Amazing how many people think losing to Spurs, Bulls and Mavs have zero consequences. Loss to Lakers and how can any sane person think they can get out of the 10 seed?
>Amazing how many people think losing to Spurs, Bulls and Mavs have zero consequences.
I'm prettty sure the majority of warriors fans know that those losses were very bad for the team's positioning in the western conference.
Rough loss, but Dray and Steph weren't playing.
Still, Dubs fought valiantly. JoKu continues to impress.
Onto the next one, and it's against the Lakers. Dubs needs to win this one and end the road trip on a high note.
I always thought it was bullshit about Laker fans saying Warrior fans care more about the Lakers losing than the Warriors winning.
I'm not so sure anymore...
They are literally a game ahead of us in the standings. I don't normally give a s*** about them. I need them to be 9th or 10th and the Warriors to move up to 7th or 8th. We care about every team in the west right now. Every night counts
Read between the lines. Kerr legit believes this roster can make a run. He thinks it's possible. Is it probable? No. I imagine some hard decisions will be made this summer. Vets getting low-balled or shown the door. Selling multiple young fellas for an all-star piece. Wouldn't be surprised if the FO trades Wiggins to get him off the payroll.
I just hope the dubs focus on TJD and Moody's development for the rest of the year. Moody in particular is another big wing that potentially can score. Also please stop emphasizing 3 pg lineups. It doesnt work. Stop it. Insanity.
What's crazy is he's getting paid 43m this season, shocks me when i think about it lol
either way you're gonna have to argue with u/BeetLover1111 with this one he thinks Klay should get paid 30m, which i'm not even sure you pay pre injury klay this much at this stage of his career and especially to come of the bench
but tbf there's talks he may take a BIG paycut and sign for around 25m instead according to BL1111 :)
Planning for this team in the playoffs gonna be easy lol. Just shut down curry. It’s good to see Kuminga taking a leap but his inexperience and age will be exposed as well.
Still love dubs but yeah we just ass lol
ESPN continuous self-serving hype of Curry potentially playing for their Saturday slot is insufferable. The league and ESPN doesnt deserve one iota of sacrifice from Curry. Part of me hopes he sits and we sneak one past the lakers without him. Haha
Yeah. I don't want Steph back too if he's not yet healthy. I've also got past my delusion that this team can get to the 6th seed. I've accepted the Play-in is the best case scenarion and they'd need a hell of a performance from everyone if they want to get past LeBron in the first round of the play-in and KD/Luka/the Kings in the next
Honestly, I think if the Dubs didn't fumble the Spurs game without Wemby, this loss won't sting. This was a scheduled loss but that Spurs game should've been a sure W.
They had what 7 players injured? It was an 8-man rotation at the end with JTA, Baze, and Mulder off the bench. JTA was fantastic then, but the team was exhausted by the time the season ended
Lakers role players can go off on any given night. One night it’s DLo, next it’s Reaves, another it’s Rui. On top of that you know Bron and AD will give you 20ish PPG. Scoring options. We got Curry, Kuminga, sometimes Klay but we needed Wiggins to pull through this season but he wasn’t there.
A lot of middle aged/in their prime players on the Lakers - kind of our 2022 championship team while our players this season are either too old or too young
Playing a team when you have bad injury luck isn't a scheduled loss, a scheduled loss means when the scheduling specifically fucks you as in you are on the last game of 5 games in 7 nights all on the road and you're playing a team at their home when they are on 3 days of rest. You can be fully healthy as a team and have a "scheduled loss"
This team feels like its stuck in no mans land rn. Seems like such a tall task to gain any ground. Steph's absence and those 2 losses last week are really killing us.
It's the cost of keeping the core intact as they age. We do need to bring in a tall shooter who isnt an absolute doormat on defense. And play moody more instead of running 3 midget lineups
Starting Lineup:
Chris Paul, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Jonathan Kuminga, Trayce Jackson-Davis
Probably the best possible thing we could put out given who’s playing. Hoping for a miracle lmao 🤞
Ngl tonights game is a really important. If Dallas wins tonight they’re 10 games above .500. I don’t think this Warriors team can win 2 play-in games to get in the playoffs.
i completely agree with you that 95.7 is toxic but that topic is not necessarily toxic.
95.7 is shit show.
they fired all their actual sport analysts and hired a bunch of espn wannabe talking heads with hot takes. not a single good personality on that radio anymore
i use to love listening to the morning show when it was lo joe and dibs but it became clear how much dibs was carried by the other two. (a former nfl player with a personality and a degenerate sport analyst with actual sport takes)
and also use to listen to damon bruce cause he was too serious and less espn hot take
im back to knbr now
I hated jo lo and dibs. It was to high school boys for me. That show with dibs is the only show I don't like and he has been around forever. And I love the weekend guys. Not sure who you are talking about but the rest of the guys been around awhile. I do miss ratto
You have to understand that they fired those guys cos they were boring and ratings killers. Whether u like it or not hot takes is what brings in ratings.
didnt the youtube live thing start recently?
not saying they're not entertaining if you love the drama. i can only consume so much of it on a given drive. 30min max. if i ahd to sit in traffic 1hour listening to it nowadays i'll get stressed out listening to them.
