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After the third game of the championship game, the Warriors once once more fell in front of Celtic in the fourth quarter. This kind of situation is difficult to imagine in the past. After all, they have the two powerful weapons of “Splash Brothers”, and the stable attack launched. Draymond Green, the core of these three people is the main axis of the Warriors’ team history in the past eight years, and it is also their winning formula in the playoffs. Whether or not there is Kevin Durant who fell from the sky, the Warriors have been the one to crush their opponents in a single quarter in recent years. It is rare for people to see a single quarter being destroyed, even in the important fourth quarter, so the championship game happened twice, which inevitably made people a little surprised and even questioned.
It’s hard to imagine that one day we have to worry regarding the “offense” of the Warriors. This is something that has not been easy to imagine for a long time – although this has not happened, but since the 2015 playoffs, as long as the Warriors have Playing in the playoffs can go all the way to the final battlefield. Although he lost in the finals of 2016 and 2019, he is generally a high wall that his opponents cannot underestimate, especially as long as the playoffs are reached, usually his opponents will be worried regarding being beaten. The Warriors’ offense was crushed, but this season it suddenly crashed twice in the first three games of a series. It’s hard for people to speak the same thing.
Klay Thompson has returned from a serious injury to his feet. Although Warriors fans are looking forward to his return to the front line, they also understand that in the short term, it is difficult for him to be like in the past. The problem lies with Green in the three cores.
From a new type of small-ball center to a poor attacker
The rise of Green’s career in 2014-15 was the beginning of Steve Kerr’s leadership of the Warriors. In the first two years of his career, Green, like many NCAA forwards who were regarded as “no three or four” by the NBA in the past, was the main player in college. The restricted area, but the height is not the NBA’s flank specifications, maybe strong enough, confrontational enough, and there are many means in the penalty area, but in the end it can only serve as a mixed group on the bench. Green, who started 13 games and averaged 4.6 points per game, is where the team is.
But all this changed following Kerr took office. In the first two years of Green’s career, the team’s starting No. 4 was David Lee, a rebounder with 18.5 points and 11.2 rebounds, 18.2 points and 9.3 rebounds. At the beginning of the 2014-15 season, Lee was sidelined due to an oblique muscle injury in the warm-up game. Kerr assigned Green to replace the starting position. This replacement made Lee unable to regain his position even following returning to the team. In the end, he was even cleared by the Warriors to the Celtics. It is Green who started the game and then reborn. Not only has the data soared, but he has also become a new type of interior player in the league. His confrontation is not only a problem in the face of the opponent’s No. 4, but even in the Warriors’ “five small” formation. , and in addition to making 1.4 three-pointers per game with a three-point shooting rate of 0.337, he can also surpass one interception and one hot pot, and pass out a high standard of 3.7 assists for players in the penalty area.
That is to say, it can fight once morest the opponent’s long man internally, and defend the opponent’s defender externally. Although the offense has no low-post footsteps, it can shoot outside, have passing vision, and even dribble the ball forward. New forms of various special functions have made Green a maverick style in the alliance, and in the tactics instructed by Kerr and even specially designed, Green’s vision has given “Splash Brothers” an excellent opportunity to play, Let Green and the Warriors system complement each other.
The 2014-15 season broke out of the cocoon, and the next three years jumped to the top. Green has 10 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 interception, 1 hot pot, and 1 three-pointer per game for three consecutive years. Statistics have allowed him to follow the Warriors’ halo into the All-Star Game for three consecutive years, but since the 2018-19 season, the situation has declined like an avalanche. Although the knee injury that plagued him before the season may really have an impact, but since the beginning of that season. In the past four years this season, Green’s average scoring has never been in double digits, his three-point shooting percentage has dropped below 30%, he has even started to miss free throws, and his OBPM has even dropped to a negative number, although his defense still exists. But from another point of view, Green’s offense is already a negative score for the team, and all value only exists on the defensive end.
For example, Ben Simmons, who was like a rat in the playoffs last season, even though his perimeter is really bad, worse than Green, and his free throws are completely broken, but he still averaged 11.9 throughout the playoffs. Points, 7.9 rebounds, 8.8 assists, 7.9 shots per game, 0.621 hit rate, although the second round of the Eastern Conference series once morest the Eagles has become the target of thousands of people, with an average of 9.9 points, 6.3 rebounds, 8.6 assists, 6.4 shots per game Second, in the past four years, Green has averaged below 8 points in every season of the regular season, only 8.9 assists per game last season, only 2019-20 season with more than 7 shots per game, and reached the first two games of the championship this season. So far, his data is 8.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 6.5 shots, 0.214 three-pointers, and 0.3 three-pointers per game.
