How the Celtics finally “slowed down” Steph Curry | NBA Finals Game 5 analysis
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Why did Steph Curry suddenly have a bad scoring game? What did Boston do differently in Game 5? This film room study details Coach Ime Udoka's adjustments to Steph Curry, what that meant for the Warriors offense, along with the defensive performances of Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins and Klay Thompson that helped Golden State slow down Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown to take a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals.
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Friendly reminder, Steph had a college game where he scored zero points because he got double teamed full court the entire game. The man was willing to let his teammates take advantage of it and they end up winning the game because of it. His unselfishness hasn't changed all these years. The team winning has always been his priority, not his ego. It's so rare to see that for someone that had his level of success and it just really makes him different.
There’s nothing Celtics can do honestly. Either you guard Steph or the other warriors players. If other players are guarded, Steph will go off.
The anti James Harden… you gotta love it
Curry has nothing to prove and he knows it. What GS was able to do with home grown talents is amazing.
It's all about winning, not personal stats
Davidson didn't just win, they won by 40 points. The coach for the losing team was hellbent on stopping curry so much that he didn't care if his team lost.
This breakdown had my full attention from beginning to end. So interesting. I will definitely pay more attention to the details next game.
- ESPN halftime show is painful -- like water boarding for sports. This...Thinking Basketball, so legit.
This is the best basketball channel on YT - every video is so slick and informative, going into the details and nuances of strategy but doing it in a way that's fun and easily understandable. Absolutely brilliant work 🙌
anyone else notice how many moving screens gsw does to get steph open???
Does Everyone Forget That Andrew Is A Former 1st Overall Draft Pick , The Man Is A Baller! It’s Great For His Career To Be On This Warriors Team
Exactly. Celtics chose a bad night to change their coverage. After being so hot the last few nights he was way overdue for a cold streak.
Curry's a pro and was still effective despite missing every three and an abysmal 31% FG but I can't help thinking they'd have won this game and Curry scoring 25ish if they stuck to the gameplan and didn't overcommit to the chefs enormous gravity.
They did a fantastic job early in this series not over committing. Which essentially forces Curry to score 30+ to have a shot at winning the game. Instead they focused on Curry who was gonna have a cold shooting night anyway which gave the secondary stars extra room to work and they stepped up big time to support their leader.
Curry is a monster who can blast off for 35-40+ a night easy, maybe even 2 or 3 but four would be a big ask and Celtics blew.their chance at being one game away.
No matter what though I'm loving this Finals and am just so stoked I'm alive to see the greatness and all the context.
I called warriors in 6 at the start but I'm hoping I'm wrong and probably am. I'd love a game 7 of these two teams going at it.
Where is the evidence that he would've had a cold night anyways? Isn't it a more reasonable explanation that the face guarding offball and trapping got him out of rhythm early in the game and he never got it back. In the end, 104 points by the warriors is acceptable for Boston. Boston just choked with all the turnovers and unproductive offense. The defensive coverage was better than last game, the adjustments were good, it's just that the warriors are very versatile and were able to adapt.
@@panner11 well - when I finish my multiverse portal gun we can check and make sure but until then the evidence is essentially Curry and every shooter ever has hot and cold nights and 31% FG and 0 from 3 is EXCEPTIONALLY cold.
All credit to the Celtics defense for like 80% of his shots but there were several wide open opportunities Curry could have taken advantage of to get into Rhythm and he just flat out missed them.
The defense definitely played a part in his abysmal shooting night and they took what would have been a mediocre or bad shooting night from curry and turned into (by Curry's shooting standards) one of his worst nights in years.
I say that because the Celtics non-Curry-centric defense scheme they've been running with has worked pretty well and this new defense clearly flopped badly.
As the title says "pick your poison" Steph or everyone else. I'd pick everyone else every single time and force Steph to have an extraordinary night 4 times while targeting the heck out of him to win because jump shooters can and do run into cold streaks.
You're free to disagree but the first four games have shown it to work pretty okayish while game 5 proved the alternative was a bad idea (probably.)