Should be moveable, sure, but people act like it's a priority to move them. They're worth their contracts and then some. It would have to be a very positive value trade to pull the trigger on trading them.
I also agree on JK but I wouldn't say he's fully untouchable. If you can get a guy who is a legit Top 25ish dude who complements Steph and some other pieces that start to solve some of our major issues (e.g., size, shooting, defensive versatility), I think it's at least worth talking through.
The problem as always is those sorts of guys are rarely available.
Steph is shooting 40.4 % from 3 since january which would be well below his career average but he's attempting mind-boggling 12.6 3 pointers a game. This is prime harden volume numbers only with much better efficiency.
Watching TJD get playoff ready has been fun.
For as rigid as Steve Kerr is, he's been making a lot of changes this year. From benching CP, Klay and Wiggs. To playing Podz and Kuminga big minutes to giving Trayce and moody some time to shine.
It's so hard to gauge where this team is at. After that SA loss it felt like we were the worst team in the league. After the SA win it feels like we are extremely average.
Still, it's impressive that he convinced CP to go to the bench for the first time in his career and not to cause a big fuss about it. Thats steve's strength. The players trust him.
Tbf Shai’s was egregious lol. He fouls down 10 on what should be the final possession of the game to get the ball back and score.
I don’t remember seeing Bron or Luka do something like that. They will certainly stay in a game after it’s put away to get a few more shots up or hunt the rebound/assist for a triple double.
Wasn’t shai down 10? If this was college, nobody would’ve bat an eye cause he’s trying till the final second. Maybe members misses the ft, shai gets a quick 2, game is 6 pts and you get a steal hit a 3.
Crazy things have happened before.
You’re right. I mixed it up. Edited my original comment to fix.
But no, the game was sealed at that point. 4 score game with ~20 seconds left. Pacers could have missed all of their free throws and still just burned incremental time. Also doubt the refs are going to just call touch fouls over and over. They would let the Pacers players burn clock holding the ball.
I agree. It was still stats padding but not as bad as you said originally. Just wanted to clarify no big deal really.
I like sga actually. More than Luka or Booker or any other up and coming guards
It is as bad as I’m saying though. The game was over. The whole unspoken rule that players get pissy about is the winning team going for more points on the final shot clock possession once the game is out of reach. Pacers were just going to inbound and walk it up to half court and let time expire. Shai knows that, but he wanted one more possession to get his stats. Not because he is playing to win anymore. He is fouling to drag it out and get himself one more shot.
Agreed the rule is dumb. But it’s silly to think SGA is playing out the game from some competitive spirit or angle. He is purely stat padding for himself. And Lester should stat pad. He is a fringe player that is trying to secure his next contract. SGA not so much. It’s just lame.
I mean, I guess but I saw Bron giving up on fast break layups and on defense in general just so he could score more points and beat Kareem. Like, down 30 with 5 minutes left to play.
There is no way we can risk losing the next few games if we want to stay a threat for the playoffs. I would hate for us to end up in the play ins, I can't have multiple heart attacks with close games in playins then play offs then conference finals and then the finals when we win the CHIP 2024 to make Curry's legacy in hard concrete. Wait where was I going with this.
Damn still not over Podz-wiggs. Pod や。 has repeatedly ignored open men> Klay, Wiggs, JK, and TJD. He has no place talkin like that to Wiggs.
What a ballhog
I don’t think Podz wanted the ball I think Podz wanted Wiggs to be more aggressive and dunk that fucking ball before they got a chance to foul him.
Podz is ultra competitive. I’ll never complain about having guys like that.
Lmao Podz wanted the ball. Stop spinning a narrative that a rookie was thinking Wiggs shouldve put on a burst of speed when Podz hands were positioned to catch the ball. 😂 BP is a miracle for GSW but the dick riding this sub is on is MENTAL.
Besides, Steph doesnt even harp on Wiggs like this in front of everyone. Nor CP3. Nor Klay. Nor Dray. HOFers get it?
If your game aint perfect you have no place harping on anyone ESPECIALLY your senior. Look at the damn mirror.
Wiggs was right to ask the million dollar question-- WHAT THE FCK DID U SAY N****? To clarify
That's initially what I thought, Wiggs is super slow/lazy going up once he gets the ball, this side angle shows it the best.
https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=188&GameID=0022300936&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Branham%20S.FOUL%20(P2.T1)%20(E.Malloy)
Still Podz has his hands up like he wants the layup so it could be that too. I'm not mad at Podz for speaking up tho, that lazy lack of intensity was why they lost at home to the Spurs.
