When Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry was awarded the NBA’s Clutch Player of the Year on Thursday night, he dropped an intriguing hint about his team’s offseason after a disappointing season that ended in missing the playoffs.
Curry reflected on his success and mindset in clutch moments, he emphasized the importance of staying poised despite failure in order to have the right mentality to make the pivotal play the next opportunity it comes.
“You’ve got to be able to deal with failure,” Curry said. “You have to be OK with the shot you miss, and have a short memory with it. I don’t know if anything clicked other than you know how much time you’ve put into the game and with that comes deserved confidence of, ‘OK, I’m ready for whatever moment you find yourself in, or whatever shot you need to take.’
“Everybody remembers the highlights and whatnot, but there’s plenty of shots that you miss where you’re like, ‘Yeah, that was a good one I should have taken, and you move onto the next.’ You have to have a little amnesia built in there, and that’s the only way you can come back with that type of confidence.”
On the subject of failure, Curry shared his thought son TNT about the Warriors failing to qualify for the playoffs, hinting at major potential offseason changes for the team.
“I mean, the sad part was just missing three wins to get out of the play-in and have yourself in a playoff series,” Curry said, “where even like the game against Sacramento in the play-in tournament, you’re looking at, ‘OK, we’re down 0-1 and we can find a way to game-plan to get back in the series.’ Obviously early in the year we had a lot of missteps and absences, but you realize we’re not that far off even after staying at this peak for so long.
“There’s some tweaks, we know,” Curry explained. “When you lose, you have to look yourself in the mirror and say, ‘What can we do to get better? What holes can we fill?’ And, thankfully, we have some time to figure that out. We’re going to figure that out over the summer.”
With Klay Thompson headed for free agency along with various underachieving elements of the Warriors’ roster, there are plenty of key areas the front office could consider changing this summer in order to improve for the 2024-25 season.
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