This is what a great gm looks like.
this is why just helding down steph isn't the only way to stop the warriors,his willingness to be a decoy to open up for his teammates plus passing iq of dray and the ball movement system make this team so dangerous
Yea super unselfish
yes you are right, that's why its called the "flow" offense, keeping the ball, and guys moving, to create space and rhythm.
And thats why steph is one of the unique superstar in the nba willing to not score, get tired, pass the ball so that the team can win
The Super Spurs basically 🤷🏾♂️
That's why Steph is a really good team mate he doesn't have an ego
Alot of content these days that makes the game understandable, but your breakdowns with your use of clips is the most valuable thing ive ever come across for understanding a basketball game. For the first time in my life im actually considering going out of my way to find ways to support your channel, i think its so valuable to the sport for people like me. Im seeing the game in a new light i never had before with your breakdowns. Fantastic work!
Thanks! Really appreciate that.
I totally agree with this. I'm a relatively new fan of basketball and these breakdowns have helped me to understand basketball much quicker and better than anything else I've seen. Thanks @Thinking Basketball
I feel very similarly, this stuff is great!
I have been waiting for someone to articulate the change in coverage on Steph, because I thought I was noticing some traps and super high drop coverage in Game 5... but I'm not an expert so I wasn't sure.
This all makes so much sense now, because now as expected, in Game 5 the paint and drive game for the Warriors opened up big time... precisely what Boston initially tried to avoid earlier in the series.
I feel though that Boston should've STARTED with this strategy, and maybe moved away to their earlier series strategy later in the series.
Since now, after a slow start for most of the role players and Klay... the supporting cast feels more ready to take advantage of their increased opportunities, now that they have shifted their focus to stopping Steph more strongly.
Can't agree more. I recently got into the sport after living 4 years in the Bay, so these videos really make it easy to understand the science behind it all
Same here, your content and breakdowns are very fluent. Keep up the great work!
The warriors defense in the first half was the best defense I've seen in a long time. They were absolutely amazing. Even when Boston got to the rim, their shots are heavily contested, AND without a ton of fouling.
Curry gets unnecessary slander.
@@Cryptum404 hating on greatness
without a ton of fouling...tell that to the refs!
@@Cryptum404 I really don’t understand it.
@@Cryptum404 just like kobe, people hate him because of silly narratives.
I remember seeing several comments saying steph could go 0-10 and still be the best player on the court. Well, it kind of happened
Yeah I would give this game to Wiggs, but Steph is so good at shooting that everyone is still terrified of him when he’s off haha
For sure, he may have shot subpar but everything else was great especially with only 1 turnover. His IQ to move around and draw his defender away from everyone else helps big time.
@@loler49er Yeah, kudos to Wiggs for stepping up.
Steph was +15 and controlled the game. No matter how many shots Wiggs hit, who still go the attention & double teams to allow Wiggs to keep doing that
@@loler49er Ugh, they specifically limited his shooting! He didn't just "have an off night. " Did you watch the video? Instead of scoring, Curry delivered points to the rest of the team, and that was by Celtics design.
Two way Wiggins is so crucial. His drive, dunk, floaters, rebounds and defense are incredibly important. With Celtics's defense without drop affecting Curry, Wiggins is so clutch. Game 6 Klay pls take us home. Let's go!!!!
I’ve seen this comment in like 3 videos so far 😂 but I agree I’m rooting for the warriors to win it. I expect Steph to hit his shots next game, and hopefully they can finish it off in Boston (tho then again it’d be cool if they won in their home arena.)
The Celtics' change of defensive tactics is mainly distributing Curry's points to his teammates. It's still Curry creating the offensive rating. Why bother commenting on videos if you don't watch them?
I've seen this comment get passed around so much already, give it a rest and have some originality
@@theflesh9005 Yeh But, We don’t Wana take the Risk Lol Let’s Keep Boston as Far away from Cali as Possible!!! Lol Let’s Gooooo!!
Can't wait to see what the rest of the Twolves roster can do as soon as they're out of Minnesota. SMH
It's amazing how much Steph's shooting skillset opens things up for himself and his team, whether he's making shots or not. It's almost like the Warriors can function on a higher offensive dimension that no other team can quite access.
That’s exactly what it is. He demands so much attention that it opens up everything for his teammates.
