(06-04-2022, 07:56 PM)audiosway Wrote: Really? You do realize that Luka AVERAGED 32 Points, 9.2 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1.6 Steals, and 1 Block PER GAME right?
Dallas just couldn't get enough scoring from the rest of the cast. That combined with not enough stopping power lost them the series.
No one got destroyed in that series. Actually the steals and blocks were right on par for both teams. The real killer was getting out-rebounded by an average of 11 per game and getting outscored by an average of 9 per game for Dallas. That will lose you the series every time.
If anyone got destroyed it was Wiggins shooting 8-28 from 3 for 29%.
The only game where they let Wiggins man guard one-on-one Luka, was game 2 I believe if i remember well. Luka went for 25 points in FIRST quarter, with majority being guarded by Wiggins and him getting in foul trouble. In third, they switched to zone as Wiggins was getting destroyed and Warriors would have lost the game. The rest of the series Warriors knew they would lose if they would playing man, and switched to heavy zone with rare man defense, with heavy presence in paint and doubling Luka whenever entering the paint. We couldn't take advantage of this zone as a team however and this is why Dallas lost.
Understanding numbers and reasons for outcome is a lot dictated by schemes and what happens on the court. Warriors switched to zone simply because Wiggins was literally destroyed and Warriors knew they would have lost the series if continued this way. Even Kidd commented that as a praise and compliment to Luka and Mavericks that they were the only team that forced Warriors into zone. That alone speaks everything in this case.
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