Stephen Curry is not even trying anymore; he doesn’t need to. All he apparently needs to do to hit buckets is just say to himself Yes, this will do. Although I’ve found myself almost totally horizontal while simultaneously perpendicular to the hoop, I’ll just flip the ball up over my shoulder with a little english and get two.

Driving late in the first half against the Jazz, Curry’s feet got tangled up with Dante Exum’s and Curry went sprawling to the ground. Steph is a scoring machine, though, and scoring machines have this innate way of knowing how to score from almost any position on the court. How much force, how much spin, where off the backboard it needs to bounce to have a chance to go in. These are all things scorers don’t exactly think about every trip down the floor, but they have a pretty good idea about what it will take and give it their best guess when necessary and hope for the best.

That’s how you get this.