Currently embarking on a five-game “road trip” in the Eastern Conference, defending champions Golden State are officially in trouble.
Beaten by the Pistons last night, the Warriors actually have a negative balance (3 wins – 4 losses), with a triple problem: the defense in transition, the lack of ball movement and too many faults committed…
“It’s going to take a while”points out Steve Kerr on ESPN. ” We will get there. I am very confident. But our guys have to weld together and find the direction of travel. We have not yet found our determination. »
A beleaguered defense
Despite a good performance by Stephen Curry at 32 points and despite Jordan Poole, author of 15 consecutive points alone in the third quarter, for him also to exceed thirty, the Warriors have not succeeded in limiting the attack of Detroit. Worse, they took a splinter in the second quarter, a 29-9, from which they never really recovered!
“We need to raise our voices” continues Jordan Poole. “A few guys talked about it in the locker room, we have to play with a sense of urgency and put our game in place. That’s what we focus on. »
Far too permissive in defense, with more than 125 points conceded in four of their seven games, the Warriors simply made one of the worst starts to the season in their history on this side of the field (the worst since 1963 according to ESPN’s Stats & Information). The worst for a defending champion to tell the truth!
“The reality is that you can’t fix everything,” Draymond Green analysis. “We must above all take care of the things that really hurt us. Some things that hurt us don’t make us lose games. So we don’t worry too much about those. But these errors that weigh us down and cause us to lose matches, we must identify them exactly. Once we do that, we’ll get back to our game.”
A rotation to refine
With a new rotation with a lot of changes on the bench, including the arrivals of Donte DiVincenzo and JaMychal Green or the more important role allocated to “young people” like Jonathan Kuminga, Moses Moody and James Wiseman, the Warriors are still looking for their balance . And so grope…
“When you play with younger players it’s more difficult to execute the systems on both sides of the pitch, but that’s in no way their fault,” picks up Draymond Green. “They have their part in it, just like the rest of us. We all have to find solutions together. None of us play really well in defense. »
With Miami, then Orlando, then New Orleans to complete this first long trip of the season, the Warriors are going to have to play tight. So as not to be forced to whip so early in the season.
“The effort has been pretty good overall but when you’re not on the same wavelength you can have guys trying to do the right things but it doesn’t lead to the right results”concludes Stephen Curry.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Stephen Curry | 6 | 34.3 | 48.0 | 41.7 | 94.3 | 0.5 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 6.0 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 30.8 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 6 | 34.5 | 46.7 | 35.9 | 81.3 | 2.0 | 4.8 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 18.5 |
| Jordan Poole | 6 | 27.9 | 45.2 | 33.3 | 81.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 15.8 |
| Klay Thompson | 6 | 24.9 | 34.6 | 28.6 | 85.7 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 12.3 |
| Draymond Green | 6 | 29.0 | 61.4 | 16.7 | 55.6 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 10.0 |
| James Wiseman | 6 | 14.9 | 63.9 | 0.0 | 60.0 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 9.2 |
| Kevon Looney | 6 | 23.1 | 65.4 | 0.0 | 54.5 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 6.0 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 6.7 |
| Moses Moody | 6 | 15.8 | 38.7 | 38.1 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 6.3 |
| Donte Divincenzo | 3 | 14.0 | 45.5 | 33.3 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 5.0 |
| Jamychal Green | 6 | 18.6 | 40.0 | 27.3 | 75.0 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 5.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 3.7 |
| Ty Jerome | 3 | 11.9 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 3.3 |
| Jonathan Kuminga | 5 | 9.2 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| ryan rollins | 2 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
