Dray on his podcast explained that Steph called an audible at the start of the 2nd half vs Jazz and told Dray and Klay they were going to run Oklahoma, a play so old it’s no longer in their playbook and only Dray and Klay know it. It got Klay this 3, and from there he went 7/11 for 17 pts.

I thought this was cool insight from Draymond and a really great example of the very very subtle ways Steph’s leadership shows itself. He mentioned it in the following context on his most recent podcast:

> “It was good to see Klay have a good game, see Klay get back on track and have the game that he did after last couple games not playing down the stretch and all the noise that’s been surrounding him really all year and free agency and not having a deal done and blah, blah, blah.
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>As I’ve always said, Klay is a very, very resilient person. Number one, you don’t come back from an ACL injury and Achilles injury if you’re not resilient. You don’t win four championships if you’re not resilient and be a key cog in winning those championships. If you’re not resilient, you don’t score 60 points in three quarters. If you’re not resilient, you don’t score 37 in a quarter. And quite frankly, you are not Klay Thompson if you’re not resilient.
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>So to see him have the game that he had last night with all the chatter and stuff, I thought it was good. And then I also thought it was beautiful just how patient he was, he didn’t force anything. He let the game come to him. If they ran him off the line, he stepped in and took some 2s and I thought that was really key. He got a couple of layups to start the game. He hit the three, he got a fast break layup. Start the second half, he got another layup. So I think it was good for him early on just to see the ball go through the rim.
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>And then Steph Curry made a very key call in the 2nd half that I think really unlocked Klay and that was, we ran this play called Oklahoma where it’s a double screen. So Klay is the first screener, I’m the second screener. Steph comes off both screens and then I pin in for Klay. And Klay came in and hit the three, and he was like, yes, like crazy fist pump. Or maybe even like a double *Dray holds both fists up*, “ah!” And from there it was just kind of flowing for him and I thought that was a huge call by Steph.
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>It’s also funny because I’m not even sure JK and Wiggs really even know what that play is. It’s like an old play that we had from way back in the day. And when Steph called it, he just said it to me and I be like, “Klay! Klay, come here!” and so us three know what we’re running and we just tell Wiggs and JK, hey man, just go to the corner, go to the corner and we run the play.
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>And I think that’s just funny because number one is just how long we’ve been playing together. Like oftentimes we’ll call plays that’s not in the playbook this year, but that we know, that we’ve run once upon a time. It’s always funny putting guys in positions that obviously haven’t been there all the years and just kind of telling them, yo, go stand there. But that’s a little funny nugget from last night’s game.”



by taygads