Donte needs to be in for situations like that not Poole
disfadbidge007
Man, oh man. What a bad bad decision from Poole.
SeekingSignificance
“You get him bro, there’s a baddie over there and I’m gonna go for the steal and hit a 3 in front of her”
Robotsaur
Not great
Crazygamer2837
Jeez, looks visibly confused as well
lawgirl22
Poole sucks on defense – physically and IQ. Why he would be left in at that point I don’t understand. And why tf didn’t Kerr foul up 3? Same ole Kerr there
Aljed
Clearly JP wasn’t listening and was ball watching lol
legitbean
While poole fucked up here, if you look closely, the break down started happening when Curry communicated the switch with Klay. I don’t know what either of them were doing peeling off of Smart.
cortezsr1985
What are people looking at? Yea mistake by Poole but he did not ignore Wiggins. Both times Wiggins pointed Poole was not looking anywhere in his direction
TreeChap
Nah, he had to step up to Smart… he would’ve been wide open otherwise
Overall-Surround-925
But if he went to Brown, Smart would’ve been open.
cellydidit
If jordan poole could just play BORING SMART BASKETBALL warriors would have at least 4 more wins this year. Celtics lucky Warriors decided to hand them a win
D-Bagz123
Smart would have been wide open tho too and he had a hot hand the whole game so I’m not too mad about it. We didn’t deserve to win that anyway the way we were playing in the 4th, especially with Curry.
Pootahtoo_Man
At this point, are we surprised?
Significant_Text2115
I’m the biggest Dre fan but he fucked up on the Al Hordford coverage on that 3 by over helping on the jaylen green drive.
Gkirk87
I’m not blaming Poole for this, to me it’s on Kerr. Every coach in the nba would agree it’s smart to foul up 3 at the end of a game and absolutely no one does it. Should never have let a shot even happen.
Hotpwnsta
Poole’s so effing trash in defense when he’s not scoring he’s a net negative overall.
Plus dude can’t finish for shit at the rim he got blocked about 4 times with his layup attempts.
ProfessionalSpirit84
This is literally not Poole’s fault, Smart was wide open. The miscommunication happened between Curry and Klay and that fucked up this entire defensive possession.
Yeah you can say that a wide open Smart is better than a wide open Brown, but in the heat of the moment the decision probably made sense and Brown was BRICKING all game long. That 3 he made was literally the only one he made all game and he went 1/4.
Smart went 3/6 today from 3.
You can literally SEE JP looking at Brown and he knows he’s open, waiting for someone to cover Smart but nobody comes in time so he goes over and helps.
But yeah as is par for this sub keep dogpiling on Jordan, as if Curry and Klay are blameless for the loss today.
dolphingarden
JP has 0 IQ lol
Pulsing_Fantasticals
Find someone who loses their mind for you, the way Poole loses his mind in the clutch.
Did I do that right? I’m of the opinion that DDV should take Pooles place in closing lineups, confidence be damned
annoyed_applicant21
Honestly looks like Wiggins’ mistake to me. Wiggins should’ve taken Brown because he was closer (and it’s not like Poole vs Tatum and Poole vs Brown are different as a matchup). Poole wasn’t looking at Wiggins, he was watching the ball to see if he needed to help and Wiggins doesn’t appear to be communicating verbally (or at least not loud enough to be heard over the crowd)
PluggersLeftBall
this is just a bad defensive player making a poor defensive play and that literally it.
Klay and Steph also had poor communication of that switch, with Klay taking a step towards Brogdon which gives Smart space drawing Poole into the contest. If Klay had switched immediately and had Smart covered I don’t think Poole commits onto Smart.
Just not a great defensive possession overall.
Jicama-Smart
I don’t know what y’all are smoking. This was a multiplayer breakdown. Klay lets the ball release so Poole is caught in no man’s land. Either Klay stays with the ball or Curry was supposed to switch with Klay or Poole being there confused Klay. It was a team breakdown.
SummerGoal
Donte > Poole in crunch time and it’s not remotely close
Successful_Priority
Poole for his level played the most consistent effort on D that I’ve seen. A third of the team also helps off of shooters if the perimeter defender isn’t Wiggs/Dray/Donte a bit and JK.
Stomper8479
Bottom line is we have zero inside presence and that puts way too much pressure on the perimeter defenders causing them to overhelp and get out of position.’
There is no excuse for this organization putting all of its eggs in the Wiseman basket three years in a row.
Saturday514
Draymond: “ fuck!!!! I gotta punch him again!! Fuck!!!”
Saturday514
Poole is not it. If you bank ur whole teams future on Poole, its gonna be like those post we believe team with Monte leading.. sigh
DanDiesel420
Ya poole was pretty bad in this one, all those takes that got blocked🙄
gr8aanand
He didn’t ignore it, he didn’t even notice Wiggins telling him that, which is arguably even worse.
thisisgandhi
Man, I really thought this game was gonna be our turning point
jusbolo2
Klay and Curry messed up on the initial switch as well. The attention to detail on defense has been downright trash.