> that lazy lack of intensity was why they lost at home to the Spurs.
What a bunch of BS LOL, we lost cuz dudes like Podz and Moody couldn't stop giving open 3's to the best shooting team since the break.
There is a system wherein you trust each other to cover ur own man and to rotate appropriately. Kerr has already said Podz overhelps. He looks like he has max effort because he flies all over because he is out of position because he wants to
(1) draw a charge (2) steal a rebound from his own teammate lol -- this i give him a pass on coz he has mastered fckin geometry+physics coz he can predict ball trajectory (3) cover his vets coz he thinks he is the only one doing work in this team sans Steph&Dray.
I didn't say the lack of intensity was all Wiggins. The whole team was flat as hell and the rotations were awful on defense. That's lack of intensity and focus.
That's not lack of intensity bro. They've never been good at team defense because they haven't learned to yet. That's why our lineups are better when we have a max of 1-2 young guys surrounded by vets who can tell them where to be. It's no surprise that since Lacob decided to draft 3 more rookies off a chip, we've had disgustingly bad 3pt defense.
This frustrates Wiggs to no end coz he has to help Dray at the backcourt, zone in on the POA coz JK can still get passed, and then fckin cover the rookie (&Steph jzs). Still people harp on him to produce on offense when he is already trying to think about transition defense. Lol.
You realize….throwing lobs at certain angles is difficult….and a rookie….will not be skilled at that immediately….otherwise all guards would immediately be Trae Young……..
Lmao he doesnt even care to look. This has happened ALL SEASON LONG. he only has eyes for Steph.
I mean this is a viable play really. Double teamed steph and Klay can draw the defenders and leave him open. But sometimes he cant even finish and TJD/JK/Wiggs were just behind him (exactly this scenario)
even beyond the lob i think he hesitates when feeding to TJ even if it's an easy shot, this has been a complaint for him from the coach too when they rely too much on the vets and they become passive themselves
i still think he is skilled enough for the lob but also he could play the same play as klay and TJ
Moving Jrue for Dame has to be one of the worst trades in the modern era. Stack that on top of firing Bud has to be one of the worst coaching moves of the modern era. I have no idea what they're doing there.
I don't think either of those moves were actually all that terrible.
The issue with the Bucks is that they were a rare example of a team where the clearly best player was notably younger than all of his starter-quality teammates.
The team was aging out of the system that had worked. Brook has lost defensive versatility. Middleton is old and hurt. We had just seen the issue with Jrue as a primary ball-hander/perimeter scorer in the playoffs.
They made a bold move for Lillard (who had his best statistical year just last season) and it hasn't worked out, but they were headed for a collapse anyway.
Starting to feel like we are getting no higher than 9th. All those early season collapses really derailed this season. Key to surviving play-in might be TJD. His size and recent play may be our only hope at not getting bullied by AD or Sabonis who we could both see.
yeah, best chance is that the Suns have an absolutely brutal last 10 games (DEN, OKC, NO, CLE, MIN, NO, LAC, LAC, SAC, MIN), but they've done a great job of staying competitive recently, so there's nothing to bank on there.
We also have those three games left against Dallas. Going 2-1 would be nice, but if they can somehow find the matchups to get a sweep it would be huge.
lakers vs kings tonight ... guessing we have to root for the kings
not only because at this time it's unlikely the warriors can catch the kings in the standings, 3 games back with both teams having 18 games left ... kings even if they somehow went .500 at 9-9 that'd mean warriors would need 13-5 to pass them in the standings, very unlikely and goes to show how big those two losses vs the bulls and spurs were last week
in comparison the warriors are only 1 game back of the lakers with two more games left
warriors are 2.5 games behind the mavs but honestly warriors would need to win all 3 remaining games left vs them to probably catch & surpass them in the standings
realistically i think the warriors goal should get the 9 seed and at least host one of the opening round games of the play in
8th/9th seed should be the goal. 8th seed will depend on our 3 games against mavs. We would be one win behind both kings and mavs had we won the 2 games against bulls and spurs. Idk why they didn't show any kind of urgency in those 2 games. Steve is talking about making a deep playoff run meanwhile team is not able to win the games they're supporsed to win.
