CLEVELAND — About eight hours before Game 3 of the N.B.A. finals, after he had completed his morning workout with the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry sat at the center of 40-some reporters and answered about a dozen questions that were mild variations on the same, well-established theme: his shooting woes.
Curry, who entered these finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers with a growing reputation as one of the greatest shooters the planet has ever known, assured everyone that he felt fine, that his shoulder was healthy, that he was not dealing with any adverse effects from a hard tumble in the Western Conference finals.