re: Asik played a big role in that EG 3 near the end

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Kerr on going to small ball to close the second halves of the last three games, including this one

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Sample size would be 3 halves at least, against Boston, Brooklyn and Milwaukee. Looking at the game logs from those games, the centers actually scored at a good clip.

Celtics - Win - Zeller 17/6 Bass 15/12
Nets - Loss - Plumlee 7/7 Lopez 26/6
Bucks - Win - Pachulia 13/11 (a good bit above his average)

So it's not like Draymond is shutting the opposing big down. It could be about taking the other team out of their rythm by giving them a mismatch they wouldn't normally have. We opened the Denver game with Asik trying to post up Faried because Monty is a moron that thought 7 feet has to beat 6'8 even if it's an extraordinarily clumsy 7 feet that can't post up a chair.