Part of the reason the Warriors have the most effective defense in the league is because they’re strong on the rebound. They take 46 per game (fourth average in the league), including 36 defensive (second best team) and limit their opponent to 42 catches per game, which is the fourth mark in the NBA.
Except that, as the Californians are small, with only one player over 2m10 in the squad (James Wiseman), absent since the start of the season, they must make enormous efforts to maintain this efficiency in this battle so important in playoff prediction.
Inevitably, when Draymond Green is not there and the level of intensity and concentration drops, the opponent can do damage. The Jazz, even without Rudy Gobert, feasted with a 52-35 victory on the rebound.
“The rebound was our major problem”can only observe Steve Kerr for the Mercury News. “We looked small. We talk about it a lot in our video sessions, blocking on the rebound, especially when we lack size and we have absentees. If we play in small ball, it is imperative that everyone does their job, to make delay screens or to double up on players like Hassan Whiteside… This is an area that concerns us. “
Symbol of these shortcomings in Utah, the best rebounder of the game was logically Kevon Looney, accompanied by… Stephen Curry, with seven rebounds each. Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kuminga have only swallowed five rebounds in total! The two players too often forgot to block, with their gaze fixed on the ball and not on their opponent.
“It happened sometimes. It’s more a question of effort than size”concedes Juan Toscano-Anderson for NBC Sports. “I saw a few sequences like that in this meeting”confirms the coach of the Warriors. “A shot goes and everyone is focused on the ball instead of dealing with attackers and blocking them. We must do better collectively and not stay planted in the middle of the racket. “
Stephen Curry does not go there by four paths. “We need more from everyone. The coaching staff asked us to make it a priority. We have to get there. “
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Stephen Curry | 49 | 34.8 | 42.3 | 38.1 | 91.3 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 6.4 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 25.7 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 49 | 31.7 | 48.4 | 41.5 | 67.1 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 18.1 |
| Klay Thompson | 12 | 23.9 | 42.6 | 37.8 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 16.7 |
| Jordan Poole | 48 | 29.1 | 44.0 | 34.1 | 92.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 16.6 |
| Otto Porter | 44 | 21.8 | 47.8 | 39.9 | 72.7 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 8.5 |
| Damion Lee | 43 | 20.3 | 46.2 | 37.7 | 85.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 8.1 |
| Draymond Green | 34 | 29.9 | 53.7 | 28.6 | 59.7 | 1.1 | 6.4 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 7.9 |
| Jonathan Kuminga | 42 | 13.0 | 49.6 | 30.1 | 63.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 7.3 |
| Gary Payton II | 51 | 16.7 | 62.3 | 37.5 | 58.7 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 7.2 |
| Nemanja Bjelica | 49 | 15.4 | 45.3 | 34.2 | 71.0 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.4 |
| Kevon Looney | 54 | 21.2 | 55.5 | 0.0 | 66.3 | 2.8 | 4.8 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 6.3 |
| Juan Toscano Anderson | 52 | 15.0 | 49.2 | 28.8 | 59.6 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 4.6 |
| Andre Iguodala | 26 | 19.9 | 39.2 | 23.0 | 81.2 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 4.1 |
| Moses Moody | 31 | 9.2 | 38.0 | 30.4 | 82.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 |
| Quinndary Weatherspoon | 5 | 6.6 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.8 |
| Chris Chiozza | 26 | 10.7 | 29.2 | 37.2 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
| Jeff Dowtin | 4 | 6.9 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