It's not just his shooting. The choices he makes in moving without the ball and the passes he delivers are every bit as skilled as his scoring.. That's why teams still lose when they take away his shots.
damn, having steph is an unfair advantage
@@soleil3gs sadly casual fans who only look at highlights, the ball, and boxscore will never know steph's true greatness which is being a decoy so bright that you can't ignore it.
Stephen Curry will Light Up the Boston Celtics in Game 6 for Certain …. 👀. 🏀
steph is like kaioken; he makes every aspect of your team better even when he's not playing well.
*Even when he not scoring well. He played pretty well besides that.
@@rubedog516 exactly
So you mean Lebron?
He makes the team’s defense better?
@@Nathan-zd8ew the guy whos team didnt make playoff?
This game was just sick. I loved the effort and how Wiggins stepped up
Agreed Bro 💯. 🔥. 🏀
I’m appreciate of these because going into the next game I know what to be looking for strategically from each team. It makes the games even more fun to watch.
exactly! like because of the game 4 video I was able to notice how the Celtics moved away from their drop coverage on Steph while watching game 5. It turned what the rest of the media simply called a bad shooting night into a strategic move by the Celtics that didn't work out, which is way more interesting to watch
This Andrew Wiggins game reminds me of what Shaun Livingston used to do, taking opportunities from what the defense is taking away from Steph. A lot of midrange, a lot of secondary/third action and so forth.
Barbosa was like that as well
Warriors defense is suffocating, they've held the Celtics below 100 points in all three wins and no one's talking about this
Exactly
Surely not? That's a different level of D.
So f...ing true
AND the celtics points are inflated through free throws. (107 FT advantage to 80)
Its more like a consequence of when you get the Celtics at high turnovers and not having the offensive output to match when the Warriors are simply balling out. Its been the Celtics weakness in the playoffs where Smart is main culprit but more so in the Finals, the Jays have the real offenders. Brown's 5 chokes in the last game is egregious considering how shaky his handles are. Tatum has 95 turnovers so far in the postseason but his offensive output outside of the EC series have been absolutely slowed down. He's settling and when scorers like him do that, you know he's not going to kill you down the stretch. The Celtics tried to bend the Warriors on defense but never really broke them. Steph broke the Celtics defense in game 4 and they never recovered after that. The Celtics have had two bad 4th quarters in the last two games and I think that is how it ends.
Celtics: Yay, we finally slowed down the Chef 😄
Also the Celtics: Crap, forgot there were 4 more players on the court 😰😭
Lmao 😂
It's great to see in this video how much love was given to Klay for his performance in game 5 outside of his important and timely 3 point shots. His positioning, anticipation and switching on defense was crucial to slowing down Boston in the first half. While the best player scoring and rebounding wise was Wiggins, Klay was also an important piece for the W when Steph was off. Props to the Celtics for taking 2 games away from GS, but I definitely believe GS is the better team in my opinion. We'll see what happen, series isn't over.
Curry's gravity and Kerr's coaching on both ends of the floor are two of the greatest things I've ever seen.
Definitely some of the most impressive coaching (on both teams) I’ve seen in a Finals in some time.
Took Kerr a little long for my liking, but glad he got the adjustments down in game 4.
@@sonyawilliams4989 😂😂😂 you act like Ime wasn't making adjustments too, this was a chess match between to coaches, Kerr just had Curry who kept his team alive for 4 of the first 5 games was the difference... Game 5 was warriors usual game style cause they faced the type of defense they are used to facing...
Kerr ability to get what's best out of the player is what makes him a special coach, his adjustments make him a great on game coach
@@isaacdebeila8085 wait do you hear that... 3-2 ...3-2 oh my bad you obviously don’t get the point of these videos in analyzing deeper into strategies and split second plays by pros and just throw out that curry carried 4 games so young
Watching Kerr and the Warriors is like watching the late Hans Zimmer conducting an orchestra.
And this is what the greats do. They find a way to beat you regardless of circumstance. Trap/blitz curry? That unlocks draymon on the short roll for 4 on 3s. Play man to man defence? You risk curry going nuclear. Spend extra resources to take curry out of the play entirely, you then have to contend with the spacing between Wiggs, Pool and Klay. This is what makes the Warriors offence SO hard to guard. So many weapons combined with high IQ, selfless players who move the ball around. If it doesn't look that special anymore (compared to say, 2015) that's because -every team is now trying to be the Warriors-.
