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DENVER – Draymond Green is not a supporter of the latest NBA education points, which he rightly interprets as being largely beneficial to the offensive. This certainly seems to be the case for warriors.
Because they have a lot of trouble defending themselves without being whistled for faults.
"It seems that every game leads to four fouls in the first five minutes," said Warriors coach Steve Kerr on Sunday night after the team's first 100-98 loss to the Nuggets at Pepsi Center. "It came in pre-season. It's happened in all three games now. "
After three games in the season, the Warriors have a score of minus 48 (108-60). They were whistled for 81 personal fouls, an average of 27 per game. For their part, they committed 1,607 fouls last season, an average of 19.6 per game.
"Some of our faults are stupid," Green said. "We are in the bonus with six, seven and eight minutes to play every quarter, and we are always fouled. Some of them are a bit debatable and others about us, just ridiculous.
"We have to be smarter. We can not stand there and act as if every rude call on us was bad. Throughout the game, officials will be wrong. This is the nature of the beast. They are human. This is the game we play. "
The warriors paid a heavy price against the Nuggets. Their fouls resulted in 42 free throws in Denver, giving the Nuggets more points than needed to win a two-point victory.
Of course, Green missed a free kick tied in the final seconds. Of course, the warriors were overwhelmed (47-40). Of course, they fired 24.1 percent from behind the 3-point arc. And, of course, they were shooting from behind by 13 with 8:28 remaining.
But no aspect of their performance – with the exception perhaps of their 19 turnovers – has been more damaging than all these fouls, sending waves of Nuggets to the free throw line.
"It's pretty tight," Green said. "We were told that. Defense is no longer a priority in this league. You see it everywhere in the league, with these high scores. We know what the focus is. We only need to be better and we have not done it in three games. We won two, but it took us tonight.
If the goal of the league was to generate more points, it worked. Twelve teams averaged at least 115 points per game. The Warriors, who led the league with 113.5 points per game last season, are 110 after three games.
This is the indirect influence of their fouling, which disrupts the rhythm of the Warriors, let alone their overdrive transition game.
"We have to adapt, if that's how it's going to be, systematically," Stephen Curry said.
"We are not running," Green said. "We turn the ball a lot. Part of that is that we play against a game defense every time. "
The transition game flourishes when the defense forces deficiencies or obtains deviations and thefts. Neither one nor the other occurs as much as usual with the warriors.
"We have to fix it," said Kerr. "We talk about it all the time, we train the whole team. We do defense exercises without reaching, without catching, so you must continue to drill it. It must become something that becomes a habit. We did not arrive this year.
With a record of 2-1, it's not as if the Warriors had fallen flat. But several problems have appeared, and the fouling is certainly one. This is a problem they will have to resolve to return to the basketball championship.
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