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Who will help Curry

Steph was fine, but Warriors had very little other creativity in attack. Poole and Wiggins will be required to create an attack that can hold out in Curry's moments of rest. And I would try to combine Pool minutes with Wiggins minutes, because at the moment these are the two most successful independent creatives in Steph's entourage. No Curry- let these two out. Again, Brown often gets minutes with spare ones, and if we throw Wiggins at him, then Andrew's minutes will be shifted just for these segments.

Warriors have something to add to, and Boston will start throwing worse sooner or later anyway.

But Celtics themselves can answer. Their defense changed several times during the match, by the end of the meeting they had found a more working model. Now they can start with it, without missing 6 threes in a quarter from Steph, and without dying on high pick-and-rolls. Tatum is unlikely to throw 2 matches in a row as badly.

But Celtics also have openly controversial spots. Rob Williams spent the whole match trying to figure out how to defend himself, but in the end Boston defended without him. Probably, when the Warriors have 2 big ones playing, Rob is playable (and not always), the rest of the time, there will be problems. Grant Williams ran very little. If Udoka understands that these people are not very playable, then the rotation will shrink to some tiny sizes, and everyone who can stay on the floor will play for 45 minutes (although Pritchard made his way into the squad, maybe this will help).

According to the logic of the series, the second match is supposed to be picked up by the Warriors. If we look at how the first match went, the fact that the Warriors are playing at home, and how historically such things end, it turns out that Golden State is a notable favorite of the second game. They have a lot of things that can be fixed, and they clearly need this meeting more.

And it should be noted that the teams played quite slowly. If not for the fierce implementation (the Warriors also hit very well, albeit 10 percentage points worse than Boston), the score would have been noticeably more modest.