Warriors vs Blazers |GM-2|

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Athletic Alchemy

3-0 like I predicted with refs worrying me in the first half.

Paradox

we'll cross that bridge when we get there, and hopefully with KD we emerge victorious!

YANCEY WADE

Alchemy this was a masterful video. Thank you.

YANCEY WADE

Watching back the tape, I really hate those black bars ESPN puts on the screen and shrinks the full screen.

TGonz510

I don’t think so.... but I could be wrong. I think he is most likely operating under the assumption they are sticking to Klay and coming off Andre.

Athletic Alchemy

Do you think Draymond is waiting for Klay to draw out CJ and for Iggy to draw out his guy into a spot that helps Draymond decide whether he’ll slip or screen?

Anton D'Auria

He is more than likely reading something that tells him slip. As soon as his guy shows enough or get high enough.

Athletic Alchemy

Remaining dynamic while still being on the same page. Understanding what you have been doing, and how the defense has been reacting. Draymond has been masterful in changing it up. But it only works if Steph is on the same page.

Athletic Alchemy

The last play GS ran was the same one they ran 10 consecutive times at end of game 6 with Houston. Any thoughts on that fake screen and slip by Drey?

Anton D'Auria

The Pels. gave the blueprint for how to defend Portland's back court to the league last year.

Steven Stanley

That's the best, most complete, 2 way game, i've ever seen Draymond play, he was absolutely brilliant.

Steven Stanley

Lol perfect analogy

Haha smigol I’m dead

Paul Cox

It seems like Kerr will never show his hand until necessary. So yes

Athletic Alchemy

Lol you can really see Loons swag meter just filling up with each series and game.

Athletic Alchemy

I try!

Athletic Alchemy

🙏🏽

Athletic Alchemy

Good points. Kerr is like Kramer trying to see how far he can ride with the gauge on E. Seinfeld reference. But point is, he can’t help himself. Much like the players with the showboating, it part of who they are.

Athletic Alchemy

Lol No you right.. I miss spoke. What I meant was, he could foul him knowing as long as it wasn’t 3 ft attempts he is good. In fact, that’s the strategy I would have used. Wouldn’t have risked another Dame time attempt.

Athletic Alchemy

The diamond press. Straight fire like Dylan. Outstanding vid man!

Ananth Srinivasan

Valid point

Athletic Alchemy

Agreed it wasn't used enough. We don't need it every PnR but we need to vary it and keep guys on their toes.

Paradox

I said it before the series, GSW can't afford to mess around bc MIL is gonna take care of TOR quick. But it looks like Kerr keeps messing around. We used Curry/Draymond 4 times in a row to close this games and it led to 4 easy baskets. But how many times did you see Curry/Draymond PnR in the 1st half? We used it more in the finals few minutes than we did in the entire 1st half. And it's just playing with fire to use the 2nd unit he did in a WCF game. Also, it's not like we came up with anything brilliant by blitzing Lillard/Mccollum. We should've been doing it all series. The Pels, a bad defensive team, swept POR last year by using Holiday/Rondo/AD/etc to blitz and trap Lillard/Mccollum on every play. And that was with Nurkic healthy. So clearly, this is the way to defend POR and we should continue doing it. What really flipped the game the most was starting Looney in the 2nd half. This is what allowed us to best utilize the blitzing and trapping strategy.

Yo Alch, I believe the last defensive play was with no fouls to give making it that much more special and ballsy. And that post interview with Klay stating Iggy has the best hands... 🤔🤔🤔 #sus Jk.

You always point out things in the game that the other 'analysts' leave out.

Strong Foru

Draymond is preparing for contract negotiations.

Strong Foru

Watching the Bucks vs Raptors game, damn is it terrifying. I forgot Mirotic got sent there. We've got the superior team defensively but their team is an absolute offensive tank with their 3 point shooting. Giannis isn't even the best player on the floor half the games.

Paradox

If we just got looney a lob from dray every play, I’d be cool with that. I will never get bored.

Spence

Haha hell yeah! Use to see him riding around the town in the drop top.

Athletic Alchemy

Steph's gravity, Stephs gravity, stephs gravity, also Stephs gravity.

Alch, I heard ya. Nice Richie Rich reference. EDIT: WTF, Spotify has Seasoned Veteran, but Funk is unavailable. OK, spinning up my local copy...

e40

Max Kellerman be like "Golden state was LUCKY to pull out this win against Portland. Just like last year against Houston. Ya see, if CP3 doesnt go down in game 5...."

Did you see the evil eye CJ gave Dame at the postgame interview?

Smeagol ... that's just evil. I call him mini-Vin Diesel. Some comments on YouTube were calling for GSW to poach him is that a possibility? I stopped watching at the half and came back to the TV after missing most of the 3rd and saw they were only down 3 and was like WTF? Already? Dayum this team. We have the Splash Brothers, and the Stop Brothers. Iggy best hands in the business, I'll say it a hundred times. EDIT: also is it just me, or does Portland look like it really lacks chemistry? I'm kind of surprised by how little they seem to hype each other up or high five over good plays and stuff. GSW looks way closer knit of a group.

Neal X

Down 15 at the half -- I was worried. Weren't you?

Alch, do you think Kerr's been saving up the Curry-Draymond high pick-and-roll for the kill during crunch time in the 4th quarters? From HOU Gm6, POR Gm1/2, it's been so obvious that they were sticking to this set offensively, and it's been money... I'm surprised that our opponents looked so unprepared to defend it...

