Steph Curry is the Warriors' system. Everything they do on offense revolves around the two-time NBA MVP. That fact isn't up for debate.
But the beauty of the Warriors over the last eight years is that they haven't necessarily needed Curry to score 35 points a game to win on a given night.
While Curry is the sun in the Warriors' orbit, he has had offensive weapons like Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant flanking him, in addition to other high-level role players. At any moment, Thompson or Durant were capable of dropping 35-to-40 points on an opponent, lessening the need for Curry to go thermonuclear.
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But so far through two games of the 2022 NBA Finals, Curry appears to be carrying a heavier load on the offensive end. After scoring 29 points in the Warriors' Game 2 win over the Boston Celtics on Sunday night, he's averaging 31.5 points in the series.
Thompson and Jordan Poole both are averaging 13 points per game while Andrew Wiggins is averaging 15.5 points per game. Curry isn't getting as much help as he was getting in years past.
While it feels like something is different with this year's team, Draymond Green believes nothing has changed, even from the time Durant was co-starring alongside Curry from 2016 through 2019.
"Our offense is always a lot of Steph," Green told reporters after the game. "It all starts with Steph. When KD was here, our offense still started with Steph and that's the way it's going to be. When you're playing a team like that, you have to get offense from other places, not just Steph. And I think, for the most part, we did a pretty good job of that.
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"Klay, 4-for-19, had a tough one but that happens and we know he'll make shots as this series continues to go on but we didn't turn the ball over and that was very important in this game, is keeping them out of transition and making them play against our defense."
Curry, asked the same question, believes he is playing the same way as he did in previous NBA Finals runs.
"I think it's different just because of the way the team is constructed," Curry told reporters. "There's always a need for me to be aggressive, try to play-make, try to score. Understand how the defense is going to guard me and guard us as a team and be able to counter that. When you compare it to years past, with the depth we had, with the heavy loading of scoring with me, KD, Klay had, it obviously looks a little different and the game flows a little different but this year, I think there's definitely a need for me to be aggressive throughout the game to create and draw attention, get shots up and just continue to apply pressure.
"Obviously, these first two games, it's gone well. I don't know what it will look like on the road and the rest of the series. It's always about being confident with the ball in my hands and make plays."
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Curry is the leading scorer in these NBA Finals at 31.5 points per game, and unless Thompson, Poole and Wiggins all collectively go off over the next few games, the two-time NBA scoring champ is going to have to put the Warriors on his back and carry them to their fourth championship in eight years.