UNLEASHED: The Strategy Behind Klay Thompson's COMEBACK

On the out of bounds play, check out the alignment here by the Warriors. And Klay is just gonna slide back, while Poole and Wiggins will slide sideways to close the gap, looking like elevator doors, and you already know that this is the name of the famous play that Golden State likes to run.
Klay exploded for 10 for 13 from downtown, and there were some more interesting plays to get him open.
So let’s go through them. What up everybody, my name is Stefan and this is Heat Check. Let’s get into it.
Right here, props to Curry for the playmaking, as him and Draymond will run a pick and roll, and you can see that Porter JR steps inside to potentially help on the roll, so Steph uses that split second to fire away a pass to Thompson, the defender flies by empty handed and Klay is open for this shot and knocks it down.
The play gets kind of broken up here so you can see the little herky jerky movement, but right at this moment as he glances back, Klay sees that Porter is behind, following him. So with this entire side empty Thompson goes downhill as he gets a beautiful lob pass, and lays it in.
And watch everything that happens on this play.
We got a high pick for Steph forcing the switch by Shengun, and at the same time Draymond screens for Klay on the wing. But as Curry penetrates, Klay also relocates to a place where his point guard could see him and as he passes it away, Steph already knows that this is a splash so he just runs back. And he was right.
And once Klay senses that he’s got it going he goes into heat check mode, so on this 3 on 2 break, he calls his own number and stops on a dime at the three point line and buries it.
He finished the first quarter with 20 points, and in the second this is almost the exact same situation. In transition he looks for the shot, raises up from deep and another 3.
In the second half Thompson continued to school Porter JR with some more offensive tricks.
As we stop it, this is a double screen for Klay to curl out here, but midway through he’ll stop and cut inside with the paint wide open for him and the dunk.
Let’s quickly run it back to see why Green couldn’t help him. Since he’s defending Steph, the attention is on him all the time, and once Curry goes for the curl as well, Jalen is focused on that so he almost doesn’t even notice the cut by Klay and this is what makes this shooting tandem so deadly.
And this is a screen the screener action as initially Thompson sets a pick for Poole and watch coach Silas on the sideline as he did his homework and knows that Thompson himself will receive a pick this time on the wing.
The Rockets got a late contest but still the flamethrower was on and this one also goes in.
Despite leading by 18 in the first quarter, Golden State’s abysmal bench and defense on the road made this a tight game.
Seriously look at these horrific numbers from the second best defense in the league last year. Unbelievable.
So in a situation like that, Klay had to finish the game with a few more hero shots to get to 41 points and get his team their first win on the road this season. Much tougher than expected.
I’m just happy that he exploded like this after I mentioned his struggles in my last video.
Do you think that he could get back to his old self or was this just a one off thing? Let me know in the comments. That’s it for now, subscribe and talk to you in the next one. Peace out.

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