5leepy4loyd
His whole last 5 minutes was bad. He should’ve been bench for Looney.
DatBoiLight21
If Poole played defense like how this sub defends him, he’d be a perennial DPOY candidate
bmeisler
They played great for about 45 minutes. Terrible shot/selection by Curry to send it to OT – an off balance 3. Why not be a decoy and pass to Wiggs to attack the rim. This team and their dang 3s. And my lord, if we had a half decent big man who could rebound and rim protect, would have won this game by 15.
cryinbmw
just foul smart
JazzLobster
Op reaching and doesn’t understand basketball for shit, as well as half of the commenters here who cannot correctly contextualize the situation, and identify where the actual defensive breakdown happened (with Klay).
thewayoftoday
Oh boy we gonna pick apart one of our stars now. Siiiiggh fans man
W1ggy
Essentially you have 2 bad off ball defenders in klay and poole playing defense. They get confused which creates a ripple effect. Unless dray and wiggs take another step up defensively (and they were fantastic tonight), they will not cover the missed coverages of klay and poole at the same time.
Roeezz
It’s a defensive breakdown, it happens. If he learns from it then it’s fine, and I don’t have a reason to think he won’t.
Airnest8888
Dray needs to knock some more sense into him.
pagenotdisplayed
This is not so terrible from Poole. Klay and Steph have the slightest mixup on the switch, which is fine because Klay recovers and because Smart stopped his drive. But it was enough of a confusion that Poole stepped in to help (even though it wasn’t his assignment to help, as Wiggins was the 1-pass-away defender).
Poole messed up on the play, but it’s not so terrible. Situation and slow-motion make this seem worse than it actually is.
wth214
Jordan has no business closing man
Mysterious-Yak196
Man I’m sick we literally had this game in the bag. JB was bad the whole entire game and ofc he hits the shot that ties the game 💔
asBad_asItGets
You and anyone who blames Poole for this does NOT understand basketball, let alone how switching works.
Yes Wiggins points him out. But then Klay and Steph miscommunicate and both go with the roll man leaving the dude wide open. Poole is right there and is the closest to contest. He actually does it RIGHT because he picked up the slack that Steph and Klay left open.
He just makes the right pass to a wide open Brown. Wiggins is caught in no man’s land with two guys to defend and just doesn’t get there in time.
This started with Klay
MikeLilPauseRodick
This is more about losing Mike Brown then any one player.
Apprehensive-Mood648
That was Wiggins man to take. As soon as Poole took the ball-man Wiggs should have shifted. 1st priority is cover the ball, no one else stepped up. Someone *else was out of position because the D wasn’t balanced.
Gernburgs
Go Boston.
Mygaffer
Poole’s defense is so much better this season, he’s clearly put in work on that side of the ball, but because we lost a close game against the current best team in the league we’re giving 500 upvotes to a Poole defense bashing post?
Team subs are *so* reactive.
touchmenot10
How dray reacted to that defensive coverage was exactly what I felt watching that sequence.
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Donte needs to be in for situations like that not Poole
Man, oh man. What a bad bad decision from Poole.
“You get him bro, there’s a baddie over there and I’m gonna go for the steal and hit a 3 in front of her”
Not great
Jeez, looks visibly confused as well
Poole sucks on defense – physically and IQ. Why he would be left in at that point I don’t understand. And why tf didn’t Kerr foul up 3? Same ole Kerr there
Clearly JP wasn’t listening and was ball watching lol
While poole fucked up here, if you look closely, the break down started happening when Curry communicated the switch with Klay. I don’t know what either of them were doing peeling off of Smart.
What are people looking at? Yea mistake by Poole but he did not ignore Wiggins. Both times Wiggins pointed Poole was not looking anywhere in his direction
Nah, he had to step up to Smart… he would’ve been wide open otherwise
But if he went to Brown, Smart would’ve been open.
If jordan poole could just play BORING SMART BASKETBALL warriors would have at least 4 more wins this year. Celtics lucky Warriors decided to hand them a win
Smart would have been wide open tho too and he had a hot hand the whole game so I’m not too mad about it. We didn’t deserve to win that anyway the way we were playing in the 4th, especially with Curry.
At this point, are we surprised?
I’m the biggest Dre fan but he fucked up on the Al Hordford coverage on that 3 by over helping on the jaylen green drive.
I’m not blaming Poole for this, to me it’s on Kerr. Every coach in the nba would agree it’s smart to foul up 3 at the end of a game and absolutely no one does it. Should never have let a shot even happen.
Poole’s so effing trash in defense when he’s not scoring he’s a net negative overall.
Plus dude can’t finish for shit at the rim he got blocked about 4 times with his layup attempts.
This is literally not Poole’s fault, Smart was wide open. The miscommunication happened between Curry and Klay and that fucked up this entire defensive possession.
Yeah you can say that a wide open Smart is better than a wide open Brown, but in the heat of the moment the decision probably made sense and Brown was BRICKING all game long. That 3 he made was literally the only one he made all game and he went 1/4.
