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After Game 1 … you just had to feel it for 48 minutes just to understand it was totally different than the Sacramento series (in the first round). They have a certain system that tries to funnel everything to the paint where he’s usually standing and disrupting a lot. He’s got size,” said Curry, who had 27 points, eight assists and was plus-12. And in the interest of learning how the Warriors themselves saw this massive factor in the series, I polled their room, so to speak, afterward. The threat of his domineering presence, at least for now, was mostly nullified.īut does that mean the Warriors finally figured AD out on the defensive end? They’re not about to make a claim so bold, but this was the kind of marked improvement that could give them a legitimate chance at becoming just the 14th team in league history to recover from a 3-1 deficit. The Warriors ran more pick-and-rolls in Davis’ direction, forcing him into the kind of perimeter action that ensured he was nowhere near the rim for much of the night. Green hit the 20-point mark for just the second time all season, and Davis went without a block for the second consecutive game while finishing with a team-worst minus-22 mark. Sure enough, Game 5 was different - from Green on down. And that was a couple of (their) adjustments for sure.”
But if they’re not collapsing in the paint, you’ve got to take the layups to make them honor you at the rim first. You watch it, and you’ve still got to be aggressive and make them collapse in the paint, and then that’s when we get our kickouts. “But there’s always a balance of a level of respect and sometimes too much respect. “When you go into the series, and you know what (Davis) has been doing throughout the playoffs, there’s a level of respect for him and his shotblocking at the rim,” Warriors guard Donte DiVincenzo told The Athletic. Draymond Green, more than anyone, was passing up wide open looks down low while forcing his teammates to fire off unexpected looks. Still, it wasn’t hard to see that the Warriors were overcorrecting to combat Davis’ impact far too often. For all the discussion about his Jekyll-and-Hyde offense, he was in the process of putting together one of the more memorable defensive stretches we’ve seen in postseason basketball. Davis had 11 blocks in all during that stretch, with his rebounding (14.5 per in the first four games) a massive factor in this matchup too.
Given how the first three games of this series went, no one can blame the Warriors for second-guessing every decision they made in the painted area.
“He seems to be doing really good already. “Yeah, obviously everyone saw he took a shot to the head, but we just checked in on him,” Ham said. Lakers coach Darvin Ham shared few specifics about his condition, but the mood from both him and sources close to Davis was optimistic in the immediate aftermath of it all. For all the compelling subplots that come with this matchup, the ultimate outcome is really that simple.Īccording to TNT’s Chris Haynes, the early signs indicated that Davis avoided a concussion and, thus, would presumably be ready for the next tipoff at Arena. Can the Warriors pull off the improbable here, fighting their way back from the 3-1 deficit for the second time in this dynasty era to move on to the West finals? It all comes down to Davis - his playing status and the question of how they handle his dominant defense from here on out, assuming he plays in Game 6 in Los Angeles on Friday.
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