Truth be told, if Thompson had reduced his shots by 3-5 times on every bad night, maybe the Warriors wouldn't have had so much trouble winning. It was another day of Thompson's ironing, 6 of 20, 7 of 3 points, only 14 points, if it were not for Curry's 18 points savior in the single quarter, Thompson would be carrying a cauldron today. Obviously, the Grizzlies are not nuggets, and the defensive intensity of the outside line is not the same, and it is difficult for Thompson to easily shoot that kind of super efficiency. Except for G3, everyone shot very well, Thompson has been iron for several games. With the Grizzlies' G1 Thompson 6 of 19, G2 Thompson losing 5 of 19, and this game was 6 of 20, in addition to G3's 8 of 13, Thompson can say that this series is the worst the Warriors play.
Thompson's poor play is on the one hand, the most important thing is that the Warriors have the number of shots and shots on the whole team after Curry, which is very important because your number of shots is very high, if you can shoot a lot of goals then the positive impact on the team is very large, if you don't shoot it is completely hurting the team. And after entering the playoffs, Thompson's role is further increased, the average playing time per game is increased to more than 35 minutes, which is the Warriors' current average playing time per game, and his average number of shots per game is close to 18 per game, but the average score of Thompson is only 19.4 points per game, shooting 43.3%, which is still based on the first round of easy promotion against the Nuggets.
It can be said that Thompson played very poorly in the entire second round of the playoffs, especially in terms of projection, Thompson has a large number of ball-holding offenses in addition to a large amount of iron in each game, and the effect is very bad. The defensive intensity on the Grizzlies is obviously much fiercer than that of the Nuggets, and when Thompson can't run out of those empty shooting opportunities, he can only hold the ball and shoot some high difficulties, at this time the shooting rate naturally drops. But do the Warriors really have to put all the shooting pressure on Thompson? Is it really necessary for Thompson to shoot so many goals in every game?
In fact, there is no need for this, the Warriors are not the Warriors of three years ago. Three years ago in the playoffs, when Durant was injured, the Warriors' only scorers were Curry and Thompson, and at this time Thompson deservedly stood up and scored, but now the team is not only two scorers. Poole averaged 21.9 points per game on 14.1 shots in the series, shooting 54.3 percent from the field, and Wiggins' average shots per game has dropped to 11.6, but he has 51 percent shooting, compared to just 31 minutes per game in the playoffs. Even Porter, who includes the second round of the playoffs, is getting better and better.
Doesn't that mean you can dilute Thompson's playing time and shots a bit? Thompson is a player who has suffered two years of serious injuries, there is no need to play in the playoffs to let him play 38 minutes, the Warriors are not useless, nor is it that the field is counting on Thompson to shoot 20 balls to score 30 points, and the Warriors have others who can score. The ball doesn't have to be entirely concentrated in the hands of Curry and Thompson, and Curry is the ball carrier, and if Thompson holds the ball again, it will hurt a whole team. A player like Thompson who has been seriously injured is in the best state or so of playing thirty minutes per game, averaging about fifteen shots per game, he is comfortable himself, the team is comfortable, and now the game is a big package, inefficient, not to mention more hurtful to the team.
(I guess a lot of my brave fans have to say again: you haven't seen Thompson play before, that's how he used to play!) Yuzu sister can only say that in the past, the mouth mushroom was not beaten like this, and now what? ）