Kerr said to Curry: "We have 4 timeouts left, and we will call one specifically to give you a break." ”
In fact, Curry only played 37 and a half points in the end, and Kerr grabbed a small advantage that would allow Curry to breathe early. Counting the 2 and a half minutes after the play, Curry's upper limit will not exceed the average time per game of Booker and Durant so far in the playoffs. However, we are clear about the difference in intensity, and there is a double row of black, and this side is basically supporting the overall situation. Curry shot 38 times, setting his own playoff career record, and the final 50 points is also a record, which is the most awesome firepower output in the history of the Big Seven war, you won't be surprised that it happened to Curry, you will just sigh - finally, Curry will rely on this way to win a playoff first-round game, which is like a playoff condensed version of the last schedule in 21 years.
But Curry's companions are certainly not as good as the championship season, and they are much better than 21 years. Curry played lonely and didn't seem to be so lonely, which is why this series is especially irritating.
Kerr is a master speaker, and he interprets what Curry has done as proof of the championship, and the value of these 50 points is amplified, the meaning is sublimated, and it becomes the motivation to move forward, injected into the veins of the already tired Warriors. Hopefully, such a game will make the team understand what kind of existence they follow, and even if it is only from the perspective of witnessing history, you will be able to receive 100 announcements such as "sports life interviews" in the future.
There will be a bright future, what is the hurry?
Of course, if I'm a 20-year-old rookie with a high pick, I gradually think I've earned the trust of my coach, and suddenly find out that I don't deserve to play in the playoffs, I will also be unhappy. I would look for my gap with my teammates in the rotation, ask the coach what went wrong on the game video, and then hone my skills and wait for the next call-up.
Unfortunately, I was much older than a 20-year-old and approached decay in the way I thought about problems. And, for professional athletes, especially NBA players, the experience of the golden age is extremely valuable, and you can't argue that in two years you may end up somewhere. This is indeed the pain of a high-pick rookie in a team that is pursuing results, and no one is happy.
But if I already have a big contract and a championship ring, that's another matter. Fame and fortune, young age, competing for status should be a greasy thing. I look at Stephen, I have a bit of envy, "the eldest husband should be like this", but there is no need to give birth to the ambition of "he can replace him", after all, the creatures on the pantheon, it is difficult to make a plate of werewolf killing, you tell me to catch up with their footsteps, I can not have a B face, but I can't do without a B number.
Curry expressed his attitude to the team — first by speaking, which he rarely did in the past. The loss of energy and concentration in a game like G6 hurt everyone involved with the Golden State Warriors deeply, and it's hard to believe that the defending champion would contribute such a show at home at a match point where he is suspected of finding the code of the series. But if you've watched all of the Warriors' regular season this season, you'll realize it's not surprising that this is just part of the intermittent jerking in Golden State this season, as the team loses its absolute dominance of "tight and close", and once you get sick, the scene will collapse and be ugly and shameful.
Curry was really in a hurry. And, unlike the "sad Warriors blogger," he doesn't want to end this messy season in a hurry. He speaks, he practices, and then there's such a game. I can't think of a more convincing way of leadership, riding alone in a million-strong army to kill seven in and seven out, without shouting, the generals and soldiers of the three armies, which one does not follow the charge with tears in their eyes. If this battle can be exchanged for cohesion, the meaning of 50 points will not be limited to promotions, records, and snowflakes of praise, and this season's warriors will be more exciting.
Cole should secretly rejoice that this duel between him and Brown was finally won, and Stephen went from being shared by the two to being exclusive to Cole. Cole didn't do nothing, and it could even be said that he wouldn't use less brains than Brown in this series, but in G6, where the series was already deep, Brown's tricks stung Cole, which almost made the positive dialogue between the two different:
Brown reduced Barnes' time and dropped Ryan. The former provided a striker defense that exceeded expectations, as well as a consistent one-eating foul, while the latter was quite profitable in the basket protection in the connecting section. According to common sense, coaches should continue to use them - Brown sword to go sideways;
Brown left his trust to newcomer Keegan Murray, and Huerth, who didn't shoot three-pointers in the series. After removing Lane, Lyles had a five-way lineup at the top center. Brown wants space, because the Warriors' single defense breakthrough is too difficult, and improving space will weaken the Warriors' increasingly reliable defense from G3 onwards. Hult and Murray's hand-to-hand and off-ball cover would target Curry and Poole, and Brown didn't want them both to have a minute of comfort;
What's more, the lightweight king has boosted race speed to an incredible frequency band. The King hit the Warriors behind with one fast-haired baseline ball after another, Fox was as fast as the wind, Monk followed, and the Warriors' old arms and legs inevitably showed the traces of time. Late in the series, the advantage of young men over seasoned champions is vitality, they run, they charge, they are full of desire for frontcourt rebounds, and they want to exhaust the defending champions.
