Ah, high tag. I've noticed some other teams (was it Portland in the preseason, maybe?) doing a kind of similar defense, committing to a whole high trap on Steph for a couple moments, but then one of them recovers away pretty quickly.
The biggest weakness of proper high tag is that during the recovery after the tag there can be a gap where the ball handler is wide open for a long three, so it doesn't work that well against guys who are happy to pull up from that distance. I'm guessing that's why other teams do a harder high trap on Steph, rather than the quick "high-five, I'm out" switch/unswitch that worked on vintage LeBron. (Maybe it's worse on him now that he shoots more & better but drives less?) Probably the Warriors would apply the same principle (trap instead of tag) to defend, say, Lillard.
Anyway it's cool the Warriors used this to get the ball out of Morant's hands and tie the game. It looks like they either got the go-ahead or forced overtime, but for some reason I can't remember what happened after that. Oh well, looking forward to the next one!
PJ Tucker (2006 draft) talks about how being a "tweener"/positionless was a drawback when he first entered the league. He got cut his rookie year, went overseas of five years, and then when he came back to the NBA being positionless was now a good thing.
Irrelevant but odd nugget of trivia. Denver has thoroughly confused me by obtaining Jeff and Jamychal Green. It seems rather redundant, not only for the person who makes the shirts, but look at these 2020-21 stats:
Jeff: 27 minutes: 11 pts 4 reb. 50% FG 41% from three, 77% FT
Jamychal: 19 minutes 8.1 pts 4.8 reb. 46% FG 40% from three 80% FT
Jeff is much more of a veteran who has played for every team and used to be a bit more of a scoring threat, Jamychal is more athletic; but you could hardly find two more similar players.
Duarte came out of the gates hot but honestly hasn't been all that efficient overall (not horrible, but below average). Mitchell has been sensational defensively but has struggled to shoot the ball. Murphy has been a quality three point shooter but hasn't offered much else, and I definitely haven't watched the Pels but I expect it's mostly catch and shoot. Kispert hasn't really done anything.
In general I don't think any of these win now prospects have proven themselves worthy of a lottery pick just yet (although I think all have probably shown themselves worthy of a first round pick except Kispert). Still extremely early though.
The Golden State Warriors say they have exercised the fourth-year contract option on guard Jordan Poole and third-year contract option on center James Wiseman, both of which are for the 2022-23 season.
(1) Dray's man sags off and takes away the drive from Curry.
(2) Dray's man sags again. Two guys on Wiggs. Steph's defender is only concerned about running Steph off the line because he knows one of the guys on Wiggs can rotate.
(3) Dray ignored. His man just comes down and pokes the ball away from Steph.
(4) Just good D by MEM.
(5) Bad spacing and a forced pass by Steph.
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Dray's TOs looked like he was playing with a 1000ms ping. Bad outlets and bad timing/decisions in general.
JP's TOs were all over the place. Some of it was bad decision-making and the pass into traffic to Loon disturbs me because JP beat his man and didn't take the floater/pull-up... if there was one thing you didn't have to worry about before was JP's confidence in taking a shot. Not sure why he passed it up.
Dowtin not bad with SC, 20 on good efficiency, +5. We should try him.
Ah, high tag. I've noticed some other teams (was it Portland in the preseason, maybe?) doing a kind of similar defense, committing to a whole high trap on Steph for a couple moments, but then one of them recovers away pretty quickly.
The biggest weakness of proper high tag is that during the recovery after the tag there can be a gap where the ball handler is wide open for a long three, so it doesn't work that well against guys who are happy to pull up from that distance. I'm guessing that's why other teams do a harder high trap on Steph, rather than the quick "high-five, I'm out" switch/unswitch that worked on vintage LeBron. (Maybe it's worse on him now that he shoots more & better but drives less?) Probably the Warriors would apply the same principle (trap instead of tag) to defend, say, Lillard.
Anyway it's cool the Warriors used this to get the ball out of Morant's hands and tie the game. It looks like they either got the go-ahead or forced overtime, but for some reason I can't remember what happened after that. Oh well, looking forward to the next one!
