On March 10, Beijing time, Youku Warriors suffered three consecutive defeats, which is strange. And judging by the course and details of the game, there were really problems within the defending champions.
Cole faints
After Curry's return, the Warriors have yet to win. Moreover, there seems to be something wrong within the Warriors recently. In the last game, Green was dissatisfied with Poole's failure to pass the ball to him, and directly negative the scene of the game, which caused heated discussions.
Facing the Grizzlies, he accidentally injured his foot in the warm-up before the Kuminga game. Kerr directly discharged the super small lineup of Curry, Poole, DiVincenzo, and Clega chasing dreams, and this strange formation did not work wonders, and it came up in less than 5 minutes and was beaten by opponents 21-8. By the end of the first quarter, the Warriors were trailing by 20 points.
Although Curry led the team to a 14-2 run in three minutes in the second quarter, the Warriors chased only 4 points at one point. However, after that, they had a series of bizarre mistakes, and after Poole broke through, he wanted to give Iguodala in the middle and pass the ball directly to the opponent. Curry sent the baseline ball, Chasing Dream and Thompson communication mistakes, took it, Curry threw the ball to Klay, Klay did not react at all, another low-level mistake. After Dillon grabbed the ball, he faced the dream to score the ball, and also provoked the cow, and Cole, who was sitting on the sidelines, was livid at this time.
In the first half, the Warriors' four-guard lineup was burst, with Curry plus-minus -5, DiVincenzo plus-minus -22, Klay plus-minus -25, and Poole plus-minus -32.
Returning from the second half, Kerr re-assigned Looney, but the Warriors did not turn the tide, and the double-digit gap was opened in the fourth quarter, and Kerr replaced the Splash Brothers early and gave up the game.
How miserable the warriors are
Let's see how miserable the Warriors have been lately? The Warriors suffered an eight-game losing streak on the road, the record tied for the second-longest in the Kerr era. This season, the Warriors' road record has been revised to 7-26.
The defending champions have been beaten up by their opponents in their last three away games. Facing the Lakers, the Warriors lost 33 points in the first quarter, faced the Thunder and lost 40 points in the first quarter, this game, they lost 48 points in the first quarter, you know, the Lakers do not have James, the Thunder lacks Jalen Williams, and the Grizzlies do not have Morant. Moreover, the Warriors have played seven consecutive games, trailing their opponents by double digits in the first half.
In this match with the Grizzlies, the opponent scored 16 points using mistakes, the Warriors made as many as 17 mistakes, and the opponent bombed 56 points inside, which can be said to burst the Warriors' weakness.
Internal problems
Why do the Warriors behave the way they are? Clearly, there was a problem within the team. Warriors Joe Viray exposed a miscommunication between Kerr and Poole.
At the time, Cole signaled to Poole on the sidelines to play the "55" tactic. They used the tactic several times against the Grizzlies, and the name came from Cole's five-finger grasp on the sidelines. This tactic is to let the ball carrier use double cover to create the double threat of breakthrough and open connection.
However, Poole was thinking about life at the time, thinking that Cole asked him to play "Thumb Out", a tactic that required small fights in the high-position duo hand-to-hand.
As a result, teammates knew Cole's intentions, and Poole misunderstood, Poole dribbled through the half, with the help of cover immediately to pass the ball, teammates naturally no one to answer, high both are doing the wall, the result of this ball almost missed, fortunately DiVincenzo quickly picked up the ball, but the Warriors also failed this offensive cooperation.