Can't imagine what would happen when Curry, Poole, Thompson, Wiggins, and Green played 30 minutes in a row? The G1 five only played for about five minutes before the Nuggets collapsed. This lineup is actually not balanced offensively and defensively, at least Poole is not a defensive player, Curry will be misplaced, and the mouth brother is hard to play the fourth position. It doesn't seem so reasonable, but it's so reasonable in practice. When the Warriors put out this lineup, the defensive end may be a little stiff and weak, but the offensive end is almost four words: ever-changing!
The so-called number one player in this lineup is actually Green, Curry and Poole are running around the figure eight, and then Thompson and Mouth Brother are on both sides of the bottom corner. Finally, the tactic hit the side, Curry and Poole, Thompson appeared on the side, Green was at the top of the arc, Wiggins was ready to cut under the basket, this time the Warriors had four chances! Poole can make three points, Curry can make three points, Thompson can make three points, Wiggins can go to the basket, and the rest is left to Green to see who he wants to give cards to. The Warriors immediately followed how to play how to have, the outside fire is full, the Nuggets are not only unable to defend, but do not know who to follow, a Curry no ball running will drive two people, the Nuggets can not prevent!
Where is this lineup strong? It's not that the chemistry is excellent, or that the cooperation is very tacit, but that the projection threat of three of these five people is beyond common sense. Thompson, Poole and Curry are all top pitchers now, with or without the ball, and the threat of three-pointers is already greater than that of regular players. Especially Poole, since March he is the player who has scored the most three-pointers in the league, in a certain period and sense, Poole is equivalent to Curry, and the Warriors in this lineup are equivalent to having two Curry, which one do you say you defend!
More critically, the projections of these three people complement each other, one can stand at the top of the arc, one can stand forty-five degrees, and the other can stand at the bottom corner, and the space is infinitely large. Just like in the last quarter, when Kerr re-posed this five-small, the mouth brother held the ball Green to block the demolition, and then easily killed to the basket to score, no one dared to make up for the defense in the middle, there were three top pitchers standing on the outside, and the Nuggets could only watch the mouth brother and Green's blocking and demolition success. So the shooting threat from these three guys is already greater than the threat of their three-point shooting, which is the terrible thing about this lineup.
This is like the Duku block demolition in the past, you say who you defend, there must always be a point exposed, there is always a point to be beaten! So now it's not just a matter of how to defend the Warriors, but how to make the Warriors' three people feel inaccurate at the same time, otherwise the Warriors will always have space, when Poole and Curry appear together, there are two Curry on the court. Of course, the Warriors can even have four Curry, Payton is the defensive version of Curry, Chiosa is the big front version of Curry, at a glance, the Warriors are everyone curry, no way, this is a team that eats three points.