At around the 6:20 mark of the first quarter, Stephen Curry threw down a dunk as a result of a baseline cut — his first dunk since the All-Star game. There are many constants in the NBA, and one of them is that the end product of a sequence will always be the most eye-catching part, the most visually-appealing to fans at large. The fact that Curry is not widely known to be a leaper added additional incentive for the sequence to be fawned over by viewers and consumers of social media.
But Curry needed that ball to be brought to him with near-perfect timing and precision — an awkwardly placed or ill-timed pass would have most likely resulted in a turnover, or it might have even placed Curry in the embarrassing position of missing the dunk altogether.