Draymond Green explains the Warriors' defensive plan against Jaylen Brown: force him to shoot more and disrupt Boston's offense, even though Brown was hitting 34% from three. The strategy backfired, but Golden State came in confident off a 3-0 road trip.
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We didn't implement that defensive game plan because we thought Jaylen Brown can't make shots. You implement that defensive game plan because you feel like he's gonna take it up on himself to shoot more and more and more and more and take their offense outta rhythm. Take their offense outta rhythm, makes it a lot easier to beat them. Yes, you usually employ that game plan with like guys who aren't as good of shooters as Jaylen Brown. But in saying that, like I said, Jaylen Brown's at 34%. 3-point shooter going into the game. So you're not overly worried that Jaylen Brown's gonna start hitting threes and start hitting threes. And he did, he made 'em, you know? And so guess what? You go into that game 3-0 on the road trip, you got a free swing. You know, if you come outta that road trip and you're like 3-1 with that road trip that we had, you feel pretty good about yourself. So you go in with this free swing, you implement this game plan, And it didn't work. We move on.