How Draymond Green & Warriors bounced back vs. Spurs without Steph Curry | Hoops Tonight

How Draymond Green & Warriors bounced back vs. Spurs without Steph Curry | 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 the Golden State Warriors on the road getting their first win of the Season without Steph Curry in the lineup another defensive run the Spurs had 68

Points with 10 minutes to go in the third quarter they led by 10 68 to 58 and uh the Spurs had 72 points with a little over 3 minutes left in the third quarter so they held him to just four points over 7 Minute span at that point

The warriors were up 14 86- 72 so a 28-4 run in about seven minutes of basketball they logged a defensive rating of 78.3 in that quarter on tape just really good game plan discipline lots of lineups because it spans the middle of the third quarter uh multiple lineups

For both teams were on the floor during that stretch but the gist of it was any screening action that involved Draymond Green Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan kaminga was a switch they were willing to switch Wiggins and kaminga onto Victor wanyama in those screening actions would shut those particular

Actions down uh obviously they had some issues like Victor wanyama had a drop step dunk on on Jonathan kaminga in a switch where he just didn’t really hold his ground well enough but then when the guards were on the ball so whether it was pamy or Gary pyton they were just

Ducking under picks on Trey Jones so they would live with pullup threes on Tre Jones and then they were chasing like crazy on Devon vasel and both guys were awesome in the stretch both um Brandon psky and Gary Payton just really controlled that perimeter defense stretch after the middle portion of the

Fourth quarter when the guards checked in um I clipped a specific possession of Gary pton I second just showing him chasing around on Devon vasel and you know one of the things that Gary pton does super well that that’s always impressed me is he’s so incredibly athletic that he’s capable of gambling

Or taking risks jumping into passing Lanes or reaching and getting off a balance but still has the speed to recover and in this specific play that I clipped that you’ll find on my Twitter feed _ jlt there’s an example of Gary pton lunging on one side of the screen

And then chasing over the top and reaching in aggressively and yet in both situations having the speed to recover so when Devon Vel got downhill and got to like a little pullup 15-footer along the left Baseline he actually got a great contest on it just because he has

The crazy speed to be able to recover after being aggressive and that I think I think that sort of thing well is super frustrating for offensive players because like you have these counter moves designed like when a guy makes an aggressive move I whip it behind my back

This way and I have an angle but it’s like against the best athletes in the world they can just recover and it’s like I did everything right on that possession and he’s still right in my face right and then Trey Jackson Davis was just really a force around the rim

Defensively uh in the second half of this game actually had a possession in the fourth quarter where he blocked Trey Jones and Zack Collins backto back on the same possession weirdly enough didn’t get credited for a block in the box score which I thought was was really interesting and then on the offensive

End of the four Klay Thompson and Chris Paul did a really nice job running the offense Klay was able to hit some jumpers against the Spurs and their drop coverage and you know some of those classic like come off of a dribble handoff the guy’s kind of in a trail

Position and just hits him with a hard like right shoulder uh step back moving to his left and knock it down like that sort of thing Chris has his usual Chris and uh his like Chris and Trace Jackson Davis pick and roll chemistry thing just on level 10 throughout the this entire

Game hit him for lobs and finishes around there Trace had a ridiculous right-handed finish uh around Zack Collins where he jumped into him and like scooped around with his offand to finish like just just a ridiculous play uh we we haven’t even got to it yet but

Like at the end of the game when uh uh when vikor wanyama reached to his right hand side and he spun off of him just one of the most ridiculous dunks you’ll ever see as he as he like palmed it as best as he could and just threw it over

The top of the rim to Victor wanyama that’s a highlight that Trace will be looking at for the rest of his life I’m sure especially when Victor’s running rough shot over the rest of the league in five years I’m sure that’ll be a fun

One for him to look back at uh but Chris had his mid-range jump shot going as well he had six shots in the mid-range in this game which obviously is such an important part of Chris being able to navigate in pick and roll situations he

Has to be a threat to score in order to bring the screen Defender up enough to open up those R man opportunities and that’s what just kind of brings that Twan game to fruition is like Chris’s willingness and ability to knock down those mid-range jump shots and then

