of the University of California at Davis, could prove highly significant in studying bellicose bee behavior, other experts said. Breed of the University of Colorado and Dr. It also is possible Africanized bees do not have this type of social organization at all, he said, and that all or most workers can respond defensively to a disturbance instead of leaving the job to a special group.
"Perhaps colonies of Africanized bees contain a higher proportion of soldiers, or they are better at recruiting other bees as soldiers," Dr. Scientists do not yet know whether the findings have special relevance to Africanized bees, the aggressive honeybee cousins popularly known as "killer bees." These bees, who always seem to be spoiling for a fight, have recently completed a 30-year journey from Brazil and are now laying siege to the southern border of Texas. "This clearly shows there is a division of labor for defense." Robinson, an entomologist at the University of Illinois who was involved with experiments that unmasked the secret soldiers. "The defensive response of a colony is more structured than we thought," said Dr. Alerted by younger guard bees stationed at entrances and exits, the foragers were believed to drop what they were doing and rally to the defense of the hive when the alarm rang out.īut researchers have new evidence that ordinary honeybees, descendants of insects brought from Europe more than three centuries ago, may have a soldier caste whose main job is to fight, similar to that found among ants, termites and a few other communal insects. To some, this circuitry might look like a knot of wires to the Warriors: disciplined chaos.WHEN honeybees come under attack, they can repel invaders by calling upon a swarm of reserve forces, soldier bees, that no one suspected even existed, scientists say.īee experts have long assumed that foragers, older bees that fly far from the hive to find nectar and pollen, were the chief defenders. These things are like circuitry - carefully placed. There’s no flipping the "switch" for a basketball hivemind. They end up forcing a deep, deep 3 from James or, what they wanted in the first place. As Thompson rotates his body, readying himself for a pass to his man in the corner, Golden State, with speedy defensive rotations, has already snuffed out Thompson’s first pass, and then the second one, and the third one. At this juncture is where things seriously deviate.īefore Thompson can reach the restricted area, he is met by a flailing Curry and Klay Thompson, forcing him to pass the ball. Durant gets off of Thompson’s screen and recovers to James, doubling him with Pachulia and, like Curry in the previous possession, James zips a bounce pass to an open, rolling Thompson. Tristan Thompson screens Kevin Durant off LeBron James, forcing Zaza Pachulia to hunker down in James’ driving lane, daring him to shoot - which is what the Warriors want. The Cavs’ ensuing possession starts almost identically. By the time Cleveland’s help arrives, Pachulia already has one foot in the restricted area, where he’s shooting a respectable 67.6-percent in the playoffs, according to NBA.com/Stats. With Curry occupying two defenders, he slips an all-alone, rolling Pachulia the ball. Here, as the Zaza Pachulia screens Kyrie Irving off of Stephen Curry near the 3-point line, Kevin Love flails and hedges toward Curry to cut off his route to the rim. The way each team defends the action couldn’t look more different. In this clip, the Warriors and Cavaliers both run a basic pick-and-roll. In contrast, often the Cavaliers’ players stand pat in their defensive positions unless necessary. The Warriors’ intuitive hivemind is most apparent on defense, where they skirt from defender to defender as if neither Warrior has a defensive position. The Cleveland Cavaliers are learning that the hard way, and I don’t think is going to stymie that learning curve. When difficult, split-second decisions become intuitive rotations, you become the best team in basketball. From flying around on defense to pull 3’s several feet beyond the arc, the Warriors’ players thrive when there are decisions to be made - because they hardly have to make them. In Game 2, Golden State seemed to find that balance somewhere between the discipline and chaos. And we’re constantly trying to find that balance. When Golden State Warriors assistant coach Mike Brown started coaching alongside head coach Steve Kerr, he wondered why the Warriors didn’t run many plays before realizing, in Kerr’s words, It’s this balance between fun and work and discipline and craziness and order and chaos.
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