THIS Changes EVERYTHING! Golden State Made A CRUCIAL Adjustment

Watch how Golden State gets a wide open look here for Curry.

First, Draymond is gonna set a high screen to get White off of Steph. As that’s happening up top, follow Payton who also goes there. So as we stop it here, we see that they got the first switch, and now Payton is going to set another screen for another switch on the much slower Horford, who’s guarding this in a drop coverage all the way over here.
And at the end as Curry gets Williams as well off of him, Green ultimately screens Big Al as well so there’s no contest here whatsoever. And this is the best shooter in NBA history we’re talking about so he knocks down this shot.
Steve Kerr made this 1 crucial adjustment that won the game for the Warriors but could also impact the rest of the series in a big way.
And I’ll show you exactly what that was. What up everybody, my name is Stefan and this is Heat Check. Let’s get into it.
Watch all of these high pick and roll examples. Whether it’s for Curry or Poole, or some of the other guys capitalized on it, Golden State absolutely destroyed Boston with it in game 2.
Since the Warriors play a style of basketball with a lot of cutting and off ball action, for the season they were second to last with 17 pick and rolls per game.
Well in this game they had 33 of those possessions which is almost double and that number would have them from second to last all the way to number 1 in the league in this category, that’s how huge this change is.
So as you can see, Boston is in drop coverage on pick and rolls, so the Warriors are using that and it got them a ton of open looks and the Celtics will definitely have to come up and pick them up higher if they want to avoid another offensive explosion like this one.
Another key for the Warriors was the fact that they got a lot from their role players on both ends of the floor.
First of all, shoutout to Gary Payton the second who came back in a major way, playing a significant 25 minutes and just disrupting the flow of the offense for the Celtics, and meanwhile being a perfect 3 for 3 from the floor. Looney was perfect from the floor, seemingly always on the right place at the right time for his 12 points but even more than that Kevon made some great plays defensively and got the crowd fired up as it’s now become a tradition for them to yell out his name whenever he makes a good play.
And also, Nemanja Bjelica, who I anticipated would get playing time based on how confident he looked in those garbage time minutes at the end of game 1 and he was solid last night as well.
The guy who could not get it going was Klay Thompson. He really struggled and looked like he was forcing it at times, taking rushed shots and just overall not making good decisions on offense.
Even in the fourth quarter with that huge lead, it was all bench players on the floor but Steve Kerr left him to get some extra shots up and try to get into a rhythm.
He still couldn’t do that and ended the game 4/19 from the field. That’s really bad and on the road Golden State would need him even more so we'll see how he responds.
With Boston getting the split and coming back home, let me know in the comments how do you see the rest of the series playing out. That’s it for now, subscribe and talk to you in the next one. Peace out.