The Draymond Green Problem | NBA Finals Game 3 analysis 

I have been waiting for this release, so that I can change my opinion based on the internet's finest basketball analyst

This series is such a treat of Xs and Os basketball. Both teams are extremely well coached and have strengths that are hard to take away which leads to creative problem solving. This could be a series that should be studied for a long time as a look forward into what high level modern basketbalk looks like.

I've been impressed with Tatum's passing all playoffs. Even when his shooting isn't on, he's been able to make the right passes and get easy points for his teammates. Winning behavior from a young superstar!

I love this channel. Showing details, clear and easy-to-follow explanations, neat notations, covering different aspects of the game. Just too good!

These videos hit different when the team you root for loses.

I'm super impressed by Udoka's adjustments throughout the playoffs.

I think a player that never gets enough love is Shaun Livingston. That change of pace at PG and the ability to defend with his length was huge for the Warriors. Plus, he was money in the post working on smaller defenders, using that to create his own shot.

when ben said he was getting the Andre Roberson treatment i bursted out laughing😭.Also those couple of plays when wiggins would blitz to let curry go to a different player is something i think the warriors will do a lot more for game 4 and the rest of the series to not let tatum and brown attack curry so easily

0:10 at this point i knew the warriors weren't going to win it, when Draymond only option was to pass to shooters, he has the ball 3 times and all of which you can tell he has no intention of driving to the ring, only wanting to pass it

Not speaking on defensive value: Draymond is milking the success of the stars around him offensively. He has clearly never worked on his game to even slightly become a threat in the off season. Im not asking him to shoot lights out but his scoring deficiencies are from clear complacency stemming from the offensive fruits of his star’s labor. That and his antics on court are costing his team. This should be an ego and reality check.

The mention of the "Andre Roberson" is funny cause for me, there have been some interesting commonalities with the 2016 WCF, except the roles are almost reversed in a weird way. I don't fully think its applicable but OKC was an elite offense that lacked depth and if I'm not mistaken the W's were a top 5 defense that was highly switchable. In this case, the Warriors are kinda like the Thunder and the C's are like the old GS. The idea of limited offensive depth combined with poor spacing aligns with what both the Thunder in 2016 and what the Warriors are facing now. Depth, especially offensively, was a worry of mine for GS going into the series much like it was for me with the Thunder. Again, there are obvious differences, at the respective points in their careers, Steph is a looot more capable of adapting to a series more than KD was at that point but it just is a fun thought. Also, this series also kinda reminds of the 2004 finals and the 2008 finals. also, "dominican dirk nowitzki" is absolutely incredible

Continuing to attack Curry is the key, mostly just to wear him down with foul trouble being a bonus. He was so gassed by the 4th quarter in Games 1 & 3, he wasn't a threat anymore.

I find it crazy that people say "Draymond got Wiggins right in Golden State" or whatever but Wiggins has been way more consistent than Draymond, Wiggins is a good player and it isnt just because of the Warriors

He forgets they won in 2015 with him being part of the trio with Curry and Thompson He spaced the floor with his 3s, he could shoot it and they also had reliable vets like Speighs, Barbosa Then same in 2016 he was crucial offensively even when he dropped a 30+pt game 7 Ever since KD joined, he stopped working offensively he was sharing the load as he naturally fell down in the scoring option He did not change since that

Love your videos and always look forward to each one after a finals game

I'm loving these finals adjustment videos. Really gives me a different perspective in each game

Look at Ben with the analysis man... So inspirational!

Most people give Draymond lots of credit. I'd like to see him play with another team and see if he can be effective out of the Curry-Warriors system.

I love your breakdown video. Thank man I learn more about basketball every time I watch

Really appreciate all these playoff videos as well as your shooting and defense analysis and pickup playing tips!

Draymond has played extremely poorly this entire series, and not particularly well all post-season. His inability to score, coupled with decreased assists and limited defensive efficiency makes me hope his minutes get cut.

"Dominican Dirk Nowitski"

This was amazing, thank you!

my first video i saw but already subscribed what a good presentation

When the Celtic bigs aren’t dropping on Curry and we’re not turning the ball over constantly I think we do a really good job of making adjustments and defending the Warriors Boston not going through scoring droughts are another big issue that needs to be avoided if we wanna win, we beat ourselves more than anything and as long as we don’t do that I think we’re in great shape

the biggest disadvantage for GSW is the absence of a talented big man ...

this a good one. unbiased. Great review overall. Also loved the humor you put from time to time. Thinking Basketball over "can-you-hear-me-shaking-my-head"

Great vid as always

Was waiting for this to drop and am not disappointed. I've been wondering ALL playoffs why defenders are pressuring Draymond 18 feet and deeper which is the area where he seems to operate the most as a facilitator. Basically, drawing a defender to commit out there while screening and other actions are playing out. Give him the early Cavs LeBron treatment and make him ACTUALLY create out there. Same treatment a Rondo or Giannis have received in the playoffs as well. I was happy to finally see this strategy employed. He can certainly adjust to that, but I think you need to live with not overhelping on Dray until it becomes a legitimate problem because a red hot Curry, Klay or Poole are much bigger problems.

