As the most defensively efficient team in the league, the Warriors are the most defensive team this season. With unlimited rotation and rapid defensive changes, the Warriors have almost come up with the best defense in recent seasons, whether you recognize it or not, the Warriors are the most defensive team. But in the last two games, the Warriors' defense has been broken! The Jazz and Knicks have found a way to win the Warriors, two strategies: one is to break through wildly, and the other is for the big center to rush the rebound in the three-second zone. On these two moves, the Warriors have been a bit unable to resist.
We all know that the Warriors' current interior partners are either Rooney and Porter or Rooney and Cumminga, no matter who it is, it will always be Rooney on the fifth position! Rooney is a center, but definitely not a super big center, more of a five at the height of the fourth position. That's the problem, Rooney can protect the frame, but the Warriors' basket is still weak! On the one hand, Kerr does not like to use a coach with a big center, although Rooney can play, but it is difficult to play a game until 30 minutes, and many times Kerr only uses Rooney to play the two openings of the first and second halves, so the Warriors have not had a center for a long time.
On the other hand, As the only pure fifth position of the team, what he needs to do is to protect the basket, and the opponent will frantically attack the Warriors' basket, once it is said that the Warriors' interior line is continuously impacted, Rooney is easily troubled by fouls, once Rooney's number of fouls is too much, then Kerr has to replace him, then the Warriors really have no interior line. How helpless was Cole when playing the Knicks? Or even Mitchell Robinson, the starting big center who let the mouth brother go to the inside of the Knicks, what is Miró's stature? The standard big center is in shape, but the Warriors can't do anything, except wiggins on the front line, no one can stand Up to Miro.
So the warrior's trouble problem comes, playing the warrior is to rush your inside line, is to create a kill, a ball penalty of thirty times is normal, is to break the rhythm of the warrior, do not let the warriors play that kind of three-point and fast attack rhythm, a ball a goal of grinding position when everyone is the same level, as long as the warrior is not able to protect the basket, the opponent is to give and take! Has the Warriors had this problem before? Also encountered, but what is different? It was at that time that the Warriors and Green, Green was able to protect the frame, he was not so weak with the Rooney Warriors' interior line, but now That Green is not there, all the pressure of the frame is here in Rooney, which has the picture that Curry is also ready to go to the basket to make up for defense.
The Warriors' current interior line is not the inside line of no one, but the inside line of the whole team, and the rebound is not grabbed by one person, but everyone has to be carded and has to grab it. After these two games, the shortcomings of the Warriors' weak interior line were further magnified, especially against the Knicks, Andebaldu was eager to let every offense of the players be a breakthrough. Now the Warriors are caught seven inches, and then the Warriors also have to face the big center team Lakers, this time is another tested game, resist the Warriors can survive this crisis, can not withstand the back of the team must be the same inside line, born in the Golden State's three-second penalty area.