Joe Viray

I think the #1 tip I can give is to not only watch an entire game of basketball but watch what happens off of the ball. Watch how players are screening, how defenders are denying screens from being used. The routes shooters and cutters take, and also the routes defenders take to chase. How roaming defenders cover the floor, how helpers help and how they are helped. Etc.

Nothing else to garner from this game other than the fact that the Warriors missing 99% of their offense due to an oblique tear -- against an elite team with an all-world defensive anchor -- results in *this*

Yax has plenty to work on from tonight's game.

Spurs defense is a look he hasn't seen before, but also -- the blend of indecisiveness/passiveness coupled with the lack of juice on his midrangers and floaters stood out like sore thumbs.

He had a few good reads on pick-and-roll passes but none of them were converted by teammates.

Before tonight the Warriors had a net rating of +3.2 in non-Steph minutes.

That's going to swing the other way HARD after this game.

You wanna break someone's mind who hasn't watched the NBA since the 1990s or 2000s? Show them this clip.