PLAYOFFS WCF: #3 GSW (4-1) vs #4 DAL (1-4)

[sterlingmallory]

It'll be interesting to see what kind of defense they can draw up
Feels like on paper it should be a better matchup on that side than the Suns. Still so surprised that Ayton wasn't able to take more advantage inside.

The Warriors don't have a big but I think they'll be a tougher matchup for us than the Suns. They can potentially put together a smallball lineup that can hang with our bread and butter small lineups that feature Maxi or DFS at center.

The questions for the Warriors are can they keep Luka from going supernova and most importantly, can they limit Brunson and Dinwiddie enough to make Luka a one man show? Can they keep our role players from raining 3s like we have against the Jazz and Suns? If they can then they have a very good chance.

For us, it's clear that our strategy in the playoffs is to spread the floor and let Luka, JB, and Dinwiddie choose their matchup by calling for a switch and then going to work. So the keys for us are finding matchups we can exploit. We won't be able to force a switch to get a big on Luka when we're going up against Draymond instead of Ayton, so we'll have to look elsewhere. I suspect we'll see Luka attacking Steph over and over and over this series. How good is Klay's defense since he's been back? How about Poole? There are some potential matchups we could exploit. On defense, we have to continue what we've been doing and run them off the 3 point line. If the Splash Brothers go off from 3, we could be in trouble.

I'm excited to see how it plays out!