The role of a second five? ” It’s not about stepping in and taking advantage (to score), it is to maintain this advantage. This is the vision of Draymond Green about his substitute teammates, whose production has raised a lot of questions since the start of the season.
The Athletic reports that the Warriors have scored 121 points more than their opponents since the start of the season when Stephen Curry was on the game (nearly 600 minutes in total), but that they were beaten by a score of 145 points when the leader on the bench.
How to remedy this “Curry dependence” and above all to ensure that this “second unit” runs better? Steve Kerr thinks he has found the beginning of an answer for a few games by using Draymond Green as the hub of this second five. ” It seems to work, we will continue to do so “, announces the coach who started the 2nd and 4th quarter of the match against the Clippers with Jordan Poole, Donte DiVincenzo, Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Lamb and Green therefore.
“ If the front five fails to take the lead, the job is to slow down and stabilize the game. That’s what I focused on. I’m just trying to help this five play as much as possible without making mistakes. “, describes the latter. A winning bet against the Clippers, certainly deprived of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, since on these two quarter starts, the Warriors widened the gap in their favor.
Slowing down with substitutes
For Draymond Green, the key to this good functioning is to slow down the pace of the game of the substitutes supposed, according to him, to play more slowly than the holders. ” This five should be more methodical. There should be more systems, structured moves as opposed to random moves and attacks. For me it’s just about trying to slow down that five and then most importantly making sure that that five defends “, Continues the former defender of the year, which we however saw leaving in transition to serve Anthony Lamb well under the circle.
Because who says good defensive streaks, says possibilities to go on the counter-attack, and thus to boost the confidence of these substitutes. The interest also being for Jordan Poole to benefit a little more from the game vision of one of the best interior passers in history. ” The more comfortable Jordan feels with me in this group, the more it frees him in transition. It must be a priority for this group. »
What about the pivot then? Steve Kerr doesn’t form “, Believing that the combination between Draymond Green and Anthony Lamb works well enough. Using Green in this way, the Warriors have already done so in the past.
” It’s not something we’ve been doing for a while. But it’s not like I have to adapt to anything new. Saying that, what is the risk? I see it more as a safety net than a risk. ‘Cause we both can (with Curry) rotate a group in attack. This is the most important, especially for this second five: who will set the group in motion? Currently, Draymond Green.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Stephen Curry | 17 | 34.6 | 52.4 | 44.4 | 90.3 | 0.6 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 31.6 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 17 | 33.2 | 50.6 | 43.5 | 69.4 | 1.5 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 19.1 |
| Klay Thompson | 15 | 29.2 | 39.3 | 37.9 | 80.8 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 17.3 |
| Jordan Poole | 19 | 27.7 | 40.7 | 31.3 | 83.6 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 4.3 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 15.7 |
| Draymond Green | 17 | 30.4 | 57.7 | 33.3 | 68.0 | 0.6 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 7.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 7.9 |
| James Wiseman | 11 | 13.4 | 58.8 | 0.0 | 65.2 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 6.8 |
| Anthony Lamb | 11 | 20.1 | 52.8 | 41.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 6.4 |
| Ty Jerome | 9 | 16.3 | 52.9 | 41.2 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 6.1 |
| Kevon Looney | 19 | 22.6 | 64.1 | 0.0 | 60.9 | 2.1 | 4.5 | 6.6 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 6.0 |
| Jamychal Green | 16 | 16.9 | 47.5 | 21.4 | 83.3 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Jonathan Kuminga | 15 | 14.9 | 38.0 | 24.2 | 84.2 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 5.6 |
| Moses Moody | 17 | 15.5 | 39.4 | 32.6 | 81.8 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 5.2 |
| Donte Divincenzo | 11 | 16.4 | 37.2 | 32.3 | 71.4 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 4.3 |
| Patrick Baldwin, Jr. | 4 | 6.0 | 40.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| ryan rollins | 7 | 6.1 | 33.3 | 37.5 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 2.1 |