Munch said the Warriors are old.
Monk is telling the truth, Curry is 35 years old, Tang Chai is 33 years old, for basketball players, this age is called "old" is a statement of age. But Curry can't accept the meaning of "old", if it means "no", "finished", "hopeless", then Curry will show a Duncan smile, make a promise that "the future is yours", and stay in the seat you covet for a while.
G7, Cole made the final move. It is not so much a change of tricks, but rather that he has put all the previous effective experience on the table.
The first thing Cole did was go back to the original starter, take Green, take Poole. This is not a surprise adjustment, the first six games of this series, the five-man team of Curry, Towns, Wiggins, Dreamchasing and Looney, outscored the Kings by 17.9 points per 100 rounds, still the Warriors' most dominant combination. Although Splash Chazuilu's five-man team can also outscore the Kings by 9.2 points per 100 rounds, just like last year's playoffs, the weaknesses of the three-guard lineup were seized by opponents, and the advantage was gradually difficult to maintain, not to mention that Poole is still a completely crotch-pulling version.
The king has eaten the warrior's spatial flaws, why doesn't the warrior break the game in a way that fills the space?
G7 is not a game with limited options in G3, G3 can fight against three guards, and by G7, after enough sample accumulation, you must understand the fact that the king does not respect all the shooters of the warriors except Splash, and only Moody has given some fixed-point responses except for Splash. In this series, the Warriors shot the following from three-point range:
Poole, 25.7%
Wiggins, 27%
DiVincenzo, 33.3%
Dream Green, 27.3%
Payton, 28.6%
Jagglin, Kuminga and Lamb did not score three points
Moody's, 45.5%
With everyone not allowed and everyone being released, it was only natural that Cole finally chose the old version of the starter with better defense and better chemistry. Cole also uses Payton for a reason, everyone does not have the space threat, can follow Monk, finish better, more dynamic Payton has his comparative advantage. Moody's as a single seedling with a good three-point response may deserve Cole's further trust, which will be discussed in the next round of previews.
The second thing Cole did was to replicate some of the G3's successful starting moves, again emphasizing the 45° response and cover on the weak side. The reason why the weak side of 45° is important is because the Warriors were defended by the Kings to make a contradiction:
If Looney/Dream goes down too fast, it will cause Curry to have difficulty playing the ball and increase mistakes;
If Looney/Dream goes down too slowly, it will give the King enough time to close the bottom corner to assist in the middle.
When Curry changes the direction of the ball to 45° on the weak side, the defense that was originally focused on destroying Curry's connection with the cover man is bypassed, and the cover man will also have a better view of the ball on the receiving side than feeding the ball after receiving the ball, and he can focus more on going down, paying attention to the position of the opponent to avoid offensive fouls, while observing the empty cut of the bottom corner teammates.
This style of play is not limited to blocking, and Tang Shen's 3+1 also belongs to this category.
If you adjust your play, can you crack the King's defense?
In the first half, 56-58, Curry impeccablely scored 20 points, and the Warriors still trailed. The Kings responded to Curry's firepower output in various ways, and Curry's teammates still couldn't fully translate his containment into scoring. The poor fixed-point response was a pain shared on both sides of the series, with the league's No. 1 offensive king determined to continue the quagmire battle with the Warriors, panting and confrontation on both sides, highly excited and highly nervous, missing a lot of free throws in a suffocating atmosphere, not to mention how to maintain his long-range shooting skills at 100 paces.
Only the most elite scorers can maintain confidence in such a game, and only the most elite scorers can find the right output in such a game. The Warriors have no way back, in fact, neither does the King, relying on the faith and dignity of the champion, and relying on the strength of the home court and the vigor of the newborn calf, they temporarily shielded their distractions, but the will was only a wave of consecutive points dropped, iron and lost the ball.
Now look where the balance is broken.
So, in the third verse, the wind and clouds suddenly changed.
