Why can’t Curry make every shot in 3 point contest?

[Walk on Water]

He made 105 in practice. So I don’t see how he can miss 3-4 shots in a row. Making 105 means it should be like free throws. Nobody guarding him. He can slow down a bit.

[welfarefan]

still injured from 2016 playoffs

[RRR3]

There’s no pressure in practice and he can take as much time as he wants.

[Walk on Water]

There’s no pressure in practice and he can take as much time as he wants.

How much time does he need?

[Smook A.]

It's different when you're in front of tens of thousands of fans and got the clock ticking on you

[Walk on Water]

It's different when you're in front of tens of thousands of fans and got the clock ticking on you


How much different can it be? Imagine you can make a shot somewhere on the court 105 times. How much of a difference do you think a clock and fans can make? By the way, there's no fans this year.

[highwhey]

for the same reason you can't smoke all the crack rocks

[Smook A.]

How much different can it be? Imagine you can make a shot somewhere on the court 105 times. How much of a difference do you think a clock and fans can make? By the way, there's no fans this year.

Obviously I'm talking about the past years where there were fans. Like I said before, it gets tougher when there's tens of thousands of fans watching you and you have the clock ticking with something on the line.

If you watch warm ups before a game, players hardly ever miss shots. That's because there isn't really anything on the line for them, so there's no pressure.

[Axe]

He just can't be clutch in real games like he does during practice sessions

[light]

He made 105 in practice. So I don’t see how he can miss 3-4 shots in a row. Making 105 means it should be like free throws. Nobody guarding him. He can slow down a bit.

Correction: He made 105 short corner threes in a row. Those are more like long jumpers. Still impressive, but he did not make any threes from the standard distance of 23 feet 9 inches during that practice session.

So when he's in a competition shooting mostly above the break threes from 23 feet 9 inches obviously it's not going to be the same as shooting from 22 feet from the corner.

[pandiani17]

It's different when you're in front of tens of thousands of fans and got the clock ticking on you

This. It's not so difficult to work out this. History of basketball is full of players who were incredible at practice and did nothing in games.