Curry don't care about accolades, nor does Klay or Dray. They only want to win.
Curry is going to be LIVID going into Game 6 knowing he didn't make a 3 yesterday, and that's on top of GAME SIX KLAY 🔥💪
Man if both of them go off in Game 6 that would be a treat to watch 😂😂
I’ll subscribe to that.
What game 6 Klay ut will be Brown and Tatum legacy game Klay will back to his old form well see next game
@@ortsacerdif1146 I had a stroke reading thus
@@ortsacerdif1146 huh?
Celtics can't stop the warriors, if they guard curry from the 3, it leaves the other warriors open, if they drop down to guard the others, curry gets open looks. It's not possible for celtics to win.
They can if they manage to score more than 108 points, considering GSW haven't managed that vs Celtics this Finals yet and they have. Of course big question is if they will be able to do that after all the adjustments Kerr made.
@@TerranigmaQuintet do u really think thats how basketball work? lmao
Steph is the definition of MVP..just him being on the court discombobulates defenses
5:09 one of the best defensive possessions from the Warriors in game 5
Green rotates, Wiggins close out
Payton's close out, Green back to action,
Curry occupying the foul line area, making it hard for Horford to roll in and ready for a potential X-out to the corner (as Klay being the low man)
Clinic.
gorgeous play
Yeah I was shocked at how quickly wiggins and green got to their close outs but also very controlled and didn’t run past the close out
Wiggins has really stepped up with all this attention being put on Steph. What I like most though is that it seems he took Game 3 personal and has since become the Warriors top rebounder by far. Nice story for him, talk about a career turnaround.
The Celtics didn't slow Curry down, Curry was just off. He missed quite a few wide open looks including a free throw. He still got off 9 3s, every single of which he's hit before. Truly slowing him down would mean he couldn't get shots off at all.
Yeah, and that is a good thing. That means Steph would hit more of those shots, and it's not exactly like Steph was blocked/defended with a hand on his face on three point attempts
Why do you think it's in quotes? Anyway, I agree.
9 three attempts for curry is extremely low. I'm a warriors fan and they very clearly slowed his scoring down. Part of him being off is him unable to find his rhythm because they are focusing so much of their defense on him. He had very few clean open looks and he had a few desperation heaves that he only takes when he is frustrated.
Wiggins also when 0-6 from the three but the Warriors are dominating the paint despite they are small. A very interesting chess match this series is. Steve Kerr and Ime Udoka are both great coach. And neither of them are coach of the year
Yeah they were under the radar.
Reminder that Dwayne Casey was COTY one time for the Raps. Nick Nurse won his chip tho with the Raps. COTY don't mean shit.
@@t4d0W yeah and he was sacked the same season 😂😂😂
Curry gets slandered for drawing so much attention that his teammates can score. Totally unfair to one of the greatest players in curry
Minnesota acquired a rough diamond but didn't do anything with it. The same rough diamond was traded and molded into the brilliant gem we're seeing in the Finals.
i think youre giving the celtics more credit than they deserve. they dodged the steph bullet, not slowed him down. they gave him 9 good looks from 3 (i think it was 9 without checking the box score), and he, for the first time in some 200+ games, missed them all. that wont happen again
I agree. They didn't force him into taking bad looks, he just missed. Hell, he even missed a free throw and at least 1 layup during the game too. He was off and it had little to do with what Boston did on defense.
while I GENERALLY agree with you guys and I think Ben would too (they didnt make him 0-9- and he played somewhere between pretty well and very well outside of that), they DID change up the D and it DID make him think about his selection a bit imo.... he had those couple extra extra deep 2016 regular season type early shot clock launches against what could be called "the raised drop" and that was a consequence of of course A- him taking a shot at creating momentum like he does but B- him recognizing they were giving him a thirty footer but might faceguard and double beyond that... whereas before he basically could get a deep stepback off ANY P&R any time in the shot clock... so they DID affect him at least some (he COULD have made those but it was a bit of a new selection process).
