In the last two weeks, the Warriors have lost to the Suns and 76ers, two teams with an All-Star caliber, real 7-foot centers, and a classic, big man reserve.
These losses have caused some surprise among fans, who rightly point out that the Warriors ’longest player (until James Weissman returns) is 6 feet 9.
But at 21-5 this season, the Warriors are doing very well.
In fact, the lack of size of this team is not a mistake, it is a feature.
Complaining about the size – I’ve even seen some Warriors fans go so far as to say this team’s Achilles heel – raises the question of whether Steve Kerr has learned anything from the success of this Warriors team since he became head coach. diradi. 2014-15.
Great teams build from the back. Instead of worrying about the main lineup, they start their game lineup with their final lineup – the top five – and leave.
Draymond Green is in the top five in the top five for the Warriors.
Kevon Looney, Nemanja Bjelica, Wiseman – they can all play the position, but all the way to the end of the game, which leads to Green, where he can strengthen the team’s defense, even to the biggest, strongest players in the league. qnash comes and increase the speed of the race.
No one is claiming that the Green Game Center is a problem, right?
If so, I can show you three banners that will prove you wrong.
Warriors want to play fast. They are thriving in chaos. The real hub may fit this team – they’ve been like this before – but the best version of the Dubs is a green, pivot-like lean, average, fast-running car.
So they close with the Green Game Center, no matter how big the opponent is.
Remember: “Death Row” did not include Javale McGee or Andrew Bogut.
And Green – who has been the NBA’s best defender this season – was sterling on Saturday. Grinda’s six-inch and 50-pound (minimum) Sixers center Joel Embiid didn’t know what to do with it. If it weren’t for a rough problem, Green would have played more than 28 minutes and made more impact on the game. And a few of these offenses were weak at best – don’t think of them as a bigger team than Philadelphia.
No, if you’re looking for a reason for the Warriors ’defeat in Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia, there’s a lot. They broke the rules very often, their offenses were rude, and most importantly, they went from 12 to 48 in the bow.
If more than half of your shots are 3 points and you score 25 percent, you lose.
The Fighters had 56 shots on Saturday, which were found to be “unobtrusive” according to the NBA’s Second Spectrum data. They made 18.
Throwing 32 percent on non-competitive shots won’t finish the job any night.
Yes, if size was the defining factor on Saturday, it was a funny show in the whole competition. Embiid fell from the floor 7 to 16. Not exactly an indicator of winning the game, although he was good at the clutch. The Warriors put the Sixers nine points behind in Embiid’s minutes.
And while the Sixers ’backup center Andre Drummond was strong in the 15th minute, scoring a plus-18 at the time, did he or the Warriors’ reserve players hit 23 percent at the same time last night?
The game has changed.
In fact, it changed a while ago, but we update:
Ribounds don’t matter anymore. For all Philadelphia sizes, they had two more rebounds than Dubs Saturday – five more offensive rebounds than the Golden State Sixers.
And again, basket, post-up crime? If the team doesn’t make divisive moves like the Dubs, the goal here is to get out of that look, it’s just an ineffective offense. Warriors take it every day because three are still bigger than two.
The Warriors can withstand improving their attacks at the end of the game – there’s no doubt about that. The length of the defense is a problem for this team, especially Stephen Curry, as it causes problems for anyone who is not elite to score on the wings. Whatever it is, this often results in the Warriors attack being halted and delayed.
I’m not sure how adding a 7-footer to the mix will solve this problem.
In fact, the construction of the current list of Warriors is very well structured to manage the modern style of the game that helped Curry and Green create.
They add a 7-footer – Wiseman – to the line-up again, but he, like Luni, doesn’t close games because the fighters, like many other teams, want to clear the field at those crucial moments.
And teams that are with their great people in critical moments? To be honest, if those big guys aren’t comfortable spending the last minutes of the game on the perimeter, they’ll be in an awkward position.
The era of the big man in the NBA is over. The warriors are as responsible as anyone to kill him.
They will not bring him back.