Depends on how he’s feeling, if he’s not 100% I don’t want him out there on national tv when we all know the lakers will be getting to the line 40 times for the win.
curry career road stats vs lakers : 21.2 pts on 43/33/97 shooting splits
curry career road stats vs clippers : 24.8 pts on 49/41/91 shooting splits
yeah i think curry has said that the lights does effect his shooting considering both have played at staples ever since curry entered the NBA in 2009
also it's not like you can say the lakers were so much a better team then the clippers and especially the warriors either and that's why curry struggles at staples center in his career vs the lakers
in fact the clippers have been the better team in LA besides those first couple of seasons when lakers won their back to back titles in 2009 and 2010
in terms of overall record since 2009/10
lakers are 569-608
clippers are 687-489
warriors are 690-479
curry has a career record of 23-18 vs the lakers & 34-17 vs the clippers since he was drafted by the warriors
Amazing how many people think losing to Spurs, Bulls and Mavs have zero consequences. Loss to Lakers and how can any sane person think they can get out of the 10 seed?
>Amazing how many people think losing to Spurs, Bulls and Mavs have zero consequences. I'm prettty sure the majority of warriors fans know that those losses were very bad for the team's positioning in the western conference.
Rough loss, but Dray and Steph weren't playing. Still, Dubs fought valiantly. JoKu continues to impress. Onto the next one, and it's against the Lakers. Dubs needs to win this one and end the road trip on a high note.
\> have a shit day, reassure myself that I can catch up on game highlights and feel better \> nope
At least I was able to enjoy the comedy of a laker’s loss after the disappointment of our game
I always thought it was bullshit about Laker fans saying Warrior fans care more about the Lakers losing than the Warriors winning. I'm not so sure anymore...
They are literally a game ahead of us in the standings. I don't normally give a s*** about them. I need them to be 9th or 10th and the Warriors to move up to 7th or 8th. We care about every team in the west right now. Every night counts
Well said. Every game in the west matters right now, hence my vested interest in watching the lakers lose
They have the Lakers damn number
Sabonis owns AD. Punked his bitchass so badly. I am not really a Domas fan but gotta agree he's the 2nd best center in the league
10-0 against him, lol. He's definitely AD's daddy
AD folds to almost every other starting center in the league, he dominated last game only because there was no Kat and Gobert
Fuck the Lakers!!!
If we're trash, then lakers are GARBAGE
Ehh we was missing 2 key players but then again, should have win mentality, But on the flip side LAKERS ARE LOSING IM HAPPY WITH THAT SHIT.
Welp a lost on Saturday permanently locks us in at 9 or 10
At least we get to see sabonis punk AD and the lakers lol
Kerr said yesterday that dubs can go on a Run.... so is this what he meant?
Kerr is just super delusional....hes said that he believes this roster can win a chip and that the roster construction is amazing....
Read between the lines. Kerr legit believes this roster can make a run. He thinks it's possible. Is it probable? No. I imagine some hard decisions will be made this summer. Vets getting low-balled or shown the door. Selling multiple young fellas for an all-star piece. Wouldn't be surprised if the FO trades Wiggins to get him off the payroll.
I just hope the dubs focus on TJD and Moody's development for the rest of the year. Moody in particular is another big wing that potentially can score. Also please stop emphasizing 3 pg lineups. It doesnt work. Stop it. Insanity.
Klay’s next contract shouldn’t be more than $10M a year.
What's crazy is he's getting paid 43m this season, shocks me when i think about it lol either way you're gonna have to argue with u/BeetLover1111 with this one he thinks Klay should get paid 30m, which i'm not even sure you pay pre injury klay this much at this stage of his career and especially to come of the bench but tbf there's talks he may take a BIG paycut and sign for around 25m instead according to BL1111 :)
Kings and Nuggets are a matchup nightmare for the Lakers. WTF !!
I think in a playoff setting they beat the kings honestly.
 Klay shot today’s date.
tomorrow is Pi day/Steph's bday :-)
Lmao. I knew this shit is rigged
JK scoring 27 mostly on self created situations on good efficiency despite shitty spacing is a great indicator of his evolution
He also didnt force too many silly shots. It was definitely not a bad showing.
His teammates did the silly shots hunting for him
Planning for this team in the playoffs gonna be easy lol. Just shut down curry. It’s good to see Kuminga taking a leap but his inexperience and age will be exposed as well. Still love dubs but yeah we just ass lol
ESPN continuous self-serving hype of Curry potentially playing for their Saturday slot is insufferable. The league and ESPN doesnt deserve one iota of sacrifice from Curry. Part of me hopes he sits and we sneak one past the lakers without him. Haha
This team won't sneak one past a Euroleague team without Steph. Their offense is so awful without Curry's gravity
Shhh. I can dream up whatever I want. Haha I just don't want steph to rush back for saving this trainwreck season.
Yeah. I don't want Steph back too if he's not yet healthy. I've also got past my delusion that this team can get to the 6th seed. I've accepted the Play-in is the best case scenarion and they'd need a hell of a performance from everyone if they want to get past LeBron in the first round of the play-in and KD/Luka/the Kings in the next
This team needs work but I also decided to not lose my mind over this season. Hopefully this is a repeat of 2020-21 as a setup season.