The great thing is we won! So we both have the advantage of being able to make adjustment (that they cant fully prepare for) AND B- guys got going and we got one more win.
its both they changed up the defense so he couldnt go nuclear which is what every team in the nba does and opens up their offense to how they want to to run it, curry's used to this type of defensive attention and still finds ways to eat just wasnt his night last night
Bruh and why do you think he shot inconsistently off open looks? Thats because he was chased down the entire game after 5 games already. Especially since the Celtics are big and Curry's conditioning is great, he's still 34 and that will take away your legs.
Point being, thats exactly what the Celtics wanted to happen. To not just keep Curry from scoring but to tire him out as well. It's not a coincidence that he finished about all his layups and midrange shots, but missed his 3's.
@@youngobes They kept him from touching the ball for an entire quarter and for the majority of the game. That takes you out of rythm no matter how good you are. And in general they gave him less semi-open looks. Of couse he missed some open shots, but it had a lot to do with the Celtics defense.
ngl this channel has gotten me back into basketball. i was super into basketball prior to covid but the bubble kind of killed my interest. these breakdowns have introduced me to the crazy strategy used in basketball and has reignited my interest in it. thanks lol.
Glad I wasn't the only one who felt like the bubble kinda ruined my NBA interest
@@graydonwebster516 Happened to a lot of sports really, the crowd energy is a huge part of the spectacle of top-level sports. The exceptions being motorsports, F1 in particular, because the bubble got rid of the annoying shots of the crowd mid racing action which was super annoying lol
@@Reydriel i just couldnt stand the awful canned crowd noise and the stupid fkn zoom fans in the back. so dead. plus covid killed my raptors momentum 😭😭 2 seed in the east no kawhi dont forget loll
@@ruloez5587 Yeah, it would probably be much better off just not showing anything but the game honestly
i might be the weird one but i actually got into basketball because of the bubble as I was so bored during quarantine and before that I was just a casual. Now I love basketball though the fake crowd noise was not great tho
Love your content, brother! Glad I found your channel! Thanks for all of your hard work and analysis!
Thanks Tommy!
FIRST! I was waiting for this video.
Curry’s gravity on the court is so insane that I wouldn’t mind watching him not score the entire game because of how much he opens up the floor.
That's the thing about overloading on Steph. There's just too many scoring threats apart from curry that they can't overlook by constantly doubling or tripling on him.
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this just shows how great curry is even when he's not scoring it seems like he's still controlling the game like he drew 2 defenders 2 defenders that's how lethal this man is I gotta say tho he didn't shot that well but not entirely his fault he was very heavily guarded this game but thx to him it made playmaking and scoring points for the team easier love ya steph
Been waiting all day for this to come out. It did not disappoint!
Way to break it down, still shows the gravitational force that Steph has, great coaching from Karr
Can you do a video about Jayson Tatum’s struggles and why he may be struggling from warriors defense ?
They didn't really stop curry as a whole
Pretty much. Every "How Celtics stop player" video has me scratching my head.
Poole and GP2 need more time on court together. They pick in roll really well.
They did not slow down Steph Curry. Steph Curry allowed certain things to happen to be team effective.
Steph allowed himself to miss all 9 of his 3 pointers. You people will say anything 🤣
@@kaschmir3 He missed a lot of open ones
This is why I used the words allowed, and certain. If his other teammates didn’t perform like they did he would have responded much differently. You people will say anything.
if there's one thing we've learned from this finals , WIGGINS WAS NEVER A BUST
he still is he was projected to be way more, i wouldnt call him a bust but he coudve been way more
@@dunkz1361 almost anyone will end up being a bust if they are compared to mj
Underachieved. You can’t be a no.1 pick averaging 20ppg (as the team’s first option).
@@paradiver7550 18 but yeah ik
@@mightdai7489 yeah
I love your analysis. Opened my eyes to how good Wiggins was defensively on top of his offense. I was very frustrated at coach udoka and tatum in the 4th quarter for not intitating more ball movement as he kept losing isolations.
