Looks like CP3 has fully bought into this Warriors team by coming off the bench (played 30 minutes). It’ll be much easier for him to score against opposing benches compared to starting lineups. Curious to see what his minutes look like once the team is fully healthy.
I kinda been noticing that in the preseason games too but he started being more aggressive in the clutch. Was he always like this on the Suns?
I think he can get away with it more with GS than he did here since when he needed to be more aggressive while playing off Book and Mikal still wasn’t comfortable consistently creating off the dribble yet when he was on the Suns but yeah he would mostly save his energy to take over in the 4th.
it became a lot more noticeable last year.
part of that was that our style of play changed a lot once we got KD which put him in a position he wasn’t as comfortable in - he is a very reluctant catch and shoot guy. when he’s running the PnR and getting to take his midrange pullups going right he’s more aggressive, but even on those he was looking for it less last year and his percentage on midrange jumpers dropped kind of sharply. was still good at them, in previous seasons it had pretty much been a layup though and it was just less automatic.
I mean, he was always trying to get the other players a shot. But there was that time he closed out the Clippers to get to the Finals by scoring 27 points from about halfway through the third quarter until he got taken out with 2 minutes left. That was EPIC.