Let's start with the obvious: genetics. Steph was probably predisposed to being a good shooter given that his father, Dell Curry, was a 40% 3pt shooter for his career. He even led the NBA at a 47.6% clip in the lockout 1998-9 season.
Aside from having his genes, Steph greatly benefited from having Dell around. Per this ESPN article:
As a skinny 5-8, 150-pound sophomore at Charlotte Christian School, Stephen still used a flip shot that seemed to originate from his belt buckle. It was inefficient and easy to block, and Dell knew that if Stephen had any aspirations to play at the next level, he'd have to tear it all down and rebuild his shooting mechanics from scratch.It was a frustrating, tense few months for everyone. Stephen, who loves his craft so much that he often takes 1,000 shots before practice, says it was the only time in his life he flat-out hated shooting. The court at the Curry house in tony south Charlotte is a little different from the one in Grottoes. Here, there's almost an entire half court of perfectly smooth concrete between the stucco-lined two-car garage, the professionally installed top-grade glass backboard and the perfectly green lawn....They got through it. Stephen perfected his trademark fluid, low-lift, lightning-quick form and an effortless overhead swan-neck follow-through.
Even if a layperson had Steph's natural talent for shooting the ball, they wouldn't have an all-time great 3pt shooter at home to work with them. And even if they did have access to a world class shooting coach, there wouldn't be the love and investment that only a father could have.
From there, Steph's obviously worked extremely hard to perfect those mechanics. His release is probably tighter than it was when he entered the league. He can hit shots coming off screens, with tiny openings, from a wide base, from a narrow base, off the dribble, off the catch, etc. He's perfected all of the nuances that go into shooting. He can alter the way he catches a pass to ensure that he has his hand properly positioned to catch it in the laces and fire away. His release never changes. It's mechanically perfect. Steph's probably in the 99.9th percentile in the world for muscle memory. How else could the game's best shooter ever AND someone be a scratch (or better) golfer.
His handle wasn't nearly as strong coming into the NBA as it is today. No one could have foreseen that he'd be one of the best handful of ball handlers in the league. Again, Steph benefits from his genetics here. He has elite hand-eye coordination and muscle memory to a degree that's probably not trainable. You could do dribbling drills everyday and not master it to the degree Steph has. But as is with his shooting, Steph not only is predisposed to naturally ability, he also has 99th percentile work ethic. He's adopted some unorthodox training methods that have been covered by Ethan Sherwood Strauss and others.
tl;dr: there's no real secret here. Steph is just genetically privileged and diligent to a degree most others aren't.
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