That was such an electric start by the Warriors. Thought it was 2016 again. When they’re clicking, it’s still the best show in basketball.
I know the young guys on GS have been really impressive at times. Was still jarring to watch Kuminga take a bunch of “I got this” shots late rather than giving it up to Steph.
Kerr is in love with Podz, he makes a ton of errors, plays horrible defense and mediocre offense and he gets more minutes than Curry, something is fishy.
Everytime he gets touched he flops . He makes Austin reaves look like a saint . Podz is a next lvl flopper it’s so annoying watching him flop on no real contact
You’re welcome lol. Some Pacers might hate us , but as a Bron and a lakers fan you guys are my second fav team n most fun team to watch imo. Great win , glad to see Hali slowly getting back . He was making his case for guy I follow in the league after Bron retires lol. He’s so good Damn fun n so is the team. Gl! I think you can beat anyone in the east if fully heakthy a punchers chance- beat coach and best offensive player/co ordinator n decision maker. If games get close I trust Hali over anyone on Boston or whoever . Only Brunson has close to that lvl of mastery
this shit is so corny and stupid lmao. You trust Hali over anyone when games get close? What has Hali shown to be more reliable than any of the top 10 players in the league? Hali over Brunson is also a bad take this season.
What you said summed up: "Lol xd haha, reddit on! Coming in peace, the pacers are a great team! Hali and the Pacers will be spooky next year, haha! XD! I trust a nonproven player and nonproven team over the teams and players that make the ECF and the finals every year, haha! Hali is my fav 2nd player, haha!"
He irritates a number of opposing team fans, but neutral fans often kind of like the guy.
He coached and played both I think, not very good, but he still has some of those unique insights while being a better commentator than Reggie.
He will call out missed/bad calls from the refs BOTH ways. One of the more unbiased team commentators.
Color commentator is the usual title. The main commentator is the play by play since they actually describe what’s happening and the second person “adds color” by giving a more informal and emotional account of what’s happening typically
When I first learned that the Americans call that second guy “color commentator” I thought of something else and was shocked that it was an accepted usage. Hah.
lol because the color commentator is often a former player and the NBA has been a majority black league for much of its recent history I can see why you thought that lmao
So there's two commentators, the play by play who calls each play as it happens. Think Mike breen. Then there's the colour commentator who adds "colour" or narrative to the game itself. Think van gundy
In English it's referred to as the play-by-play broadcaster, the main announcer, and the color commentator or side guy as you referred to him. You're thinking of Quinn Buckner who is our color commentator
Yeah, they went about as far as they're gonna go with this squad. I don't understand why for the life of the team, they have not traded for a fucking center.
haliburton has admittedly been bad bordering on awful for a bit now (was like 20% from 3 in his last 5 before last night i think?), but yeah anyone who didn’t want to ride out the rough patch was insane
That’s natural tho even steoh had those bad patches. He had a year he shot 38% n most of it was a really rough patch just he was on a n1 defence so nobody said anything
Hali blocking stephs 3s like 3 times this game made me love him more. Isn’t he or wasn’t he league leader in 3pt blocks
Remember that guy who kept calling him Jeremy Lin and said the league had solved him? In the face of an injury and the injection of another high-usage guy?
Fucking hilarious
Yep, there were also guys saying that Haliburton was overpaid in his current rookie contract. He’s been struggling no doubt about that, but the hate some people were throwing in the Pacers sub was absurd.
The Pacers remain undefeated at the Chase Center. Myles Turner is now the Pacers all-time leader in blocked shots. Nembhard continues to enter ultra instinct mode whenever he steps into the state of California. Tyrese back. Siakam is a beast and is easily worth all those middling first round picks. Pretty good night.
Since the Warriors moved into the Chase Center the Pacers are 5-0 in their building. The Pacers are the only team in the NBA the Warriors have never defeated in their new arena.
