Not at all. Draymond is basically all distributing and transition points. He’s there for his defense. Along with Iggy.
They only ever have two superstar scorers and the best off ball, pull-up shooter maybe ever in Klay, if Klay was a guy who needed the ball in his hands he’d be much less valuable for their team.
It is absolutely not 5 stud offensive players. It’s three, and all the dudes play solid (Curry) to great (Klay) defense too. And they stagger the minutes because having all three out there at once gets diminishing returns.
And Wes why’d you like that post? You’re not dumb. 5 great offensive players? lol that’s not what they do at all.
The lineup of Steph, Klay, KD, Igg, and Dray (their death lineup of great offense):
Played the 6th most minutes in the playoffs (which is a lot considering the injuries to several of those players), they played the 3rd most minutes together in the regular season (even with injuries). You overestimate the staggering. Curry, Durant, Green and Thompson all played in 4 of 5 most used GSW lineups...
in the regular season they had ortg of 125, 110, 119, 113, & 110... and they combined for an oRtg of 124 when all playing together, which is significantly above the league average oRtg of 108.
they had a dRtg of 108, 111, 107, 109 & 105... and they combined to output a dRtg of 116 all together, which is significantly worse than the league average of 106
They are all above average offensively, and combine to be significantly worse than the league average defensively. Yet they lean on that lineup when they need it most.
Rudy has a good oRtg too, but the difference is that his oRtg is the product of his lack of usage, and dependence on put-backs or opportunistic dump offs. If other guys are shut down, game planned for, injured, etc. Rudy becomes nothing, even possibly a negative offensively. The GSW have 4 or 5 guys on the floor who can create something, even green can dribble and find open players. Rudy is limited to holding the ball for handoffs outside the paint. Inside the paint he doesn't touch the ball unless he is open under the hoop.
And that sums up the problem. The problem isn't so much that its Rudy, its that we have almost ALL of our players not being able to create ANY offense. You appear to think 4-5 great players offensively is a bad thing... so do you prefer we have 2 good offensive players and 3 bad? right now our starting five has only 3 players who rate above league average offensively, and none of them even come close to 20% usage. The guys taking our shots (Rubio, Mitchell, Hood, Exum, Burks, Crowder) are all well below league average oRtg. I think we see DMs efficiency rise, and it makes sense that it's low considering how much usg he had to bare. but the moral of the story is YOU NEED to spread shots out among good offensive players. That way one or two guys cant be isolated and game-planned for, and shut down the entire team.
Our starting lineup leaves us with one guy who can create (and inefficiently -- partly because of the lack of help); therefor we run 2 players with bad oRtgs, and 3 passable offensive guys who rarely shoot (ingles, favors, and gobert)
