Without further ado, go straight to the subject.
Don't look at the Warriors once had the glory of being the number one in the league, but the genes of this team have not changed, and it is likely to suffer major mistakes in the playoffs. There are two key issues with the Warriors: The first is that the team is getting more and more whole. That's a good thing and a bad thing, and it's a bad thing for the current Warriors; second, some of Curry's personalities need to be reined in and tactics need to be more flexible.
In general, the integrity of the team is conducive to the team's good results, which is also applicable to the Warriors. The Warriors, with their integrity, have played one of the best records, which is conducive to Curry to get the scoring king and MVP, and also helps role players play a better value. But the problem of the whole is also shown in this team, and it has its own particularity.
In the process of constantly strengthening the integrity, the Warriors actually only inflated the confidence of role players rather than the technology, reducing Curry's opportunities to exercise.
When the overall style of play is more and more determined in a habitual way, then the Warriors must also adhere to this style of play at a critical moment, and it is difficult to get out immediately. Curry ran too much without the ball and blocked people on the offensive end, channeling the offense, promoting the participation of others, increasing the confidence of others, and finally forming a cry that "they (Payton, Anderson) are also very strong".
Once this call is formed, the Warriors will continue to firmly adhere to this tactical arrangement, then Curry's possession of the ball at key moments will be silently reduced, and the possibility of his exercise will be greatly reduced.
Someone asked, does Curry need to exercise?
Although Curry is a superstar, there are few examples of successful singles with the ball at key moments. The reason for this is generally said to be a problem of body shape and too concentrated defense of the opponent. But history has produced key scoring cases that are smaller than Curry and defensively stronger than Curry, proving that these reasons are not really the reasons.
So the real reason is that the Warriors are forgetting Curry's specific tactics of singles with the ball, making Curry more and more unnatural at key moments. They need to regain more exercise opportunities for Curry and expect results.
We can recall Curry's playing style at key moments, many of which are still the rotation of the Warriors system, Curry is limited to the no-ball running position, generally when receiving a pass and being defended, he chooses to play the ball. This is actually a loss of opportunities to exercise. We remember Curry's best killer and key shots as being done with the ball in the backcourt, a method that should have continued.
An easy performance requires thousands of times of tempering.
Why is it important to emphasize Curry's singles with the ball at key moments?
Because singles with the ball have always been very necessary.
Generally in the playoffs in the few minutes of life and death, the team is unlikely to play a good tactical coordination, as the other side more and more hard to defend, the opportunity to come out through the rotation is really pitiful. The role of supergiant is to hold the ball and hit a single as much as possible in such an environment.
Another reason for emphasizing Curry's singles with the ball is that role players really can't.
Role players are role players because they are technically inferior and the likelihood of accomplishing miracles in high-pressure situations is slim to none. For a team, believing in a small probability event at a critical moment is not necessary, and role players will be reluctant to take on this responsibility because of their low salary. Then superstars cannot be avoided.
At the peak of the Warriors, the level of the key shots was at most lower than that of Iguodala, and now the composition of the Warriors, many people are lower than Iguodala. Are they more likely to succeed? obvious.
Curry's ability to play key balls and kills, why was it forgotten by the Warriors?
Before Durant arrived, Curry did just that. When such a release was needed, Curry would attack directly with the ball and would not let Green transit, and the later change was for two reasons.
The first is because the alliance's research on Curry has become more and more thorough.
Curry's three-pointer power is the first in the league and the first in history, and the opponent has no possibility of relaxing the defense. Over time, many defenders have become accustomed to the Warriors' rotational system and adapted to Curry's route.
For a period of time, because of Durant's high cost of defense, the opponent will become more aggressive to face Curry, which will further suppress Curry's similar play.
The second reason is for the protection of the library.
Curry's use plus running is very much, and overall it is very expensive, and there are often injuries at the peak of the season, because good regulation and recovery avoid missing major games.
When Curry keeps using Kobe, Jordan, James, and even Durant to hold the ball, the risk is increased, and in the long run, the Warriors' playoff risk is too high. Kerr's use of Green's strategy and advance has helped Curry alleviate too many possibilities of ball injury, and now he is unlikely to change this strategy.
Now that the situation has changed, the Warriors need to dismantle a part of the integrity to exercise Curry's ability to hold the ball at key moments to solve the problems caused by the integrity of the surface prosperity. So what does Cole need to do?
The first way is to encourage Curry to complete the required offensive form in the time required. That is, to maintain flexibility, this refers to increasing the flexibility of holding the ball at key moments.
We see tactical flexibility being needed more and more in today's games, such as the Lakers' Vogel and the Nets' Nash are all negative teaching materials, and Kerr should not learn from them, but should learn from Popovich.
Another way is to use the time when Curry is sluggish to fully strengthen the exercise of Poole.
We say that the warriors' upper limit of the system is Wiggins, which is based on the conclusions of the previous years of research on the system, and Wiggins is not a very ambitious person, Kerr can find Poole in the lineup. Because only Poole has the ability and the heart to become an indiscriminate singles player.
In Thompson's absence, if Poole becomes a character who is better than three points and good at attacking, he can be higher than Wiggins on a tactical level. Poole could have been used as the first Little Durant, not as Thompson. One thing to note is to exercise Poole to prevent him from becoming a being out of touch with the overall rhythm. So it's a supplement to Poole's workout, not to cultivate a curry competitor.
In addition to the above changes, the Warriors' core problem, Curry's personality problem, needs a thorough reflection and remodeling.
For the sake of higher goals, a partial change in personality is very worthwhile, and closing oneself is not worth advocating. The change in Curry's personality here is to see Curry's support in skills, not to say it out of thin air. That is to say, Curry can obviously play two and three points, why cling to three points?
When everyone else is playing inside and mid-range, your three-point performance will be outstanding; when others are used to three-pointers, isn't it better for you to go back to basics and increase change?
We saw that Paul had a lot of mid-range emergency stop jump shots, and many teams could not touch the north, in addition to Paul's superb acting skills, the opponent's lack of psychological preparation for the mid-range defense was also one of the reasons. Does Curry have the ability to complete the mid-range? Curry has the ability to complete any mid-range shot.
So, what does the adjustment of these technical outputs have to do with personality?
In fact, if you watch More Curry's game, you will find that Curry is indeed extraordinary in three-point shooting, but he reveals a strong arrogance. And when the game is not played, Curry's mood is obviously low. It can be considered that this is an expression of no city, and when you have the ability, it does not necessarily mean that you have to express pride.
In some key games, the price of arrogance is heavy. Look at the most successful people in many fields, usually have the quality and will to stop the water, or even to think of danger in times of peace, because only similar quality of will is the most efficient, the most well-prepared, and the easiest to succeed.
Giving up the obsession with three points is also giving up arrogance, and the middle throw naturally raises its hand, and the change naturally follows.
In regular time, through the team's historical transmission, running position, projection to play the basic; at the critical moment, through continuous reading of the game, when the most accurate way of attacking, fast and slow, relaxed and measured, with their own strengths to attack the other short.
I believe that as long as the above two points are adhered to, the Warriors are truly indisputably strong.