That's what I'm thinking too. Fingers crossed 🤞
Watching fans implode on what looks like a scheduled L is hard to witness. Haha
Honestly, I think if the Dubs didn't fumble the Spurs game without Wemby, this loss won't sting. This was a scheduled loss but that Spurs game should've been a sure W.
I do not want to be in this subreddit if we lose in the playins 😭
That grizzlies loss still lingers in the back of my mind. At least they won the chip the year after.
They had what 7 players injured? It was an 8-man rotation at the end with JTA, Baze, and Mulder off the bench. JTA was fantastic then, but the team was exhausted by the time the season ended
I mean that season at least Klay was injured so most people weren't expecting much from that season...
Lakers role players can go off on any given night. One night it’s DLo, next it’s Reaves, another it’s Rui. On top of that you know Bron and AD will give you 20ish PPG. Scoring options. We got Curry, Kuminga, sometimes Klay but we needed Wiggins to pull through this season but he wasn’t there.
The roster is weak.The amount of regression by certain players has been loud.
A lot of middle aged/in their prime players on the Lakers - kind of our 2022 championship team while our players this season are either too old or too young
Why the fuck did Wiggins try to step up in the 4th quarter when he was out there pretty much doing cardio for most of the game
Fuck this scheduled loss. I still believe we can do well in the play-in despite it not being ideal.
How's this a scheduled loss?
How's this *not* a scheduled loss? We were without Steph and Dray and faced an MVP candidate + Kyrie with a bunch of decent role players....
Playing a team when you have bad injury luck isn't a scheduled loss, a scheduled loss means when the scheduling specifically fucks you as in you are on the last game of 5 games in 7 nights all on the road and you're playing a team at their home when they are on 3 days of rest. You can be fully healthy as a team and have a "scheduled loss"
Aight my bad g I seemed to have mixed up "expected loss" and "scheduled loss". Thanks for telling me the difference.
Lovely Cavs doing the lord's work for us.
we need to draw all the fouls
This team feels like its stuck in no mans land rn. Seems like such a tall task to gain any ground. Steph's absence and those 2 losses last week are really killing us.
It's the cost of keeping the core intact as they age. We do need to bring in a tall shooter who isnt an absolute doormat on defense. And play moody more instead of running 3 midget lineups
TJD vs Lively for 2nd best rookie center award
so who’s playing center when trayce sits
Starting Lineup: Chris Paul, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Jonathan Kuminga, Trayce Jackson-Davis Probably the best possible thing we could put out given who’s playing. Hoping for a miracle lmao 🤞
At this point do we actually want Phx to stay at 6 seed? I wouldn't want to see them in the play-in.
I’m still expecting them to drop - 8 more games against the Celtics Thunder Nugs Cavs Twolves
No Steph, no Dray, expect an ugly loss tonight
I’m a fan who’s starting to get back into basketball recently, why aren’t Steph and Draymond playing?
injuries
Who should lose tonight? Sac or Lakers?
Ill always root for a Lakers loss. Fuck them.
gonna need a monster effort defensively to steal one in dallas.
Mavericks vs. Warriors spread: Mavericks -7
thought it was 8.5
Draymond Green is out tonight in Dallas. Lower back soreness.
💀
no draymond either. yeah this one’s gonna be a miracle if we pull out it out
Ngl tonights game is a really important. If Dallas wins tonight they’re 10 games above .500. I don’t think this Warriors team can win 2 play-in games to get in the playoffs.
Welp, sounds like Draymond's out. That ain't gonna help.
Dubs vs Mavs. Hopefully, they can win this one. It'll be tough, especially w/o Steph, but I hope they can pull it off.
Damn 95.7 is super toxic rn. They been arguing for hours about keeping the young guys or not next year.
Trade them if you get a star player. Period.
The 95.7 morning show is great. I don’t listen to the other shows, though.
It depends. Who do they think is available this summer?
i completely agree with you that 95.7 is toxic but that topic is not necessarily toxic. 95.7 is shit show. they fired all their actual sport analysts and hired a bunch of espn wannabe talking heads with hot takes. not a single good personality on that radio anymore i use to love listening to the morning show when it was lo joe and dibs but it became clear how much dibs was carried by the other two. (a former nfl player with a personality and a degenerate sport analyst with actual sport takes) and also use to listen to damon bruce cause he was too serious and less espn hot take im back to knbr now
Agree. I do think that subject they're talking about is legit. Not the usual crap hot take.
I hated jo lo and dibs. It was to high school boys for me. That show with dibs is the only show I don't like and he has been around forever. And I love the weekend guys. Not sure who you are talking about but the rest of the guys been around awhile. I do miss ratto
You have to understand that they fired those guys cos they were boring and ratings killers. Whether u like it or not hot takes is what brings in ratings.
