![]() The more complex actions are, the higher the chances of defenses being confounded, which increases the chances of them making one or multiple mistakes.īut even the simplest concepts can do the job. Offenses - especially the Warriors’ - are all about making opponents having to pick their poison. ![]() But on the offensive rebound and repossession, he makes a sublime pass on the baseline drift to Thompson, who drills the corner three. Kuminga draws two defenders in the paint after the Thompson screen and generates an open shot for Thompson that doesn’t go in. Kerr had Thompson drop back in the paint to set a screen on Green’s man (Jaren Jackson Jr.), which generates an open lane and layup: Banking on the fact that Green will most likely have his defender sag off of him with the ball in his hands. ![]() Poison #1 is what Steve Kerr was counting on when he decided to open the game against the Memphis Grizzlies with this inverted-screen set for Draymond Green. Do they double the ballhandler at the risk of letting either the screening Curry or Thompson get open on a pop-out three?.Do they switch the action, which generates two mismatches: a small against a big, or a big/wing against a small?.Do they stick to Curry/Thompson and trust in the ballhandler’s man to fight over the screen, at the risk of letting the ballhandler get downhill for a layup?.Inverted screens - especially when set by the likes of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson - are a simple way to create dilemmas for defenders, who have three poisons to choose from: Switch = JK w/ a mismatch /zddTdLXKY5- Joe Viray September 27, 2023.Stay home and no switch = JK goes downhill.Using Steph Curry as a screener puts the defense in a dilemma: Would really be awesome if Steve Kerr brought back inverted ballscreens for Jonathan Kuminga coming off of zipper screens. Prior to this season, I stated on the record about my desire for the Warriors to increase the volume of their inverted ballscreen sets, particularly for an athletic downhill threat such as Jonathan Kuminga. When you invert that setup, the roles flip: a guard or wing setting a screen for a big, or a guard setting a screen for a wing. Think of the conventional ballscreen setup: a big setting a screen for a guard or wing handling the ball, or a wing setting a screen for a guard in certain situations. One concept that has always been my favorite - but used sparingly and situationally by the Warriors - is the “inverted” ballscreen. I find myself going back to previous plays, concepts, and sequences the Golden State Warriors have used in the past and wondering if those can still apply to the modern iteration of a team whose roster has seen several shifts around its core three. The ramp-up period heading into the start of the NBA regular season can be an overflow of thoughts and ideas for someone as basketball pilled (and, admittedly, a basketball sicko) such as myself.
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