The Old Explain One Play series index

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This is the master index for the Explain One Play series.  This is a series of short articles, about one per Warriors game, usually using video analysis to explore a single play in the Warriors offense or defense scheme. In cases where something amazing happens, e.g. Klay hits 10 threes, we might do a quick survey of the highlights.

We will keep this updated and link to this from each individual Explain article.

The Explain One Play Series So Far

2016-2017

• Explain One Play: W’s Defense Lassos Brook Lopez (Switching, Double Team Blitzes)
• Explain One Play: Warriors Team Defense Gums Up Rudy Gobert (No Middle, Goalies)
• Explain One Play: Klay Thompson loops for an Andre Iguodala dunk (Loop)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green to Klay Thompson Backdoor Layup (Back Screens, Dive/Pop)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green and Kevin Durant deny Anthony Davis (Goalie, Switching)
• Explain One Play: David West to a Klay Thompson backdoor layup (HORNS Curl Dive)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green to Kevin Durant backdoor dunk (Backscreens, Alley-oop)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry’s seven steals and the improving Warriors’ defense (Switching, Double Team Blitz, Transition Coverage)
• Explain One Klay: 60 points in 29 minutes (Back Cuts, Dive/Pop, HORNS, Stagger Re-screen, Motion Weak)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry butt-whumps AGAIN for Kevin Durant dunk (Back Screen, Rip, Guard Screens)
• Explain One Play: JaVale McGee assists(!) Curry 3, Kevon Looney dunks (Post-Cross)
• Explain One Play: Kevin Durant Passes For Curry Layup and Looney Dunk (HORNS Dive/Pop)
• Explain One Play: Durant Reverse Dunk and Curry 3 from Next Level Split Cuts (Post-Cross, Dive/Pop)
• Explain One Play: Steph and KD get open 3s from fake pick and roll (Fake Pick and Roll)
• Explain One Play: Curry and Green to JaVale McGee Thunderous Dunks (Beating Double Teams)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry butt-whumps for Kevin Durant dunk (UCLA Buttonhook)
• Explain One Play: Kevin Durant and Draymond Green Get Open Dunks (Warriors Rip, Backdoor Cut)
• Explain One Play: Return of the Stephen Curry - Draymond Green Pick and Roll
• Explain One Play: Steph Curry to Klay Thompson to JaVale McGee Dunk (Curl, Curl Counter)
• Explain One Play: Advanced Stephen Curry - Kevin Durant Pick and Roll
• Explain One Cray: Stephen Curry’s record-breaking 13 threes (Early Offense, Pre-screen the Screener, Triple Loop)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry and Draymond Green contain Russell Westbrook (Defense Goalie Shadow)
• Explain One Play: Ian Clark and Stephen Curry blitz Blazers (Post-Cross update, Curls, Elevator Doors)
• Explain One Play: Kevin Durant Alley-oops, Stephen Curry Screens (Baseline Backdoor, Backscree Alley-oop)
• Explain One Play: Kevin Durant steals and seals the win (High HORNS)

• Explain One Play: Patrick McCaw’s two buzzer beaters (Sideline Out of Bounds)
• Explain One Play: JaVale McGee is good, bad and ugly (Cross-screen Post)
• 2016 NBA Free Agency: Barnes max offer; Cap set
• Explain One CBA: Free Agency, the Cap and Durant
• Kevin Durant’s Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Warriors

2015-2016

2016 Finals v Cleveland Cavaliers

• (Near) Unkillable GSW almost overcomes Curry’s injury (Farewell to the Season)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson Are The Screen Brothers (Game 4)
• Explain One Play: Warriors out-switch Cavs on defense (Game 2)
• Explain One Play: Andre Iguodala and the Bench go nuts (Game 1)

2016 Western Conference Finals v Oklahoma City Thunder

• Explain One Play: Warriors bomb OKC bigs with 17 threes (Game 7)
• Explain One Play: Klay and Curry splash to Game 7 (Game 6)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry is not going home yet (Game 5)
• Explain One Play: Iguodala circus layup and dunk (Game 2)

2016 Round 2 v Portland Trail Blazers

• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry and Next Level Offense close out Blazers (Game 5)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's "I'm Back" Game (Game 4)
• Explain One Play: Festus Ezeli (who?) saves the Dubs (Game 2)
• Explain One Klay: Dubs Screen For Thompson's 37 (Game 1)

