Film Drying: Warriors win over magic, 104-99

In a battle over what could be described as a stoppable strength against a moving object, the Golden State Warriors turned out to be a bit more unstoppable and just a smell that is firmly pushing a win against Orlando Magic – if 108.0 Points per 100 belongings ranks 29 out of 30 teams in NBA. Warriors (112.0 points per 100 belongings, 21.) could be considered lucky that their excellent violation was the blanket of an even more excellent offensive team.

As such, there were plenty of moments during their game tonight that in a basketball sense was downright ugly. The magic is a natural foil for Warriors, a team that is struggling to create half -track violation against long wings and large. On the other hand, Magic is forcing deficiency out of shooting and high level Connective Play, forcing them to rely on the individual brilliance of Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner.

Warriors’ often intricate violation has been far from intricate – “intricate” would be the appropriate expression of describing it this season. Even with Steph Curry on the floor, opponents have made it their mission to focus about 80-90% of their resources to stop Curry, believing that the remaining 10-20% would be enough to temper Curry’s teammates. This calculated risk has so far been effective.

While this evening this evening may have been because of the magically disappointing even more than Warriors’ own disappointing violation, they managed to squeeze just enough juice and push the right buttons as the game went during the coupling period. Andrew Wiggins led the team with 25 points on 14 shots, including a 10-of-15 clip from the free throwing line. The lowest hanging fruit for Wiggins was his aggression when he got Switches against Magic’s smaller guards, born out of both and off-ball screening actions.

Mismatch hunting and gives the ball to the man with the mismatch often runs Anathema to Warriors’ approach, but the simplest solution can occasionally be the most effective. When Wiggins receives the screen in shared action below, he lures Cole Anthony to turn on him. The ball finds its way to Wiggins, which gets the luxury of space to bully to the edge against the smaller Anthony:

Almost the same situation happened earlier in the game in Quinten Post’s case – with him as a screens instead of a screen receiver in shared action. When Buddy Hield comes out of post and curls inside, the less Anthony Black has no choice but to weigh back and switch to the larger post that decides to turn on the aggression contact instead of setting down for a three as he does not will do:

Typically, veer-back shifts, as Black did above, are not what smaller guards and wings would do against Store, choosing to remain stationary beyond the three-point line. But Post has shown the rather unique ability (in relation to team standards) to catch and shoot the ball, adding another dimension to Warriors’ violation. It has not done enough of a macroscopic difference to lift their violation from Doldrums, but it has been enough at a micro level to give the warrior options that were not there in the past.

For example: Post looking to set a Pindown screen to Buddy Hield, only for HILED to reject the screen and cut inside that draw two defenders in the process – including Post’s Man.

Goga Bitadze’s natural proxy as a Roll-Man defender is to fall back into the paint, a property item is well equipped to take advantage of as he shoots 37.5% at 3.6 triangles per day. Battle during his first 11 matches as a NBA professional. Post has his own limitations and does not profile like Warriors’ Nightly Closing Center of the Future – but he represents another dimension that Warriors need to shake their violation into life.

The ability of the post to punish bent defense precludes the defense bending in the first place. Curry is a one-man-bending tool, while Post shows promise as one that can end Curry’s created benefits. On the other hand, Warriors’ problems with offense have been due to the inaccuracy that ended everywhere: Lack of shooting outside, lack of felling of felging, etc.

Moses Moody-there scored 17 points on nine shots against the magic-previously flashed an ability to end the benefits created, mostly through his catch-and-shooting triangles. He is on the field to send his best exterior shooting numbers on his career: 40% on 3.4 Three-point attempts per Battle, one of which was born out of Curry, drawing two to the ball passing Kevon Looney on the short roll, and Moody to be open in the corner as a result of his husband being pulled away to help with the paint :

In the end, Warriors’ trouble trouble offense from a single conundrum: nobody is able to score out of Curry’s created benefits of a consistent basis. This problem bred his ugly front again against the magic, but just enough was present to mask the ugliness below. It was a temporary respite for a disorder that cannot be resolved overnight, even though the reported view of Kevin Durant, who goes back to the Bay Area, becomes a reality.

However, tonight’s game is a fairly clear plan for a complex problem: Simple violation that is born out of advantage is and will continue to be key, whether from created discrepancies or consistent outside shooting. Curry – which has shown signs of withering against speed – is approaching a bending point where it is important to have plenty of scoring support next to him, more than at any step in his career. Trading to get this support is a solution, but it is not enough; Execution is still the most important ingredient to save what is left of Warriors’ season.