Steph Curry is a generational player, Wizards lacking that
OAKLAND – John Wall and Bradley Beal are both great basketball players. They've teamed up to form one of the NBA'S elite backcourts, lifting the Washington Wizards to their best stretch in decades.
Yet, despite that success, Washington has felt like a team that is less than the sum of its parts. And despite so often looking like they are on the cusp of becoming something more, the Wizards annually wind up with the same result: an early playoff exit.
Why? If there were any doubt, the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry answered that question emphatically here Wednesday night.
With 51 points in 31 minutes, while shooting 11 for 16 from 3-point range, Curry put on the kind of show only he can provide, as a transcendent, once-ina-generation player. That's Washington Wizards’ Tomas Satoransky tries to block as Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry makes a three point basket in the second period of their basketball game at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Wednesday.
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“Some of the shots that he was making, you don't ever see that,” Wizards Coach Scott Brooks said
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Wednesday night, shaking his head at Curry's masterful performance.
“He is a special player, special scorer, special shooter.”
RALEIGH, N.C. – Marc-edouard Vlasic addressed his accusers Thursday, and he was not happy.
“I don’t know why we’re even talking about this – he hit me in the helmet,” the Sharks’ defenseman said. “Because Dreger and Mike Fisher decide to say something they’re right? It’s funny, when you’re sitting far away, you think you know the game.
“I don’t have to defend myself. It hit the visor.”
Wednesday, on the heels of the Sharks 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators, TSN analyst Darren Dreger suggested via Twitter that Vlasic be added to the NHL’S embellishment list for drawing a questionable high-sticking penalty that led to the gamewinning goal. Dreger, a highly-respected Canadian reporter, included a Tweet from former Predators forward Mike Fisher that showed a slow-motion video of the play in question. In the video, Vlasic ducks and grabs his face after Viktor Arvidsson’s stick waved past his head.