Finally got to watch the game thanks to the link
@Meny provided. Some thoughts:
- intensity was off the charts
- Durant is going to cause us some issues with is ability to get to the basket. Other than LeBron, we don't really have anyone to guard him and stop him from doing that. And we don't want LeBron to have to bust his ass every defensive possession trying to stop him. Luckily, they really seemed to just go to Durant iso for much of the last 5 minutes. Hopefuly their offense devolves into this when the going gets tough in the 4th if we see them in the Finals.
- LeBron was phenomenal in the 3rd, Kyrie phenomenal in the 4th
- Liggins did an awesome job and definitely got in Curry's head. He really is Delly 2.0 - bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic. With that said, I'd really like to see us try to involve Liggins more offensively. He's still pretty timid and we don't really look for him. If we can get him confident offensively, he becomes that much more valuable to us. Against lesser teams, i'm talking about specifically running plays for him - let him shoot 10 threes in one game, really try to boost the confidence.
- Would like to see us go to Kevin more. He looked like he was able to hang well enough defensively and I think we should be able to use him more the exploit GS's lack of size
- Finding a good lineup to give Frye some minutes against was huge by Lue. Gave us 10 quick points in the 2nd quarter.
- We are definitely in their heads. We could have played a lot better early on and been ahead for most of the game. At the same time, they did not make a lot of open shots early on either, and had some chances to really balloon the lead on us. It will be interesting to see the second game at GS and see how we respond there.