I MEAN, KERR BEEN PRAISED ALL YEAR LONG FOR HIS EXCELLENT COACHING....BUT OPTING NOT TO USE DAVID LEE AS PART OF YOUR ROTATION WHEN HE'S EASILY THE BEST INTERIOR SCORER ON THE TEAM WAS JUST A FLAT OUT GAMBLE.
WE TALKIN BOUT AN ALL-STAR AND ALL-NBA LEVEL PLAYER HERE, STILL IN HIS PRIME...
YEA, IT PAID OFF UP TO NOW, BUT WHEN THE GAME SLOWS DOWN, THIS IS WHERE DAVID LEE IS VITAL TO THE SUCCESS OF THE SQUAD. WE SAW HOW THE WARRIORS WOKE THE HELL UP ONCE LEE WAS PUT IN.....IT'S INCREDIBLE HOW A PLAYER OF HIS CALIBER CAN BE OUTED LIKE THAT.
EVEN WITH THE EMERGENCE OF DRAYMOND GREEN, LEE SHOULDA STILL BEEN GETTING 20 MPG MINIMUM ON THIS SQUAD. THAT INSIDE-OUT GAME IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT ALL TEAMS SHOULD HAVE, AND FESTUS EZELI JUST AINT CUTTIN IT.
nothing you just said is false. but understand why kerr did it and had even more success than M.jackson.
See kerr knows the Run N Shoot game wont work without defense. at minimum a great TEAM defense(per the rank). So he says okay fine.. i have to let klay, curry, and Iggy do their thing and a little bit of LIvingston(who is more of a post player that bogut at this point).
Kerr then says our bigs have to be defenders. everyone from SF down to Center has to be a defender.
EZ is a defender(cant do crap on offense though), Bogut is a defender that can do some things on offense, Iggy is a defender that can do some things on offense, Green is a defender who can do some things on offense. Sorry david lee and speights. yall dont play defense all you do is score. your bigs cant be all O and NO D. it will never work. so you had to pick your poison and they chose to choose defense for the big guys and SF position. now we know klay plays defense too. this is why the warriors are so good this year. they do both, defend and run n shoot. this is not the nash suns or the nash mavs, or the clippers. the clippers are no longer in the offs because blake griffin is not nearly as good of a defender as Draymond. if he was. the clips would be spanking the cavs right now.
But it is what it is. its time to go with some offensive fire power since its not like you have to really DEFEND the cavs.