2016 Round 1 v Houston Rockets

Offense

• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's 400th Three Pointer (Motion Weak, Post-Cross, Audibles)
• Explain One Play: Around the world for a Stephen Curry 3 (Beating Switches, Double Screens)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green wins the game (Pre-screen the Screener, Countering Blitz)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry is pre-screened for three pointers (Pre-screen the Screener)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green passes for layups (HORNS Lob, HORNS Double Cut)
• Explain One Play: Klay ties it, Curry wins it (Post-Cross Double Back)
• Explain One Play: Bogut between the legs to Klay 3 (Post-Cross, Motion Weak)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry to Open Bogut Dunk (Three Man Game, Post-Cross Roll)
• Explain 1 Play: Stephen Curry's Mere Mortal Scores (Punishing Switching Mistakes)
• Explain One Play: Curry & Green punish switches (Screen the Screener, Pre-screen the Screener)
• Explain One Play: Curry and Klay Seal Game With 3s (Wing Pick and Roll)
• Explain One Play: Anderson Varejao creates Rush 3 (Floppy, Post-Cross Splits, Pick and Pop)
• Explain One Play: Curry finishes the And-1 layup (High Pick and Roll, Curry Drives/Layups)
• Explain One Play: How Mo Speights got his buckets (Backscreen Alley-oop)
• Explain One Play: Curry to Bogut Alley-oop Dunks (Backscreens, Fake Curls)
• Explain One Play: Curry Screens, Klay Hits Wild 3 (Floppy, Reverse Pick and Roll,
• Explain One Play: Bench blitzes and breaks Durant (Pick and Pop, Back Screens)
• Explain 1 Play: Draymond weaves crazy 3 to win OT (Warriors Weave)
• Explain 1 OT: Curry & Klay Break Records & Hearts (Fake Handoff SLOB, High Pick and Roll, Get Out Of Here)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry (Not) Going For 50 Points (Get Out Of Here, Basketball Karma)
• Explain One Play: Curry's Two Go-Ahead Three-Bombs (HORNS High Double Screen)
• Explain One Play: Klay curls a go-ahead three (HORNS Curl)
• Explain 1 Play: Curry Rides faraway elevator to 3 (Elevator and Variations)
• Explain One Play: Reverse Green-Curry Pick and Pop (Reverse Pick and Pop)
• Explain One Play: Curry Closes Out the Thunder (Back Screen, Snowplow High HORNS, Backdoor Cut)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's Eleven Threes (Post-Cross, Wing Pick and Roll, Early Offense, Delay, High HORNS, Ambush Pick and Roll, Get Out Of Here)
• Explain 1 Play: Warriors Weave Shaun Livingston 3 (Warriors Weave)
• Explain 1 Play: Barnes Winner From Curry & Dray (High Pick and Roll)
• Explain 1 Play: Klay UpsideDown Elevator to Dray 3 (Elevator, Back Cuts)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's Giddyup Exorcism 3 (Ambush High Pick and Roll, Backdoor Cuts)
• Explain 1 Play: Curry volleyballs for deathblow 3 (Fast Breaks, Switching)
• Explain 1 Play: Curry Dunks AGAIN (w/o Traveling) (High HORNS, Traveling)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's Backdoor Layup (Rip, Rip Curl, Rip Curl Backdoor)
• Explain One Play: Illegal Screen Calls Wipe Out Two Curry 3s (High HORNS)
• Explain One Play: Curry Dunks. Yes, Curry Dunks. (High HORNS, ICE Defense)
• Explain 1 Play: Iguodala & Green throw down dunks (Back Screens, Failed Warriors Rip)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green to Stephen Curry For A Game-Icing Three Pointer (Flare Screen, Hammer)
• Explain One Play: Klay Thompson Turns Bobbles Into Points (Post-Cross Counters and Variations)
• Explain One Odd Play: Draymond Green Pass to Stephen Curry Layup (Backscreens for Alley-oop Dunk & Layup)
• Explain One Play: Draymond Green rides busted elevator again (Elevator SLOB, Green-Curry Reverse Pick and Roll)
• Explain One Play: Iguodala Thunderous Slam Dunk (Floppy, Klay Blitzed)
• Explain One Play: Andrew Bogut's Alley-Oop Dunk from Andre Iguodala (Pindown and Slip Pindown)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry turns two blitzes into dunks (High Pick and Roll)
• Explain 1 Play: Bogut Between The Legs To Curry (Triangle Offense Blind Pig)
• Explain One Play: Three Game-Ending Curry Decoys (Sideline Out of Bounds)
• Explain One Klay: Thompson's Ten Threes (Come On, Son!, Delay)
• Explain One Quarter: Curry Counterpunches The Nets (Early Offense)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's Gravity (Early Offense, Fake Rip Floppy)
• Explain One Quarter: Curry's Casual 28 Points (Come On, Son!!)
• Explain 1 Play: Curry Cold-Blooded Go-Ahead 3 (Klay-Curry Pick and Roll)
• Explain 1 Play: Brandon Rush Rides Elevator for 3 (HORNS Elevator Doors)
• Explain One Play: Klay Sweet 3 Restarts Blowout (Motion Weak)
• Explain One Play: Curry No-Look Pass For Barnes 3 (Warriors Early Offense)
• Explain 1 Play: Barnes Tries To Be Not "Terrible" (HORNS Elbow Get)
• Explain One Play: Thunderous Green-Ezeli Alley-oop Dunk (Recycled Double Screen)
• Explain 1 Play: Busted Elevator = Draymond Wins (Elevator Doors, Baseline Out of Bounds)
• Explain One Play: Curry & Green's Favorite Play (High Pick and Roll)
• Explain 1 Play: Iguodala's Last-Gasp 3 Saves W's (Split Screen, Sideline Out of Bounds)
• Explain 1 Play: Awesome Curry Bank Shot And-1 (Warriors Rip, Floppy, Curl)
• Explain One Play: Curry Screen = Barnes Dunk AGAIN (Warriors Rip)
• Explain One Play: Warriors + Floppy = Klay 3 (Floppy)
• One Play: Warriors + Triangle Offense = Barnes 3 (Post-Cross/Guard Squeeze)
• One Play: The W's Stop and Steal a Clippers Play (High HORNS)
• One Play: That Absurd No-Look Backwards Curry Pass (Simple Pick and Roll)
• One Play: 2 Spurs Recipes + Curry = Klay 3 (Hammer and Triple Loop)
• One Warriors Play: Spurs Play + Curry = Bogut Dunk (Motion Strong)
• Two Wild Threes from a Wild Game Three (Post-Cross)
• How the Warriors fought the blitz in Boston, Brooklyn (HORNS, Pick and Roll, Blitz)
• Understanding the Warriors Weave (The Weave!)
• Notes on Turnovers: The Movie!
• Notes on GSW's New Offense: Deception & Motion (HORNS and Post-Cross)
• Notes on the Warriors' new offense: Feeding the post (Basic Principles, Post-Cross)

