Explain: Jonathan Kuminga punishes traps on Steph Curry vs Sixers

Explain: Jonathan Kuminga punishes traps on Steph Curry vs Sixers

Hello everybody one of the big issues with the Warriors in crunch time has been how do they handle when the other Team traps Steph Curry even good smart players have trouble generating an advantage out of the four on three you can see Steph call the play he’s going

To point down and then roll his hands over each other so this is dive roll dive roll always has a screen being set on one one side and then an ambush shark screen being set on the other side he’s going to sneak over from the other side

And set the screen why would they have psky setting the screen it’s not cuz he’s so big and scary it’s because cork was guarding him and they want to let Steph attack corkas Steph sees one man on him two men on him and so he immediately whips the ball over to an

Open psky probably the ideal play is to just attack right away on the catch but instead BP just coughs it up to JK so now JK has a ball with seven on the clock normally this would be enough time to bully ball his way closer to the

Basket but Kelly UB Jr is going to help off of Andrew Wiggins Wiggins tries to evacuate and bring UB with him but UB says hey man I don’t have to follow you you can’t put me in a box and he just Waits here for kaminga to drive so

Kaminga says Ah heck with it I can hit this three and he just fires it up that is going to be a challenge with this lineup you got Draymond Wiggins and kaminga three guys that you can help off of when they are on the perimeter so

We’re going to see if defenses try to exploit that in the future it helps that Draymond Green has returned to the team here in the quick Counterattack somehow Draymond realizes that he’s the one being guarded by corkas so he says heck yeah I’m going to go up and set a screen

Let’s do this Draymond sets this flat screen he wants Steph to take the screen and just run into cork MOS to force the switch and then lock it in but cork MOS doesn’t have to be convinced he says I’m a lover not a fighter I’ll just come and

Switch on to you Draymond slips the screen KJ Martin says we want to play with you forever and ever and ever Steph immediately hits the eject button this is a very unusually far trap these two Defenders are practically off the screen at this point so now this is a full four

On three Ricky Council the fourth guards the man with the ball Andrew Wiggins expects Kelly UB junor to be helping off of him so he’s cutting Baseline in anticipation of some kind of dunk Draymond has so much experience running this 4 on3 he identifies BP as the open

Man instantly and he has an extremely open three-point shot which he bricks but that was a great shot created so what I’ve really been waiting for is to see if the Warriors can get Jonathan kamango running the 4 on three in this play JK sets a very very high screen for

Steph Daniel house Jun J is barely keeping up with Steph this Defender he’s got to stop Steph’s Drive leaving JK open to cut to open space Steph gives one of his crazy hook passes which JK tracks down now there is a four on three over here JK will drive embiid is

Switching and Looney will go Baseline but jk just sizes up embiid and says no one can stop me from an angle so jk just blasts in there beats and beid to the spot gorgeous delicate layup I think this is a pretty funny play Steph is pointing saying hey psky you’re being

Guarded by cork M over here come up and come set a screen for me so we can pick on cork M some more Draymond raises his hand also looking at psky saying hey hey so wigin with the twitch saying you set the screen Draymond pointing at psky

Saying you set the screen Steph pointing at psky saying you set the screen and psky is pointing the other way saying hey man I don’t need to set a screen look this Defender is leaving JK to double team Steph so I’m no longer needed and Draymond is still pointing at

Podge saying hey man p is saying I’m telling you man I’m no longer needed way up top 76ers trying to activate shining Twins power so that step will play with them forever and ever finally Draymond turns to go oh that’s what you’re talking about in the meantime step is

Like all right forget it everybody and he just throws the ball over to kaminga who now has a four on three on this side of the court and so if this were Draymond he would be driving and thinking where is the advantage from the extra man but JK sees the situation and

Thinks I don’t have to find the advantage I’m the advantage as long as they don’t send two people at me I can finish through anyone so let’s do this and then he just runs by Tobias Harris like he’s not even there and he made that look so easy the Warriors did run

This one fun play out of a timeout after some preliminaries JK comes running from a long distance to come set the screen on Steph when Steph takes the screen and be starting to drift forward then Steph does the unexpected he just fires this path to Draymond set up as this relay

Station on the side kaminga immediately cuts to the basket look at this giant passing Lane I think this play was meant to be a counter the Trap because you one Defender here even if embiid had stepped way up high to show hard or just straight up trap Steph Steph would have

This passing Lane to Draymond no matter what and no matter what kaminga has this open cut to the basket nice pass from Draymond kaminga he’s got completely open Lane to the basket and I think he starts thinking huh what if I mess with everyone’s heads and just do a very

Simple layup bank shot that will really scooth people on social media and while JK is thinking about all the options he just drops the ball but it was a great play I think we’re going to see that play more in the future all right can’t resist talking about one last play

Foreground Steph with the ball Draymond pointing whirling his finger around looks like he’s trying to set up some kind of play in the meantime Steph says hey wait a second this is Daniel house he’s the guy we want guarding me so we don’t need any more screens let’s just

Do this Steph drives One Way gets house turned leaning this way Draymond turns says oh I guess the play is on never mind about all our setup house takes one step two steps in the wrong direction Steph says step back and he looks into the stands I think he’s actually looking

At the 49ers who are visiting the game he’s saying uh I just want to confirmed did you see that unbelievable move I just made yeah you did good cuz if I break a tree’s ankles in the forest did I really drop it in the meantime on the

Bench we have like a whole United Nations of different three celebrations cavon Looney is going to come in with the classic okay3 nice one cavon I can’t see who this is I’m not even sure that’s a player but they’ve got the classic hookham horns 3 Trace Jackson Davis is

Pulling out the three gun very nice and Chris Paul with his unbroken hand is flashing Fleming’s right hand rule I appreciate the hustle CP3 even with one hand can celebrate a teammates three while also teaching us all about the direction of induced Current

Explain: Jonathan Kuminga punishes traps on Steph Curry vs Sixers

by @EricApricot

Analysis of the 2024.01.30.PHI-GSW Philadelphia 76ers Sixers vs Golden State Warriors game.

Jonathan Kuminga is slowly becoming a star. We look at JK and others trying to address the Warriors’ biggest crunch-time weakness: how to punish the Sixers for trapping Steph Curry.

Co-starring Draymond Green, Brandin Podziemski, Andrew Wiggins. With Danuel House, Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris and Furkan Korkmaz.

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