Warriors rebound vs. Nets, are Steph Curry & Golden State set to take off? | Hoops Tonight

Warriors rebound vs. Nets, are Steph Curry & Golden State set to take off? | 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 so one of the beautiful things about the game of basketball something that I’ve always really appreciated is when you have a bad day you can typically turn

Around and fix it within a day or two you know whether it’s you know you’re playing in college and you have a bad conference loss there’s usually not a lot of time to think about it because you got to turn around and play another conference game usually two or three

Days later right or in the pros or even if you just go down to the gym and you have a Bad Day playing pickup you usually can turn around and go up the next day and make it feel better right just by playing better and writing those

Wrongs right well the Warriors had a heartbreaking loss on Saturday night in Atlanta where they wasted a 60o Steph Curry performance and they writed a lot of those those wrongs in some specific areas crunch time execution getting some support for step a big one was just getting better and sharper on the

Defensive end of the floor actually ironically it was the bench that fueled this win against Brooklyn there was a kind of a strange lineup there at the end of the third quarter that ended up springing the run is Brandon pmy with ler kones GE Santos another big forward

That we haven’t seen much up this of this year that kind of just provided that size and motor which is so incredibly valuable in the NBA Some solid point of attack defense as well Jonathan kaminga was the offensive fulcrum of that run pushing out in transition drawing fouls he hit

Cavon Looney on a cut to the basket when the Nets lost him they straight ised him against Mel Bridges on the left block and he just went to that little left shoulder Fay that he’s been hitting once again all season long we’ve been wondering whether or not Jonathan

Kaminga would slow down as like a postup kind of fulcrum weapon that they could go to especially as just like a halfcourt option that is in Steph Curry and he just continues to be efficient and we’re going to get back to that when we start talking about crunch time but

Like that they ended up building a double digit lead going up by 10 points there in the early fourth quarter and that just kind of changes the calculus of the way the end of the game is going to go because then when Steph comes back

In he’s not in a situation where he’s in a dog fight and he has to hit shot after shot after shot just to stay punch for punch with a Trey young or punch for punch with a dearn fox or whoever it is that they’re going up against instead

He’s hitting stiff arm shots he’s hitting shots that are maintaining the lead and and and keeping that you know distance they lower pressure there’s more margin for error and that’s the key because margin for error has been one of the biggest issues for the Warriors this year they can’t afford to really get

Into super close games late because they’ve struggled so much particularly getting stops and getting offensive support outside of Steph and when you give yourself more margin for error than when Royce O’Neal gets hot like he did there in that fourth quarter he was the one guy for Brooklyn who really had it

Going he’s just a guy that can get really streaky hot from the three-point line right and when Royce O’Neal got hot and made a bunch of shots he never was able to actually get the game to the point where it was in danger it was all

Just kind of stuff that kept the game somewhat in in reach right and so that margin for erir made a big difference so shout out to those guys again Jonathan kaminga Leading The Way with uh on the offensive end of the floor and then everybody just playing really hard in

That group specifically down the stretch GE Santos and Brandon pmy were super super active on both ends of the floor defensively in help especially on the offensive glass those guys had five offensive rebounds some huge ones GE Santos just was constantly right around the front of the rim where he needed to

Be Brandon pmy got a contested offensive rebound I actually clipped this play and put it on my Twitter feed where he was going up over a bunch of 68 610 athletes and just rose up over everybody cuz he wanted the ball more and went to get it

Right like we talked a lot about this concept on the show the difference between you know talent and and and like discipline when it comes to a good defense and both parts are equally important there are Personnel limitations you’re going to need Gary Payton back to be as good as you can be

Defensively right you’re going to need Andrew Wiggins in the lineup to be as good as you can be defensively but if you do all the right stuff if you’re in the right spots if you’re committed to the details if the community a is there your basketball character as I always

Call it if you can get there that’s half the battle and particularly in matchups like this against the Nets a team that don’t have uh like they’re struggling in their own ways right like Mel Bridges is a number one option has some limitations Spencer DW he’s had a bad season once

Again last night driving into traffic and throwing up BS and missing shots and complaining to the refs while they’re running out the other way he’s just had a rough year right and like they got some young guards that like uh like denn Dennis Smith Jr and cam Thomas that can

Struggle with decision making and defense and stuff like that so like in a group like that if you do the right stuff like if you just are in the right spots you can go a long way towards causing their offense to have issues and then when you play against the best

