According to ESPN Stats & Information tracking, Curry:

• Has scored or assisted on more points in transition (35) than the Cavaliers have scored as a team (33) in the first two games.

• Is hitting 45 percent on his 3-pointers after shooting 38.5 percent, 40 percent and 38.8 percent each of the past three years.

• Is averaging 31 points after averaging just 17.9 in 2015, 13.1 in 2016 and 24.1 in 2017.

Curry stepping up in 2018 NBA Finals

Through two games of the 2018 NBA Finals, Golden State point guard Stephen Curry has improved on his previous NBA Finals appearances.

	2015-17	2018
PPG	24.9	31.0
FG pct	43%	45%
3-pt FG pct	39%	50%
APG	6.2	8.5

On Sunday, Curry hit a flurry of 3-pointers in the decisive fourth quarter, including a few impossible heaves over Cavs power forward Kevin Love that were as deflating for Cleveland as they were intoxicating for the Oracle Arena crowd.

"I've seen him make so many crazy shots," said Warriors assistant Bruce Fraser, who works with Curry daily and has become something of a household character because of the number of times Curry's infamous pregame warm-ups are filmed.

"The first 10 you're like, 'That was lucky.' But when he was shooting that ball [over Love, as the shot-clock expired], I thought there was a chance. I saw it leaving his hands and thought it was going in. Was it lucky? Yes. But was it really? How many people that know him were saying, 'That's missing?' I wasn't."

Stephen Curry's four-point play in the fourth quarter highlighted what was ultimately a blowout win for Golden State in Game 2. Cary Edmondson/USA TODAY

Fraser works with Curry so much, he's come to believe the two-time regular-season MVP's unique genetic gift is in his hand eye coordination.

Give him any game -- tennis, stickball, golf -- and Curry would master it because of his hand-eye coordination, Fraser says.

"This is a genetic gift that he puts time into," Fraser explained. "If you are right-handed and you start to work on your runners and stuff, over time you can get pretty good at it. But if you go to your left hand, it's going to take you forever. Steph goes to his left and he can flip runners with his left better than anyone in the world can flip right-handed.

"Is that because he's shot a million of them? No. He's shot thousands of them, not a million. So why can he do that? It's a genetic gift."

Of course, the other side to Curry's genetics are that he's a slender 6-foot-3 in a game that's often dominated by much taller, more physical men. The contrast is especially pronounced in this series in which the 6-foot-8, 250-pound LeBron James is dominating every facet of the game so far, but hasn't gotten enough help from his teammates to earn a win yet.

Stephen Curry's Warriors are off to a head start in front of LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals. Kyle Terada/USA TODAY

After watching James in this series -- and, really, these entire playoffs -- there's little doubt he's the best player in the NBA. He should probably be considered a series MVP, no matter if Cleveland wins or loses. That's how transcendent James has been so far, averaging 40 points a game and contributing to 65 points a game overall.

The Warriors have more talent across the board, anyway. But the Cavs self-inflicted mental mistakes, lapses and lack of shot-making to match or even complement James' individual brilliance have cost them dearly and essentially wasted some of the best games of James' career.

Compare, for example, Curry and James' fellow starters in Game 2. Durant was a super-efficient 10-for-14 from the floor and 4-for-4 from the free throw line. Klay Thompson was 8-for-13 from the floor. JaVale McGee was 6-for-6, Shaun Livingston was 5-for-5, and Draymond Green was 2-for-4. Essentially all of them shot 50 percent or better, and while Curry made only 42.3 percent of his 26 field goals, Curry's teammates made 64.3 percent of 56 field goal attempts.

For Cleveland, only James (10-for-20) and Tristan Thompson (5-for-8) shot better than 50 percent, omitting garbage-time participants. Kevin Love (7-for-18), JR Smith (2-for-9) and George Hill (5-for-12) were a combined 35.9 percent from the field.

"I mean, they're a dangerous ball club no matter what," James said afterward. "It starts with those four guys, the four-All Stars."

If watching Curry in these first two games has been like seeing a volcano erupt, then watching James has been like waiting for the volcano to erupt. It's almost sad to see him constantly suppressing his frustration and disappointment at teammates who aren't moving nearly enough without the ball when the Warriors double-team him, or missing open shot after open shot.

"It sucks to lose," James said. "It sucks when you go out there and give it everything that you have and prep your mind and your body is in it and you come out on the losing end. But nothing would ever take the love of the game away from me."