This is the luxury that kd experienced while playing with the dubs. He can do his iso without worrying about double teams and open shots come to him naturally unlike with his current situation in the nets
Kd still doesn’t appreciate what he had
This is just what I thought happened in Game 5. Felt like I made the video myself but how come non-NBA players or non-pro analysts know this but not one among ESPN and Undisputed can even tell the difference. All I heard from them was how Steph couldn't make shots. No one has even mentioned Klay or how Curry opened opportunities for Wiggins.
When you guard the inside you open the perimiter, when you guard the perimeter, you open the paint, when you try to guard both, you end up guarding neither.
Curry's is an unconventional point guard position;
and this video explains why most of the time people/haters could easily dismiss his orchestrating ability since the things he did happen before assist stats could have triggered.
Honestly, I think they win this next game easily if he goes traditional point guard and don't try to hit 7+ 3's in the game.
They didn't slow him down, he just missed. He still had a ton of good looks, and he put in 40 + points in game 4 which were much harder shots.
I think they did slow him down somewhat. And i'm saying this as a dubs fan (hell look at my name lol). They distracted Curry enough to affect him a bit. Sure he had some wide open shots, but the Celtics' defense on him early in the game set the tone for him the rest of the game.
Boston made a fatal mistake. You take steph away and the rest of the team will eat. They shouldve just let steph go off and clamp the others. Now the others are comfortable and have become unafraid and confident of bostons defense.
Steph can and will likely drop 20+ next game but now with the rest of the team ready to go
It's truly pick your poison when defending the Warriors
Its not a fatal mistake. Its a poison the Celtics have to live with going with a specific decision for that game. The worse poison is the Celtics offense that is playing with too much mistakes cannot match the Warriors who put up points via those mistakes.
Yep, Warriors like stat lines like this more the 40 point Steph games
Steph 28-29
Clay 25
Greene 8-10
Looney 10
Wiggins 16-18
Poole 16-19 they play better that way.
That’s why I believe it’s best to let Curry eat and contain the role players because if the whole team is in a groove ain’t no stopping The Warriors.
That's me too. I believe let these star guys get their 40 points, but those role players get absolutely nothing.
thinking basketball uploads a video. I click it and watch. amazing studies. keep it up!
Wiggs playing with so much passion and drive after being criticized for being uncaring his whole career. Puts a tear in the eyes 🥲
Excellent breakdowns and attention to detail. Thanks for sharing
We’re not mentioning that Steph actually had a lot of open looks that he just didn’t hit. If he shoots a pedestrian average, he has 30 point game and nobody is talking about this.
And this my friends is why Steph is the best player in the league and top 10 players ever!!
Thru 5 games it appears Cs are gassed in the 4th & starting to wear down. It seems GSWs has figured them out
I think it was similar to the Dallas series. Worn out, and figured out. Dubs in 6
After seeing game 5, I don't see how Boston can win, I expect nearly everyone on Warriors to play well, feels like they've figured it out, Steph gonna play better & Klay finna have his biggest game 👌🏽
Celtics forgot that Curry is a playmaker.
The Warriors played really well as a team even though steph was inefficient tonight. Wiggins was the real player of the game with 26 pts and 13 rebounds. Warriors are one game away to winning the NBA championship!
That's an analysis based on stats. Steph's impact on the game often doesn't show up in the statistics. He changed this from 5 on 5 to 4 on 4, which is a huge difference, especially when you have a team that cuts and passes as well as the Warriors. Wiggs was great, but having so much floor to work with really opened things up for him. And that was thanks to Steph taking a Celtic with him to the nether regions of the court.
Inefficient as in shooting only, I think his passing and creating space for his teammate still makes him extremely efficient in offense regardless
Look at Steph +/- though man was +15
lol I wouldn't call Steph inefficient. For a guy whose rhythm/offense is based on jumpers he will have cold nights. But the attention he attracts on defense and how they have to guard him on principle always up the playbook for his teammates to step up. The worst part is even if the Celtics do try focus their efforts on him, if he breaks through in a quarter and still gets 30+ points they are screwed. Meanwhile the Celtics are choking the ball up 15+ times and can't score enough to chase the Warriors in the 4th quarter who have been the better team in both games.
