Because playing with Steph Curry can be difficult, for Eric Paschall – NBC Sports Bay Area and California
Although many NBA players have thrilled their experience by playing together with Steph Curry, there are clear sacrifices that must be done to be successful together with the Warriors star.
The former Golden State striker Eric Paschall previously discussed the challenges he had to face alongside Curry, and his comments are again viral recently, perhaps because of the parallels with the current limited free agent Jonathan Kuminga.
In January, Paschall discussed his experience on the podcast “entirely NBA”.
“You are all considered mini-draymond,” said Paschall, referring to the comparisons often made of him with Draymond Green. “I like to mark. Mentally, at that point, I couldn’t do it. I’m going to think about how: ‘Okay, I had my chance, so I’m just raising.’ “
During his Rookie season in 2019-2020, when Curry was limited to just five games due to an injury in hand, Paschall showed as a primary top scorer, with an average of 14 points per game and positioning sixth place in the vote of the Rookie of the NBA year. However, when Curry has returned the following season, Paschall fought to face his reduced role.
“Steph and they returned and Dray was injured at the beginning of the season,” explained Paschall. “But I couldn’t play with Steph at the beginning of the season. I still intend to do me – You have all seen what I did last year. This is what I’m thinking about. But I can’t do it because I’m on the floor with Steph all the time. I finished asking to exit the bench. I hadn’t been wired to set a screen, pass an open screen – as if I’m shooting.
As a result, the Warriors exchanged Paschall before the NBA season of 2021-22, and was out of the championship the following year.
Some fans and analysts have noticed the similarities between the challenges that Paschall had to face and the ongoing dilemma that faces Kuminga and Golden State. Like Paschall, Kuminga is more a ball of sphere that has seen more success in the absence of curry-vale to say in the playoffs of the second 2025 of the Warriors against the Minnesota Timberwolves, when Curry lost most of the series with a tension in the knee.
Now, since the organization and Kuminga face an important decision during the NBA free agency, both sides could use Paschall as a key test for the way they proceed.
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