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On Tuesday night, Stephen Curry had one of those amazing games that even for him was pretty amazing. Curry scored a season-high 40 points and made eight 3-pointers in a road win over the Miami Heat. Ultra-efficient
What made the game so good was Curry’s superb efficiency. He scored the 40 points on only 19 shots. The last player to score at least 40 points while (a) making at least eight 3-pointers and (b) taking fewer than 20 shots was Jeff Hornacek for the Jazz against the Supersonics in 1994 (15 days after Joe Dumars did so for the Pistons against the Timberwolves). Curry has made at least six 3-pointers in 33 games in his career. Over the last five seasons, no one else has more than 15 such games. How he’s scoring
It’s not just the 3-pointer with which Curry is excelling in helping the Warriors to a franchise-best 11-2 start. Curry was 4-of-6 in the paint, raising his field goal percentage in the paint to 63 percent this season. It’s only 12 games into the season, but maintaining such a level of success would be a big boost for Curry, who shot 54 percent in the paint in 2013-14.
Elias Sports Bureau Stat of the Day
Curry now has 51 career games (including Tuesday's) with at least five assists and five 3-pointers in the same game, passing Ray Allen for the most such games in NBA history. Curry reached 51 in his 349th game played. Allen has 50 in 1,300 career games (his last came in March 2010).
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