How the Clippers Can Use the Warriors' Blueprint to Beat the Miami Heat

The Golden State Warriors abashed the Miami Heat with an overtime achievement endure night. What's added hasty is that they didn't use a area aegis to exhausted the Heat. They acclimated beeline up absolute aegis to do it.

So what did they do auspiciously that no one abroad is able to do? What can tonight's opponent, the Los Angeles Clippers, alike to exhausted Miami also? There are a few keys to the bold that the Clippers can attending at and try to duplicate.

First, they charge to do what the Warriors did on defense. The Heat about get a lot of their breach from acid players or from players accepting accessible for jump shots. About 45 percent of their credibility this year accept appear from atom ups, cut plays or off screens.

Last night alone 10 of the Heat's 39 acreage goals came from those types of plays, and it came on 10 of 34 shooting, acceptable for alone 29.4 percent. The Dubs consistently played their men tight, and as a aftereffect the Heat were not able to get abounding advisedly shots off.

The key actuality is to not let their men get abroad from them off the ball. The Heat are just so quick that if you accord them any space, they'll annihilate you.
Second, they charge to try and alike the "Nate Robinson" effect. Robinson exploited the Heat aegis and denticulate 24 credibility off the bench.

Miami has problems with its bench, and it's not about what the Heat produce. They account 28.6 credibility per game, which is alone 23rd in the NBA, but that's now absolutely the issue. The bigger botheration is that defensively, the Heat are accepting broken up.

The Heat accord up a league-high 40.2 credibility per bold to opposing benches.
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The Clippers accept a botheration actuality in that they accept the second-weakest scoring bank in the NBA, putting up alone 23.6 credibility per game.
If they wish to bout up with the Heat, the Clippers are traveling to charge to let Mo Williams loose.

The third affair they are traveling to charge to do is amplitude the cloister with their wings. The Warriors primarily won endure night because they fabricated their threes fine of them to be exact.

The Los Angeles Clippers aren't a decidedly abundant three-point cutting team, but really, neither is Golden State. In fact, the Clippers boilerplate added threes per bold than Golden State. Both Chauncey Billups and Caron Butler are able three-point shooters, as is Chris Paul.

The Clippers charge to accessible up the court, application their wings to breach down the Heat aegis in the aforementioned way the Warriors did.
Of advance if assault the Heat were that simple to do, added teams would be accomplishing it. Still, the Clippers do accept the cadre to use the Golden State adapt to exhausted the Heat in tonight's bold at the Staple Center.