Golden State Warriors: 5 Problems With The Super Team In Oakland

Lack Of Supporting Shooters

Believe it or not, most of the Golden State Warriors haven’t been all that good at shooting the basketball in the 2016-16 season thus far. Curry, Durant and Klay Thompson are all nailing at least 38 percent of their threes.

The only other Warrior doing that is Ian Clark, who currently leads the team in three-point percentage.

Next up is Patrick McCaw, who plays under 12 minutes per game and has sat out ten games already this year. Then comes Draymond Green, who is making just 33.3 percent of his threes. After Draymond is Andre Iguodala, making 31.3 percent. That’s it, as far as rotation players go.

Four guys are shooting the ball really well in Golden State, among rotational pieces. Five if you count McCaw.

Compare that to last season, when Curry, Thompson, Brandon Rush, Draymond, Mo Speights, Harrison Barnes, Ian Clark, Leandro Barbosa and Iguodala were all shooting at least 35 percent from deep, and it’s easy to see why the Warriors lineup of death isn’t as effective this time around.

Even though Durant is miles and miles better than Harrison Barnes, the lineup of death worked because teams had to fear all five players on the floor.

They don’t have to anymore. Draymond and Iguodala especially haven’t been good enough to justify leaving Durant or Curry in single coverage this season.

Jarell Martin is not worried one bit about Iguodala on this buzzer-beating attempt by Curry. He’s helping out Conley instead, which probably helped a bad shot be even worse, percentage-wise.

Even though they’re two of the best shooters ever, Durant and Curry won’t be able to propel the death lineup to the insane level it operated at last season unless the Warriors can get Green and Iguodala making their threes, or find some players who can.