bdonovan
12-31-2023, 05:22 AM
I'm watching the Warriors/Mavs game and I don't know whether to laugh or what.
This is positively hilarious and prove positive Kerr doesn't know how to coach defense.
Adapt
The Mavs run a simple play every time. They screen for Luka with their big man and then switch Luka onto Looney (Warriors Center). Luka then drives around him easily or nails a 3.
This has happened like 10 times in a row and the Warriors don't do anything different like trap Luka off the screen. Or rotate Klay back onto Luka. Even the commentators were in disbelief how the Warriors didn't adjust.
Stay on your Man; do NOT over-help
Beyond that you have a laziness that has settled into the Warriors defenders including Steph and Klay. They just let their man wander off. The younger players like Kuminga are now doing the same thing.
The Warriors give up 132 to the Mavericks without Kyrie and at home. Pathetic - and you can't win like that.
Doncic is a great player, he's going to score anyway. But the rest of the Mavs without Kyrie? They let Dante Exum go 8 for 12 and the entire Mavs shot at 56% FG.
You don't play defense by trying to be too cute and ball-watching and obsessing over help defense.
Your first and primary mission is to stick to your man like glue. If you can't do that, go play in China.
You see guys like Podziemski trying to "help" from 10 feet away, neither impacting the ball handler while leaving his man over for 3. That's NOT how you play defense.
You see this lack of discipline even by the Warriors best defender Gary Payton II (best w/Green out)- where he half-doubles the ball handler while leaving his man open; Mavs just pass to Gary's man who drains an open 3.
When trying to reset your defense and play it the right way, try playing solidly with NO help defense. See if you can stay on your man, which they can't right now. Only when you master that, selectively play looser zone type help defense. They key word is: selectively.
Right now the Warriors are just running around randomly trying to offer (failed) help defense and leaving people open.
Last Thoughts
Most people in the NBA don't know how to play defense. There's a small percentage that do. Ron Adams (Warriors former assistant coach) did (technically still an asst. coach but not involved). Draymond Green does.
Steve Kerr does not. I don't think Steph or Klay really know. They may do fine 1:1 but I'm talking overall approach to defense.
The Celtics awhile back were a 50-50 team. One day Tatum and Brown started leading by example on the defensive end. Everything changed. The Warriors were once the #1 team in defense a few years ago. Now they are in the bottom of the pack (#16). Fates can change very fast when you lose your defensive system- even as people try to point out surface-level but incomplete explanations why the Warriors have lost their edge.
This is positively hilarious and prove positive Kerr doesn't know how to coach defense.
Adapt
The Mavs run a simple play every time. They screen for Luka with their big man and then switch Luka onto Looney (Warriors Center). Luka then drives around him easily or nails a 3.
This has happened like 10 times in a row and the Warriors don't do anything different like trap Luka off the screen. Or rotate Klay back onto Luka. Even the commentators were in disbelief how the Warriors didn't adjust.
Stay on your Man; do NOT over-help
Beyond that you have a laziness that has settled into the Warriors defenders including Steph and Klay. They just let their man wander off. The younger players like Kuminga are now doing the same thing.
The Warriors give up 132 to the Mavericks without Kyrie and at home. Pathetic - and you can't win like that.
Doncic is a great player, he's going to score anyway. But the rest of the Mavs without Kyrie? They let Dante Exum go 8 for 12 and the entire Mavs shot at 56% FG.
You don't play defense by trying to be too cute and ball-watching and obsessing over help defense.
Your first and primary mission is to stick to your man like glue. If you can't do that, go play in China.
You see guys like Podziemski trying to "help" from 10 feet away, neither impacting the ball handler while leaving his man over for 3. That's NOT how you play defense.
You see this lack of discipline even by the Warriors best defender Gary Payton II (best w/Green out)- where he half-doubles the ball handler while leaving his man open; Mavs just pass to Gary's man who drains an open 3.
When trying to reset your defense and play it the right way, try playing solidly with NO help defense. See if you can stay on your man, which they can't right now. Only when you master that, selectively play looser zone type help defense. They key word is: selectively.
Right now the Warriors are just running around randomly trying to offer (failed) help defense and leaving people open.
Last Thoughts
Most people in the NBA don't know how to play defense. There's a small percentage that do. Ron Adams (Warriors former assistant coach) did (technically still an asst. coach but not involved). Draymond Green does.
Steve Kerr does not. I don't think Steph or Klay really know. They may do fine 1:1 but I'm talking overall approach to defense.
The Celtics awhile back were a 50-50 team. One day Tatum and Brown started leading by example on the defensive end. Everything changed. The Warriors were once the #1 team in defense a few years ago. Now they are in the bottom of the pack (#16). Fates can change very fast when you lose your defensive system- even as people try to point out surface-level but incomplete explanations why the Warriors have lost their edge.