Why The Warriors Defense Dominates - Three Reasons It's Unique Among Switching Defenses 

yeah curry is now an above average defender

I wouldn’t go as far as “Elite” but he isn’t a liability anymore for sure. He’s a solid defender for sure.

Steph has been a very good defender, not quiet elite but a very good defender at the guard position, basically since his second mvp season. Since 2016 he has always been in the the top 7-10 guards among steals leaders and among defenders who negatively affect their matchups scoring efficiency

I'm sure it would be a lot easier defending against the warriors if steph wasn't there wearing down 2 to 3 opponents when he is playing offense. Imagine trying to make plays after mad sprinting and mostly failing to guard steph+klay+wigs+Poole.

Thanks man! It’s truly an elite defense, and like the 90s Bulls defense, it gets overshadowed due to the highlight material

@@DrawingTheDefense i got the warriors in six, Golden State is probably my favorite championship team because they have a beatiful offense that requires ball and player movement and their defense is elite because of their ability to play diffenernt types of defensive schemes such as zone or switching and traps.

@@andrewabraham5109 your prediction was right lol

@@ggeist717 😊 thanks

Thank you!

Yeah, honestly I would not want to part with Dray if I was GS. He’s so important to maximizing Curry’s skills

I disagree there is plenty you can do. You can emphasize certain spots on the court to force the attacker away from the spots their best at and into spots where they have less options. You can drive them into help defenders. As you saw in the video you can occasionally deny certain players. It's not always about stopping the attacker, sometimes its about manipulating the offense into low percentage scoring positions or being forced to make a dangerous play. But your final assessment is correct. You do want to create as much chaos for the offense as possible

@@kidkouga92 What you described I would still call annoying the player. Because skilled players will still find a way to get to their spots and split two defenders. But I understand what you are saying but those actions are hard to quantify. So our disagreement is more semantic. But if stat needs would count up those actions I would love to see the data.

Big shout out to Andrew Wiggins on that end

They didn't take out the league's best defense, they were the league's best defense. I know, Boston had defensive stats on their side in the regular season. But we saw in the Finals which team actually had the better defense.

@@qqw743 1st or 2nd best, still was amazing….well, if u may have fallen for the Nike narrative that grossly underrates Steph. At the beginning of that year I thought they would win and thought it’s obvious if u know how good Steph is. But that’s hard with how the media underplays everything he does, sponsored by Nike

Well prior to Draymond's injury, Warriors was the best defensive team in the league. With a healthy core of interchangeable defensive line ups of Loon Dray Wiggs Klay GP2 Curry OPJ, any opponents have no chance in a 7 game series against the best offense and best defense in the playoffs. The Dubs.

Thanks man!!

@@DrawingTheDefense improvement: be less monotone

Timelord is playing at 60% with his knee and Horford is terrible in the post. The dubs put Klay on Horford to take away those 3pt attempts. It wasn’t that horford played bad in game 2, the warriors just took him completely out of the offense and he had no open looks. JB and JT are going to have to have a Kobe nuclear game as the Boston supporting cast will not shoot 15/23 from 3 again, let alone get that many open looks. In game 1, Draymond played free safety and that led to many open 3’s as they dared Smart, Horford, and White to beat them from 3. With the return of Gary Payton II, the warriors defense got even better. He harass JB (as oladipo did) and he actually leads the league in steals per 36 minutes. The Celtics can win this series, but Tatum will have to have Steph Curry level offensive production.

There is always a counter to these types of things, it’s more of a matter of whether you can execute the counter or if your roster has an effective counter available. For the Celtics, one counter would be to make Jaylen Brown a screener, have him slip the screen and then hope that his athleticism will allow him to dunk over the help defense. You know Draymond won’t be the help defender since Draymond is guarding him so as long as Looney isn’t the one at the rim he should be able to dunk over anyone else

@@DR-qd7go I don’t want Boston to win at all but this is really good analysis… nothing personal just straight facts … I dig

I hear ya, but I really don’t think the answer to the Celtics problems is having Horford back down Klay. I think the Celtics really need to focus on spreading the floor much better. Cutting with purpose is okay but that was a pretty sloppy effort overall I thought. Also, they have to improve on those transition plays, I think that just killed their motivation to get back in the game. I agree Draymond on Jaylen has been a great way to shut him down. Draymond is incredible

@@DrawingTheDefense horford is actually 30% fg% in post ups and only 0.5 points per possession. He’s terrible. The warriors would love for horford to post up Klay in lieu of Horford shooting 43% from 3 pt land uncontested

u were right in a way, but gotta beat em 4 times 👀

Nuggets potentially can do it with Jokic on top of their offence I guess, but they have Draymond in that case and Looney is pretty good as well, potentially Wiseman who's super long and athletic