Good post to a degree, but good post. You are spot on about the backcourt being large. It's the reason. They could play defense like they play. The only team that could be built to beat them is Milwaukee and they lack the PG and experienceAnyway, you stop curry by making him have to guard a more physically dominant dribble drive extensive point guard with a higher motor and similar pedigree.
Before derrick rose got injured he used to own curry, Williams, cp3 and Russ and it was not even close.
To beat the warriors you have to outmatch their size and basketball fluidity at the backcourt positions.
Anchored defensively by twin towers with length and fluidity to cover the perimeter and who have a high IQ to defend the broken down play.
The broken down hustle plays that lead to perimeter plays in the fray is what sucks the life out of the opposition versus the warriors because no one employs proper length to cover the separation the warriors get.
Plus the warriors only play small ball in the front court, generally.
In the back court all their players are above the general NBA height for that position and they have guys at those positions.
a team would have run a failed franchise player model around ala igoudala.
As even a guy like klay Thompson would have been used as a failed franchise model player in this era if he was never a warrior.
Similar to players like when Danny granger was healthy before pg13 ramped up.
Klay Thompson and curry are both above the average height for their position.
Yet, people portray them as small players and they are not.
At the small forward position they employ an above average height player ho has failed franchise player intangibles, too.
So, their team is filled with failed franchise model oversized backcourt players to make up for the small ball frontcourt.
So, they have length in the areas before you would be able to play above the rim generally in basketball.
They are not a small ball team where people say they are small ball.
People mention small ball in regards to the warriors like globally it encompasses the entire roster.
When the only person who is typically small position wise on the warriors is at the four and sometimes the five.
Yet at the four they run an athletic guy who is a power three or a wing three hybrid who is oversized.
Or they run a fluid Wing three that is oversized in green at the five who triggers transition play.
If they don't run a traditional five.
The warriors are really only small ball at the four or when they anchor a five. The warriors are oversized bybrule at every other position.
So all the small ball talk is just buzzwords gon awry, in verbiage.
Not the actual real analysis of the team.
The warriors run an oversized unit, except for the times when they run green at the five.
Yet he actually bares down on some Rodman d meets pip type defense in a cotton candy non-physicality based league.
That has frowns on post play as a rule.
So, even then the warriors are not a small ball team.
If they are not playing an eccentric low post style big backcourt based team
The problem teams have beating the warriors is because they won't play an oversized backcourt to cancel out the oversized backcourt the warriors employ every night.
Steph curry is not actually little being 6.3 at the pg position.
In college people said he was a combo guard who was to big to play the point.
When in reality he was an oversized pg who could score and was inaccurately scouted.
by idiot scouts and NBA pundits who don't really understand NBA teams need to ramp up backcourt talent in general.
They don't come prepackaged and microwaveable.
Art Barr