again, an era problem) as opposed to defending screen actions which is partly why a guy as underweight as Reggie Miller on several occasions gave our perimeter defense trouble. MJ and Scottie’s defensive strengths were also as on ball defenders (which makes sense, players and especially guards back then were primed to guard ball handlers as opposed to off ball players and weren’t really trained the way modern day players are to fight through screens and call switch. The problem with modern day small ball, especially for the Warriors, is that the W’s best shooters don’t have the ball half the time and run multiple screen actions that force big men to get involved, and our big men back then were atrocius at defending the perimeter. And there was always a big in the post anyway with the way the game was played back then. We played a triangle to get isolations in the post and on the other end established premier interior defense by having MJ and Scottie (and at times also Ron Harper although he was a meh shooter in his tenure w the Bulls) slow down primary ball handlers with Rodman to compensate for help defense in case one of em got beat. The Bulls offense wasn’t built to go small and we didn’t have the pieces the way the Warriors do from a fit and ability stand point. I just think this is a big comparing era problem. The Blazers held them to a reasonable 38.8 percent shooting from deep, but allowed 52.4 percent shooting from the field, while only making 36.7 percent of their own 3-pointers and 44.4 percent of their overall field goals.New Post Game Thread Happy 15th Cake-Day r/NBA! Win tickets to NBA All-Star Saturday Night & make a difference, check out Reddit Community Funds & r/NBA's partnership! Top Team Subreddit Postsġ Chet Tonight Career high 36/10/5/ with a clutch 3ģ White trying to get a pick up game goingĤ Post Game Thread: The Milwaukee Bucks defeat The Dallas Mavericks 132-125 Portland lost all four regular season matchups with the Warriors this year, scoring 105.5 points per game but giving up an average of 125 points. However, they gave up 118.6 points per game, allowing Golden State to shoot 47.7 percent from the floor and 41 percent from outside in five contests, losing 4-1. In the second round of last year’s playoffs against the Warriors, the Blazers averaged 114.2 points per game on 42.4 percent shooting from the field and 42.8 percent shooting from deep. Golden State and their revised roster still won 67 games this year and ended the season with a better point differential (11.6) than last year’s 73-win team (10.8). While their roster changes arguably hurt the Warriors’ depth and interior defense, replacing Harrison Barnes with Kevin Durant in their small ball “Death Lineup”-Curry, Thompson, Green, Iguodala, and now Durant-more than makes up for it. The changes give Golden State a starting five of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, and Zaza Pachulia. Bench players Festus Ezeli and Leandro Barbosa-occasional contributors Marreese Speights and Brandon Rush-all found new NBA homes last offseason.īesides Durant, the Warriors added centers Zaza Pachulia and JaVale McGee, power forward David West, rookie point guard Patrick McCaw, and small forward Matt Barnes, who they signed mid-season after Durant’s injury. Gone are starters Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut. In doing so, they had to release or not re-sign several key players from the 2016 NBA Finals runner-up squad. Golden State saw an opportunity to add one of the NBA’s five best players during the offseason and took it. The change starts with Kevin Durant, who shocked fans lats offseason when he left Oklahoma City in unrestricted free agency. Role players Ian Clark, James Michael McAdoo, and Anderson Varejao are also still with the team there’s turnover everywhere else on the roster. Only five players who averaged at least 10 minutes a game for Golden State in 2015-16 remain: starters Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green, along with key reserves Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston. You probably wouldn’t expect a team coming off back-to-back NBA Finals appearances with regular season win totals of 73 and 67, respectively, to make drastic changes to its roster.īut that’s exactly what the Warriors did. This year’s Golden State team, however, has some pretty dramatic roster differences from last year. Portland played the Warriors in the second round of the 2016 NBA playoffs-a series they were relatively competitive in despite losing in five games. The Blazers begin their first-round playoff series against the Golden State Warriors on Sunday.
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