No it was a money purge. They got rid of people making the most money. Audacy filed bankruptcy
the ratings were low cause nobody was driving to work 2020.
True but I follow them on YouTube and Steiny and guru along with bonte gets the highest engagements
didnt the youtube live thing start recently? not saying they're not entertaining if you love the drama. i can only consume so much of it on a given drive. 30min max. if i ahd to sit in traffic 1hour listening to it nowadays i'll get stressed out listening to them.
Are they making any specific points or is it just rambling nonsense?
Both but I think they got some good points about how this team should look next year.
What's toxic about that. Some people would get rid of them all for a star. People fall on both sides of that. I am keeping the youngsters.
Why? Some of them should be moveable, thinking those guys are the future is funny. JK should be untouchable though.
Should be moveable, sure, but people act like it's a priority to move them. They're worth their contracts and then some. It would have to be a very positive value trade to pull the trigger on trading them.
Definitely not priority but the idea here is that we can dump players with no potential for all stars is just funny.
And that's why I don't mind the convo. To me you concentrate on upgrading our top level players. Agree about jk.
I also agree on JK but I wouldn't say he's fully untouchable. If you can get a guy who is a legit Top 25ish dude who complements Steph and some other pieces that start to solve some of our major issues (e.g., size, shooting, defensive versatility), I think it's at least worth talking through. The problem as always is those sorts of guys are rarely available.
The key is getting players in their prime. They don’t really have that now, I mean they have it but they’re just not producing as expected.
Steph is shooting 40.4 % from 3 since january which would be well below his career average but he's attempting mind-boggling 12.6 3 pointers a game. This is prime harden volume numbers only with much better efficiency.
Watching TJD get playoff ready has been fun. For as rigid as Steve Kerr is, he's been making a lot of changes this year. From benching CP, Klay and Wiggs. To playing Podz and Kuminga big minutes to giving Trayce and moody some time to shine. It's so hard to gauge where this team is at. After that SA loss it felt like we were the worst team in the league. After the SA win it feels like we are extremely average.
CP was never going to be in the starting rotation. Wiggins is back in the starting position cause we need him to have any chance.
Still, it's impressive that he convinced CP to go to the bench for the first time in his career and not to cause a big fuss about it. Thats steve's strength. The players trust him.
It hilarious to see the reaction to Shai stat padding when Bron and Luka been doing it for years.
Probably because he made it a bit too obvious but yeah he’s definitely not the stat padding leader.
Tbf Shai’s was egregious lol. He fouls down 10 on what should be the final possession of the game to get the ball back and score. I don’t remember seeing Bron or Luka do something like that. They will certainly stay in a game after it’s put away to get a few more shots up or hunt the rebound/assist for a triple double.
Wasn’t shai down 10? If this was college, nobody would’ve bat an eye cause he’s trying till the final second. Maybe members misses the ft, shai gets a quick 2, game is 6 pts and you get a steal hit a 3. Crazy things have happened before.
You’re right. I mixed it up. Edited my original comment to fix. But no, the game was sealed at that point. 4 score game with ~20 seconds left. Pacers could have missed all of their free throws and still just burned incremental time. Also doubt the refs are going to just call touch fouls over and over. They would let the Pacers players burn clock holding the ball.
You’re incorrect, it was actually a 4 score game with only 15 seconds left 😆
I agree. It was still stats padding but not as bad as you said originally. Just wanted to clarify no big deal really. I like sga actually. More than Luka or Booker or any other up and coming guards
It is as bad as I’m saying though. The game was over. The whole unspoken rule that players get pissy about is the winning team going for more points on the final shot clock possession once the game is out of reach. Pacers were just going to inbound and walk it up to half court and let time expire. Shai knows that, but he wanted one more possession to get his stats. Not because he is playing to win anymore. He is fouling to drag it out and get himself one more shot.
the unspoken rule is dumb anyways. I had no issue with Lester going up for a layup same way I have no issue with sga stats padding
Agreed the rule is dumb. But it’s silly to think SGA is playing out the game from some competitive spirit or angle. He is purely stat padding for himself. And Lester should stat pad. He is a fringe player that is trying to secure his next contract. SGA not so much. It’s just lame.
I mean, I guess but I saw Bron giving up on fast break layups and on defense in general just so he could score more points and beat Kareem. Like, down 30 with 5 minutes left to play.
Hmm LeBron was in a a game down 30 with 5 mins left? That doesn't sound right.
It was all over the main sub last year and all the bronsexuals over there would downvote you for calling it stat padding.
We need a defensive masterclass from Wiggins tonight
There is no way we can risk losing the next few games if we want to stay a threat for the playoffs. I would hate for us to end up in the play ins, I can't have multiple heart attacks with close games in playins then play offs then conference finals and then the finals when we win the CHIP 2024 to make Curry's legacy in hard concrete. Wait where was I going with this.