Smart went 3/6 today from 3.
You can literally SEE JP looking at Brown and he knows he’s open, waiting for someone to cover Smart but nobody comes in time so he goes over and helps.
But yeah as is par for this sub keep dogpiling on Jordan, as if Curry and Klay are blameless for the loss today.
JP has 0 IQ lol
Find someone who loses their mind for you, the way Poole loses his mind in the clutch.
Did I do that right? I’m of the opinion that DDV should take Pooles place in closing lineups, confidence be damned
Honestly looks like Wiggins’ mistake to me. Wiggins should’ve taken Brown because he was closer (and it’s not like Poole vs Tatum and Poole vs Brown are different as a matchup). Poole wasn’t looking at Wiggins, he was watching the ball to see if he needed to help and Wiggins doesn’t appear to be communicating verbally (or at least not loud enough to be heard over the crowd)
this is just a bad defensive player making a poor defensive play and that literally it.
Klay and Steph also had poor communication of that switch, with Klay taking a step towards Brogdon which gives Smart space drawing Poole into the contest. If Klay had switched immediately and had Smart covered I don’t think Poole commits onto Smart.
Just not a great defensive possession overall.
I don’t know what y’all are smoking. This was a multiplayer breakdown. Klay lets the ball release so Poole is caught in no man’s land. Either Klay stays with the ball or Curry was supposed to switch with Klay or Poole being there confused Klay. It was a team breakdown.
Donte > Poole in crunch time and it’s not remotely close
Poole for his level played the most consistent effort on D that I’ve seen. A third of the team also helps off of shooters if the perimeter defender isn’t Wiggs/Dray/Donte a bit and JK.
Bottom line is we have zero inside presence and that puts way too much pressure on the perimeter defenders causing them to overhelp and get out of position.’
There is no excuse for this organization putting all of its eggs in the Wiseman basket three years in a row.
Draymond: “ fuck!!!! I gotta punch him again!! Fuck!!!”
Poole is not it. If you bank ur whole teams future on Poole, its gonna be like those post we believe team with Monte leading.. sigh
Ya poole was pretty bad in this one, all those takes that got blocked🙄
He didn’t ignore it, he didn’t even notice Wiggins telling him that, which is arguably even worse.
Man, I really thought this game was gonna be our turning point
Klay and Curry messed up on the initial switch as well. The attention to detail on defense has been downright trash.
His whole last 5 minutes was bad. He should’ve been bench for Looney.
If Poole played defense like how this sub defends him, he’d be a perennial DPOY candidate
They played great for about 45 minutes. Terrible shot/selection by Curry to send it to OT – an off balance 3. Why not be a decoy and pass to Wiggs to attack the rim. This team and their dang 3s. And my lord, if we had a half decent big man who could rebound and rim protect, would have won this game by 15.
just foul smart
Op reaching and doesn’t understand basketball for shit, as well as half of the commenters here who cannot correctly contextualize the situation, and identify where the actual defensive breakdown happened (with Klay).
Oh boy we gonna pick apart one of our stars now. Siiiiggh fans man
Essentially you have 2 bad off ball defenders in klay and poole playing defense. They get confused which creates a ripple effect. Unless dray and wiggs take another step up defensively (and they were fantastic tonight), they will not cover the missed coverages of klay and poole at the same time.
It’s a defensive breakdown, it happens. If he learns from it then it’s fine, and I don’t have a reason to think he won’t.
Dray needs to knock some more sense into him.
This is not so terrible from Poole. Klay and Steph have the slightest mixup on the switch, which is fine because Klay recovers and because Smart stopped his drive. But it was enough of a confusion that Poole stepped in to help (even though it wasn’t his assignment to help, as Wiggins was the 1-pass-away defender).
Poole messed up on the play, but it’s not so terrible. Situation and slow-motion make this seem worse than it actually is.
Jordan has no business closing man
Man I’m sick we literally had this game in the bag. JB was bad the whole entire game and ofc he hits the shot that ties the game 💔
You and anyone who blames Poole for this does NOT understand basketball, let alone how switching works.
Yes Wiggins points him out. But then Klay and Steph miscommunicate and both go with the roll man leaving the dude wide open. Poole is right there and is the closest to contest. He actually does it RIGHT because he picked up the slack that Steph and Klay left open.
He just makes the right pass to a wide open Brown. Wiggins is caught in no man’s land with two guys to defend and just doesn’t get there in time.
This started with Klay
This is more about losing Mike Brown then any one player.
That was Wiggins man to take. As soon as Poole took the ball-man Wiggs should have shifted. 1st priority is cover the ball, no one else stepped up. Someone *else was out of position because the D wasn’t balanced.
Go Boston.
Poole’s defense is so much better this season, he’s clearly put in work on that side of the ball, but because we lost a close game against the current best team in the league we’re giving 500 upvotes to a Poole defense bashing post?
Team subs are *so* reactive.
How dray reacted to that defensive coverage was exactly what I felt watching that sequence.