Explain: The new way Kuminga is defended and 7 ways the Warriors are fighting back

Some of these ideas should work with time and practice.

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The number one question I get nowadays is, “What is going on with Jonathan Kuminga? Why isn't he as dominant as he was in January?”

The reason is teams are starting to treat him as a number one option, and they have special defenses prepared. Sometimes there's double teams, but the main scheme is to put a goaltender behind the initial defender and to also put a defender be a wall to stop Kuminga from driving into the middle of the paint.

The Warriors are trying different concepts to try to punish this goalie-wall defense, and we look at 7 ideas to counter the new defense. And I think some of these ideas are going to work, but it just takes time for the team to get organized around it and confident around it.

Co-starring Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Moses Moody, Lester Quinones, Andrew Wiggins, Klay Thompson. With Anthony Davis, Jordan Poole, D’Angelo Russell, Nikola Jokic, Aaron Gordon and Jamal Murray.

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