In the Golden State Warriors’ 113-103 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves to stave off a stretch of losing nine of their last 11 games, my mind comes back to a certain possession that wasn’t involved in the final 18-possession stretch of the game in which the Warriors scored on 15 of them. Rather, it was a sideline out-of-bounds (SLOB) play ran at the 10:43 mark of the second quarter. While Rudy Gobert protests an out-of-bounds call that didn’t go in his favor, listen carefully in the background as Steph Curry yells out quite clearly the SLOB play he wants his teammates to run:
The ”Circle” play call is a rare one from the Warriors, reserved for situations in which they need to get a quick shot up with the shot clock winding down.