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Watching Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Steph Curry goes Super Saiyan.<\/p><\/div>\n

For Jake Leland<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

When Nina Simone first sings the title of \u201cFeeling Good<\/a>,\u201d her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there\u2019s always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling. This is how the artist passes on her exuberance. You\u2019re affected by her immediate present, implicated in her future, and interested in her past. This is how the strut between you two starts: \u201cand I\u2019m feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instruments come to life right after Simone sings those words, as though her voice has just confirmed that the coast is clear\u2014a new dawn, a new day, a new life\u2014the brass begins with those gravel-and-booze notes down low, the piano like morning birdsong, light and constant, up top. The world is being made, and you feel good enough to sing as if you yourself were making it. And maybe you are: the experience heats up, the experience becomes porous, and you don\u2019t know anymore where you end and it begins. Is she feeling good? Am I feeling good? Am I being told to feel good? We\u2019re feeling good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And this is where we are with the Golden State Warriors\u2014feeling good. They\u2019re 23\u20130, the best start to a season in NBA history; they\u2019re seven wins away from the longest streak the league has ever seen; they\u2019re the reigning champions. We\u2019ve seen phenomena like this before\u2014the 1969\u20131970 Knicks, the 1971\u20131972 Lakers, the 1995\u20131996 Bulls, the 2012\u20132013 Miami Heat\u2014but these were teams that engaged in different ways, using templates that were widely understood to bring success: a stifling defense, a dominant big man, a stockpiling of superstar players. Those Bulls and Heat, in particular, were when-the-going-gets-tough-the-tough-crushes-your-soul teams. The Bulls were an aging, bitter collection of legends who cut through the league like Sherman cut through the South; the Heat of a few years ago wasted their time trying to figure out if they wanted to be the heroes or the villains of the league.<\/p>\n

But the Warriors\u2014they play like, well, like they\u2019re feeling good. There\u2019s a refreshing absence of internal struggle, a looseness that pundits would condemn as unpreparedness if the Warriors hadn\u2019t just won a championship. When you watch this team play, you\u2019re watching something that\u2019s broken from its tether. It makes no sense. Yes, the high pick-and-roll pace-and-space elements from Mike D\u2019Antoni\u2019s offense<\/a> are there<\/a>. But the Warriors play elite defense; D\u2019Antoni\u2019s teams played little defense at all. And where D\u2019Antoni\u2019s offense put the point guard at the center of its universe, the Warriors run something like a dark-matter offense: Curry may be the main ball handler, but anyone can initiate the attack. The center of the universe is wherever the ball is. They run inverted stuff, like ball screens for their center set by their MVP point guard. And while it\u2019s in vogue to deploy a deep shooting power forward, the \u201cstretch four\u201d, the Warriors have abandoned that notion in favor of a playmaking four<\/a>. They keep Draymond Green constantly moving, constantly altering his responsibilities in the offense\u2014instead of merely stretching defenses, the Warriors implode them. The rest of the league has yet to catch on; they still extol the stretch four like priests extolling Ptolemy. You see the gob-smacked faces of the Warriors\u2019 opponents, of those opponents\u2019 coaches and fans. They haven\u2019t seen this before. They don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

When you watch Steph Curry play these days, it\u2019s pretty obvious that he\u2019s feeling good<\/a>. If you played basketball growing up, you learn the importance of\u00a0follow-through when you shoot: forming the gooseneck, waving good-bye to the ball, reaching into the far off hoop like it\u2019s a cookie jar\u2014think Michael Jordan\u2019s last shot as a Bull<\/a>. Curry\u2019s way, and I mean way<\/em>, past that. He\u2019s to the point where he\u2019s putting the ball up like he\u2019s getting rid of a bomb<\/a>. He sometimes looks like he\u2019s just throwing the ball up. Then there are the finger rolls, scoop shots and teardrops with either hand. He\u2019s rising up from twenty-five feet out and skedaddling back to the other end of the court as soon as the ball leaves his hand. And I wasn\u2019t trying to dig into the word-crate when I wrote skedaddle<\/em>: it\u2019s the only word that captures what he does as soon as the ball leaves his hand<\/a>. You can\u2019t give him any space at all to shoot, but if you don\u2019t give him any space to shoot<\/a> he\u2019ll absolutely embarrass you off the bounce<\/a> \u2026 no matter who you are<\/a>. He\u2019s given up on simply blowing past defenders who crowd him\u2014he likes to lead them quick around the court in small figure eights, giving them the impression that they\u2019re sticking with him until the rug gets pulled out from under them. The guy is beyond on fire. He\u2019s gone full on Super Saiyan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NBA is league of peacocking strutters with their signature celebrations for when a shot goes in. Curry is no stranger to celebration, but his looks unintended, as if some other body has taken over his own, which is exactly what happens when you\u2019re feeling good on the court. You become muscle memory from head to toe. It barely lasts. You feel like you can\u2019t miss, and this is where the infamous \u201cheat check\u201d comes in. You can\u2019t miss<\/a>. So you start taking shots you know should miss. You test the limits of being hot<\/a>, of feeling good. Twenty-five feet out. Thirty feet out. Without looking at the rim. Quick-firing after dribbling between the legs four times. The heat check. The search for the end of the streak. No one really wants to be hot forever.<\/p>\n

Steph Curry, at the moment, is on an endless heat check. Somewhere within the euphoria of his feats is a trace of sadness. He\u2019s in a strange quantum all his own, where time and space barely obtain. Any shooter can tell you, things aren\u2019t supposed to be this way. Not for the pros. Jimmer Fredette played like Steph Curry in college just a few years ago and he isn\u2019t even in the NBA. Plenty of players have been Steph Curry in a high school game or messing around at Rucker Park. But shooters always get found out, always emerge as types: the spot shooter who waits for an opening, the gunner who comes off the bench for an offensive spark, the pick-and-roll point guard who knows just when to let his deadly shot fly, the blacktop legend who just couldn\u2019t break through. These limits define the game\u2014and shooters, especially, are supposed to be bound by the ruthlessness of space-time. But Curry has decided to ignore it all. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s breaking the system, it\u2019s that he\u2019s a broken system. You can see it in how he loosens his neck and shoulders constantly, how he chews on his mouth guard, the mellow glaze in his gaze during a stoppage of play. It\u2019s as though he\u2019s missing something. You know how he feels. You don\u2019t know how he feels. I know how you feel.<\/p>\n

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the<\/em>\u00a0Daily\u2019s basketball columnist. His<\/em>\u00a0second book of poems,\u00a0<\/em>Heaven<\/a>,\u00a0was published earlier this year.\u00a0<\/em>He is the recipient of the 2013 PEN<\/small>\/Joyce Osterweil Award, a 2013 Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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