The Fact That Steph Curry Is On Pace To Win The Scoring Title Is Pretty Ridiculous

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You may not even realize, but we have a pretty awesome scoring title race on our hands between Bradley Beal and Steph Curry. Both went nuts this weekend, first with Beal dropping a casual 50 in regulation

Only for Steph to respond by going for 49 points in only 29 goddamn minutes

Unfortunately, Bradley Beal tweaked his left hamstring and is going to miss at least the next two games so this back and forth battle is on a bit of a break at the moment. As it stands today, Steph has a slight lead at 31.9 vs 31.4. We're at 60 games for Steph vs 59 for Beal. If Beal comes back, he'll have CLE/CHA on his schedule with Curry about to enter a 4 game slate of UTA/PHX/NO/MEM. Seeing as how the Warriors are playing for their playoff lives and all the teams GS is slated to face are going to be trying, it'll be impressive as hell if Steph is able to secure this scoring title. 

It's hard to find a more dominant offensive player in the league right now than what Steph Curry has been doing for the last month plus. Some of these numbers don't even make sense

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We've seen a lot of impressive shit from Steph over the years, but I can't help but shake the thought that what we're seeing him do this year might be the most impressive. There is legitimately nobody else opposing defenses have to worry about when they play the Warriors. It's only Steph. The fact that it doesn't even come close to mattering is pretty wild. At least when you play the Wizards you also have to worry about Russell Westbrook a little bit. Not only that, but Steph is doing this all while taking fewer shots a game than Beal (21.4 vs 23.0) and on double the 3PA (12.6 vs 6.1)! They both shoot basically the same from the floor (48.7 for Steph vs 48.9 for Beal), and again, this is with Curry taking twice as many 30 footers. It almost defies logic. Curry is also getting to the line less as well. 

Considering Steph is essentially outproducing what we saw him do during his unanimous MVP season and the fact that he's now 33 and the only real option offensively, I think that's what would make him winning the scoring title so significant for me. If the Warriors also find their way in the play in and god forbid beat someone like the Lakers, shit is really going to get nuts. 

I know the Steph haters out there will point to the Warriors record, but it's actually not that bad when Steph is active, and you look up and down the roster and the fact that they are even in the play in conversation in the brutal West is impressive as hell. Draymond wasn't lying when he says that opponents are terrified of Steph Curry. How could you not be? We're seeing him play at a level we've never seen before which is insane considering how good he's been over the course of the Warrior's dominance. 

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I just wish we had a GS/WSH game to end the season, that would have been must watch stuff.