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People act like Danny Green is the only one to fall for a pump fake. Also, when did he become a bad defender?
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People act like Danny Green is the only one to fall for a pump fake. Also, when did he become a bad defender?
Curry is playing like a superstar right now, but I'm not too worried about GS as a whole. Our frontcourt will dominate. Spurs in 5.
Not really. It's a valid point that you have to really respect shooters like that, but you respect them by not leaving them alone. Jack can shoot threes all ing night if he wants to, and you dare him to beat you four times from long range.
Danny Green stayed on the Spurs because he plays defense and can hit 3's. The front court belongs to the Spurs. Unless Landry starts there is only Bogut to stop Timmy and that aint gonna happen. Timmy will eat his lunch. Should they try to double him, Tiago or Bonner or some other 3 point shooter is going to be open. Everyone seems forget we have beaten them twice this season when we had a full squad and in the last game we lost we had NO Tim, Tony or Kawhi. Our biggest problem is going to be stopping all 3 of the guards at the same time, but they can't stay on the court 48 minutes per game.
Thompson Kawhi Ginobili
Curry TP CJ Nando
Jack Green CJ Nando
Duncan Bogut
Tiago Bogut
Bonner Landry
Blair Landry
Baynes Bogut
The biggest question is not who we are guarding but how can they match up with the speed, size and depth of the Spurs.
This. Pop will go small to "counter" GSW and Neal will guard Curry just like that game we lost when Pop put Neal on Curry in the 4th
GSW doesnt have the inside threat that would cause our perimeter players to cheat off their man and sag towards the paint. Biggest threat will be speed from curry, and who defends him. I'd like for it not to be tony as it would take away from his offense. Not many can guard curry so just contain him and keep the other 4 from getting hot.
My guess is that TP and CoJo get the assignment early and with much help on the team defense front. I expect Kawhi and Green to get the assignment situationally. Perhaps Kawhi gets the assignment late in tight games ala Bowen back in the day.
People should just expect big games from Curry at this point. He will shoot great. Limit his team and they will not win. If the Spurs lose this series it's because they hand it to the Warriors, not because they are the better team.
If it happens.. I Can't ing wait for this series. It's gonna be a great playoff series!!
The flip side of the equation is who will guard Tony?
Im not scared of Curry (a lot?), he will score no matter what.
The guy that scares me is Klay, he is not as regular as Curry, he can be stopped.
Klay is also starting to develop a post game (he doesnt use too much) so I would say Kiwi has to guard him.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...l=&order_by=mp
One other thing, Curry, Klay and Jack is the 3 men line-up with more minutes for GSW in the POs; so Parker,Green,Manu and Kiwi will have to play big minutes unless the Spurs risk other players to guard them. So Tiago/Baynes with Barnes and TD with Bogut.
This minutes distribution scares me a little, the backcourt plays well, they score and the play a lot of minutes.
If I had to guess, Kiwi will only rest a few minutes, and hopefully Cojo can handle Curry.
The frontcourt...idk...
One thing is certain, the game plan is completely different (reversed?) than the one the Spurs used to face the Lakers, now the backcourt is our problem and apparently without Lee the frontcourt is a little easier.
Rk Lineup Tm Season G MP 1 H. Barnes | A. Bogut | S. Curry | J. Jack | K. Thompson GSW 2012-13 4 53.1 2 H. Barnes | A. Bogut | S. Curry | D. Lee | K. Thompson GSW 2012-13 1 13.9 3 H. Barnes | A. Bogut | S. Curry | J. Jack | C. Landry GSW 2012-13 2 8.8 4 S. Curry | F. Ezeli | J. Jack | C. Landry | K. Thompson GSW 2012-13 2 8.7 5 A. Bogut | S. Curry | D. Green | J. Jack | K. Thompson GSW 2012-13 2 7.5
Curry is on painkillers for that ankle.
It might be an issue for him at some point during the next round.
Kawhi guards Curry, Green/Manu on Thompson, Parker on Jack..
I agree with Harlem
Curry is going to do his thing no matter what, if Kawhi can play physical and make him work for his buckets that's a plus. Now we absolutely need to keep Jack from going nuts as a X-factor of this serie. Overcome big nights from Curry, Klay and Jack will be tough and if healthy Curry will have it, Klay can be inconsistent but Green could help him, Jack can really take off, parker is the best suited to prevent that from happening
Parker will guard him for the majority of the first quarter. For the end of the first Manu will guard him and for the majority of the 2nd Green should guard him. In the 3rd TP and Green will guard him. For the 4th we might want to put Leonard on him and have Manu or Green on Klay.
In terms of lateral movement and getting past screens on defense no one is quicker then Leonard.
Other than the obvious, I don't know much about Curry's game. I do know that in the 3rd quarter of game 4 between the Nuggets and Warriors that George Karl and crew left Curry open for 3 or 4 shots (mostly 3s) in a row. Even worse, they never made the adjustment to pressure him or stick someone on him. Curry is impressive but I doubt he gets many open looks against us in the Semifinals.
Congratulations Golden State Warriors, your 2013 NBA Champions.
When did he become a good one?
Put Danny Green on Denver and he's suddenly their Bruce Bowen.
Tp/cory would be the best options tbh. Kawhi/Danny would do decent on ball but not so well chasing him around screens
The Spurs won't chase anyone around screens, they'll just switch. Every shot will be defended. The Warriors don't have a mismatch to exploit.
Dean Oliver noted on twitter that after Curry gets blocked in a game, his shooting % drops off hugely as he starts thinking about it. I'd start with TP, Switch Kawhi on periodically and aim to mix up the coverage he gets. He'll make shots(Calling him the best shooter of all time is reasonable. He's pretty good at it) but make him think about it.
Bingo. Spurs need to do what OKC did to them last year. Switch everything, stay home on the perimeter, and watch the shooting percentages fall.
Parker will probably get the duties because he's the quickest guy we have. Don't forget someone has to guard Jarret Jack too. Klay Thompson isn't a slouch either, so it isn't like it's really a "where can we hide someone?" situation. They have solid players at every position except PF since Lee is out.
I could see it being a straight up situation, except we're going to hide Neal on someone if Curry and Jack are both out there. At best, Tony may get switched to Jack and Green to Curry, if not just so Tony can conserve more energy for offense. Tony's not incapable of guarding him well though.
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