Steph reflects on Warriors’ adjustment period after Klay’s departure

Steph reflects on Warriors’ adjustment period after Klay’s departure originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

For 12 years, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were joined at the hip in the Warriors’ backcourt. They played more than 600 games, each finding his best self with the presence of the other. They won together, lost together, laughed together, agonized together.

Even had a catchy nickname.

Thompson chose to close that book in July. Not because the partnership had soured but because his relationship with the franchise wore thin. Upon becoming an unrestricted free agent, he joined the Dallas Mavericks.

Which put Curry and the Warriors in search mode. Through his first 10 games this season, Curry has four different sidekicks: Andrew Wiggins, Moses Moody, De’Anthony Melton and Lindy Waters III – every guard on the roster besides Buddy Hield and Brandin Podziemski, who anchor the second unit.

It is a dramatically different look for Curry and the team, and it requires an adjustment period.

“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 on NBC Sports Bay Area’s “Dubs Talk,” which debuted Wednesday. “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?”

Curry, like Thompson, is focusing on the future while savoring the past. The past includes the two of them coming of age in the 2012 postseason, setting an NBA record for 3-pointers by teammates in 2012-13, becoming the only duo to surpass 600 combined triples in a season, winning four NBA championships between 2015 and 2022 and along the way earning their “Splash Brothers” nickname.

It includes being the only NBA backcourt to go to five consecutive All-Star games…

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Publish date : 2024-11-21 19:11:00

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