The defending champion stopped the second round. After the test of the two rounds of series, in fact, everyone knew that Curry was still that Curry, and there was indeed a problem in the lineup configuration of warriors.
Curry contributed 30.5 points 5.2 rebounds 6.1 assists 1 steals in the 37.9-minute average in the playoffs this year, including a 50-point super-God performance in the first round of G7. Curry lifted the Golden State Warriors to another height and reviewed the data table of the first round of G7, which was almost the epitome of the Warriors’s playoff journey this season: Curry 50 points, Clay 19 4 gets 16 points, wikins scored 17 points in 5 out of 16, and 8 points in 3 out of Poole 9 — Curry was able to carry the team’s No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 scorers into the round, stable, resolute, selfless, when Cole told him that we still had four pauses and would call one to give you a rest, there was no doubt that he was the last and only card of the warrior.
Curry’s personal gravity is no longer enough to make up for the shortcomings exposed by the lineup this year. The configuration of the Warriors has encountered major challenges in these two rounds.
The internal attack and defense are the most intuitive. No matter the single defense is little Sabonis or the heavy eyebrows, Luoni and the dream chasing are too small, the Laker’s 4th old Zhan height and the warrior’s 5th Luni are both 6 feet 9 inches (about 2 meters 06), while the dream chasing height is only 6 feet 6 inches (about 1 meter 98), warriors don’t have a single card suitable for the counterpoint big center.
Little Sabonis and heavy eyebrows can hold the ball on their own. A pair of baskets or back Singles Luoni/chasing dreams, while Warriors, the two mini inner lines, are all blue-collar playing in the system and lack the ability to attack independently, the internal attack and defense of warriors are naturally passive in the face of large centers with independent attack capabilities.
The king has two daggers to fight the Warriors. Fox has finished the monk’s battle. The Lakers have a more fierce impact. Zhan Mei takes the lead in the impact. Reeves, Schroder, Russell and Walker can also attack with the ball. Walker played the role of a raider of ball-holding attack at 15 points in the final section of G4, while Warriors could only expect Curry to hold the ball alone-Wikins had limited tactical status, poole fell out of the small squad for decisive victory due to defense and mistakes, and the Warriors also exposed the short board of a stable counterattack system around Curry today.
Before the start of the Warriors season, there was a sudden dream-chasing and Poole boxing event. In the regular season, only 11 goals were won away. When a team’s chemical reaction and lineup configuration have problems, it is imperative to change the overall pattern.
Next season, Poole’s 4-year contract of 0.14 billion dollars in advance will come into effect. His problem of staying is undoubtedly the most critical decision affecting the future of warriors.
In the contract year, Poole’s full field contributed 20.4 points, 4.5 assists, 2.7 rebounds, 43% field goal percentage, 33.6% three-point shot percentage, 87% free throw shooting rate, and 3.1 mistakes in the field. He is a typical combo guard game, but his attack efficiency is not high, his defensive habits are not good, and he is easy to make mistakes in handling the ball. It is a double-edged sword in the Warrior system.
Poole contributed 12 points and 3 assists in the first round of the playoffs, only 25.7%(1.3/5.0) in three-point shot percentage; He scored 8.3 points and 4.2 assists in the second round, three-point shot percentage 25.0%(1.2/4.7). It was also the problem of defense and mistakes. Cole replaced him with Peyton II/Moody’s/dichenzzo in the five-small squad.
The average game of Poole is 30.0 minutes in regular season, 22.9 minutes in the first round and 20.7 minutes in the second round-the greater the intensity of the game, the shorter the game time of Poole, the stronger the attack and the weaker the defense, if you can’t stand on the ground, it will become a breakthrough for your opponent.
A player who cannot be put on the court at a critical moment is obviously not worth $0.14 billion in 4 years. What’s more outrageous is that Poole’s contract is even more expensive than Wikins ($0.109 billion in 4 years), moreover, the new labor agreement plus-sized the penalties for super team Tax. Considering the current chemical reaction of Warriors and the pressure of future salary space, trading poor is not a difficult decision.
In fact, the Warriors build a team to compete for the championship during the final peak period of curry is nothing more than two major directions: the core framework of library chase soup remains unchanged, dealing with Poole’s big contracts; Or build teams around Curry, Poole and Wikins, persuading dream chasing and clay to accept salary reduction according to their performance-no matter how Warriors build teams, Poole’s big contract of 4 years and 0.14 billion years is an unavoidable key point.
Next season, Curry salary 51.91 million, Clay 43.21 million expired contract, Wikins 24.33 million, dream 27.58 million player option, Poole 28.7 million, the total salary of these five people has reached 0.1757 billion!
The new version of the labor agreement stipulates that if the total salary exceeds the second tax line, the team will face a series of punitive measures, including players who are not allowed to sign contracts and buy out, and players who are not allowed to sign contracts under the middle privilege regulations (for example: divenzenzuo), the right of choice that cannot be cashed for more than 7 years, cash is not allowed to be used to balance the salary in the transaction, and if the tax is paid twice in the next four years, the first round of signing is directly reduced to the last place, etc.
Dealing with Poole’s contract, chasing dreams and Clay’s acceptance of a contract lower than Wikins is a feasible way for Warriors to break the game in the future. After all, the real second best player of Warriors today is Wikins.
