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Question: Who will Jack, Thompson or Curry torch when the bench makes an appearance?
. Neals head would fukin explode.
Question: Who will Jack, Thompson or Curry torch when the bench makes an appearance?
I would love to see Kawhi post up Thompson or whoever is guarding him.
NEAL WITH IT. Tbh...
Maybe Pop can play Patty Mills.
I don't think it really matters who guards him...pop will make the adjustment to send him into the paint to be force to contend with our bigs...he thompson or jack won't be allowed to shot from the outside as often as they do
I'm convinced at this point that you don't actually watch basketball.
The Warriors' shooters are definitely better. But that doesn't really matter. It's disciplined defense vs. Nuggets defense. Great shooters or average shooters, nobody shoots as well when there's actually someone defending them. Denver left shooters open because they chased Jack around with 2 people, or guys get caught up in the screens and their defense breaks down. You know Curry's going to hit some amazing step-back threes and make some great plays, but it's the six times he's left completely alone that kills the Nuggets, especially since they lost game 2 at home by 2 points.
If you switch on the screen and Danny Green ends up on Curry, he might hit a contested three, he might go around Green and hit a two or he might draw a foul. That's a maximum of about seven possessions during the game, and all of those results are better than a wide open three pointer.
The Spurs won't double or cheat down, because they don't have to worry about Dwight Howard or Pau Gasol inside. The biggest threat Andrew Bogut poses, and it's not much of a threat, is with offensive rebounds, which doesn't require a double team.
If you keep them in front of you and they still shoot 60 percent from the floor and 48 percent from three point range for the whole series they maybe win in seven games. You shake the hand of any team that can shoot like that over that kind of stretch, because chances are pretty good that nobody's ever done it in the history of the league.
And I'd agree with you. Thee Nuggets' inability to take care of the ball in game 4 and their inability to secure a rebound in game 2 kills them as much as their inability to slow the shooters down. If you can't touch their field goal percentage, then you have to limit their attempts. The Spurs know to take care of the ball and rebound. Once you do that, you don't need to gamble on defense, and you don't have to shut down good shooters. David Lee isn't there, so the Spurs are going to have a huge edge in rebounding, and they are going to have fewer turnovers, and they're going to shoot more free throws and make a higher percentage. The Spurs have a pretty good offense, too.
The Mac, of course.
He has ty takes tbh. Might make a case against tdmvpdpoy imho.
How many times has green gone for the pump fake on a pull up jumper? Jack would get danny every time. How many times has he left his man open on a missed rotation? Curry is licking his chops.
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The Warriors' shooters scare the living daylights out of me, but if we stay out of foul trouble I think we are fine.
Our front line should have a terrific series against these guys.
Agreed especially on the bolded parts. I completely forgot to take into consideration the difference between the defenses, which of course was stupid on my part. I actually saw a vid in youtube in the channel Bballbreakdown or I think one of the articles in SBnation, where they showed the defensive lapses of Denver and a lot of the defensive lapses were supposed to be easy covers as the GSW offensive ran the same play many times. Those were just game changers imho because as we all know the first 3 games have been extremely close. Their players were tired or just plain stupid, and those were EXPOSED on that video.
Yup, if a team can shoot lights out the whole series then you gotta hand it to them but then again our defense is way better than Denver's and we just have the better team against either GS or Denver. If we can't win against either of the two then we don't deserve to be in the WCF, simple as that. Spurs need to beat the teams they are supposed to beat. Spurs in 5.
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I imagine it will go between Parker and Leonard. With Lee out, their inside game is lacking. Duncan and hopefully Splitter back will handle the block.
This. If curry is the only one having any success on offense, who gives a crap what Steph curry does really. Kind of always been my defensive philosophy fwiw. Curry can drop 50 all he wants to as long as everyone else is pretty well shut down. Curry: 50 rest of team:<35 then I really like our chances
I'd say start with Parker and if things get bad throw Kawhi on him.
The Spurs did a fine job on him in one game in the regular season until the last few minutes. Green and Parker guarded him pretty well, but Neal let him get hot and force overtime. I don't think you'll see Leonard on him too much to start, as Klay Thompson is no joke. You don't want to give them a size advantage.
Jack may be pushed back to the bench next series, which would mean that Leonard or Green would have to guard Barnes. Then the other would have to guard Thompson, because Parker probably wouldn't be able to do it. So I expect Parker, Green and Joseph to spend the most time on him, while Leonard, Green and Ginobili will guard Thompson, and Leonard, Ginobili, Green and Neal will guard Barnes. Joseph, Green, Parker and Ginobili and Neal will probably guard Jack.
Curry's good, but he's overhyped as a star. Green's a pretty good man defender, and I'd take Curry blowing past him just to have to deal with Duncan and Splitter over him shooting, anyway.
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Is he the reincarnation of that nazi gui ude? I have my su ion.
This would be awesome if it happened. I'm not sure if the warriors are going to continue with the 3 guard starting lineup, especially if it means starting Harrison Barnes at the 4. Assuming Splitter is back, Barnes literally won't be able to defend his man. If they're going to let Barnes go 1 on 1 on Splitter every time, I'll take that, takes the ball out of Curry's hands. They'll probably be forced to go with Landry at the 4 and bring Jack off the bench though.
But if they do stick with the 3 guard lineup, I love the prospect of Kawhi on Curry
Wow, brilliant take, tbh, per par.
Tbh, I'm not sure if Kawhi has the quickness to keep pace with Curry or not. Thoughts?
I say put Tony on him and then Cojo when our bench is on the floor.
No kidding, I wanted to pull up some of his pre-playoffs quotes earlier when he doubted our chances against the Lakers and pretty much said we were done. I thought it was brave of him to post again after his melt down
How many times does someone pump fake on a pull up jumper for it to happen? I'll go out on a limb and say the answer to your question is maybe a half dozen times all season.
Green's not going to be running three point shooters off the line because the Warriors have no inside threat to require him to leave his man. Don't get caught out of position, grab your rebounds and don't turn the ball over.
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