If I were Cole, I might have felt a little frustrated. This round of the series, grabbing seven battles, gradually opened up the thinking of "about the nature of basketball". If Miami fully proved to the opponent that they are the better team in the showdown with the Bucks, then the Warriors' showdown with the Kings has become a competition between the absolute ability of the stars and the team's desire to win. Curry—which actually includes Tang Shen—begins to launch in a minimalist starting style, challenging the King's defenses infinitely with his personal ability, and the picture looks like this:
A no-ball cover catch, small space to hold the ball squeezed into the basket, relying on the wrist finger feeling, Curry contributed the limit lying to pick the basket 2+1;
The ball wasn't easy to see with the naked eye, but Curry didn't want to try anything else, and couldn't wait for a smooth shot, a big open response after a walk, or an empty cut. If you can come by yourself, you still have to come by yourself. So, we seem to see the reappearance of the 19 Finals G3, and with the simple start-up support, Curry gets the score before the opponent's defense reacts.
Why did the king's pinch come so late?
Why did Brown choose to switch defenses instead of pinch shots when Curry named Murray and Lyles?
Before the start of G7, Curry's main starting style was to block with the No. 5 position, and Brown arranged a very tight pinch strategy, which is the focus of the game of the Warriors offense and the Kings defense in this series, and in this piece, Brown's arrangement is not faulty.
However, before the start of G7, Curry only played 16 one-on-ones, relying on this method to score only 11 points, and the production efficiency was not high. Curry looks tired, does he often choose such a simple starting style? Maybe Lyles and Murray can barely resist? Lane has been abandoned, just need to protect Sabonis, maybe everything will be fine.
Brown was careless, and he should have regretted it because he knew what Curry was capable of. Later in the fourth quarter, Brown took out the defensive strategy of Mountain King Industries against Miyagi, clipped Curry from the backcourt, and gave Curry respect with the highest standard of treatment, but could not salvage the defeat - in the process, the King could not even take away a single mistake from the Warriors. Curry shuttled, stumbling around the ball, but King Hugh wanted to snatch it.
G6, Curry has 5 turnovers, and this series, he averaged 3.3 turnovers per game. In the cliffside G3 and G7, Curry only had 1 turnover. In these games, he has more possession of the ball than usual, has a lot of responsibility and has no way back. He said he kept reminding himself not to make a mistake, that the string was taut, and he really did it.
Is this enough?
You can't beat a team alone, not even in a game like this. But how do we evaluate Curry's teammates in a game like this?
Tried his best, defense + rebounding, and supported Curry in the way he could, but not the more "advanced" parts, and the parts you expected.
It was Cole who watched the silence and Miles heard the tearful half-time ball. The superstar singles + rebounding game is not a warrior, and the team that hits the most three-pointers in the regular season is ironclad and can only make half of the free throws. The sense of making the ball in the small space under the basket does retain traces of Cole's coaching, but more often than not, all you see is attitude - Looney has 9 front boards, Wiggins has 4 front boards, and the two have walked to the free throw line 10 times in total, playing a sense of desperation to go forward.
Those points weren't clean, and if Wiggins and other outside shooters had made threes, Looney's downward finish would have been more powerful and could have been so troublesome. But now there is no point in picking out the technical characteristics of the players, the fact is that in this kind of game where everyone is shaking, players other than superstars can make the biggest contribution, except for defense, which is the content of these games related to hard work and vitality. Looney is the benchmark in this regard, and Wiggins and Payton can also add on some nights. G6 The part they lost, G7 became the point of their win.
Sending yourself into the air, to fight, to grab, this is the attitude of the people around Curry, and Curry to open a piece, forming the final hole card of the Warriors' survival. It's not the first time you've seen it, and there was no shortage of competitions like this in last year's finals. I love games like this, but I'm sorry to see it happen in the first round, and if it doesn't, the Warriors' season might be over.
The new forces contributed to Poole's 33.8 percent shooting percentage and a beaten defense, as well as Kuminga's DNP. Moody's qualified 3D performance in 65.4 minutes was the last stubbornness of the Warriors' youth and the relief of aunt fans.
The contribution of the new signing is that DiVincenzo cannot defend the King's guards and loses the magic of the regular season three-pointer. Payton is useful, and he shouldn't be inexplicably caught in by fans, but not as useful as the Warriors expected, at least not as Sadiq Bay was to the Hawks. Lamb and Jagreen, who did hold out a few minutes of rotation in the game when Chase was absent, was all.
OK, so, what exactly did the Warriors gain this season?
The high probability is just to prove to Lacob once again the real reason why this team is great.
Curry deserves all the praise, but the Warriors still have a long way to go.
Hopefully, the Warriors don't live up to this game, Curry, and, although very iron, try their best, and give all their hands to win.