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Mike D'Antoni Did Make Adjustments Against The Steph-Draymond PNR Game 6:

They first trapped the PNR:

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Draymond slips which forces PJ to retreat to him, but it gives Curry an open lane for a floater. They tried to trap but Draymond's slip prevented them from doing so.

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They continue to trap, but Curry finds and Draymond who finds Looney who misses an easy dunk. He might of been fouled by Harden, I can't tell.

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They trap again and Draymond finds Looney for a layup. Harden is too late to rotate to Looney.

After the Warriors score at will, D'Antoni switches up the coverage. He decides to switch the PNR and have Tucker guard Curry:

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Curry blows by Tucker for an easy layup after the switch

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Next possession, Curry nails a 3 in Tucker's face off switch

After Tucker gets torched on back to back possessions, D'Antoni decides to adjust back to trapping the PNR:

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Klay hits the dagger off of great extra pass from Iguodala lead to by initial pnr action

There's really not much D'Antoni could've done. He made quick and timely adjustments, but it didn't matter as the Warriors torched every type of coverage.

The trapping scheme worked in theory, they just made too many mistakes in the execution.

Trap 1 - Miscommunication on trap leads to a Curry floater instead of what should've been a Draymond 4 on 3.

Trap 2 - Harden rotates and deflects the ball, helped out by Looney's lack of verticality

Trap 3 - Harden fails to rotate and Looney gets a layup. Capela does a poor job of helping after the initial rotation to Draymond, even tho Looney comes to his side of the basket.

Trap 4 - CP3 lunges at Iguodala when he should be sticking to Klay like glue and letting Andre shoot

I think this is why Kerr keeps the Steph/KD and Steph/Draymond PnR in his back pocket. Other teams aren't dumb, they make adjustments too. If the Warriors did this starting in Game 1, Houston likely would have figured out an optimal adjustment by Game 2, especially with a day of film review and practice. Here Kerr pulls it out in the 4th qtr of a close game, putting immense pressure on D'Antoni and the Rockets to figure out a solution on the fly and execute to perfection. And they couldn't do it.

The Steph-Draymond PnR is what the Warriors rode to a championship and 73 wins. (plus Barbosa, Livinston, etc).