Stephen Curry scored 37 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 123-116 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. Dave DuFour and Jovan Buha breakdown the Warriors defense against the Lakers, Luka’s worst game in LA, and Austin Reaves’ playoff role. Then, the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson stops by to discuss his film breakdown with Draymond Green, Kevin Garnett, and the Defensive Player of the Year award.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Jovan Buha & Marcus ThompsonExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodyRead Marcus Thompson on Draymond: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6248565/2025/04/03/draymond-green-golden-state-warriors-nba-defense/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, the Lakers lost to the Warriors in a big pivotal matchup for playoff seeding. So Yovan Buha is here to hang out and talk about it. And I sat down with Marcus Thompson to talk about Draymond Green's chances at winning Defense Player of the Year. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Actually, good night, Yovan.
Appreciate you hanging out post-game. The Lakers, they lose to the visiting Warriors. It is not the game that the Lakers wanted to have. I'm sure they definitely wanted to win this one. They're 5-5 in their last 10, kind of scuffling a little bit. The Warriors are ascending and actually now have a chance to really pass them in the standings by the time it's all said and done.
What's your big takeaway from the night for the Lakers? You know, a lot of Warriors talk is going to be out there, the defense that they played. But for the Lakers, you know, what do you think about them?
I think this is the blueprint of how you want to attack the Lakers in the playoffs. I think defensively, you want to switch a lot. They have really struggled since the Luka trade with their offense against switch-heavy teams. They tend to mismatch hunt.
And on nights when their jumper is falling, which is actually especially late in the game as they were trying to make that comeback, it started to fall. But for the most part, it was not falling for the first three quarters. They can stagnate and they can settle for contested jumpers tonight. They really struggled to get downhill.
And then once they did, I thought Golden State was very effective with their paint defense. But for the Lakers, it was a lot of just side-to-side movements and actions rather than getting downhill and creating advantages. I thought they did a good job early. They were posting up with Rui and LeBron.
and able to find some skip passes to the weak side corner, got some offensive rebounds, actually had eight offensive rebounds through the first quarter. And then from that point on, we're not as effective. So I think from an offense perspective, you saw Golden State's defense really stymie them. And then when the Lakers are on defense, you got to attack them in transition.
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