisingly consistent. "The older I get, the more I behave like him." Seth liked to participate in Raptors training with his father when he was very young, where he practiced shooting with his brother and played ball with McGrady and Carter. What he didn't know at that time was that after changing teams in the first three seasons and finding his place in the league, Dell's whole career started from the edge.

During that time, Dell found patience. He learned how to play ball. As a fixed-point shooter, he was able to make room for big-name stars such as larry johnson and Alenzo Munning, and later for attackers such as McGrady and Carter.

Dale said: "I think at a very young age, he just thought: Hey, my dad is in the NBA. A 10-year-old Seth doesn't know what it really means to win and keep this job. A few years later, Seth finally entered the NBA from the D League and added his name to his father's jersey number. No.30 Raptors jersey is one of the three Dell retro jerseys he owns. When he started his NBA career with the Kings, Seth wore the same number and a slightly different color.

When Seth was traded to Philadelphia, Dell's No.30 was already occupied, so Seth chose 3 1, which proved to be auspicious. For the first time in his career, Seth was able to return to the same team for several consecutive seasons. To commemorate this moment, he asked his coach to play the role of Embiid in the off-season training last year. A smaller and lighter Embiid was sweating profusely on the court.

This is a complementary effort.

A successful NBA role player needs to do two things, either to make your team's best players better or to help your team survive under the condition of incomplete lineup. The best role players have both.

At present, NBA rules allow role players like Seth to make more confrontational moves. Now more teams are playing small teams, so defensive tactics are widely used. Pick-and-roll, change defense, repair defense, there will always be someone watching in front of you. This means that you have to keep passing the ball to get a chance, but the flexibility of the small lineup will cost too many passes.

Like Dell's evaluation of his younger son, Seth is not afraid of the league's current defensive strategy. He can attack with the ball, or he can fool the defense and take a step forward to finish shooting. More importantly, he has a clear mind. He has been observing Embiid's position, and he can pass a good ball that the defender should pass. Therefore, Seth is not a simple shooter, and this attribute will substantially change the strategic layout of the defender.

If Seth can cheat his opponent to make more frequent and aggressive jump shots, then he has really found room for improvement. Seth's height (6 feet 2 inches) seems to affect his upper limit, but Van fleet proves that this is not a problem. He and Van fleet are so similar in height, speed and shooting that Van fleet has grown into an all-star guard. If Seth works hard in this direction, can he keep pace with the team's superstar seth curry? Of course, whether he will work hard in the direction of Van fleet depends on his basketball outlook.

Any attempt to increase Seth's offensive range will always violate his self-orientation. In fact, he is a conscientious shooter, which makes him the perfect partner for teammates like Embiid from the beginning.

Philadelphia took this into account when building the whole rotation. This season, Embiid only played 59 minutes without Seth, and Seth only played 1.25 minutes without Seth. In contrast, the two partners played for about 1000 minutes. This figure is even more telling if you consider the time Seth was absent due to an ankle injury. That's how rivers used him.

The relationship between Seth and Rivers is a little more complicated than that between players and coaches. Seth and Rivers' son, Augustine Rivers, partnered in the backcourt of Duke University. Seth and Rivers' daughter Kelly got married in 20 19, about a year before Bises was traded to Philadelphia. Callie is the author of Ringer's reality TV podcast. According to Seth himself, the news that he was traded to Philadelphia was first revealed to him by his wife.

The second spectrum thinks that the existence of Seth has a positive impact on Embiid's scoring efficiency. Similarly, Embiid's handling of the ball has made Seth the most effective scorer of jump shots this season. When Embiid plays more point guard or inside attack, he can go to the restricted area more calmly, because he knows that Seth, a reliable outside shooter who will never get cold feet, is ready to play the role of "fire fighting" at any time.

According to Synergy Sports, Seth has played more games for Philadelphia as a defender than any other team this season, and the probability of his replacement in the 76ers is very low, which I can intuitively feel. Whenever Embiid encounters some troubles on the court, he will think of Seth, and he is more comfortable playing with Seth.

Seth is smart enough to know that playing a role well is not just a matter of playing it well. His way of working is consistent with the most important person in the whole organization. This makes the superstar want to play with you, whether it is to open the space like Embiid or to pick and roll like Dancsics.

Seth said: "As one of the top ten stars in the league, you must adapt to the role they want you to play in that team, not which team will adapt to you." I didn't complain about my role, but figured out what was best for the team. Whether it's staying on the bench, controlling the ball, defending the opposing defender, defending the opposing flank and so on. , whatever it is. "

Every game is another chance to find perfection and harmony.

Seth said, "for me, no matter where I go, I can accept my role again." I think a player who played 16 in the NBA and never started deserves our respect. Therefore, in my heart, even if my father is not an all-star and the best player in the league, I still respect him. He is my role model. I wanted to have a long career since I was a child. "

What we want to inherit is to follow our hearts!

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