BoyzNTheHood wrote:
This NBA is the same league it's always been. Golden State is playing a different style of basketball and winning which is turning all of the copy cats into followers. The problem is, like I said, finding two greater shooters than Curry & Thompson would be difficult.
I honestly wish Memphis was healthy all year. They have a great blueprint for building a team. A two-way point guard, a lockdown wing defender and two post beasts.
It's crazy because I think you're both on the money n way off at the same time...
I think you're on the money because
1. Yes it's a copy cat league and makes absolutely zero sense trying to "match" GSW with the same style and same format when you can't duplicate the nucleus of what they have which like you said is Curry & Klay, 2 top 5 shooters of all time, with one being the very definitive best shooter off all time. So trying to be faster n better shooting than arguably the fastest n easily the best shooting makes no sense you're going to have bully the hell out of them....but at EVERY position
Where you're way off is saying that MEM is the format
2. They are most certainly not. As the lesson Val showed us, you have PUNISH a team for going small. So yes Gasol and ZBo can punish them BUT that combo is not athletic enough to make that difference. They can beat up their guys in the paint but then get absolutely slaughtered on fastbreak points and just rotations swinging the ball around the perimeter and those 2 lugs can't keep up.
The team with the blueprint is
OKC...
3. GSW literally looked like they were completely outpowered and if it wasn't for OKC seemingly melting down at different points of the closing quarters of those last 3 games they looked firmly in control in most of those games. But for whatever reason OKC (Russ & KD) just seem to come a part down the stretch, it's the most bizarre thing that most analysts complained about them doing even through out the season but that format WORKS and that is...
Two highly mobile but true BIGS beating up their smaller post guys n gobbling up any second chance points then having the length both the length at PG, the wings n quick enough post players you handle ball rotations to really bother Steph and Klay's shots and fast enough to kill some fastbreaks is extremely important. Also be big enough where KD can still get whatever he wants over a stud defender like Klay who despite his excellent defence can't stop a super long KD that can hit anything and Russell's athleticism exhausts Klay n makes it hard for Steph to shoot over n if he gets around him KD is quick n long enough to get a hand up to completely disrupt his rhythm.
I don't know if it's just coaching because I'm still not sold that Billy Donovan is the right coach to totally put them over the top or those 2 are just dare I say it mental midgets lol but their combination of length, speed n scoring is the answer. Heck if IND figured out how to get a better SG n PF between Hill, PG n Turner they could be a helluva match up for GSW down the line as well.
