Stephen Curry made 12 3-points en route to a season high 56 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to their 5th straight win. Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni breakdown Steph’s big night, the emergence of Quenten Post, and LeBron James’ MVP level play. Then, the Athletic’s Law Murray joins the show to talk about Luka’s hate for the Clippers and NBA offensive identities.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Law MurrayExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodyRead Law’s story on Offenses: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6064695/2025/02/20/nba-offensive-identity-cavaliers-thunder/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What did Steph Curry achieve in the last game?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, Steph Curry. He's ridiculous. He's the GOAT. We're going to talk about him a little bit. The Lakers got another win, but Anthony Edwards, oddly, got ejected and may miss a few games. And Law Murray stops by for a wide-ranging conversation about why every team doesn't actually play this game. Good morning, everybody.
Chapter 2: How did the Warriors and Magic game unfold?
Good morning, S. Good morning, Dave. Great night of hoops. What a Steph Curry, man. Look, the Warriors went to Orlando and look with the way Orlando has been playing. They got crushed by 40 the other night. I was thinking, all right, we're probably not going to hit this game. The Warriors would just wipe them out.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Quentin Post's performance?
didn't work out that way um the warriors did win the game and we're gonna get to that but the way this game started out the the magic actually had a really nice run to start the game got themselves a big lead uh but steph curry just did the thing that he does s and had a 22 point third quarter he had 12 threes in the game had 56 points and
Chapter 4: How are the Lakers performing this season?
The Warriors needed all of those to win the game and including all the points they got from Quentin Post, who we'll talk about. But this game was, number one, a game that I did not expect us to be talking about. So it was a nice surprise. But number two, Steph Curry, 56 freaking points. He is, what is it? He's got the most 50-point games after turning 30 with nine now. Yeah. Yeah.
Chapter 5: What happened with Anthony Edwards during the game?
Do you want to pontificate a little bit about Steph?
Chapter 6: What is Luka Doncic's history with the Clippers?
Yeah, of course. Steph is incredible. The one thing I saw was that he has the most 20-plus point quarters ever, which is just ridiculous to think about. The Curry flurry, man. It's incredible to watch. I think he's still the number one guy to watch in the NBA. And I don't think that's a hyperbole.
Chapter 7: What are the current dynamics of the NBA's top players?
I think when he gets on those moments to the ratings.
Chapter 8: What are the takeaways from Zion Williamson's first triple-double?
Yes. Oh, yeah, that's true to the ratings as well. Like it's must watch TV when that guy is just going like that. And it's funny because there was this clip circulating today of him against the Warriors in 2016 and just the flurry that he went on. against that, excuse me, against the Thunder in 2016.
But it just kind of reminds you of how great he was in his prime and how kick-ass he still is when he gets on that level. The other thing I wanted to mention about Steph, which is crazy because like Jimmy didn't have the greatest offensive game and Steph was just like, no problem.
I got this 22 points in the third quarter, ended up with what four more threes in that fourth quarter to finish it off for them. Incredible stuff, which kind of downplayed a good Paolo game from the magic too.
Yeah. Paolo put up a 41 and we just, we're just not even going to talk about it. I mean, it was a really good game from him, but you know, Steph is more important. But I think the other thing is, you know, these are two teams that are kind of trending in different directions and
And the magic, like we gave them a lot of credit because they did, you know, they were treading water without all their guys. And like we talked about the other day, they really, their offense is struggling without Jalen Suggs. But for the Warriors, they're now 7-1 since they got Jimmy Butler. this is a completely different team.
They're a half game back as we record this going into Friday of the Clippers for the sixth seed. I think there's a great chance that by Monday or by Tuesday, this is a team that is the sixth seed, and we've been kind of penciling them into the play-in this entire time. I think that's a pretty big deal. But the biggest deal to come from this game that wasn't Steph Curry, Quentin Post.
He came off the bench, put up 18 points, hit a couple of threes. He's big. And we're going to talk about the shots he made. But, man, I think his defense has come a really long way in such a short amount of time. And he might be a guy. I mean, he's going to be in the rotation in the playoffs. He may be one of the more important guys coming off the bench for them.
Yeah, he's shooting 44% on threes this season on over four attempts a game. So that's like near the top of the list, if not the top of the list for rookies right now in Quentin Post. And so his size, his ability to shoot, but also, like you said, just be a big body out there for certain lineups has been awesome. And I was looking up some lineup data.
The Warriors have two looks that they go for now with Jimmy Butler. They have like the Jimmy Butler led lineup, which includes Quentin Post. And that's because you want spacing around him. Jimmy's going to barrel to the basket, et cetera, et cetera. And then they have the Steph Curry lineup, which is, you know, kind of catered towards what Steph can do as an off-ball shooter.
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