Lol Melo celebrates too much for a guy that scores a lot
Man, Mobley is impressive. I'm curious to see how we match up against them if they run this 3 big lineup against us too
Clips lose to Portland, now 1-4. PG13 put up 42 but they still got beat by 19. I wonder if their fans are freaking out.
Preseason box score:
https://gleague.nba.com/games/20211029/MXCSCW/
Moody with a bunch of assists and turnovers so they probably put him on ball and had him try a lot of stuff, which is what the G-League is for.
Watching Lakers currently losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who I forgot were a team. Got the popcorn machine on high
Damn, Alfonzo McKinnie and his fellow Capitanes crushed the Sea Dubs 54-26 on the boards
PJ Tucker (2006 draft) talks about how being a "tweener"/positionless was a drawback when he first entered the league. He got cut his rookie year, went overseas of five years, and then when he came back to the NBA being positionless was now a good thing.
https://youtu.be/vSKrLR34dOM?t=270
Irrelevant but odd nugget of trivia. Denver has thoroughly confused me by obtaining Jeff and Jamychal Green. It seems rather redundant, not only for the person who makes the shirts, but look at these 2020-21 stats:
Jeff: 27 minutes: 11 pts 4 reb. 50% FG 41% from three, 77% FT
Jamychal: 19 minutes 8.1 pts 4.8 reb. 46% FG 40% from three 80% FT
Jeff is much more of a veteran who has played for every team and used to be a bit more of a scoring threat, Jamychal is more athletic; but you could hardly find two more similar players.
Duarte came out of the gates hot but honestly hasn't been all that efficient overall (not horrible, but below average). Mitchell has been sensational defensively but has struggled to shoot the ball. Murphy has been a quality three point shooter but hasn't offered much else, and I definitely haven't watched the Pels but I expect it's mostly catch and shoot. Kispert hasn't really done anything.
In general I don't think any of these win now prospects have proven themselves worthy of a lottery pick just yet (although I think all have probably shown themselves worthy of a first round pick except Kispert). Still extremely early though.
Mo Bambas development is good news for Wisemans development arc
DLee and JTA questionable.
Game against OKC.
Should be a good opportunity for Moody and Kuminga to get some run.
I can die happy. Hb on par with Steph on terms of TPA
https://twitter.com/NBA_Math/status/1454125877634244613?s=20
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The Golden State Warriors say they have exercised the fourth-year contract option on guard Jordan Poole and third-year contract option on center James Wiseman, both of which are for the 2022-23 season.
Some thoughts on the game last night.
Dray was 3 of 8 on threes over 78 MIN in preseason (~1 attempt per 10 min). So far in the regular season, 2 of 3 in 168 MIN (1 attempt per 56 min).
https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2021/10/28/0022100070/346/2185be99-5d91-537a-4342-5d277fad1d3c_1280x720.mp4
He has to take this shot. There's no way a 5 MEM vs 4 GSW is going to result in anything good.
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These were the Curry TOs:
https://www.nba.com/stats/events/?ContextMeasure=TOV&EndPeriod=0&EndRange=31800&GameID=0022100070&PlayerID=201939&RangeType=0&Season=2021-22&SeasonType=Regular%20Season&StartPeriod=0&StartRange=0&TeamID=1610612744&flag=1&sct=plot§ion=game
(1) Dray's man sags off and takes away the drive from Curry.
(2) Dray's man sags again. Two guys on Wiggs. Steph's defender is only concerned about running Steph off the line because he knows one of the guys on Wiggs can rotate.
(3) Dray ignored. His man just comes down and pokes the ball away from Steph.
(4) Just good D by MEM.
(5) Bad spacing and a forced pass by Steph.
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Dray's TOs looked like he was playing with a 1000ms ping. Bad outlets and bad timing/decisions in general.
JP's TOs were all over the place. Some of it was bad decision-making and the pass into traffic to Loon disturbs me because JP beat his man and didn't take the floater/pull-up... if there was one thing you didn't have to worry about before was JP's confidence in taking a shot. Not sure why he passed it up.
https://videos.nba.com/nba/pbp/media/2021/10/28/0022100070/338/6e33b5c4-9b1f-4d51-3378-a6670dd622eb_1280x720.mp4