The Golden State Warriors’ regular season will end Sunday afternoon at Chase Center, one of Draymond Green’s favorite games. Fight against the LA Clippers. It could have a playoff impact, so the green will undoubtedly be intense.
But it wasn’t his showdown with Ivica Zubac, it wasn’t the bruises center he had to face. Or Kawhi Leonard. Or James Harden. No, Green loves the showdown because head coach Ty Lue.
“When I played against his team, I felt it was a game with me and him,” Green said.
It’s a 35-year-old green window here, still doing well on defense and worth the year’s best defensive player. He wasn’t as fast as before, not as explosive as he last won the 2017 award. His body has endured, lasting, and lasting, which is typical wear and tear in a thousand games.
But Green made up for it with his thoughts. Green’s advanced knowledge has always been a senior IQ player who has accumulated through six NBA finals and four championships, and he has evolved him into an algorithmic crime algorithm.
He still has some tangible advantages. He is very strong. He is still agile. He also has a 7-foot-2 wingspan, which he waves like a weapon. It makes up for his height of 6 feet 6. Sometimes, he would guard people in the air with one hand, like a fly swatter.
But the activation of these tools is his special skill. This is not a pawn. Not green. He doesn’t want to win the game. He wanted to ruin the entire plan. He did not see the fight with the players on the court, but for the goal they wanted to accomplish.
“Every attack in the NBA is for spinning (defensive) players,” Green said. “So if I know that, and I know rotation…if I see you all do it, or are you all doing it to achieve that? That’s great. I’m going to stand there, f, that’s the whole process.
“I want everything you all think of will be going to this game, and I want to take all of that away- that’s why I’m talking to the coach. … It’s my little fight with the coach. About it.”
What is the monkey’s defense ability in pain? Green sat down and broke five games of the season, which brought his defensive mind together. Watch the video and listen to Green’s detailed instructions.
Warriors and Pelicans | October 30 | Chase Center
Zion Williamson scored 5 of 20 points in this early showdown, when he was healthy and enthusiastic. The green frustrated him for a tough night. He used this sequence as an example to explain how he did it.
Williamson grabbed the pass when he got caught in the driveway. But Green changed his attitude after watching Williamson score 31 points against the Warriors the night before: Give Williamson space.
“I want to give myself a little distance because he’s fast and powerful. You know, fast.” “But I don’t want to be too far from the momentum of the bumpy he’s going to deliver, it’s gon’t moving me.”
Against tall players like Nikola Jokić and Anthony Davis, Green had to be close enough to get a good game. Williamson is only 6-6. So, thanks to his wingspan, green can give him space and still compete.
Williamson settled for a mid-range jumper, missed the serious one. Left wide. He managed to get the ball back, but Green chased him with the trembling of the fly and challenged his shot. He calls it a deflector hand.
“It’s a deflector,” he said. “I need a deflector. I have to lift my hand because I’m not 7 feet. If my hand is raised, it’s a package. I’m 6-5.”
Warriors and Mavericks | November 12 | Chase Center
Two Games – The early stages of the first quarter, the nuances of the chess green game were shown in the later stages of the fourth quarter.
Dallas star Luka Dončić picked up with Daniel Gafford, the left-wing Dallas Mavericks Center. Andrew Wiggins and Trayce Jackson-Davis trap Dončić on the sideline. Green defended Najib Marshall. But he left Marshall to cover Gafford.
Once the rotation plan is below the free throw line, the rotation plan requires Green to cross. Too far from his man would make it easy for Donchins to pass on to an open shooter. But Green didn’t mind the gun.
“I tag Gafford because if you don’t tag Gafford, what did Luka gon’t do? He’s Gon’Pon’Pone, proge, and he throws it to the front of the edge and throws it to the front of the Gafford.
Sticking to Gafford did two things. First, it prevents Stephen Curry from spinning. He is the low man responsible for cutting off the diving big man. Since Green dissuaded the pass to Gafford to prevent rolls, Curry didn’t need to spin and could be tied to Klay Thompson on weak corners. Then, if Curry had to spin, De’anthony Melton could stick with Kyrie Irving instead of partitioning overlaying Thompson and Irving.
Dončić covered up with his rolling man, dribbling around Jackson-Davis and driving the baseline. The double team was with him and Dončić ended the edge. Thompson is covered by Curry, Melton and Green’s Gafford.
Dončić is such a great passer, knowing his only option – even though it’s behind him. He passed the appearanceless hands from the lower right block to the left wing, and Marshall opened the left wing.
Note that Greene’s back is Dončić, who is the shooter. But Green has diagnosed what Dončić would do. As Green moved towards Marshall on the wing, the ball was barely out of Dončić’s hand.
Such a green freelancer’s defensive scheme, seducing Dončić to throw the ball where he wanted it, and then “jumped on the route” and obtained his patent blockade of three-pointers, which was relatively easy.
Green said most defenders run around toward the open player when they see an open player. As defenders are trained to master shooters, they instinctively raise their arms when closed. But Green said that slowed down the defenders.