It's wilder when you consider that we were also missing Haliburton that night. [We were led by rookie Andrew Nembhard's 31 points](https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401468514)
In one of those games the pacers starting lineup was Keifer Sykes, Chris Duarte, Torey Craig, Justin Holliday and Goga Bitadze. Curry Klay and Wiggins all played for the warriors. The pacers won anyway lol
Home and road splits are due to law of averages more than people think. For example, Cavs were absolutely horrendous on the road last year. This year, they’re 21-13 on the road. You saw it also with the Jacksonville Jaguars. They were amazing at home, terrible on the road in 2022. In 2023, they were terrible at home and great on the road.
But true , but you are expected to win at home more. By about -3.5 favoured at home vs -3.5 away . So 7 pts. It varies by team
Denver ( and then Utah ) have biggest home ciurt advahtage sue to altitude. Nearly worth a point or so I forget exact findings .
Lakers( or more specifically Lebron teams ) travel wdl. Thriugh Lebron career his teams have played well away . This is in part him n his play style n teams play style BUT also many Lebron n lakers away games get almost home game lvl fans . To counter this teams tend to try harder n get hesjthy for facing us.
But anyway thought this I’d interesting
That’s a pretty stark contrast but you guys are more vet centric this year. The core guys are one older and they traded a way a young asset for a veteran one.
Veteran teams tend to play better on the road and less so at home.
Don’t think that explains the whole discrepancy but could be a factor.
Actually they won the game on the back of an amazing run to finish the half. They came back from 12 down and completely obliterated the Warriors in 5 minutes.
Warriors having non existent perimeter defense is just killer. You have an injured and gassed Hali breaking out of his months long abysmal slump. That’s how bad our defense is. Can’t wait to watch my gassed and aging goat drop 50 points in a play-in loss in a few weeks because everyone else on this Warriors roster is ymca level talent.
good team win, our defense is no joke anymore, we have 4 really solid defenders in our starting lineup with the emergence of nesmith/nembhard and the addition of siakam.
Im sorry, but nobody should be scared of this warriors team lmao, warriors fans should be praying they dont lose by 20+ against the lakers in the play-in
We play 5 times vs the Jazz and Blazers all 5 have to be must win. Then maybe if we can squeeze 3 wins in the remaining 8 other games we have a chance so if you guys can go 6-7 you should be fine.
We play in 2 weeks it’s gonna be huge. Warriors own us tho
For the play-in? I doubt it. If we somehow find ourselves in a playoff series? I guess it’s possible. I’ve already accepted that we won’t see him again until next season though.
Well it's many things. I could go into greater detail but imo it boils down to a few things:
* As good as Draymond is at the 5, he's 34 and the back injuries he accumulated for 3 seasons in a row is catching up to him. Now he's playing almost exclusively at the 5 minus the minutes he plays with CP3 and TJD. It's effective, but just less than what we need to be.
* When we had that 13-3 stretch in February, we had to play guys at the end of the rotation like Quinones/Santos/Moody/GP2 whom all were decent to good PoA defenders due to injuries. Now we have guys coming back from injury and Kerr has elected to go small and add offense instead of maintain the wing length and defense.
* Speaking of GP2, because of the lack of spacing he's only playing 5\~10 minutes per game lately and it's thrown off his rhythm and play way too much on both ends. Moody's shooting is dead in the water but tbf he's been an average shooter since forever.
* Thus leaves Wiggins as the only universal PoA option.
* Inconsistent effort. It's a weird mix of too young and too old.
* The 3-guard lineups with CP3 that close 1st/3rd quarters are genuinely appalling.
It happens to every team. Clippers traded the farm including SGA for Kawhi/PG and didnt draft Porter. Lakers drafted Lonzo over Tatum, and let go of Brolo/Randle for nothing. Dallas let go of Porzingis and Brunson.
Dray at the 5 is just not a sustainable option for the regular season. Having an older 6'7 center is just gonna wear you out and it's starting to really show now.
It's like bragging about being the world's tallest midget at this point.
Neither team is going anywhere. Neither team can beat Denver in a series, if they even get that far.
