Steph Curry's Off-Ball Movement Is What Separates Him - The Xs and Os Of His Off-Ball Game 

He's tireless like a wild dog...when everyone else is tired, that's when he goes for the kill.

That last play deserves a Chef's kiss

Giving ALL recognition to Steph's greatness, and, acknowledging how his off-the-ball movement is indeed key to the Chef cookin' it up, I like to enjoy how it is the continual movement that is Steph AND Klay which, in the scheme of things, with Draymond always aware of where the defense didn't pick up the back-door cut, makes for the greatness that is the Splash Brothers! 🏆

Jordan Poole emulating Steph and klay off ball movements benefits Steph especially cuz jp can breakdown his defenders with his ballhandling and shooting

I consider Steph among the top 5 slashers in NBA history. While typically those players considered "slashers" tend to be more athletic and known for aggressively dominating the rim, Steph is a high IQ player with an unprecedented motor and elite finishing ability below the rim. While not the focus of his offense, his consistency finishing at the rim and the breakdowns he creates with his off ball movement are second to none.

The NBA, like so many other sports leagues, is a copy cat league. The Warriors started the switch heavy defense, and it's now adopted by most teams. Steph and Klay shot and made unprecedented number of three's and the league is now full of 3-point shooters. Pick and roll schemes had been as old as basketball itself, and because of the advent of 3-pointers, it came back and is now used basically by every team. Warriors has great success on these movement strategies ever since 2016, but it still is not widely adopted by other teams in the NBA. Why? Curry's skills are better than everyone else, but they're not unique. I can picture similar schemes with KD, Lilliard, Harden, Booker, or even Beal achieving success. My guess is, NBA players to the last of them had been the "Man" from high school on. The best NBA players had been the best of the best and they were always relied on to score to carry the team without help. Even for unselfish players, it's against their years of training and nature that they give the ball up voluntarily, and then do the work to get themselves or teammates open. How many times did KD screen for a teammate before coming to GSW? Not many I'm sure. Every step or move they make is for the purpose of themselves scoring, or draw double teams and pass for an assist. Curry is the first superstar that embraces being the cog of an engine, an indispensable one at that for sure, but his willingness apparently is not seen from other stars. Steve Kerr deserves a lot of credit for designing the system as well. I just hope it does not end when Curry retires from basketball.

You can put the benny hill theme over the defenders chasing him around constantly and being left in the dust lol

Great analysis on one of the reasons why the Warriors are so great at playing "team basketball!"

Steve Kerr learned under 2 MASTERMIND coaches (PHIL & POP).....just imagine what Kerr learned from them over the years as a player. He put a "new wrinkle" in the SPLIT ACTION......just GENIUS.

8:37 I remember watching that in real time and yelling Dray would have found Otto!! When Curry sets a back pin like that, someone's always coming through. In yr 2 at Golden state, JTA was showing flashes of seeing the floor like Draymond. Him and Jordan Poole were looking to be Curry + Dray 2. 0. Poole kept his part of the bargain, but JTA dropped the ball. While I already appreciate what Draymond does, situations like this highlight his value more.

When the team as a whole is truely greater than a collection of individuals,even when those individuals are extremely talented it’s the pinnacle of team sport ,so many moving parts and external forces and yet they still achieve their goal more often than not,all great teams have this but this warriors dynasty is up near the top of the all time greats.

I remember watching that last play live and being pissed that they messed up "Cyclone" which is one of Kerr's best ATOs that they have been getting layups off since he took over. But it's crazy how Steph just flowed into 2 different actions and got a 3 off anyway. Great video btw

Imagine running all the time to catch Steph, while also watching everyone and trying to cover mistakes and holes made by the Warriors in your defense and trying to fix it only for Steph to drain a three. How tiring, physically and mentally, and demoralizing is that?!

EXCELLENT explanation. You just earned my subscription, sir.

GSW is just an overall great team with offense built majority of the time behind SC30. Its scary now that when SC30 is resting, JP is taking over SC30 duties and able to execute them. Now you have two offensive threats with Klay being the X-Factor when he gets hot.. an AW who can get his own shot off, and a whole host of complementary offensive players... NOT to mention the up and coming youngters... we will expect to see GSW at least in the conference finals for the next several years if all of them stay healthy...

Steph created his own style that promoted him to the status he holds today he continues to impress every one with his creativity

That was a clinic. It explains why the Warriors' offense is a beauty to behold. Screens everywhere!!!

Great breakdown! Steph one of the greatest ever

How come i found this channel only now. This is really the best breakdown ive ever watched

To quote a great: "no one ever got fired for following Steph Curry" ... by extension, stop following him for even half a second, and you gonna get burned.

GSW is the very representation of CHEMISTRY & SYNCHRONICITY.....I'm sure it's a NIGHTMARE for teams trying to stop all this action. Damn near impossible.

Horns Flex Offense rocks. 👍

I don't think all 30 teams have such a complicated offense

Finally somebody said something about Curry's bball IQ. I was on Warriors board one day and people were talking like Dray's IQ is elite but Curry is running like headless chicken. And i was thinking yeah what a disgraceful fanbase you are, good luck treadmilling with Wiseman for the next decade.

Curry has the talent but there is a lot of work behind. This video is the proof. Good work dude!

GOAT offensive player. On par with other greats at the on ball stuff, yet none of them can touch him at the off ball stuff. 1st we’ve ever seen be the #1 threat for the entire shot clock.

a VERY underrated video on a VERY underrated legend! Thank you! 🙏 I hope more and more people share this on social media.

GREAT VIDEO BRO!

You video is very detailed! I learn a lot from it, thank you!

