The Warriors' head coach Mike Malone changed the team's defensive strategy in the fifth game.
Utilizing Qin Yue's rim protection ability and the height and defensive skills of Brown and Artest, the Warriors, no longer relying solely on zone defense, caused significant disruption to the Nuggets' attempts to gamble their fate with three-point shots from the outside.
George Karl's frantic experimentation suffered a severe blow this night.
In the current era, given the defensive scale and the tacit approval of more aggressive defensive tactics in this year's playoffs, unless the opponent consistently employs zone defense in the game...
Otherwise, the Nuggets will inevitably face a very real problem in the game—how can they take more than forty three-point shots under the opponent's high-pressure defense?
Perhaps to the spectators, Malone's adjustment in the series only by the fifth game seemed overly slow.
