Warriors
Looney Tunes
Klay getting ready
Dray's gameplan
Wiggins's D is more important than anything else (pause), but we also need this
And for the Chef
Celtics
Marcus Smart
Lightskin mamba is going to come aggressive after game 1
Brown
Al has found the secret sauce
Robert Williams
My armchair points:
- Boston likely going to play a lot less drop coverage, esp after what happened in the first quarter of game 1. This will make it harder for Curry 3s.
- Brown said they are working on packing the paint to cut off easy layups, which is one of the Warriors strengths. Will likely push Warriors to shoot more than 3s than they usually do.
- Their bigs are going to push up more, which means Looney, Dray, Andre or whoever is on the switch needs to aggressively attack the rim when Steph is involved. Otherwise, it's game over.
- Boston has had 3 super shooting games so far in the PS, in game 1 being arguably the best one. Likely won't shoot that well again, but the Dray overhelping to cut off the drives in the paint likely needs some adjustments. Not saying he doesn't help, but he was doing a horrible job of the balance aspect last game.
- I understand having a great game offensively from JP or Klay is awesome because they're so inconsistent, but I need one of them to show up. The other can show up in game 3 in Boston.
- Less optimistic GPII will play and if he does, it sounds like he will be severly injured. Big issue since this is really the series for someone like GP to hound their two stars.
- Can the Warriors not treat currently the best shooter from 3 this PS like a scrub and giving him all the time in the world?
- Need to do a better job of shutting down the non-stars this series
- One big problem is going to be the focus of small ball and switch defense that the Warriors will need to up their defensive game to win out. Also need to dominate the boards when Boston inevitably switch to it (which they will).
- JP needs to figure out how to be effective offensively because they can't win the series with him shooting like **** when he is a cone defensively. Will also need to compete defensively, even if he is poor at it. Show effort & grit.
- It's going to sound like a hot take after game 1, but the goal is still for Boston to keep chucking 3s from their worst shooters. However not Al, the guy is killing it this year. If they're going to shoot 48-50% from 3 when most of their 3PA are coming outside of Tatum, Brown and Al and contested then it is what it is. You give your props & move on.
Lets turn this into 1-1.