The warriors need to develop poole into a better point guard. When stephs resting up on the bench, poole doesn’t really know how to orchestrate offense. The offense becomes messy and stagnant, and because he can’t fire up any offense, Jordan starts playing iso. A lot of forced shots and bad passes that turn into turnovers when Jordan leads the offense.
i love jordan but totally agree. right now he functions better as an sg instead of a pg and i kind of dread it when he’s out there without either steph or draymond. but all his shortcomings are learnable. he has all the skill and talent to meet expectations.
So happy to see Andrew Wiggins perform like this again
Funny thing is that drop coverage, or whatever the type of defense they played in game 4, might've won them game 5 cuz Steph was out of rhythm in this game
Maybe, but perhaps if they did, Curry could have eventually found his rhythm since he wasn't smothered as hard. So it's difficult to tell.
Absolutely love listening to your podcast! Can’t wait for the next finals episode
-"Have you finally slowed down Steph Curry?"
*YES*
-"What did it cost?"
*EVERYTHING*
A lot of people already commented on Wiggins performance but I'd like to add that he has looked like the most athletic players out there all series. He's maintained his "springyness" after these long grueling playoffs while most everyone else looks like they're playing the second game of a back to back. It really shows up on the glass.
In all fairness I think even if everyone was completely fresh he might be the best athlete in the series, obviously honourable mentions for Timelord and GP2
If the Celtics try this again and Game 6 Klay shows up then it's over.
If the Celtics goes back to giving Steph room and he gets rolling then it's over.
It’s so incredible watching the Warriors players react and move based on how they’re guarding Steph Curry and how they all manage to be in sync and get good looks for each other
They said Klay is incosistent, but few only notices his defense is the most consistent :)
that defence on curry didn't work at all . him hitting from everywhere the game before made this a great team victory cause defence tightened up on that solo player way to much
Curry wasn't slowed down, you'd be tired as well if u scored 43 lost game, avg 36 a game in the finals, all playoffs! Man, shut up!
Wow nice job Ben! You are killing it with these videos. Glad your work is blowing up!
This is why you don't pay attention to stats and dribble doubles. Steph Curry could score 10 points but his gravity opens up the defense for teammates. He is still the MVP, whether he scores 10 or 30 each game.
Appreciate the content. The old media looks at Celtics turnovers like they just careless with the ball or sometimes. Your breakdown shows Golden State defense has figure them out. I feel the runs the Celtic go on, the warriors have let there foot off the gas on defense.
Watching this video really made me realize why LeBron on two different occasions said he wanted to play with Steph and the Warriors.
Imagine a Steph/LeBron two-man game where LeBron is the short roller playing downhill 4vs3. Or LeBron playing a 5-out offense where he just collapses the defense and kicks to Klay and Steph.
It’s never gonna work. I love Bron Bron but he don’t play defense.
@@buddyjaydubb he does play defense only when they have a chance in winning
@@josevallenchee11 that’s not defense. He’d have to be committed to playing consistently. And he’d never keep up with GS’s pace.
Steph curry and keylt Thompson win Gold STATE warriors 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I love this channel, completely changed watching the game for me. After watching the last video, I immediately realized that they had switched defensive schemes and were coming out higher to take away Steph's looks, and then exactly as you said, it resulted in a ton of offense for the rest of the Warriors and allowed Draymond to have a much better game.
Yes!
lol slowed down
pretty sure its just a clikcbait
@@do9man nope . They slowed him down in one game
Is anyone hyped for 'Game 6 Klay'?
Golden State's role players really stepped up without Curry being on fire. What killed the Celtics in my view was Tatum and Brown forcing some well contested shots in the fourth and for some reason Udoka decided that they should play the entire game when they were clearly tired; the play that highlights it is when Horford rushes up the court with the ball and tries to do a pick and roll hand off to Brown when he clearly wasn't ready for it.
Kerr out-couched Udoka and utilized minutes to their bench to give the starters the rest they needed to finish off the Celtics. It was clear that Golden State was going to win it in the fourth with 5 minutes to go when Golden State started to knock down unguarded shots because Tatum and Brown were dead to try and defend. It seemed that the Celtic's bench was ice cold even though they caught up in the third with their starters. So much energy was used just to do that which resulted in them being tired.
