First off games with most points scored as the measure for how well he played is a terrible measure. Secondly, those weren't his top 10 game scores. These were:
Rk G Date Age Tm Opp GS MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS
▼ GmSc +/-
1 5 2018-10-27 28-006
UTA @
NOP W (+21) 1 29:33 8 14 .571 3 7 .429 9 9 1.000 0 6 6 12 1 0 2 2 28 29.8 +26
2 17 2018-11-19 28-029
UTA @
IND L (-27) 1 27:52 10 13 .769 5 6 .833 3 4 .750 1 3 4 6 3 1 4 3 28 26.8 +1
3 20 2018-11-25 28-035
UTA @
SAC W (+21) 1 26:44 11 16 .688 2 3 .667 3 4 .750 0 7 7 5 0 0 3 4 27 20.8 +5
4 27 2018-12-09 28-049
UTA @
SAS L (-13) 1 35:32 11 23 .478 3 8 .375 1 1 1.000 0 3 3 2 0 0 1 1 26 15.2 -8
5 33 2018-12-21 28-061
UTA @
POR W (+30) 1 26:59 10 15 .667 4 4 1.000 0 0 0 2 2 8 1 1 5 1 24 20.0 +14
6 24 2018-12-02 28-042
UTA @
MIA L (-2) 1 36:05 9 13 .692 2 4 .500 3 3 1.000 0 5 5 6 1 0 3 3 23 20.0 +14
7 8 2018-11-02 28-012
UTA MEM L (-10) 1 31:50 9 17 .529 3 7 .429 1 2 .500 0 2 2 11 1 0 4 4 22 17.0 +11
8 46 2019-02-01 28-103
UTA ATL W (+16) 1 35:17 6 11 .545 2 6 .333 8 10 .800 0 2 2 11 1 0 2 4 22 21.6 +30
9 16 2018-11-17 28-027
UTA @
BOS W (+12) 1 28:17 6 13 .462 2 4 .500 6 7 .857 0 4 4 2 3 0 1 2 20 16.7 +14
10 39 2019-01-05 28-076
UTA @
DET W (+5) 1 29:35 6 13 .462 1 4
Use
https://www.basketball-reference.com and sort by points to see the top 10 since the formatting here is ****.
Half of those teams are crap teams. And yes he can occasionally become Rick Curry, but his inconsistency is undesirable.