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You lost me right about here.
Slomo guarding Curry then putting Kawhi on Draymond will let them switch on p nd rs or Slomo's length can bother Curry's shot and this will force the Dubs to rely on Draymond taking it to the hole for a 2, effectively disrupting their 3 point advantage. I think this is why Slomo is getting so much burn lately. Hope we will see a glimpse of this strategy on Sat. Curry is deceptively quick though so I hope Kyle can keep up. Fighting an anomaly with another anomaly tbh... light skinned vs light skinned , Curry vs Evil Curry, a guy who lives to shoot vs a guy who wont shoot.. I think this will be the biggest story in this year's playoffs
You lost me right about here.
From your mouth to Gods ears.
Exactly. The type of move that will confuse the enemy and ultimately win the war. Also written in Sun Tzu's Art of War
Yes also written in the Bible, another great strategy book
Trying to stop a tank with a Super Soaker would also confuse the enemy, but it ain't gonna win you any wars.
Probably trolling, but I do think the ability he has to generate deflections, steals and handle switches is useful. Our best players by far at that are Kawhi, then Green. After that everyone else switches but it ends up in a tremendous mismatch both ways except for Slowmo, rightfully a wing. Wings are your most versatile defensive players bc they can guard a variety of players for a possession or two while not being a huge/tremendous mismatch either way. Ppl forget Slowmo guarded Chris Paul very well in the Clippers game we played without Kawhi and he actually foiled a few PnR. Chris Paul had difficulty shooting over him or going around his incredible length and kept passing out Paul Pierce who had the mismatch on Tony. Pop tried the same scheme with Slowmo that game that he did with Kawhi. Kyle had a good game, but everyone else was off and played very poorly, including the bench (one of Diaws disappearing acts and Simmons' worst games).
Anyways, with the arrival of K.Martin Pop easily could have shelved Slowmo, send him to the dleague with Simmons. He hasn't bc Slowmo has proven to be an NBA player he can use in certain situations even in a championship caliber team. He's been laser focused on playing the 4 in small ball lineups, something he's done successfully this season. Take that as you will. I don't think he's some secret weapon or anything, but he's another wing with length that you have out there to help you in some situations. The thought of it is scary but he, Kawhi and Danny might end up switching a lot through a game and its possible he will guard 4s.
As long as he keeps the server running, then he'll be da real MVP.
Anderson would be fine switching onto Curry. He really gave Paul fits. The best thing about his match-up with Curry would be that Steph doesn't really draw a ton of fouls on the perimeter. So Anderson can probably reach just without much fear of Curry making him pay. Obviously Curry is used to evading hands, but he hasn't dealt with many if any perimeter defenders with Anderson's length. All Kyle has to do is keep his feet on the ground, and he'll be surprisingly effective to some of you guys. This is even more important given that he's very adept at knocking away pocket-passes, and that's the likely result of hedging Steph hard.
Kyle's D has been the most surprising thing I've seen from him this year. He's actually pretty damn good at it.
He's long enough to be able to step back a little, and still disrupt a play. Even if someone gets around him, he's length helps him from behind. Should be interesting.
No
Beat me to it
Until Curry sinks behind a screen and we're left with either Anderson fighting in vain to get through the screen or switching a big onto Steph.
Yeah, no. Kyle is one of our slowest players with regard to lateral movement. The Warriors would love to see Curry's quick release tried to get covered by that. It would be terrible.
Slow-venian servers will slow down Curry
I agree and had already posted this some time, Kyle as pg may be the best alternative
Do you fear death?
Let's just put Boban on Curry
it has to be a team effort, not just KA with DG and KL. all the guys (TP, DG, KL, KA, PM, MG) has to put full court pressing on Curry in turns, 3-4 possessions or make a change after 2 scores in a row. it's ok if Curry scores 30, more important to close other guys on that team. damn i want LA get that personal revenge over Green.
I just don't see it, tbh. Hope you're right, but I believe that Kayle's length would be overcome by Curry's speed and quick release. I just don't see anyone on the Spurs' team actually being effective against Curry. If we can stop everyone else on the GS team we can win. But I don't want our guys getting in foul trouble trying to stop a guy by reaching in.
I think we will be switching everything with Slowmo, not fighting screens. The point of having him is precisely to switch.
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