OAKLAND, CALIF.—Steph Curry is magic. He has expanded basketball’s galaxy, flying beyond the sport’s known horizon, shooting in ways nobody else can. Steve Nash once said he wished he had seen Steph play when Nash was young, so he would have known how it was possible to play the game.
But he is one man, and against these Toronto Raptors he is not enough. Not with Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant hurt; not with Draymond Green an all-time glue guy who can’t create his own offence; not with DeMarcus Cousins resembling an iceberg. There are limits to elasticity.