Great stuff. The split action with an additional screener doesn't have a commonplace name, but from watching other yters, i've heard it called a triple split, another guy called an action that was a precursor to it as "elbow boston" (Not an official name; he just called it boston because it was an action similar to what doc rivers' celtics ran). The difference between this and elbow boston is this past season kerr stacked the 3 off-ball players near the top of the key, whereas elbow boston had the passer and 3 off-ball players on opposite elbows. And i love the last play vs the cavs; amazing play. Steph created 2 wide-open layups without even touching the ball.

Great breakdown, really elite.

Great video, very underrated 💯

we need more of your great breakdowns

It’s crazy how they can run the Same play from a different angle depending on how the defense guards the action . Phenomenal

Great Content! Keep on going! I suscribed and I look forward to more videos!

More like Flex Action, Split Action, Double Screen, Pick and Roll, and Give and Go, or any combo thereof 🤣

This is deep shit into the game. I liked it

since the warriors are by far smaller in size than the rest. coach steve literally made different tactics/systems for them and doing so the warriors had executed them very well. The other nba teams have their system too and they have bigger skilled, athletic players as well but at the end of the day, the team that is able to adjusts and executed their system better wins. Yeah, NBA is playing chess not checkers. It's fun to watch.

Great analysis. As a fan who’s never played the game I appreciate the detail. You’ve yourself a sub.

Thank you for this

Very intelligent and informative.

Great video. Nice of you to diagram some of those actions, and then run it again so we can see it in real time.

Hey, awesome video. Just wondering, what background music did you use for this video? Sounds great.

So beautiful, very well-made video

It's beautiful to watch

That blind pig update is nasty

As always the success of gsw is stephs 3pt shots and kerr screen plays.

Damn these guys are actually running plays. Looks like they just running around lol. Awesome stuff

Curry is the goat 🐐

It's the soundtracks for me. that logic sound

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As old as the NBA is, its always fun to seen how effective the fundamentals STILL are in todays league. Steph isn’t doing anything the rest if us didn’t learn in highschool. Its the same shit. But bc of his efficiency above the arc coupled with his annoying constant off-ball antics, AND while the opposing team may be zeroed ON Steph, they also gotta watchout for the screeners; and the screeners screening the screeners. Who can ALL dive toward the basket when the defender gets caught topside or isn’t tracking the “switch” assignment. Its a perpetual shit sandwich which works and IS guard-able, right up until it isn’t.

Is the Warrior offense more dangerous with the ball in Stephs hand? Or not in his hand? I think it's more dangerous when it's in Draymonds hand and Steph, Klay & whomever else is running around setting screens for each other.

Motion offense at its finest

Steph play beautiful basketball ❤️

Jerry Rice won so many matchups because he just never slowed down over a game. Whether it was a play for him or not it was always full speed, and he was conditioned well enough that he was going as hard in the 4th as he was in the 1st. Curry does the same thing. He's non-stop all the time, and that is impossible to prepare for for a defender. When the opponent switches up defenders on him it makes it easier for Curry because no team has that many elite defenders and it means they can use the same tricks multiple times.

Smart high IQ, no ego basketball players who are coachable, great coach and culture equals rings and a dynasty. Steph, kerr and the warriors made me a basketball junkie, actually not really cz I only watch the warriors, I never get into a lakers vs nets game, but the warriors style of basketball is very fun to watch

A master at his craft. S.C

Great breakdown and summary of the Kerr/Steph system. For similar videos focused strictly on the Warriors, check out the Explain One Play videos by Eric Apricot of Dub Nation HQ.

He is Harden level elite on-ball and Klay level elite off-ball. It literally doesn’t make sense

SC , little giant killer in the NBA history!

We played that way 50 years ago. Nothing new.

This is why I said the Lakers should have chosen a 3-point shooter to play point guard from instead of trading for Westbrook. 👎

Gw play is made for carry it self..that is why he is sa face of that team.. the team build for carry

Curry is proving that true point gaurds ain’t winning nomore cp3 and players like trae young are finally realizing it and there working on there off ball game bc there easy to trap curry is the best pg of all time💯

Curry is a Bad Man he learn for the best.

Curry off ball had more pressure because of his shooting skill too

When lebron was saying, you can’t guard him. I bet he did 100’s of hours of film and still can’t figure it out

It seems impossible to defend him without leaving someone wide open.

clark needs to learn this off ball movement from steph

Woww

sometimes I get too much dizzy watching steph play

Is it me or there are moving screens that aren't getting called?

Some stars especially those who can not even win a championship are always mocking Steph. That's their only way to divert their in-effectiveness against his skills. I simply call them Thrash-talking LOSERS.

5:35 Nothing irks me more, as a part time coach, than a cheap frustration foul.

Flex shit didn't stop the bulls huh🤔

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Unbelievable..you ever watch a kung fu movie where the master has 1000 ways to kill you ? That was the last play in this video ..golden states main weapon isn’t curry, it’s the IQ of those who learn the system and make it run so well

Why is there no illegal screen?? Its because the its called when ball handler calls the screen for his play or play for the picker. Warriors play is new and its difficult to call as it would chaos in the basketball movement. Because when you really watch it, every move is a screen. When someone tries to get inside the paint, he would encounter different opponents and would eventually look like a screen even if it was not the intention. Just by moving around in the court, it would be a screen.

You can breakdown every play study it and execute it, but without curry in it.... It's impossible to finish the play with a bucket...or a three it's, the play and the player... You don't believe... Proof is 4 rings and counting..

He's so one dimensional

the title is wrong. it should say steph currys off ball movement is pathetic. he is a product of steve kerr. watch him implode when kerr isnt coaching.

wackamole! 😂

You are literally ripping off Thinking Basketball. Leaching off others success I see

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