There are pictures and truth|Clay unlocks a new way to play off-peak travel, and the Warriors are almost reversed to blame Cole?

Talking about the ball is not flickering, there are pictures and truths.

In the 2023-24 regular season, "Coin Chat Basketball" continues to interpret the focus of the topic in the way of "pictures and truths", watching the excitement and the doorway.

The Warriors won the Jazz and won 6 of the last 7 games, although the difficulty of the "Northern Expedition" is still not small because of the previous arrears, but it is still possible to stabilize the play-off regional rankings first.

The biggest highlight of the Jazz game was the withdrawal of Klay from the starting lineup, and the last time he played off the bench was on March 11, 2012, 12 years ago.

Kerr told Klay to play off the bench without over-analysis, just to win, and against the Jazz was the Warriors' last game before the All-Star weekend, winning the game and taking a vacation, and then ushering in the final sprint of the regular season, and the Warriors did it.

Before this game, the five-man group of Dream + Kuminga + Wiggins + Curry + Poger played 96 minutes, scoring 131.5 points per 100 rounds, conceding 99 points per 100 rounds, and winning by 32.5 points.

Poje was a shooting guard in the draft, but his style of play with the Warriors was closer to that of a point guard, and he had the third-highest assist-to-turnover ratio on the team, behind Paul and Joseph, who are now out.

Pojer's role with the Warriors is close to that of the poor version of Iguodala, who doesn't have the physical gifts of Iguodala but has similarities in his vision and approach to the ball, allowing him to find someone in the fast break and do some development in positional play.

Although Poger is a master of making offensive fouls, his opposition defense is far worse than Iguodala, and Kerr will not expect him to be as tough as Iguodala to beat the peak James, as long as Bojie is stepped over, he can respond steadily to fixed-point shooting, and the Warriors will not lose.

If you can still give some hard shots in the pick-and-roll occasionally, the Warriors will earn it.

Bojie's entry into the starting line can reduce the pressure on Curry from the tactical level, and the duo of Bojie and Dream can reduce Curry's work on the offensive side, and he doesn't like to carry a lot of balls in the first place.

Clay's removal from the bench would hurt his pride, but in terms of functionality, he might be better off the bench right now. Klay's defensive ability has declined irreversibly after two major injuries, and the once best "3D" is now only "3", but this "3" is not effective when it fails because of poor leg strength, taking the 10 games before playing the Jazz as an example, there are 3 games with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, 6 games are less than 30%, and 4 of these 6 games are less than 20%.

Clay started from the bench and let him "stagger the peak trip", as the sixth man to play the opponent's substitute, the defensive pressure he faced was less, if the feeling was still not good, then play less, if the feeling came, then play more,

This game as a whole was a Clay outbreak, playing 18 minutes in the first three quarters and scoring 35 points on 13-of-18 shooting, and failing to score in 10 minutes of 4 shots in the fourth quarter, and the state had ups and downs, but the third quarter of the explosion period was really fierce, whether it was measured by starters or substitutes, Clay was at the level of "what else do you need".

What is certain is that Klay can't play like this every game, because the Warriors can't meet a team like the Jazz that ranks 25th in the league in defensive efficiency, Klay's performance is still the norm, the Warriors put him on the bench, with one or two ball handlers during the rotation, and "Tian Ji Horse Racing" may still be better than him playing as a starter.

The Warriors' change of formation achieved the goal from an offensive point of view, Boje had 13 points, 8 assists and 2 turnovers, a very ideal assist-to-loss ratio, Klay played off the bench, and the Warriors scored 140 points without overtime, which is quite efficient.

However, they only won by 3 points and almost had a comeback in the fourth quarter.

The fundamental problem is that the Warriors are still short, Kerr uses five small to open up space, and he has to further bear the defensive problems caused by the lack of size, and the Warriors leak three points from beginning to end in this game, and the crux is the size, whether it is to defend the back or break through, it needs to shrink, resulting in leaks everywhere on the perimeter.

There has been a lot of scolding against Kerr this season, but to be honest, the Warriors lineup, there is no too good solution, Looney is now dragging space on the offensive end, and the movement speed on the defensive end is too slow, which is easy to be blocked and dismantled by the opponent.

Saric can't defend well, Davis can defend but offense is average, Kerr can only use the three-forward lineup of Dream Chasing, Wiggins and Kuminga to try to ensure the balance of offense and defense in the frontcourt, and use Curry in the backcourt with Poje or Klay, purely depending on the state of the game.

In the fourth quarter of the Jazz, Kerr pursued the limit space and replaced Kuminga with Bojie, coming to a condensed version of the lineup of two forwards + three guards, but because Curry's offense was not online, he was almost turned over by the Jazz, you can say that Kerr blindly trusts the small lineup, but the Warriors' staffing, playing "big" may not be good.

The limitations of the Warriors' lineup exist objectively and will not change because of the head coach, just as if you think that the Bucks' defense is not good because Griffin is too immature, isn't it still the same when you replace "Lao Li" now?

What's the use of changing the soup without changing the medicine?