Chapter 303: The Warriors' Weakness
Li Ming ended up stalking him, which is also a tactic that he can determine the effect!
Besides, his real goal is not to beat Curry, this goal is too low, he wants to beat the Warriors!
It's not very clear, but for now, he probably has some way to deal with the Warriors - he watched a lot of videos for today's game!
In the end, he came up with two ways to beat the Warriors!
There are a few games to think about this season!
In the recent game between the Thunder and the Warriors, the Warriors have exhausted the last bullet in the submachine gun, if it weren't for Durant's inexplicable passing error at the last moment of regular time, he left the court with 6 fouls early at the beginning of overtime, Curry's great performance will become the background for the Thunder to win, a few days ago in the face of the Heat, Whiteside used 21 points and 13 rebounds to teach the Warriors a good lesson, Wade also returned to the second spring and cut 32 points and 7 assists, and the Heat only trailed by 2 points in the last 20 seconds, Had it not been for Dragic's key mistake and being tackled by Thompson, the outcome would have been completely different.
After the All-Star break, Curry averaged 38.2 points, 4.8 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, shooting 56.4% from the field and 57.3% from three-point range. 1 point. The last 16-point win over the Magic made it clear for the Warriors to fill the hole of a 32-point rout to the Trail Blazers, and in the last five consecutive wins, the Warriors have only outscored their opponents by double digits in two games. Winning by 3 points against the Clippers can be regarded as garbage time too relaxed, and being cornered by the Heat and Thunder is a real white-knuckle battle, and it almost didn't win. As a comparison, before the All-Star break, Curry "only" had 29.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 6.6 assists, shooting 50.8 from the field and 45.4% from three-point range, during which the Warriors averaged 12.5 points per game, which can be said to be an opponent in the league.
In other words: the stronger Curry, the more dangerous the Warriors!
At first, Li Ming came to this conclusion, and Li Ming was a little confused! Didn't he expect that the more Curry scored, the higher the odds of the Warriors losing?
Under normal circumstances, the growth process of an NBA superstar is like this: from obscurity to years of fighting monsters and upgrading, succeeding his predecessors to become supergiants, leading the team to win the championship, and then establishing the status of the first and second person in the league, to Curry, before he conquered all the opponents, the Warriors have relied on the strength of the team, Kerr's strategy to stand on the championship podium, this season, Curry's rapid growth is a fact, but he is not only not now, but will not be like LeBron, Kobe, and Durant in the future. The ultimate killer who will crush a team with one-on-one blows and leave his teammates alone.
Let's take a look at how the Warriors stumbled after the All-Star break, losing to the Trail Blazers by 32 points, the opponent had Lillard who scored 51 points, 7 assists and 6 steals, narrowly beat the Heat by 6 points, Wade scored 32 points and 7 assists The best performance of the season, including a narrow victory over the Thunder in overtime, there are also Durant who scored 37 points and 12 rebounds and Westbrook who sent 26 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists, and repeatedly contributed eye-catching plays in overtime, that is to say, when a team has a tradition, When you go head-to-head with a strong backcourt scorer, you have the capital to kill the Warriors!
And at that time, no matter how much Curry cut him, it didn't make any difference!
He's not a player who can lead the team to victory on his own!
It's still the same sentence! The growth process of an NBA superstar is like this: from obscurity to years of fighting monsters and upgrading, succeeding his predecessors to become supergiants, leading the team to win championships, and then establishing himself as the first and second person in the league.
Curry didn't!
He hasn't grown to the point where he's strong enough, and the warrior is already strong!
In fact, the current Curry is a bit like the original Nash, Nash's career three-point shooting rate is 42.8%, and the highest season is as high as 47%, even Curry has never shot such accurate three-pointers, but Nash has never averaged 20 points per game in a single season, because he puts more energy into passing than Curry, Curry averaged only 6.6 assists per game this season, which fell to the lowest value in the past 4 seasons, but this is also Kerr's arrangement, so that Green tries to share the passing pressure for Curry, so that the Warriors will distribute the ball more evenly before and after, Curry's score will go up, the opponent will put in more defense, and there will be more opportunities for other players.
Kerr is a smart head coach, but unfortunately, because of the addition of Durant, his use of Curry has become more and more incorrect!
He only thought about Curry getting a high score, but he forgot that Curry's high score was likely to backfire...
Take a look at his high-scoring moment performance before the appearance of the "Death Five": in the 13-14 season, Curry scored 35+ in 9 games, and the Warriors were only 5-4, in the 12-13 season, Curry scored 35+ in 6 games, and the Warriors were 3-3, and in the first game against the Spurs in the second round of the playoffs that year, Curry bombarded 44 points and 11 assists and failed to lead the team to win, and was finally eliminated by the Spurs 4-2.
These data clearly show that Curry does not cut high scores, and in the case of him leading the team alone, it will not have any essential impact on the team's winning rate, and his high scores are a bit like useless work many times!
Forcing Curry to play the fans' favorite one-on-one and scrapping others is the Thunder's strategy on the defensive end today!
While changing defenses indefinitely, one player is always close to Curry, on the one hand, it is difficult to make Curry's shot!
On the other hand, blocking Curry's passing route at any time and shredding the Warriors' offensive space, Curry hit 12 three-pointers alone to tie the NBA all-time record, which is nothing, the Warriors only shot 14 three-pointers as a team, and that's what the Thunder really care about.
It's absolutely unthinkable for a team like the Warriors to only have 14 three-pointers in a game, not to mention that Curry hit 12 three-pointers in an overperformer.
Otherwise, you won't be able to reach 10 threes!
This is the first point that can be won!
The second point is to talk about Curry's university!
The University of Oklahoma, which has the top pick Blake Griffin, was in the game against Davidson University...
The University of Oklahoma let Curry blast 44 points and 3 assists, and the result was Griffin led the team to 82-78 to the end, what kind of tactics the University of Oklahoma used at that time, we don't know, we only know that even at the time, it was not a bad idea to let Curry score more points, as long as you have a superstar who can play against Curry on the offensive end.
In the NBA, Lillard's 51-point and the Trail Blazers' 32-point victory have said it all, you must know that Curry also hit 7 three-pointers to score 31 points in that game, which was the first time this season that he was forced to clock out in three quarters.