Warriors need to reserve a big center in the No. 5 position. In the first eight Warriors in the West this year, there are big centers except Warriors: about teachers, Adams, little Sabonis, Ayton, zubatz, heavy eyebrows, warriors need a card for a rainy day. After all, Luoni and dream chasing are too small. Timberwolves include Gobel and downs, Pelicans have varanchunas, and teams with a little strength in the West can enter the play-off all have large-sized inside lines, this is also the just-needed reserve in the future lineup of warriors-the game of hitting the critical moment (≤ 5 minutes) can be done without the big center putting the most good death five small, but there can’t be no big center in your squad.
The Warriors are not unprepared for the big center. In 2020, Wiseman was the best talent for Warriors to reserve in position 5, but it has never been fulfilled as the combat power in the system. At the beginning of this season, the Warriors wanted to take the dual route of defending the main line and cultivating Wiseman + Poole in the branch line. At present and in the future, they grasped both hands, but a wave of 5 consecutive defeats fell into the abyss. Wiseman was abandoned first and then traded, it directly declared that the warrior’s training plan and future route went bankrupt, and also directly led to the warrior’s lack of a suitable center to deal with the opponent’s top internal line.
Cole couldn’t get the five deaths of both attack and defense in the playoffs this year. Poole fought hard and kept weak. Peyton II, DiVincenzo and Moody’s were all put into the five deaths by Kohl instead of Poole, the reason is also simple: Peyton II, DiVincenzo, moody, although the attack is not as good as Poole, the defense is online, and the handling of the ball is relatively cautious, while Poole is on the defensive end by the king, the Lakers followed the stable withdrawal by name, and there were too many uncertain risks of mistakes on the offensive side-if you were the head coach, you wouldn’t want one without defense, attack is the X Factor players appear in the most important final victory death five small, Poole’s comprehensive ability is not enough to play a key part of the warrior death five small.
This is also the difficulty of Warriors this year: both Rooney and dream chasing eat space at the same time, Poole has no defense, Peyton II, Moody’s and Jia Green are the unstable three points that opponents dare to empty. In the five small teams of Warrior’s death, the positions of four people, Curry, clay, Wikins and dream chasing, can be determined, but Warriors actually have no most suitable fifth person this season.
The Wiseman training plan completely failed, Poole did not meet the expectation of progress, and the playoff clay and Wikins were mediocre. The Warriors could reach the sixth game in the second round, which actually exceeded the upper limit of the comprehensive ability of the lineup, it is Curry’s outstanding ability and the tough heritage of warriors that have always supported them.
Curry needs a stable second-ball attacker. This role should have been undertaken by Poole and Wikins. It is not a whim for the Warriors to pay Poole for 4 years and 0.14 billion years, which represents the Warriors’s expectation for Poole: A Croal role similar to heat blocker (4 years 0.13 billion) and trailblazer Simmons (4 years 0.1 billion) can hold the ball to help Curry share the offensive pressure and become the team’s No. 2 and No. 3 scorers in the future.
The second round G4 can best reflect the value of the attacker holding the ball: Walker stepped forward on the bench, and cut 15 points in the distance jump shot or receive the ball fixed point in the singles holding the ball, becoming the key hero of the Lakers to get the match point. In this year’s Lake Yong war, Lao Zhan and heavy eyebrows were the most important players who played the key role in the match: Russell, Reeves, Schroeder and Walker could attack independently with the ball, however, the Warriors relied too much on Curry to take over with the ball-Poole was not in the five small lineships of the final victory, and it was not until the next round G5 Wikins that they really played the performance of the counterattack with the ball.
Warriors need a stable counterattack role with the ball in the future. Clay and dream pursuit have not been as good as the independent attack with the ball so far, and wikins’ physical condition and personal talent are undoubtedly the best candidates. As the champion in 2014, Wikins has just reached 28 years old this year and is still in the year of fighting. He may not even fully activate his peak state so far, in the third grade, he was able to make an average contribution of 23.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.3 help, field goal percentage 45.2%, three-point shot percentage 35.6%, and 27.5%(the highest in his career), the highest score in a single game is 47 points!
Wikins has only 21.0 percent usage of the Warriors, even lower than his own Cainiao season. Bridge’s transformation from the sun 3D to the new star basketable nets is a successful case. His usage rate of ball power soared from 19.6% to 28.8%, performance and data rise naturally-the body of Wikins is not short of talent and ability. The Warrior needs to increase his tactical position and ball power in the future, so that he can play the existence second only to Curry at the end of the attack, this is the most feasible way to tap the inner potential of warriors.
After all, Curry is 35 years old and clay is 33 years old and has suffered a serious injury. This year, his condition has declined significantly. The 33-year-old beard is also a little gray, and Ku chasing soup is no longer young. Wikins’ 28-year-old contract is very cost-effective. There is no doubt that he has the ability to become the best helper around Curry in the future.
Curry is still in its peak period and is still the top 5 superstar of the league. Warriors still have the strength to compete for the championship by building a relatively reasonable and balanced lineup around him. No matter how warriors change blood, the most important change is to satisfy Curry. Warriors are Curry’s team, while Curry is the soul and all prerequisites of warriors.
Keeping the combination of library and chasing soup is the fastest way for Warriors to compete for the championship. After all, the three brothers have cooperated together since 2012, and their tacit understanding has amazed time and tender time, warrior Library has gravity as the core of the pass-cut system play method also won the four championship-Library chase soup mouth four groups with practical Crown puzzle, the competitiveness of Warriors is self-evident.
In this off-season, in order to be still at the peak of the library, I hope the warrior management can upgrade the lineup, help the library chase soup and make a comeback, and go crazy again!
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