The adjustment to pass early in the drive was incredible. It had GSW on the backfoot and they had to retreat to a zone. Amazing coaching and execution. Especially the no look skip passes. Boston still has an issue drive heads down and finding themselves in no mans land. Must have been 4-5 turnovers tryibg to skip thr ball out on a failed drive but obly managing to svoop the ball straight to a Warrior inaide the key. If Boston cleans this up and GSW cant adjust effectively, Boston wins.

One of the best channels on RU-vid! Great work

I really have a hard time watching basketball because of the style of play but I have a great time watching these videos, they’re excellent and so detailed.

Green is their biggest problem in the series. He has the same amount of fouls as he does points and assists, is shooting 5/19 from the field, has more technicals than 3 pointers, and more turnovers than shots made. And for the postseason, he has more podcasts than games with double digit points rebounds or assists. Not to mention the horrible spacing he provides them which is almost impossible to overcome. He’s made horrible and careless passes and hasn’t done anything positive offensively the whole series, all while being a negative on defense in 2 of the 3 games. He’s not even rebounding well. At this point he’s a worse version of Ben Simmons. Btw gs also has a defensive rating of 105.1 with him on the bench and 113.6 with him on the floor and are allowing 8.5 fewer points per 100 possessions with him off the floor, which just further proves how bad he’s been defensively. As for everyone else, Curry is their only player who’s played well in all three games. Everyone else played bad in game 1 and well in game 2, but then again everyone else was bad again in game 3 (Klay was mediocre not good). That includes kerr btw, who keeps taking out curry at bad points and is overall bad with his rotations which cost them in both games 1 and 3. The most concerning thing other than the obvious struggles from Klay Draymond and Kerr is that wiggins is looking like 2016 finals Harrison Barnes. Yes he’s played well at times so far, but 1/6 from 3 in game 3 and bad defense is Barnes like. Overall everyone has to be better at both ends accept porter (who’s been good when playing) and Curry has to be able to sustain this at the same time if the want a chance to win the series. Game 4 is also must win, as there is no way in hell any team including gs can come back against this Boston squad.

Tatum and smart did a great job of coming over from the weak side on those DHO actions to help the bigs contest late in the 4th. Guys were flying all across the court. Horford going forward gotta be up on those high PnR’s with Curry too

Thanks for the vid

Awesome! Love this type of content!

Serious question: do you do all this analysis in real time? Do you see what’s going on while you’re watching? Or do you do a second watch through and pinpoint specific plays that you want to dive deeper into?

Draymond is been added to the list of people/teams Boston fans hate: Kyrie Irving New York Yankees Draymond Green

The background music in your previous videos is so much better and meshes seamlessly alongside your analysis. Please bring it back !!

Keep up the fine work!!!

Great video! Everytime Draymond has a stinker, some fans act like he's the worst basketball player in history, but he'l be back game 4

Tatum is becoming such a great facilitator

your podcast are very good i always listen to them while sleeping even though i’ll always prefer your videos👍🏾

dude ur analytics just insane gg bro

Watching this was so painful. Draymond single handedly killed the game. The Warriors just didn't have that look in their eye, which they did in game 2. It was as if the Celtics were playing a HS team, everyone blowing by their defender and no effort to recover. Feel really bad for Steph cause he gave it his all on both ends of the floor.

Get this man a coaching job already

I love your analysis bro. ♥️👍🏻

Ime Udoka is so good at adjusting on the fly(besides dropping on curry but I think he’s waiting until later in the series to finally start switching everything or trapping) but he’s so good at the subtle adjustments that make a huge difference

It’s actually insane how useless draymond is in this series.

"Dominican Dirk Nowitzki" 😆 That's how I'll describe Al Horford from now on.

Breaking game film down with a Pro! Great Video TB.

What I noticed watching the footage is when smart is completely leaving draymond, it's when he's on the 3 point line. In game 2, green was cutting or near the dunkers spot. As I'm watching I just noticed you mentioned him being aggressive as a scorer by cutting would be a good counter so Ig I'm just regurgitating info at this point

Green is doing his best impersonation of Ben Simmons :D

These comments should be great… I’ll come back later after my popcorn is ready.

Nice vid!

This is a great video breakdown.

I really appreciate that various bball channels are finally now calling out Draymond on this, i've been dissing Draymond on this ever since KD days and people just keep talking abt the "intangibles" he bring. But fact is, no team is better with someone that brings zero attacking threat during offense. The rest of the team was just miles ahead of the other teams in the past, so Draymond could get carried, but now that other teams have caught up, he can no longer play this lazy non efficient ball.

Klay isn’t the same player he once was either. I get the Draymond slander but we can’t act like he’s the only warrior not playing to his potential. Also, Udoka is a crazy good coach.

Can’t stress enough how good this channel is.