The Celtics need to understand that it takes a team to win it and they all need to be on the same page. They all looked dead and disorganized when Golden State was breaking away. There might have been legit missed calls from the refs but having no urgency just cemented their loss to Golden State. Pool got into Smart's head a bit and it almost ended up being with him being kicked off...
It is the limitations of the Celtics playmaking and scoring on their end. It starts with Tatum and he's just not a threat down the stretch to take over the game with his scoring. Especially with how the Warriors are absolutely handling him. Jaylen Brown can't get his spots, can't finish at the rim and worse he's turning over the ball as much as Tatum and providing even less of an ability to take over. The rest of the team can only do so much with their jumpers and shot creation that the Warriors will settle with them trying to put up buckets to try kill them. I've wrote it before but the Celtics at best took the Warriors defense to their limits but never broke them. Steph broke down the Celtics defense in game 4 and they have since never recovered. The Celtics have been worse in 4th quarters the past two games and they cannot close out turning over the ball so much vs a Warriors teams who gets buckets easily from transition.
but the thing is udoka can’t really sit brown or tatum because no one else can make their own shots. smart can, but he is hella inconsistent. so if the two jays aren’t on the floor, boston’s offense stagnates tremendously.
Klay picked up his old defense ability in last 2-3 games of Finals.
Just like CP3 making centers effective with his PnR skills, Curry makes wings effective with all the spacing
Go watch bogut/curry pick and roll
What people don't realize is : CURRY DON'T HAVE TO SCORE.....the GSW are so DEEP....that Curry's gravity ALWAYS creates open shots for his team mates. The opposing team is DEATHLY afraid of single covering Steph. They know he's basically UNGUARDABLE....single coverage is plain SUICIDE for any defender. Teams MUST double him...they have no choice. GOD....I love watching Curry play !!!
Bruh, it’s like do I want to drink arsenic and die fast, or cyanide and die slow 🤔🤔🤔🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Curry shoot 0-9 from 3 and the Celtics still took a L, wtf?
Watch
Did you not watch this video?
When both defenses are playing tight, it then becomes a game of buckets. Guess which team had players making more buckets.
Curry’s Gravity is no joke. Had 0-9 night but still get double team.
Wonderful explanation!
Let’s go warriors! Bring it home!
This is why I am so confused with all the pre-finals prediction that Boston will win cause no matter how good they are in defense, their offense is up and down. Warriors are not scubs at all in defense with adaptable offense so Boston being heavy favorites where confusing. GSW now showing their adaptability
Wiggins already as valuable to the dubs as KD ever was
Stop lying to yourself and others .
@@melvincarter9640 solely on defensive end.
@@adidasboy3207 dude KD won finals MVP and carried golden State warriors most of the season don't give me that crap that Wiggins is better even on defense Wiggins ain't better. Overall skills KD is better hands down
praying for Game 6 Klay to show up🙏
The new term in basketball “gravity” was made for Stephen Curry. Nobody has the gravity on the court that he does. He has to be accounted for as soon as he crosses half court. Gives everyone a little more space. This “Wiggins is the Finals MVP” is ridiculous.
They were able to contain Curry but they have to lose energy and space to allow his teammates to help him win the game and maybe again in the fourth quarter of the 6th game.
Yeah it hurts them offensively trying to chase him around.
That why they won in 2017 and 2018 bc if they choose Curry then his impact like King on the court even if he not score much u still pressure him and he gonna pass up to one of the best 1v1 player KD and he gonna make u pay
This shouldn’t demoralize Boston, Odoka should probably plan his defense the same way, the warriors role players won’t play the same way, if you’re losing to the warriors then make the rest of them beat you
Warriors must be ready prepared because Boston is going to be aggressive attacking in the next game but the warriors must be wise smart sharp hungry attacking aggressive discipline focused discipline Excuting together on offense and defense 🤔
if golden state never played boston, the resurgence pf klay’s defense would have taken longer. one of the many reasons why i prayed religiously for this match-up lol
Slow down Curry?? That man have a struggle night that’s all. Boston can’t stop Curry.
they stopped curry but not the whole team tho... probly in the next game curry will take a revenge and game 6 klay will reborn again...