165bows wrote:GrandTheftRondo wrote:ConstableGeneva wrote:No, I don't mean replace him. Stash him in a corner. Pre-switch just so he's away from the play. Other teams do it. We've done it in past seasons. We have guards who can fight through screens and chase. Try something else other than Horford on a drop or in an island.
I think the drop thing is being ridiculously overblown. Was the same in the finals, outside of that game 1 he just continually hit ridiculous shots. Not much you can do sometimes.
Curry scored 33 points. Pretty standard sort of game for him.
Almost all of the shots he hit were well defended.
There was one stinker where nobody went near Curry and he drained a long 3. It happens.
It’s also very hard to hide defenders in today’s NBA, especially when you’re playing someone like Curry who will just continually hunt the mismatch.
The bigger problem was the lack of offence late and Klay Thompson was also hitting tough threes.
Generally agree with this. C's lost that series because of their offense. They could have been better on D but they were good enough on D to win, just couldn't generate the right shots and score.
The whole concept of the drop defence is to keep the other Warriors quiet which is what I think gets missed.
Teams tried trapping Curry and along with Draymond they just exploit the resulting 4 on 3 with ease.
Switching can work but Curry will continually look to get by the big and then pick holes in the help defence.
Like LeBron he will manage to get his. The way to win defensively has always been to ensure the rest of the roster stays quiet.
Klay hit tough threes as well and got a couple of open ones from Curry which I ultimately think was the difference. Klay was big in keeping them around when we looked like running away with it.
