Explain: Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry customize old Kevin Durant play vs Kings
Explain: Jimmy Butler and Steph Curry customize old Kevin Durant play vs Kings
by @EricApricot
In this episode, we study into how the Warriors are adapting the classic Head Tap play to fit Butler’s unique style in the 2025-02-21-GSW-SAC game. We look at the play history from the 2017 Finals with Kevin Durant, Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kuminga to the present day. We also perform a celebration audit for Kevin Knox’s NBA return debut.
Co-starring Buddy Hield, Kevin Knox, Brad Wanamaker, Gary Payton II, Kevon Looney, Dennis Schröder, Gui Santos, Brandin Podziemski, Draymond Green, Quinten Post. With DeMar DeRozan, Domantas Sabonis, Jonas Valančiūnas.
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48 Comments
draymond cutting for buddy really shows how smart he is
I watched this on League Pass who uses Sacramento's announcers. As soon as the play was called they said that's The warriors head tap play and proceeded to explain it while the Warriors were running the play. And said they ran it for Wiggins all the time.
The fact he took a scoring play for him, and turned it into a play to get a wide open shot in the corner speaks volumes of his bball iq
I liked the Hunter X Hunter sound effects on this video ❤
Warriors winning chip this year
Never followed the Heat, but watched a few videos on their plays. Bam operated a lot like Draymond and Herro / Robinson were the shooters.
That’s why Jimmy is pretty comfortable already.
Showing the historical context is great.
Steph is literally just celebrating while getting a breather and it's creepy? You gotta chill bro.
dig your vids!
That's why Jimmy's dad don't shoot much 3s as it take away other parts of his game. Like father like son.
Waffles ftw!
You’re perfect this way
JImmy with the coaching staff celebration
Eric Apricot: The king of obscure cultural references. lol Carry On Dude!!!👍👍👍👍👍
Wait a minute. Is this your main channel? I've been wondering where you went!!
Draymond and Jiimmy really sees the Xs and Os out there
As always Eric 😂
The ancients 🤣
I know when your video start hitting again that mean we’re gonna win another championship
i hope Jimmy won’t request a big man too 😂
Steph's celebration is technically called "The Simba" or "The Lion King"
So much in basketball depends on chemistry. I was initially against the trade, but it appears to have added an aspect to the warriors offense that they didn't have. They were too Curry-centric and predictable before. Now they have multiple avenues of attack, another smart ball handler, and a new attitude. The spacing has opened up, benefiting the role players, and less pressure on Curry. This team could be dangerous in the playoffs.
The stroopwaffels came back like moodziemsky
What was E1P meaning?
와우 대단한 영상이네요. 지미의 팬이라 그런지 지미입장에서만 보게 됐는데 오래된 헤드탭 전술을 저렇게 조정했었군요
Flashbackception
HxH Easter egg ftw
I really really love your world class lip reading skills.
Brad Wanamaker jump scare
PUG
Nice video dude
Towel celebration was hiding the dagger 3s , of course.
Not the same play obviously
love your breakdown bro
Eric, thanks! Great post – how they modified head-tap to suit Jimmy. Fascinating, you rock !!!
Dray and Jimmy accounted for 16 assists off of plays like Head tap 😊 … Warriors now in 9th place… Now the real work begins in order to move up more in the standings
hunterxhunter
I appreciate the “Podz doesn’t actually know what’s going on” detail haha. Kid disguises cluelessness with effort and confidence. Funny to watch.
You just revealed gsw secret to the world
Jimmy is a not back to the basket guy…he wants to start at the high corning…he loves to iso in the corner where in he can scam the floor and make the defense keep on guessing…his a smart player…
Love your break downs after a win. Hope we get to keep the wins coming at 4 to 1.
I'm not even a big warriors fan and I randomly started watching your channel lol great break-downs for these plays man. cheers.
We back babyyyyy
I’m very happy you exist bro
Just found these via reddit. Thanks for sharing the insight!! Love the vids. Quick question: where'd you get your insight from? You're obviously educated in basketball
The play is actually designed to create a defense mismatch for JB at low post. You can see BP or Curry try to switch their defenders to JB during the screen. It doesn’t always work though.
Just going to own that I did not want the trade of Wiggins for Butler. I repent in sackcloth and ashes. What a difference this guy has made in a short time. Seems like they haven't really had time to integrate him yet, and he's still rounding into shape, and they already look 100x better. All hail MDJ!
need more play breakdowns like this. loved every second of it