Steph Curry & Warriors heartbreak vs. Kings, Steve Kerr’s huge mistake | Hoops Tonight

Steph Curry & Warriors heartbreak vs. Kings, Steve Kerr’s huge mistake | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball all right I want to move on to the Golden State Warriors and Jonathan Kingo so the Warriors lost a heartbreak game to the Sacramento Kings last night uh shout out

To Harrison Barnes who was incredible in that particular game shout out to dearon Fox who took over the game uh down the stretch uh uh but like there were several key mistakes down the stretch from Steve cerr I thought uh I want to point to one particular one there was a a sequence

Where the warriors were only down by one in about the middle of the 4th quarter and a timeout was taken and Steve Kerr decided he wanted to buy Jonathan kaminga some rest I think and it was clear that’s what he was going to do because Jonathan kaminga was playing a

Great game but kaminga had only played 26 minutes up to that point so I remember being like why does he need rest he’s 21 years old and he’s played 26 minutes like the kid’s fine there’s 6 minutes left in the game you need him out there so they go to Dario sarch

Instead and Harrison Barnes was on fire and they put Dario sarich on Harrison Barnes I’m like watching the TV I’m like this is this is seems like a disaster waiting to happen and ironically it wasn’t even Barnes Barnes was actually cooking Klay Thompson uh down the stretch but there was a transition Cross

Match when it was a one-point game and again a transition Cross Match is like anytime there’s some sort of like chaotic transition possession the defensive principles change from you know guarding your matchup to guard the nearest guy like that that’s the principle of those are the principles of

Transition defense Sprint back to the basket fan out to the nearest guy basket first then nearest player and everyone just kind of guards anybody because it’s more important to avoid those like wide open shots that you can give up in transition uh than to give up a a a m a

Mismatch right which you might be able to double and rot out of right so uh in this particular play it’s a transition Cross Match where Daren Fox is bringing the ball up the floor and no one’s there to guard dear and fox and so Draymond Green and Dario Sarge in classic

Transition they’re already back they’re communicating to each other Draymond points Sarge to pick up Daren Fox and so he does and Daren Fox just his eyes light up and SAR is kind of panicky in backpedaling which by by the way is is s’s job in that position it’s like

You’re already compromised by virtue of this mismatch at least make him take a jump shot right but Deen Fox just settles into like basically what amounts to a wide open pull-up three he hits it he celebrates on his way down the floor and then the very next possession he

Hits another pull-up three against Brandon pmy and like I’m a big believer like I was talking about earlier as it pertains to the Knicks these kinds of things are intricately connected and like I don’t even think Daren Fox attempts that second three over Bon pmy

If he didn’t just make the same type of shot over Dario sarage and so that substitution to get kaminga out of the game to bring in a a player who completely overmatched defensively under any circumstances I thought was a a driving force behind how they dug themselves in a little bit of a

Hole because now all of a sudden you’re down seven right you’re down seven with not a lot of time left then you bring Jonathan kaminga back and you battle all the way back right you end up taking the lead and you’re up by one with uh with

Less than a minute left and there’s a baseline out of bounds play by the way which was really interesting they went with kaminga wigin Draymond down the stretch of the game and uh in those last like four minutes and like theoretically that should be a pretty athletic group

That can rebound but like the Kings got several key offensive rebounds on that final possession ending in Steph kind of landing on the floor and getting an out of- bounds call and Steve K doesn’t challenge it they come in out of the Baseline out of bounds and Kevin herder

And Damon sabotus just run like a basic like kind of flare screen action headed towards the corner the strong side corner where the inbounder is and so basically herder’s at the top of the key sabonis comes up and sets a pick herder runs to that strong side corner Steph is

Guarding Kevin herder draymond’s guarding sabonis Steph dies on the screen and when he dies on the screen Draymond then gets put in a predicament he can either go guard Kevin herder or he can stay home and concede that shot now in the event that so Draymond decides to run after Kevin herder now

What you’re supposed to do in that situation is when that switch takes place where the big screen Defender basically Runs Out to the Guard the guard has to do what’s called a peel off switch where he basically peels off of his man and basically decides to box the

Big man as far out of the lane as possible but instead Steph stays on deus’s high side so when Draymond Runs Out to the corner deonis just slips right down underneath the basket and so both of them messed up there Steph shouldn’t have died on the screen and

When he did he should have peeled off onto demonus sabonis and tried to box him out of the lane Draymond probably needs to be like steped died on the screen I’d rather give up a a drifting jump shot for Kevin herder in the strong side corner than a layup right but

That’s not what happens Stephan Draymond botched the coverage uh sabonis slips down the middle of the lane he gets a wide open layup the the Kings go up by one on the final possession and again there’s a lot there was a lot of talk after the game about um about like

Should Steve ker called a timeout and like to me again when you when you focus on something like that that’s uh that to me is kind of missing the plot of a game that ends 134 to 133 or whatever right uh but like here’s the thing there’s

Pros and cons to both if you call a timeout you give the Kings a chance to game playing for you defensively that means Mike Brown’s probably going to sit down in the Huddle and be like how do we make sure Steph doesn’t take this shot right so there’s that probably ends in a

Double team and someone else shooting the ball anyway right but then the upside for the Warriors is they can be better organized so for instance like Jonathan kaminga when Steph got trapped and blitzed and was being dragged out to that like left side over by half court

Jonathan kaming was all the way in the right corner and so like your second best offensive player on this particular night was in a position where he could do absolutely nothing to help you in that final possession whereas if Steve Kerr draws up the play he probably draws

It up in a way that involves a two-man game for Steph and Jonathan kaminga Jonathan kaminga is at least involved in some way shape or form even maybe just as a uh as a decoy right so like that’s the upside to potentially calling a timeout right but like there’s a version

Of that where you call a timeout you have JK set the ball screen Here Comes The Blitz Steph does the exact same thing where he tries to use a behind between the legs Retreat dribble to try to escape the Blitz and maybe he turns it over again right so like to me it’s

Not really worth focusing on and the whole point behind not calling a timeout is you’re breeding chaos and like Steph is one of the best chaos players in the history of basketball so like if I was in that position as the coach of the team I’m probably looking at that going

You know six or seven seconds left Steph has the ball uh or you I think it was like 15 20 seconds whatever it was but Steph has the ball it’s a chaotic environment like I trust him right like if there’s one thing you could say it’s like when Steph was sprinting away from

That Blitz maybe then you look to call a timeout just because in general it’s really difficult to with six seconds left get the ball out of a blitz without the TP pass getting tipped or without the pass having to be super looping and allowing a rotation and then to somehow

Get a shot out of that right so like if any anything he should have called a timeout after the blitz but again that’s a split second set of circumstances so again I’m not really of the opinion that that’s what should be focused on but that ends up being how the Warriors lose

The game in in heartbreaking fashion as Steph dribbles the ball off his foot and dearen fox runs down and you know after the final buzzer attempts a 360 Windmill and gets Rim stuffed but uh uh excellent uh win for the Sacramento Kings first time winning in Golden State uh in the

Regular season since 2020 which is crazy and the Kings have been a little Jael and hide over the course of the last couple of months but uh they are a really good team Daren Fox is one of the best players in the league and uh especially that pull-up three-point shot

Has been the driving force of so much of his success uh this Season

Jason Timpf reacts to Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and the Golden State Warriors’ heartbreaking 134-133 loss to De’Aaron Fox and the Sacramento Kings. Jason discusses a major mistake made by Steve Kerr and breaks down the game’s most critical moments.

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