Trace after the screen rolling hard to the rim and bringing that vertical spacing Andrew Wiggins had 16 points on eight shots he had a massive three in the third quarter kind of moving to his right he’s really bringing confidence to the three-point stroke now that we haven’t seen really since the playoffs

In 2022 shooting 49% from three on 3.3 attempts per game in his last 18 games averaging 14 points and shooting 54% from the field overall so Andrew Wiggins really encouraging stretch from him as of late and then John Kinga 22 points the usual getting out transition hit a

Couple ISO jumpers attacking in face up situations big win for the Warriors this was a tough one cuz again the Spurs have been sneaky tough to play for a while now uh as the Warriors know very well they just lost to him at home without Victor wanyama and so adding wemi on the

Road really nice bounceback win a very important one for them in the standings as well hey Jason first off I love the show big LeBron fan here and I know you are as well I’ve said for years that I think personally the 2017 Cavs were better than the 2016 16 title team and

That they just ran into the best team ever I know the regular season wasn’t great but when you look at the playoffs their run was insane curious if you agree and if you can provide some context as well so I I thought the 17 Cavs were obviously a much better

Offensive team than the 2016 team LeBron James kind of went up a level as a scorer between that uh from 2016 into that 2017 2018 stretch LeBron really went up a level in terms of his consistency in his jump shot and just his overall feel as a score it was

LeBron was really peing in his offensive skill in that 2017 2018 range uh also like they just had totally nailed down all their spacing Concepts and the one-two punch of Kyrie and LeBron they were really humming on all cylinders offensively but it was one of their

Worst seasons of that era in terms of their overall focus and energy on the defensive end of the floor and so here’s the thing I don’t think it would have mattered under any circumstances with how good that 2017 Warriors team was however had Kevin Durant not gone to the

Warriors and 2017 was more or less a rematch of the Harrison Barnes Warriors versus the uh uh the 2017 Cavs I I think it would have been a great series but the Cavs would have been in some trouble in the sense that like even in that playoff run they

Didn’t really need to defend that much and so I wonder if their defense in 2016 they were just much sharper defensively overall from start to finish in the season and so I I I I don’t know what would have happened if the Cavs and warriors rematch in 2017 I really wanted

To see that which is what kind of sucked about Kevin Durant going there is it just kind of ruined what would have been a really fun rubber match uh cuz the 2017 Warriors are the best roster ever assembled in my opinion and they I mean the 2017 Warriors won 15 consecutive

Playoff games think about that like I don’t even I don’t even know if we’ve had a team won 15 win 15 straight regular season games this year and the Warriors literally won 15 straight uh playoff games in that 2017 run so like they they were just completely

Unbeatable and and uh but I do think that 2017 Cavs is playing with a little bit of fire just with where they were at defense L at that point in the season and it was really just effort and focus and like discipline type stuff do you

Feel like it is a lock for the 2024 Larry O’Brien trophy to be hoisted up by a western conference or Eastern Conference team I argue that the West has arguably been the more difficult conference particularly this season with the amount of tanking SL unorganized teams in the East so I’m on the fence

Because I kind of look at I look at the Clippers in the Bucks as like I put the Clippers slightly above the bucks but they’ve been struggling as of late and then now the suns are playing better so I got to kind of like kind of factor

Them into that list a little bit I I would say that there’s I would say that like I give it like an 80% chance that either Denver or Boston wins they feel like the clear obvious choices and I definitely lean closer towards Denver in that regard so then the question

Becomes out of that Phoenix Clippers bucks group who’s more likely and I still lean towards the West between those two teams versus that one so like I’m going to go with I’m going to go with the Western Conference on that one he

Jason Timpf dives into the Golden State Warriors winning their first game of the season without Steph Curry as Draymond Green and the Warriors took down Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 112-102. Jason explains how the Warriors can still make a run in the Western Conference playoffs as they have started to heat up over the last month.

Timeline:
00:00 – Warriors big win vs. Spurs
05:22 – 2017 Cavaliers over 2016 Cavaliers?
07:34 – Western Conference destined to win NBA Finals?

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