Teams in the league that’s where you need both that’s where you need the Personnel strengths and the schematic strengths but I thought last night was a big step forward just in terms of the commitment that the Warriors need to make to being a better defensive team and then down the stretch I really

Really liked the versatility that Golden State went with in terms of their offensive approach we talked a lot yesterday about the idea of like Steph Curry just kind of hunting his shot and when it’s working it’s great but when that starts to whether the defense starts throwing multiple bodies at him

Or whether it’s you know him just starting to cool off like you know jump shooting is a is a high variance thing even for the best player in the world right or what the best shooter in the world I should say right so like that’s an important uh kind of like part of

That process and so adding a little bit more variety to their attack can go a long way to kind of maintaining their offensive success and I I really like that they they they did run some pick and roll there was a Draymond short roll that led to a Jonathan kaminga dunk when

Steph Curry drew a blitz but they didn’t overdo that one of the things that becomes a problem that we’ve seen this season is teams just start to Blitz step super super aggressively and and the Warriors have struggled a little bit to work off of that and we we saw this a

Little bit in the Hawks game where Steph started just going straight ISO against Deonte Murray we saw a lot of that down the stretch and then Draymond instead of setting a ball screen he’d sit in the lane and basically like box out the help Defender like screen the help Defender

Just so that he can’t step over and help on Steph and then he ended up icing the game with a floater that was an and one where beat a guy in straight ISO then he was getting uh just kind of slowed down and waited for the back pressure to come

Drew the foul and made the the the little floater but the big the big kind of thing that stood out to me was there was a big possession down the stretch of the game where the Nets kind of because again the Nets kind of kept it close

With those Royce O’Neal 3s where they Steph just straight up went to Jonathan kaminga on the left Block in a post up against Royce O’Neal and he drew a foul and I thought a couple of different things one like the uh uh the trust that Steph was showing and again we talked

About this I actually was pitching this in yesterday’s show but like like before last night Jonathan Kingo was seven for 133 in crunch time this season that’s over 50% he again this season a post up for Jonathan kaminga has been worth well over a point per possession and it it

Helps in a bunch of different ways it’s rest for Steph but it’s also it’s also just variety it’s a different thing for the defense to have to deal with and so I really really liked just the just the overall kind of variety that Golden State brought to the table down the

Stretch in crunch time they’ve got a couple of tough games on the horizon here so we’re going to find out a lot about the Warriors in the next week and week and a half but I thought last night was a big step in the right direction

You will not see Golden State on my top five trades list uh they might end up making some type of deal but Steve cerr is right the Warriors deadline basically amounts to guys coming back I would put the Warriors deadline down to three things you’re getting CP3 back to staple

Uh to stabilize your bench units you’re getting Gary pton back to stabilize your perimeter defense and then the rapid rise of Jonathan kaminga is an influx of talent in his own way he had another 28 points and 10 rebounds last night we’re now at a 10 game stretch of him

Averaging 25 points and seven rebounds on 61% from the field 54% from three and 80% from the line he’s getting to the line a half dozen times a game this year the foul drawing thing has been something that’s been consistent that’s what he did on that big late post up he

Just went to that same left shoulder fade but he could tell Roy was being physical with him so he just elevated straight up and down and baited Roy into uh uh bringing too much contact to the table starting to get a favorable Whistle Too in a lot of ways the ref snow

That the that Jonathan Kinga has these Defenders out of position but really the only way you could truly substantially improve this roster is to trade Jonathan kaminga because he’s the one guy who has the value that could bring back a truly you know like a franchise altering

Talent but then you give up his substantial long-term potential and that’s just not worth it and so at this point you’re better off with the rise of Jonathan kaminga and some reinforcements from guys who are injured with trying to make run at that point and then you can

Make a call based on how Jonathan kaminga looks as a number two option in this year’s postseason which I do believe the Warriors will get into that playing tournament at least have a chance to uh to uh Play Seven games against a really good team so you can

Get a good read for how ready Jonathan kaminga is to contribute in a championship Context a

Jason Timpf reacts to Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and the Golden State Warriors’ 109-98 bounceback win over the Brooklyn Nets. Jason breaks down why he was impressed with Golden State’s late-game performance, how the Warriors will improve post trade deadline, and why Jonathan Kuminga should not be moved at the trade deadline ahead of a potential push for the NBA Playoffs.

Timeline:
00:00 – Warriors bounce back vs. Nets
05:30 – Golden State closes strong
07:59 – Why Warriors will improve post trade deadline
09:03 – Why Jonathan Kuminga should NOT be traded

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