Cleveland Cavaliers: What To Do Against The Golden State Warriors

Step Two: Keep designated catch-and-shoot players in their role

Channing Frye, Kyle Korver, and Smith need to play their three-point specialist role and they need to play those roles without trying to expand them. Part of this is because players like Frye, Korver and Smith are prone to turnovers when they put the ball on the floor.

It’s also because players like Frye, Korver and Smith are three of the great three-point specialists in the league and they should use their talent to the best of their ability. That means they should stand as far as they possibly can from the three-point line to give LeBron James and Kyrie Irving space to drive, and as defenders collapse into the paint, to kick it back out past the three where there defenders will be too far away to give a fair contest.

That will maximize the team’s potential more than them trying to put the ball on the floor and operate as a true triple-threat (a player able to pass, drive, or shoot).

The biggest culprit of “doing too much” is Frye, who is only converting 44.2 percent of his shots in two-point range and 38.1 percent of his shots in the paint (non-restricted area). He’s making 33.3 percent of his pull-up attempts in two-point range. He also only converts 33.3 percent of his shots after taking 3 or more dribbles.