Phenomenal video and game (and job opportunity), those two teams are such monsters, perfectly balanced just like i love, and its a joy to see them going at each other. Ah, and Udoka... What a Coach!!! 👏👏👏

it's an EASY 4 v 5 for the Celtics when Dray doesn't attack/drive to pull defenders/kickout He just stands outside the arc for meaningless dribble handoffs that lead to harder contested 3s for Klay Wiggins and Curry Smart treats him like a non factor on offense lol

Should they start playing Kuminga?

Very interesting ! Thanks !

awesome analysis !

The Nets letting go Ex Nets defensive mastermind Ime Udoka to the Celtics, who outcoached and swept Steve Nash and the Nets in the playoffs was truly a bad move. The Nets will never win the Finals under Steve Nash as long as Ime Udoka is head coach of the Celtics.

The warriors are just too small! They should have traded for Miles Turner (a rim protector that can make 3’s, rebound, and be a lob threat). Draymond offensively, seems to be getting worse each season. Dude can’t buy a layup @ 6.7 🙄

What a great breakdown, thanks

This is the best bballbreakdown channel alongside the channel bballbreakdown but Thinking Basketball goes a notch higher in their analysis. Great content dude.

No one expected Boston to… 1. Make a comeback to the 2nd seed after the all star break and make the playoffs 2. Sweep kd and kyrie 3. Beat Giannis and bucks (w/ injured kmid) 4. Beat #1 seed butler of Jimmy and heat 5. Make the nba finals

I miss the old game, and I'm not even old myself... Less threes, more driving to the basket and pulling up for mid range as well

Ngl wouldn’t understand basketball without this channel thanks dude

This is a high quality channel.

This was painful to watch :( I am losing faith in the Warriors winning it all this series

I'VE BEEN SEEING POST EVERYWHERE ABOUT FOREX TRADING AND CRYPTO CURRENCY, A LOT OF PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THINGS ABOUT THIS TRADING PLATFORMS PLEASE CAN SOMEONE LINK ME TO SOMEBODY WHO CAN PUT ME THROUGH..?

awesome analysis

Awesome video

It's funny to me that most non Celtics fans running around saying JB should be FMVP, yet they haven't watched Celtics until now, I'm all for a Tatum/Brown FMVP i can careless about who wins because i'm a celtic fan first i'm not here pushing narratives, but Tatum willingness to pass the ball got us this far. People don't understand that when you face top 3 defenses your numbers are gonna drop, He faced Bucks/Miami/ Now Warriors OFC your numbers are gonna drop if the defenses key in on you. But I just dont like casual fans trying to pit JB and JT against one another when they themselves didn't even believe in them making finals let alone winning the whole thing, Now that they're wrong about them working together , they try to throw dumb narratives, "oh who's better" just shut up you were wrong about them since the start and can't comprehend what you're watching.

Draymond has not contributed anything really. And I thought he learned his lesson in 2021 when Curry has to fight double-teams because they leave Draymond alone. Apparently he forgot how to shoot the ball.

The work rate is insane bro. Keep it up, this is reminiscent of Dennis Rodman. Crazy

Sad part is that at 5:12 Tatum wasn't looking for the foul, but he was definitely fouled and it wasn't called just because he didn't flail his arms around.

Eme Udoka coach of the year. No question

Jesus the analysis is on point!

Pumped for Tonight! LFG!

Celtics outscored GS by 28 pts from the paint. Insane series, could be the best ring ever won if Boston wins it all.

"Robb is just too big down there" 6:18 😏

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keep it up!

Oof "the Andre Roberson treatment". As a thunder fan I felt that in my soul

Very professional analysis

This channel is amazing, great basketball analysis. Truly gives insight in what is happening out there on the floor.

There's so much more content on this channel than at ESPN or Fox

Coach is really good. Highlights the less effective coaches.

Where do you find footage of the game

This was so informative and entertaining! I don’t play basketball that much myself, so I wouldn’t be able to explain why we’re losing to them when I do feel like we’re better than them. Watching this video is a great breakdown of the creative/effective adjustments the Celtics made. Respect to them but I do still believe the Warriors will take the chip

5:37 Ooooooh of course!!!! That's really REALLY good, this guy is a nightmare so you want to get rid of him as fast possible, if it is at all possible. But i think is both, maybe even more, including collapsing the defense. You can squeeze much more from a option if you keep an open mind.

I would like to see a breakdown of some of the drop coveraging that the Boston big mans (Horford and Williams) make. Throught the series so far, specially in game 3 sometimes they make drop coveraging on Curry. I was shocked how can teams make drop coveraging to a guy like Steph but apparently for Boston it might be working since they up 2-1, despite os Curry good shooting performances

Thanks

This is some excellent analysis. Both teams have adjusted to each other and will continue to do so. My worry as a gw fan is this game being a back and forth, with Boston wining in 6 games. Hopefully my predictions wrong, but good luck to the teams! You deserve to be here! 🎉

Super underlooked point is that every time they went to the rim, Time Lord had the easy rebound if it didn't go in

How do I subscribe twice. Nice work.