In the nine minutes Dellevedova was on the bench tonight, GS won by 8.
In game 2 he was on the bench for 11 minutes and GS won those minutes by 13.
Also, when he's on the floor, LeBron isn't ALWAYS playing PG - where he's been awful all playoffs. Just because he can get the ball up the floor and call a play doesn't make him a great PG, he's been solid over his career - but in these playoffs he's been terrible. Also terrible in all iso situations and 3's.
Other than that though, he's destroying the world. Like shitting on everyone in every other aspect of the game.
As soon as anybody else is on him, Curry goes off.
I really think they need to trust that. Switch less, just hedge the screens and trust that Dellevedova will recover. I'm sure their analytics guys have already figured that out--there are times when there's no alternative, of course, but every unnecessary switch is just pissing away points.
to hero ball in the fourth quarter or else they might go and give up this series.
The Cavs have no back-up PG, so when he sits, they're playing some bottom-tier players.
If he had those splits and a dellevedova clone was his back-up, then I would be really impressed.
It's Lebron.
What happens when Dellevedova leaves is that Shumpert takes Curry and Smith or Jones has to take Thompson. That's been a disaster, but it's not one most people would have foreseen. I think if you'd asked people two months ago to rank those four players it would have been Dellevedova that was thought of as the "bottom-tier player," not Shumpert or J.R. Smith. And it's Shumpert, not Dellevedova, who was supposed to be the defensive stopper.
...I thought Van Gundy was completely wrong when he criticized Dellevedova for shooting the gap instead of trailing Curry over the top.
The biggest reason he's been so effective is that he never trails. If he can get to the screen first, go over the top, and clog things up, great. If he has to slip under the screen to stay in front, that's what he does. And especially on that particular play, where the ball was out of bounds under the basket and the only way they could have gotten the ball to Curry while his defender was behind the screen was a lob, which would have given more than enough recovery time. (The problem wasn't that he went behind, it was that he had two gaps to shoot, not one, and he missed the second one, got hung on the screen.)
Trailing the cutter is death, especially one that shoots like Curry. If that's how defenders are being taught I'm starting to understand why the guy's been unstoppable.
that open look was on tristain thompson for not switching and closing out fast enough.
Two games to go.
GS looking like OKC in 2012 finals, spotlight is too bright.
Eff Dan GIlbert. That's all I have to add to this.
Who's first to the ball here?
Hint: he's not even in the picture.