Not only quite possibly Drey's best game of his career, as you say, but isn't this -- the last 6 games or so -- his overall best playoff performance ever, driving to the basket -- time after time, at last! -- just as you have been saying, time after time, that he should? (My heart was pounding the entire last quarter, and by the end of the game I was exhausted!) The Steph-Seth game-within-the-game makes this series a sheer delight. and is the main reason I was hoping Portland would make it this far.

I’ve heard people kinda hint that he is on the down low using and abusing all sorts shit.

Athletic Alchemy

meanwhile tyreke got fired on his day off.

Keith Waters

Steph Dray pick and roll over everything

slamandjam2

bastard has got me at least 3 or 4 times! He knows everybody worries about him holding up

Athletic Alchemy

He shot one real early to kind let them know I will shoot it!

Athletic Alchemy

you are better than I ! I thought it was over at the half for sure. I knew they would make a push, bu that way they were rattling in 3s!?

Athletic Alchemy

got to credit Mark with that one...he loves to argue! But the man is very clever writer!

Athletic Alchemy

I hear ya... also consider this tho. Look how worn down Dame and Kawhi look. Meanwhile Steph has fresh legs, because KD has afforded that.

Athletic Alchemy

Both have gotten even more advanced in the nuances of using it.

Athletic Alchemy

When Iggy was on the floor I think he said "I'm dead!" haha.

Nathan Glanzer

This is definitely the strength in numbers warriors. There was no hard carry, everyone just contributed. I'm so impressed with Draymond's performance. He was all types of disruptive on the defensive end, and made great decisions in the offensive end. Did he even attempt any 3ball?

adrian salazar

At the half, for some reason I had 0% nerves about losing this game, thought we still would bring it back. In the 4th Q down 8, I thought “damn, we're losing this game!” 😂

Macca

that 6pm start time is killing fan presence in the first Q. all these techies cant get off their 60 hour jobs in time

Chris Williams

SDSU? Like Brookings SD?

Nathan Glanzer

Steph/Dray PnR is unstoppable rn

Tre

Smeagol Curry has got to be one the deepest-cutting roasts of all time. I laugh every time I hear it but I feel bad for laughing.

Major Powers

Did Blazers punt in game 1? YES! 100%. And they used a defensive scheme that was not energy intensive. One of the best ways to steal a game from the Dubs is to lull them to sleep. It almost worked for game 2 and IMO it was a brilliant move. I think it will be harder for the Blazers now.

Man I love KD and I’m grateful as hell for his contributions and commitment to this team over the last 3 years, but fuck is it so refreshing to see this team play without him. There’s just so much familiarity and fluidity in the game, not even in the sense that the offense moves more, but rather that these guys seem to communicate telepathically. Like you said, the calmness with which that last PnR was executed is just indicative of how intuitive it is for these guys to play with each other. I know that KD fits in the system and has made adjustments—and has become a better player because of it—but I fuckin miss these Warriors so much. I still hope he comes back next year tho.

gave*

yo alc, do you think there’s a chance we keep Looney if we have him Shaun’s current salary assuming he’s retiring this year? I think it is around 8.5 mil.

Nothing makes me happier than watching great defensive plays. Watching the Warriors the second half reminded me of watching the Sdsu full court press defense a couple years ago where they would run the 1-2-1-1 defense you mentioned(because they had a hard time scoring lol) always trapping the ball handler making it an absolute battle to just get the ball past mid court.

Arturo Gonzalez

Absolutely. There's a reason why his net rating is consistently at the top with Curry on this team. If he could regain his 2016 early season shooting form, he'd be the perfect swiss knife.

Paradox

They don't. Even Rockets with their switchability got PnR scored on 8/10 times we used it, with one being a missed lob and the other being fairly questionable no call. Same thing happened in game 1 and 2, every time we ran PnR we were extremely likely to score. Imagine if Kerr didn't mess around and actually ran these in the regular season we wouldn't be facing Bucks on their home court. Well assuming we win of course but I'm absolutely confident we do unless Curry or Draymond gets injured.

Paradox

The production value continues to go up! Andre running down the hall screaming "These Motherfuckers are crazy!" cut to "3 hours earlier" .... loved it! That Curry-Green P&R is the finishing move that is just unstoppable. It cannot be contained! We often talked about how we wanted a Curry-Durant P&R to close but this ... this is SO MUCH MORE UNSTOPPABLE.

Thomas Ogas

Draymond for series...hell....playoffs MVP. And Dre has been playing like Finals MVP. Day-Day has also really kept a lid on his outbursts this series while maintaining a higher level of defensive focus AND being the most offensively active I can remember seeing. OREB beast Looney has for sure earned a bag...but I think Draymond deserves a dump truck full of gold. I'd rather lose KD than Draymond. 11:57 in the video...Jerebko's flop attempt on Dame is so melodramatic it's comical. I would LOVE to see Jerebko and Collins get into it. It seems like Rebko would play better the angrier he gets.

Dave Han

If you're Portland, how do they stop the steph-dray pick and roll?

Edward Zeng

Sweep!? I don't see that happening... they are being kinda sneaky about the KD thing. Not sure what to believe.

Athletic Alchemy

Considering Blazers shot 47% from 3 on high volume, I don't think we stole that game like Kerr said, we were the ones that outplayed them. Always going back to Curry-Dray PnR seems to yield nice results... I think there is a very good chance we sweep them 4-0 based on these first two games. Just worried about refs. Also KD's injury might even be grade 2, meaning there is a high chance we don't get KD against the Bucks which would be very bad.

Paradox

"THESE MOTHAFUCKAS IS CRAZY G"

Steve

Waiting on Alch all day.... Let's goooooooooo