After a sizzling start to the season, Curry winked out of existence for a moment on the basketball court due to a strained groin. In his absence, the Warriors - a team stacked with so much talent that folks call them unfair - have struggled. But even more than the win-loss record, those struggles have been niggling into all the little cracks, sowing doubt about the viability and fragility of the house that was supposedly built light years beyond the rest of the league.
This is a pattern, not a weird little blip. I wrote a while ago about how Curry may have a revere “Ewing effect” by serving as too much of a crutch, making it harder for the team to survive without him.