On March 31, Beijing time, the NBA regular season has entered the end, and the first place in the West has been determined to be controlled by the Suns, but this does not mean that the Suns are currently the strongest team in the West. In today's regular season, the Suns and Warriors have ushered in a game, these two teams should be considered the most likely team in the West to reach the Finals, and the showdown between them can also be regarded as a Preview of the Western Conference. The course of the game was as anxious as everyone had predicted before the game, but in the final moments of the game, a mistake by the Warriors directly caused the game to lose suspense.
The match ended 107-103, with the two sides not winning until the last minute. Although the Warriors themselves have been greatly reduced in combat due to Curry's absence, the Warriors will hope to win this game. As for the Warriors' biggest mistake in this game, Kerr laid out a tactic for Thompson at the critical moment, allowing Green to receive the sideline ball and find an opportunity to pass the ball to Thompson for a three-point projection. Both Poole and other players tried to cover For Thompson as much as possible, but the tactic ended with the sideline kick out of bounds.
Seeing this scene, an internet celebrity blogger from a foreign social media platform couldn't help but spray directly online, saying bluntly that Cole was the worst coach he had ever seen. Why did the last key ball tactic pretend to pass to Poole and then pass to Thompson, and why Green had to think about giving the ball to Thompson at that time, this is undoubtedly a very bad choice. The blogger's words have also been echoed by many fans, many of whom believe that Cole's tactical arrangement is really too bad to be done.
Because from the data of this game, Poole is the best player for the Warriors, and when the team scored a total of 103 points, Poole personally scored 38 points. And it is worth noting that Poole's shooting rate directly reached 50% in this game, which is enough to prove that Poole's feel in this game is very good. In contrast, Thompson's shooting rate in this game is 21 shots only 5 hits, three-point shots are 1 of 10 shots, and the total number of points in the whole game is only 13 points, completely inferior to Pooler.
As a matter of routine, Thompson, as one of the Warriors' current core players, in Curry's absence, it does make sense for Thompson to assume the core of this key tactic, which may also be what Kerr wants to see. However, Kerr did not notice Pooler's performance in this game, knowing that there was a player in the team who felt so hot, why force the tactics to Thompson? It's not that Thompson isn't good enough, Thompson can recover to this point after the Achilles tendon is perfect enough, but in this game, Poole is where the Warriors' scoring point is.
The Suns' players may have also seen Kerr's mind clearly, so the players who defended Thompson used up everything that could delay Thompson's catch, which led to the Warriors' mistakes. And the key is that Poole had already run out of the empty space at that time, but Green was still determined to implement Cole's tactical arrangement. From this tactical arrangement, it can be seen that Kerr is stubborn in employing people, and he believes that Thompson can save the team, which directly leads to the failure of the Warriors. I have to say that in this regard, what the blogger said is not wrong at all, and Cole is still too bad.
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