The warriors closing lineup....can any team match up ?

[Malta]

Cleveland possibly could if healthy

Irving
Shumpert
Smith
James
Thompson

Nah, you need Love's offense to get them to rotate, if you have Thompson out there they won't respect his offense.

The key to beating that small lineup is having offense at all 5 spots.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

They are unstoppable because that is an incredible passing lineup

 

[Doin2Much Williams]

The problem is opposing teams keep trying to feed the post (often uncharacteristically), but the Warriors swarm them and either force a turnover or bad shot, and somehow rebound well enough to get the stop.

Barnes and Green can guard these bigger players somehow. They got the juice...

*in scott stapp voice*



"With arms... WIDE OPUUNNNNNN!!!"




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[Shadow King]

Smith would come in for Deandre. Deandre ain't doing shyt on the court no way except dunking so why not bring Smith in? Or you could bring in Pierce

Lineup could be Cp3, Redikkk or Lance, Crawford, Smith or Pierce, and Blake

It's definitely worth a try.

I wouldn't like Crawford in a 3 guard unit defensively unless you take him out for Redikk and let Lance stay. And swapping out Smith for DeAndre can work if he stops shooting fukking 3's

Clips went out and got the personnel to come out the West it's just about how smart they can play

 

[Osmosis]

Clippers should have tried

CP3
Jamal Crawford or Austin (since JJ was out)
Stephenson
Blake
Josh Smith

But Doc didn't want to take Deandre out even though he is a liability going against such a fast lineup

 

[Full Measures]

They are unstoppable because that is an incredible passing lineup

They aren't unstoppable

 

[Leonard Washington]

I don't trust JR

In this lineup your not counting on him to do too much though

Nah, you need Love's offense to get them to rotate, if you have Thompson out there they won't respect his offense.

The key to beating that small lineup is having offense at all 5 spots.

True, Cleveland has options they can throw out on the court when healthy during crunch time

They could go
Kyrie
Williams
Shump
James
Love

as well

 

[Shadow King]

In this lineup your not counting on him to do too much though


True, Cleveland has options they can throw out on the court when healthy during crunch time

They could go
Kyrie
Williams
Shump
James
Love

as well

Yeah but JR is very streaky he may got 9/12 from 3PT but then he might go 2/12 also and if it's the latter he don't do much else for you. And that lineup you just said is an offensive lineup but Curry and Klay will feast on a Kyrie-Williams backcourt.

 

[Leonard Washington]

Yeah but JR is very streaky he may got 9/12 from 3PT but then he might go 2/12 also and if it's the latter he don't do much else for you. And that lineup you just said is an offensive lineup but Curry and Klay will feast on a Kyrie-Williams backcourt.

*I thought about that aspect and came to the conclusion that a Kyrie and Williams lineup could get hot and eat as well

 

[jaguar paw]

Duncan's knees on defense trying to stifle a Draymond fastbreaking or close out on Barnes in the corner

Who would Smith be coming in for?

DeAndre

 

[FaygoMI]

Why in the world would you go small and try to match up. That's fighting a losing battle.

You have to pound the post and have athletic bigs who can defend the perimeter. The problem is finding bigs who can play up AND defend the perimeter. There has to be less than 7 of those in the association

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I don't know why dudes are in here talking as if Draymond isn't one of the better post defenders in the league.

 

[Draje]

Wade
Winslow
Green / Deng
Bosh
Whiteside

I think Whiteside and Bosh are both athletic, big, and good enough to be the kind of defensive force that can handle the switches, the running in transition like Draymond does, and can abuse Draymond and Barnes.

The biggest problem is that you can probably hide Curry on Winslow but Whiteside and Bosh is a nightmare matchup for Barnes and Green. Bosh is a great PnR defender, is one of the best bigs you can ask for at switching onto guards.

But I'm obviously stanning right now. I actually think the Hawks match up decently against them as far as the small ball goal.

 

[hayesc0]

96 bulls

 

[Draje]

I don't know why dudes are in here talking as if Draymond isn't one of the better post defenders in the league.

I don't think he wants any part of the Whiteside though.