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The Warriors’ unconventional pick-and-roll usage against the Raptors

It’s very easy to come out and say that the Golden State Warriors should just spam pick-and-roll after pick-and-roll and let that be the base of their offense. It’s often not as simple as just having someone set a ballscreen and letting everything else fall into place.

As with most offensive systems and philosophies, the personnel for a spread ballscreen attack needs to make sense — multiple spacers to widen the floor, with a ballscreener who can not only pop vertically; he must be able to make split-second decisions off the catch, depending on how the defense reacts to his downhill roll.