12/25 Christmas Day Game! Lakers (16-13) at Warriors (15-13) 5pm PST

[Onus]

Also just because its easily referenced - here's the 5th man with Curry/Hield/Wiggins/Dray, how they've done, and in how many possessions:

GP2 (+43, 50 pos)
JK (-34, 44 pos)
Looney (+24, 20 pos)
SloMo (+91, 17 pos)
TJD (+53, 15 pos)
Moody (+52, 12 pos)
Waters (+55, 11 pos)
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Melton (-150, 3 pos)
Podz (+73, 3 pos)


Steph/Wiggins/Dray w/o Buddy: +1.7 (700 pos)
Steph/Wiggins/Dray w/Buddy: +30.3 (175 pos)

Don't tell me Kerr's not part of the problem here

It's crazy it's the core 4 minus jk and they scored 6-0 run in the 1st half. In the 2nd half Kerr does the core 4 and JK and they go on like a -9 run. JK just doesn't fit with them.

[CDM_Stats]

Wiggins getting any blame for this is hilarious. He didn't even really get beat. Reeves was making jumpers all game and Wiggins completely took away his shot as well as his strong hand drive. Forced him left deep into baseline where even without help he barely had an angle. Literally ANY attempt at doing the right defense by Kuminga and it goes to OT.

That play was 100% on Kuminga and not Wiggins.

Actually, I take that back, it was 100% on Kerr because we have some of the best defensive metric guys in the league sitting on the bench in GP2 and Kyle while Kuminga and Steph are in the game for a defensive possession.

On to the next one, but it's getting more and more apparent that Kerr is incapable of maxing out this rosters potential.

I definitely dont think Wiggins was at fault, but he did pause when (I assume) he thought Reaves was going to pull back for a jumper. That said, full devils advocate, he probably assumed he had help down low and it would be more of a foul risk to try and cut Reaves off

But yeah, in real time it looked like Wiggins, but watching the play more and more... he did fine

[jozef]

Last play is on Wiggins. If Kuminga went to help then Reeves would pass inside to open Hachimura.

[watch1958]

Wiggins getting any blame for this is hilarious. He didn't even really get beat. Reeves was making jumpers all game and Wiggins completely took away his shot as well as his strong hand drive. Forced him left deep into baseline where even without help he barely had an angle. Literally ANY attempt at doing the right defense by Kuminga and it goes to OT.

That play was 100% on Kuminga and not Wiggins.

Actually, I take that back, it was 100% on Kerr because we have some of the best defensive metric guys in the league sitting on the bench in GP2 and Kyle while Kuminga and Steph are in the game for a defensive possession.

On to the next one, but it's getting more and more apparent that Kerr is incapable of maxing out this rosters potential.

I definitely dont think Wiggins was at fault, but he did pause when (I assume) he thought Reaves was going to pull back for a jumper. That said, full devils advocate, he probably assumed he had help down low and it would be more of a foul risk to try and cut Reaves off

But yeah, in real time it looked like Wiggins, but watching the play more and more... he did fine

Also, I think they assumed Lakers were going to LBJ, which they actually wanted to do. So Andrew overplayed that for a beat too long.

So instead of the defense funneling Austin to the baseline they gave him the baseline.

I also wonder if Rui intentionally went out of bounds, to make it tougher for JK to see man and ball.

[CDM_Stats]

Wiggins getting any blame for this is hilarious. He didn't even really get beat. Reeves was making jumpers all game and Wiggins completely took away his shot as well as his strong hand drive. Forced him left deep into baseline where even without help he barely had an angle. Literally ANY attempt at doing the right defense by Kuminga and it goes to OT.

That play was 100% on Kuminga and not Wiggins.

Actually, I take that back, it was 100% on Kerr because we have some of the best defensive metric guys in the league sitting on the bench in GP2 and Kyle while Kuminga and Steph are in the game for a defensive possession.

On to the next one, but it's getting more and more apparent that Kerr is incapable of maxing out this rosters potential.

I definitely dont think Wiggins was at fault, but he did pause when (I assume) he thought Reaves was going to pull back for a jumper. That said, full devils advocate, he probably assumed he had help down low and it would be more of a foul risk to try and cut Reaves off

But yeah, in real time it looked like Wiggins, but watching the play more and more... he did fine

Also, I think they assumed Lakers were going to LBJ, which they actually wanted to do. So Andrew overplayed that for a beat too long.

So instead of the defense funneling Austin to the baseline they gave him the baseline.

I also wonder if Rui intentionally went out of bounds, to make it tougher for JK to see man and ball.

No need to distract JK I dont think, but Rui was literally OOB long after Reaves picked up his dribble. JK had no idea what was going on, back to the play and faceguarding Rui