Stephen Curry scores 24 as Team USA rolls over Serbia in exhibition game

Serbia relied heavily on their big men, predominantly on Nikola Jokic and Filip Petrusev. The Balkan side scored 26 of their 45 half-time points in the paint, as opposed to only 14 by the US squad. -via BasketNews / July 17, 2024

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Stotts used the “delay” play call as an example. It’s a five-out design with a big up-top initiating action and plenty of freedom to run various action around it, which can shift depending on personnel, an opponent’s defensive scheme or instinct within the moment. This type of nuanced tweak is what appealed to Kerr. “We’re not going to shift dramatically,” Kerr said. “With Steph and Draymond, we’re always going to run a lot of things through those guys. And they’re going to play the way they play. But I do think that we can be, like I said, more patterned. We have to practice more. Bottom line, we have to practice more. I’ve got to figure out a better way to streamline practice, get our actions over and over again into patterns so that we can execute better against pressure defense. … We’ve always been a team that has had to rely on execution and movement because we’re not a great one-on-one team. But with the group that we have now, I think we need more work and more repeatable patterns.” -via New York Times / July 16, 2024