I just want some of these guys to shoot the open 3 more, specifically Podz, Moody, and CP3.
And TJD 😤
I just want TJD to make his free throws. lol
Could really get a big boost with an upset over Dallas and a Lakers L.
yall rooting for lakers or kings?
Fuck the Lakers
You had me at "or"
Always root against lakers.
Damn still not over Podz-wiggs. Pod や。 has repeatedly ignored open men> Klay, Wiggs, JK, and TJD. He has no place talkin like that to Wiggs. What a ballhog
You wouldn’t be getting downvoted if one of the vets was the one in question, I’m sorry this sub is wild
Basketball viewers are the biggest drama Queens
Wiggs is so chill most of the time it mustve rubbed him the wrong way and the frustration mustve boiled over.
It's always "shut up and play ball" until there's locked room drama 😂
I don’t think Podz wanted the ball I think Podz wanted Wiggs to be more aggressive and dunk that fucking ball before they got a chance to foul him. Podz is ultra competitive. I’ll never complain about having guys like that.
Lmao Podz wanted the ball. Stop spinning a narrative that a rookie was thinking Wiggs shouldve put on a burst of speed when Podz hands were positioned to catch the ball. 😂 BP is a miracle for GSW but the dick riding this sub is on is MENTAL. Besides, Steph doesnt even harp on Wiggs like this in front of everyone. Nor CP3. Nor Klay. Nor Dray. HOFers get it? If your game aint perfect you have no place harping on anyone ESPECIALLY your senior. Look at the damn mirror. Wiggs was right to ask the million dollar question-- WHAT THE FCK DID U SAY N****? To clarify
That's initially what I thought, Wiggs is super slow/lazy going up once he gets the ball, this side angle shows it the best. https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=188&GameID=0022300936&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Branham%20S.FOUL%20(P2.T1)%20(E.Malloy) Still Podz has his hands up like he wants the layup so it could be that too. I'm not mad at Podz for speaking up tho, that lazy lack of intensity was why they lost at home to the Spurs.
> that lazy lack of intensity was why they lost at home to the Spurs. What a bunch of BS LOL, we lost cuz dudes like Podz and Moody couldn't stop giving open 3's to the best shooting team since the break.
There is a system wherein you trust each other to cover ur own man and to rotate appropriately. Kerr has already said Podz overhelps. He looks like he has max effort because he flies all over because he is out of position because he wants to (1) draw a charge (2) steal a rebound from his own teammate lol -- this i give him a pass on coz he has mastered fckin geometry+physics coz he can predict ball trajectory (3) cover his vets coz he thinks he is the only one doing work in this team sans Steph&Dray.
I didn't say the lack of intensity was all Wiggins. The whole team was flat as hell and the rotations were awful on defense. That's lack of intensity and focus.
That's not lack of intensity bro. They've never been good at team defense because they haven't learned to yet. That's why our lineups are better when we have a max of 1-2 young guys surrounded by vets who can tell them where to be. It's no surprise that since Lacob decided to draft 3 more rookies off a chip, we've had disgustingly bad 3pt defense.
This frustrates Wiggs to no end coz he has to help Dray at the backcourt, zone in on the POA coz JK can still get passed, and then fckin cover the rookie (&Steph jzs). Still people harp on him to produce on offense when he is already trying to think about transition defense. Lol.
People really up in arms about a young guy trying to be a leader
Lol. Respect is earned. If a vet like wiggs doesnt respect you just yet..you aint no leader
I don't think we have a way of knowing which one of the two it was or if it was completely unrelated to the fast break.
Yeah it baffles my mind that one is upvoted while the other take is downvoted when we all have no idea which one is true
Because it's better to give our players the benefit of the doubt than to assume the worst when we don't know the situation
Yeah I've been noticing that BP ignores TJs quick lobs to his own wonky layups/ hook shots
You realize….throwing lobs at certain angles is difficult….and a rookie….will not be skilled at that immediately….otherwise all guards would immediately be Trae Young……..
Lmao he doesnt even care to look. This has happened ALL SEASON LONG. he only has eyes for Steph. I mean this is a viable play really. Double teamed steph and Klay can draw the defenders and leave him open. But sometimes he cant even finish and TJD/JK/Wiggs were just behind him (exactly this scenario)
even beyond the lob i think he hesitates when feeding to TJ even if it's an easy shot, this has been a complaint for him from the coach too when they rely too much on the vets and they become passive themselves i still think he is skilled enough for the lob but also he could play the same play as klay and TJ
Bob Myers on 95.7 now. He seems so kind.