“When I saw the ball pass, I took off and sprinted. At the last second, I raised my hand. Before my hand was lifted, I was in a dead sprint.”
There was a bead in this game, the end of the sprint and a 7-2 wingspan, which was a simple obstacle to Marshall’s three-pointer.
Strangely, the biggest defensive performance of this game happened because Green and Gafford made the opposite choice and deliberately opened up the Mavericks.
The Warriors have 2:21 left and need to stop. Dončić took a pickup with the then-Maverick Quentin Grimes to try to get the curry on Dončić. Green tries to bait Dončić pass it to Gafford. Green stopped at the free throw line in the middle and negated Grimes’ rim.
Green realized Gafford behind him. He wanted Dončić to feed him the ball. They have been in this situation before.
It works. Dončić passed to Gafford behind Green at baseline. Green was not in front of Gafford. Instead, he essentially brought Gafford to the edge.
“Because I know I can put the ball on the back,” Green said. “…If I come to him and put my body in front of him, he’s too big. He just wants to drive me down, just put it here. I put my body in front of him at that time, and I’m at a disadvantage. My advantage is to avoid his body and get the ball to the other side.”
Rockets’ Warriors | December 11 | Toyota Center
Alperen of Houston had green in the paint of the isolation and decided to post the smaller warrior. The Rockets’ big man is 6-11, 235 pounds, the best person in the NBA, and he returns to the basket. But green works quickly in paint. He used his hands to stop Gun from entering his body.
distance to the left of the low pillar. But Green anticipated his move and used the baseline as the defender, leaning his body to the obstacle when Sun was trying to get back in the middle.
“He always wants to spin,” Green said. “So when he leaves, guess where he’s going? He spins to the right. So now I just have to pin him that way. I can’t get you spinning back to your right hand, you’re too deep. You’re under the rebound.”
Angle is easy to prey. Green stripped the ball, and the Warriors couldn’t.
Warriors and the Knicks | March 15 | Chase Center
Midway through the fourth quarter, the Warriors controlled the game. Green started the game on Josh Hart in New York, a non-shotsman who allowed Green to play in the midfield. Green left Hart and stopped the bridge as the Mikal bridge curled from the screen. Green knew the Bridge liked to go to his mid-range push and pull.
“Once I saw him driving down the screen with a little space, I already knew, ‘Oh, I need to jump up. Because if I don’t do that, he’s covered and shot. That’s his pet.
Instead of shooting his midrange shot, Bridges passed to the left wing to Nicks forward OG Anunoby. Karl-Anthony Towns set up a screen on Warriors forward Gui Santos, which obscures Anunoby. The town then rolls out of the screen, stopping Jimmy Butler in the town.
This leads to a clear path to the edge of Anunoby.
The bridge floats on top after the pass. But Green didn’t follow him. He gave up the bridge and left him alone behind the arc.
“I don’t think he can go through this pass,” Green said. “He can’t pass the ball. He doesn’t even see it. … He drove to the edge. He doesn’t pass.
Once a freelancer, Green beat Moses Moody and Butler spinning and cut off Anunoby on the baseline. Green blocked it to finish the game as the Knicks jumped forward to make a layup on the edge.
So the green starts on Hart, switches to the bridge, and then foils Anunoby.
Warriors and the Bucks | March 18 | Chase Center
The Warriors are only one stop away from the Seal game. Green on Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Antetokounmpo dribbled (DHO) with forward Kyle Kuzma and made the selection. Buddy Hield chases Kuzma and pulls out his connection to his man around Giannis. He found himself behind Giannis’ screen.
But Green didn’t go back to cover up Giannis.
“My thought process is that I’m going to stand on the screen level,” Green said. “Because I have to take 3. We’re going to go 11 points, and there are 11 points. I have to take those 3 points away.”
So green immediately ate the space between him and Kuzma. First, he wanted to speed up Kuzma. He also wants to make it harder for Kuzma. Green already knew that he couldn’t let Kuzma turn and rolled the two-way game on the open space rim.
“Look at where Kuz is taking the ball,” Green said. “He’s in the main trap position. He has the sidelines. He has nowhere to go. … I’ll kill him. Once he turns around, I can leave now.”
Green is busy with Giannis. Butler spins to cover up Green, but now Green sends him away. He has prepared for a second effort defensively owned.
Green is in a better defensive position as Giannis takes the ball further and further away.
“So now I can beat (Giannis), I can prepare for the shoulders because I know the shoulders are coming,” Green said. “I can hit.”
Green did absorb Giannis’s shoulders and hindered shooting attempts. Giannis passes to Damian Lillard in weak corners. The green is still connected to Giannis, which drifts to the left. But when the ball turned opposite, Green had to give a third effort.
He sprinted to the Taurean Prince’s open championship. Green is closed enough to make the prince fake and stay away from the green. Changes were enough to destroy the prince, he missed it.
The play begins with him blowing up their picking plan and ending with a good match. match.
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