The Golden State Warriors brewed a culture that won within the organization in the 2010s.
In the 2010s, the Golden State Warriors traveled five times in a row to the NBA Finals, winning three NBA titles.
The Dub has a fantastic system under head coach Steve Kerr and is designed outside of double NBA MVP Stephen Curry.
Former NBA star Gilbert Arena recently spoke about the Warriors’ high IQ system during that era.
Winning four NBA championships in four years is not a small feat. The Warriors did that from 2015 to 2018.
But Arenas is an important reason to believe that the achievement is a high IQ for players like Curry and Draymond Green.
“The system itself is designed around Curry’s IQ and Draymond’s IQ. If you don’t think about it that way, you’re going to be basketball shit on their system,” Arenas said at Gill’s arena.
“Let’s say Curry had a bad game. Check it down and open it, and he’s on the corner and didn’t give him a simple shot he didn’t have. You’re supposed to make a pass.
“That’s a little thing,” he added.
Simply put, staying within the system was more important for the warriors to success than for the individual glow. After all, that’s what Kevin Durant did during his three-year stint with the team.
As a result, when Durant left the Warriors in 2019, he left as a double NBA champion and double NBA Finals MVP.
Former NBA player Nick Young won a spot on the Warriors’ roster during the 2017-18 NBA season. He played a major bench role on the team, but there were examples of him trying to play hero ball.
However, it didn’t take long for Green to eradicate Young’s approach.
“The second game. I heard that. The first game I came out was 20, the second game was trying to do the same thing.
“It was a timeout. I was like, ‘damn,'” Young concluded.
Green has always been the Warriors vocal leader, ensuring that role players don’t try to outmart their team’s system is a key role for him.