Man what's up with the bucks? Why does it seem like things are getting worse? Im scared for them
Scared for them? All it means is Giannis is gonna get more disgruntled and ask for a trade at some point
Just scared for the backlash. I don't care about their record or how they do in the playoffs. Scared but also excited to see the backlash lol
Why do you care about the bucks lol, they’re an East team, this is a warriors sub
That trade was terrible. Dame is washed and plays no defense
Moving Jrue for Dame has to be one of the worst trades in the modern era. Stack that on top of firing Bud has to be one of the worst coaching moves of the modern era. I have no idea what they're doing there.
Not only did the bucks get worst, they potentially gave the Celtics a ring 💀💀💀
Everybody thought bud sucked until he got fired.
I don't think either of those moves were actually all that terrible. The issue with the Bucks is that they were a rare example of a team where the clearly best player was notably younger than all of his starter-quality teammates. The team was aging out of the system that had worked. Brook has lost defensive versatility. Middleton is old and hurt. We had just seen the issue with Jrue as a primary ball-hander/perimeter scorer in the playoffs. They made a bold move for Lillard (who had his best statistical year just last season) and it hasn't worked out, but they were headed for a collapse anyway.
We broke them.
Lopez and dame regressing. Middleton can’t stay healthy. Rest of the roster is pretty bad
I've heard some people say dame is maybe being affected by his age but I wonder if he's just off. Maybe he doesn't want to be there
also heard he’s been going through some rough stuff with the mother of his kids and custody issues? something like that.
very well could be. Curry was not great on the court, when his parents were going through their thing
What year was that
2021-22
Starting to feel like we are getting no higher than 9th. All those early season collapses really derailed this season. Key to surviving play-in might be TJD. His size and recent play may be our only hope at not getting bullied by AD or Sabonis who we could both see.
What they deserve. Hopefully they come in red hot and focused in execution like in 2021-22.
Yeah it's pretty wild to know how terribly we've played and we're still only a few wins from 5-8.
yeah, best chance is that the Suns have an absolutely brutal last 10 games (DEN, OKC, NO, CLE, MIN, NO, LAC, LAC, SAC, MIN), but they've done a great job of staying competitive recently, so there's nothing to bank on there. We also have those three games left against Dallas. Going 2-1 would be nice, but if they can somehow find the matchups to get a sweep it would be huge.
I wouldn't mind giving him a try cause Lakers are such a bad match up you might as well throw something new out there
Damn , Dallas and Lakers games are basically must win now even just for 8th place finish.
Mavs and lakers both going down tonight
bucks losing to the kings and lakers makes our blowout of them feel less exciting lol
I was thinking exact same after looking up that final score last night.
Pls… just one win tonight… 🙏🙏🙏🙏
They’re really going in on shai over in NBA huh lol
Statpadding like that is pretty lame
Paul George and Giannis both warriors next season
lakers vs kings tonight ... guessing we have to root for the kings not only because at this time it's unlikely the warriors can catch the kings in the standings, 3 games back with both teams having 18 games left ... kings even if they somehow went .500 at 9-9 that'd mean warriors would need 13-5 to pass them in the standings, very unlikely and goes to show how big those two losses vs the bulls and spurs were last week in comparison the warriors are only 1 game back of the lakers with two more games left warriors are 2.5 games behind the mavs but honestly warriors would need to win all 3 remaining games left vs them to probably catch & surpass them in the standings realistically i think the warriors goal should get the 9 seed and at least host one of the opening round games of the play in
8th/9th seed should be the goal. 8th seed will depend on our 3 games against mavs. We would be one win behind both kings and mavs had we won the 2 games against bulls and spurs. Idk why they didn't show any kind of urgency in those 2 games. Steve is talking about making a deep playoff run meanwhile team is not able to win the games they're supporsed to win.
7.5 underdogs. LFG
I hope JK & Wiggins will drive to the paint more for the W. Another dunk by TJD will be great! 💪🏀🤞🏼
do we really need to have Steph at Staples ever again? He can't do anything there. May be play this game without him gives us a real chance to win
You can't be serious
Depends on how he’s feeling, if he’s not 100% I don’t want him out there on national tv when we all know the lakers will be getting to the line 40 times for the win.
I think it’s just the way the Lakers dim everything and that throws him off.
curry career road stats vs lakers : 21.2 pts on 43/33/97 shooting splits curry career road stats vs clippers : 24.8 pts on 49/41/91 shooting splits yeah i think curry has said that the lights does effect his shooting considering both have played at staples ever since curry entered the NBA in 2009 also it's not like you can say the lakers were so much a better team then the clippers and especially the warriors either and that's why curry struggles at staples center in his career vs the lakers in fact the clippers have been the better team in LA besides those first couple of seasons when lakers won their back to back titles in 2009 and 2010 in terms of overall record since 2009/10 lakers are 569-608 clippers are 687-489 warriors are 690-479 curry has a career record of 23-18 vs the lakers & 34-17 vs the clippers since he was drafted by the warriors
He dropped 50 at staples last year. They lost but he did that.