I'm not a sports enthusiast but ever since curry went super sayian on the league i've been much more involved with the NBA in general.
What would you say are the points of emphasis that the warriors need to work on, if any?
I imagine there has to be something because there have been a couple games last week where they just squeaked by with a win.
I know they hemorrhage turnovers a lot but most of it is a byproduct of their uptempo play.
Watching them i feel like they do a lot right on the court so sometimes its weird to see teams giving them stiff competition well into the final minutes.
It's hard to mentally be composed and dialed in all the time when you're on a winning streak given how many games there are in an NBA season much rather a historic one. On any given night, teams are going to come at you with their best and it's just hard to play 48 min of dominant basketball. So having a bit of letdown is just natural. If you want some more concrete stuff
1- Careless turnovers. Steph Curry lazy passes, Speights can't hold onto the ball. Which leads me to point #2
2- Mo Speights- I like Mo Buckets but he's been playing like garbage. He's trying to do way too much. Kerr got mileage out of him last year because he gave Mo a clear role to play as a backup stretch 5. You're here to hit freethrow line extended jumpers and take charges. This year you have Mo posting up/driving more. He has this bad habit of bringing the ball down and gathering on a catch which leads to a ton of TO's. Also he's prone to getting stripped off rebounds..On defense, he's a bit of a mess outside the key.
3- Rebounding? Numbers wise they're a top rebounding team but the Warriors go through spurts during a game where the defense forces misses but they just can't secure the defensive board.
4- Defense- We're still a top 5 defense but the defense just isn't as good as last year. But it's not like they aren't capable of playing lockdown D. Just that the Warriors are doing it more in spurts this year.
5- Missing Barnes- I think Barnes being out these last few games have highlighted his value on this team. We can't play the small ball death squad lineup as effectively because Barnes' ability to mismatch against opposing bigs and cover them on D. He's also a more clutch scorer than Klay right now IMO. He's had quite a few clutch scoring runs this year (you don't notice it since Steph is going WTFBBQ on teams). Thankfully he'll be back soon.
6- Kerr Effect/Experimentation- Coaching staff is clearly tinkering with second unit combinations right now which can lead to poor runs (have to do this early in the season to essentially bank minutes for later on in the year). I also think Walton doesn't quite have Kerr's game sense when it comes to timeouts and substitutions. Kerr isn't a quick trigger TO guy but he has a better sense with it. Walton kinda tries to let his teams play out of bad stretches but it ends up just looking like he called TO multiple possessions too late. That and Luke isn't deploying Mo Speights properly (maybe injuries have kinda forced his hand to play Speights more? I dunno).
