Steph Curry created 33 straight points in the 4th quarter!

So, it was just another random Thursday night in Cleveland until Steph Curry did something that I'm not really sure I've ever seen. With the Warriors down by 13, entering the fourth against an underman Cavs team, Curry proceeded to score or create a wide open shot on every single basket until he checked out of the game with a minute to go. It all started with a standard Steph triple from the coach's half to pull Golden State Watch Darius Garland. He's completely lost on a fairly routine cut, and this wasn't the first time that happened. In the first half, Garland had trouble staying connected with Curry as he ran Darius through his usual obstacle course of screeners, and so coach JB Bickerstaff had seen enough and switched the bigger Isaac Okoro onto Steph. Okoro is an impressive 6'5 athlete from Auburn, but that doesn't help against Steph. On his first trip, he pushes Curry baseline into a sea of defenders and it's a wide open look for Otto Porter that clangs off the back. Next time down, Okoro still wants to overplay Curry and take away the 3, but Steph sends him smack into a screen to set up an easy wide open look. But it's this next play that should really be in a museum. Curry knows that Okoro is staying on the high side because he's so hot, so he fakes like he's cutting out, but instead screens and there's a layup right there with a solid pass. Then Steph backcuts Okoro and Porter misses another pass, so Steph saves the best for last as he barbecues Okoro with that counter cut and smokes a catch and shoot 3 over two defenders. Okoro was so worried about losing contact, like Garland did earlier in the game, on this route that Steph sends him to Akron with that cut and it's Curry's 3rd 3 in 2 minutes and his 8th of the game. All that shooting gets Okoro so high top locking Curry that Rubio has to switch on him in order to save a backdoor and he's completely fixated on Steph while Kevin Love kind of looks at him out of the corner of his eye and neither one of them are thinking about leaving Curry At this point Okoro doesn't know what to do. He tries to play high side at the 3 point line, so Steph backdoors him and then sets up Damian Lee for a layup and all of a sudden we are tied. The Cavs are completely freaked at this point with Okoro crowding Curry 28 feet away and Rubio's worried about pick and roll, so Steph just goes early here. This is great spacing by Golden State with the big pulldown high which puts Kevin Love outside the paint and that makes it an easy layup to finish. At this point Okoro is not only top locking Steph, he's holding on for dear life, so Curry seals and goes on a great read from Bielitsa and that is a 17-0 run. Cleveland finally scored and the second Curry touches it with a screener they trap him up high. He moves it along to Bielitsa who finds Damian Lee for another wide open 3 and this one finally goes down. After Rubio blows a layup, the Warriors break out in transition and this looks like a 3 on 2 but it's really a 2 on 1 because Garland is not leaving Curry under any circumstances so it's another layup for Lee. With 4 to go and a 4 point lead, Curry brings it up and gets a screen. He knows that trap is coming so it's a quick short roll pass and that leads to another wide open 3 that Bielitsa sends a bit too strong but they keep the ball out of bounds. Now the Warriors like to run this action where Curry comes around the corner screen and Draymond makes a read on the defense. Remember Okoro was buried on that same screen earlier in the quarter. So this time on the reset, Okoro gets ready for the corner screen and Curry just backdoors him again and Draymond makes the right pass and it's another easy score. It's only a 4 point game still but the Cavs were basically broken. Rubio is thinking about helping on a Curry handoff here and with two shooters in each corner that is yet another wide open bucket for a teammate. After a turnover the Cavs trap Steph so he gives it up just to relocate and credit Garland here for jumping out early over the screen only the thing is that leaves him alone on Curry who's licking his chops to get into a step back and that is his 9th 3 of the game and the 4th time in the last 6 games he has hit 9 3's which of course explains all the existential angst from the Cleveland defense. After a cherry picking bucket and one more gravity induced breakdown from Darius Garland the Warriors capped a 33-7 run in which Steph scored 20 points and created 13 more off of wide open 3's or layups for his teammates while registering only 2 assists. There have been quarters with white hot shooting like Klay Thompson's 37 point explosion a few years ago and there have been quarters where one player has scored or assisted on all the field goals but I don't think I've ever seen a player create 33 straight points of offense by breaking a defense essentially without passing and I'm also not sure I've ever seen a quarter that captures the essence of Steph Curry's perpetually massive impact on the game like this Thursday night in Cleveland where he was truly a one man offense. To support this channel head over to Patreon.com slash Thinking Basketball where you can find additional content and more. A huge thanks to subscribers for all your continued support this year. Let me know in the comments if you've ever seen a quarter like that before. I hope you enjoyed this one and that you are having a great day.