Explain (bonus): Steph Curry and Jordan Poole do a floppy slingshot square dance in MEM-GSW Game 3
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The Warriors ran a lot of Floppy action in the Grizzlies-Warriors Game 3 on 2022.05.07.MEM-GSW. We look at the different variations of the play from Game 3 and also back through the last decade, as well as the funny arm-lock version that Steph Curry and Jordan Poole did to set the internet on fire in a clip of ring around the Rosie, do-si-do square dancing, orbital slingshots.
Also with Andrew Wiggins, Otto Porter Jr, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson. Blasts from the past: Andre Iguodala, Ian Clark, Brandon Rush, Festus Ezeli, Patrick McCaw, James Michael McAdoo, Damian Jones, and Matt Barnes.
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According to Kerr, Alvin Gentry brought this play to the Warriors, for what it's worth.
I love the history of the play! It’s academic in scope. Basketball school rocks.