(free) Explain One Play: Stephen Curry and Eric Paschall Fake A Handoff
It's tricky finishing a 4-on-3 with LAC helping off Draymond
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The Clippers were blitzing and trapping Stephen Curry all game. This HORNS Handoff Fake play turned the tables on the Clipper pressure and sprung Eric Paschall free to attack the basket.
But even finishing a 4-on-3 is no joke with the Clippers free to leave Draymond Green to help. What can young EP do?
From the 2021.1.6 LAC-GSW game.
Using Curry as decoy works well when he struggles to get any offense going, but to use it all game like tonight game is going to lose more games than win. Clippers would gladly let that happen 7 days a week. Time to draw up new schemes to get Curry more open looks.
Blitzing Steph like it's 2014-16. Bev + Kawhi + PG: has there been a tougher perimeter defense against Steph? Maybe 2016 OKC with their length.
I went to look and there are quite a few E1Ps on how we've beaten Steph double/triple teams in the past... I wonder which tricks we'll pull out of the bag. At least a few of the counters involved secondary action/offball action so we'll see if Kerr adds a little more complexity back into the offense.