Defense

• Explain One Play: Curry finishes the And-1 layup (Guarding Anthony Davis, Goalie)
• Explain One Play: The bench blitzes and breaks Durant (Blitzing Double Teams, Goalie)
• Explain One Overtime: Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson Break Records and Hearts (Switching, Blitzing Double Teams)
• Explain One Play: Little Warriors swarm DeAndre Jordan (Switching, Lobs, Small Ball vs Bigs)
• Explain 1 Play: Curry volleyballs for deathblow 3 (Fast Breaks, Switching)
• Explain One Play: Stephen Curry's Backdoor Layup (Switching)
• Explain One Play: Curry Dunks. Yes, Curry Dunks. (High HORNS, ICE Defense)
• Explain One Quarter: Curry Counterpunches The Nets (Switching, ICE, Defense Into Early Offense)
• Explain One Play: Curry & Green's Favorite Play (High Pick and Roll)
• Explain One Play: Warriors Swarm Drummond (Post Double Teams)
• Guardin' Harden: The New Warriors Defense (Strong Side Goalie)
• Breakdown of Wild Ending of Rockets-Warriors G2 (Perimeter Double Team)
• Slowing (and Freeing) Anthony Davis: A chess match (Strong Side Goalie)
• Barnes Plays Big and Bold (and Bad) (Strong Side Goalie, Switching)
• Steph Curry Is Awesome At Defense (Post Switches)
• Notes on the Warriors' defense (ICE, Switching and Sagging)

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