The NBA Warriors welcomed "Master Chief" Butler in the trade limit, and Butler's arrival eased the offensive pressure on the main player Curry, Curry said bluntly after the game against the Mavericks on the 24th: "The plus or minus says everything." ”

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Curry only played 28 minutes and 34 seconds in this game, and scored a team-high 30 points on 12-of-20 shooting, with 4 rebounds and 7 assists, while Butler played 28 minutes and 18 seconds, scored 18 points and 5 assists, and the plus/minus came to +28.

In the game, coach Kerr could even replace Curry early to extend his rest time, and the team was still able to maintain a reassuring performance for the audience. Curry admitted after the game that the plus/minus says it all: "It's completely different from before, where we felt the pressure and had to try to pull away because we had to fill in the gaps on the bench. ”

The Athletic reported that Curry's "before" was referring to the 51 games before the Butler trade, when Curry was not on the court, the team's plus/minus was -90, but in the six games after Butler joined, Curry was away and Butler was away, the Warriors' plus/minus came to +30.

"Now it's a little easier for us, and when you're playing at a consistent pace, every round isn't going to be so critical, you can make mistakes and you don't have to be like, 'Oh my God, we've got to turn things around now,' and I think defensive consistency sets the tone. ”

The Warriors have also recently adopted a different rotation, tying Butler to Green's schedule, allowing Curry to prop up the team's fragile bench, and allowing Curry to play with the rested Green and Podzemski. Curry said he liked the scheduling model, and Cole also mentioned that the trio of Butler, Green, and Podemsky had a plus/minus of +58 over the course of 108 minutes in six games, allowing their opponents to score only 98.7 points per 100 possessions.

After Butler joined the Warriors, the Warriors' record came to 5-1, and it was the first time since mid-November last year that the Warriors won three in a row, and the Warriors are currently 30-27 and only 0.5 wins away from eighth place in the West, only 1 win difference in the West 7th, and only 1.5 wins in the West 6th. There's a good chance of going straight to the playoffs.