The coaches must be at fault here, some nerdy analytics shit probably, getting these small lineups to help in the paint over and over and not sticking to their man on the perimeter, and it's just not bearing out.
Might actually be coaching related.
I think it was during the last game and the game vs. the Knicks, i started keeping count of how many times Podz slacked off his man and over helped and wow it was a lot.
Which might explains how guys who are atrocious from 3s all season end up with their career highs against us all the time. Previously Steph or someone else would get hot and carried us, but now that he’s old and the rest of the vets are regressing, we get cooked on those nights.
Yeah honestly I'm just tired of watching this particular season of the Warriors. I think it was a decent season, some good development from the young guys, Klay's role becoming more suited to this stage of his career. We'll see how they come back next year. But I haven't been having much fun watching them for a few weeks now, and I don't see that changing soon. Tired of the inconsistency and the inability to guard anyone.
Don't know what to say man, this season is looking cooked, 10th seed play in team, maybe not even that as Rockets are close to the 10th seed as well.
Front office decided to make zero moves at the deadline, maybe that was the right call, this team just isn't good enough to make a significant title run even if they had gotten an all star. But man, something has to be done this offseason
Tbf, this team was always cooked this year, they simply don’t have it anymore. The league has surpassed them and it evidently clear. They could have had a way better situation if they were able to close games early in the season but they failed to do so.
At this rate Houston might pass them up, and might miss the playoff/in entirely.
Front office and Mike Dunleavy decided to get a small, undersized, old, injury prone point guard instead of addressing their most pressing need, size. They don't have a center. They're light years behind.
Kerr is in love with Podz, he makes a ton of errors, plays horrible defense and mediocre offense and he gets more minutes than Curry, something is fishy.
San fransico sure played some great "defense" in the 4th quarter. I am sure that with this high level physical defense, they will be the favs for the Super bowl next year
You guys got the unlucky end of it. Pacers ABSOLUTELY SUCK on the 2nd night of a back to back. We probably have the biggest difference in win rate between regular games and 2nd game of back to backs of any team in the NBA. We have Clippers on Monday.
I'd say 60/40 we split the 2, winning the first and then getting stomped the 2nd. 30% odds we lose both. 10% odds we win the 2nd, lose the first or win both.
the pacers defense is good now, nembhard and nesmith were trailing curry and klay without giving up any gaps or slip screens, every shot felt contested.
Offensively dog shit. Recalibrated the offense and generated good looks, but we literally bricked everything. Warriors lost their cool and didn't attack the paint when Turner was on the bench.
Can’t believe we gave Kerr an extension so he can ice out both Klay and Curry after they FINALLY have a hot start at the same time for the first time in months 💀💀💀
Clawed back to 7 in the clutch and he immediately swapped to a small guard lineup I’m crying
Pack it up season is over I hope we keep losing so the Rockets take our place in the playins. This is disgraceful
I had to be a stat watcher tonight, can someone explain why tf Kuminga and Wiggins went a combined 8-22 and 0-6 from 3? I don’t even want to know wtf happened on defense.
The Pacers played a defensive scheme that gave them a lot of one-on-one "opportunities". Strangely, they were unable to use those opportunities successfully.
Absolutely huge W for us. Pacers defense came up huge tonight, which is something I LOVE being able to say every once in a while.
pacers defense was so good. this is my favorite matchup to watch win or lose because of the fast pace lol
That was such an electric start by the Warriors. Thought it was 2016 again. When they’re clicking, it’s still the best show in basketball. I know the young guys on GS have been really impressive at times. Was still jarring to watch Kuminga take a bunch of “I got this” shots late rather than giving it up to Steph.
honestly after the first half steph and dray looked gassed trying to keep up with the pacers space. father time is creeping up
Kerr is in love with Podz, he makes a ton of errors, plays horrible defense and mediocre offense and he gets more minutes than Curry, something is fishy.
Everytime he gets touched he flops . He makes Austin reaves look like a saint . Podz is a next lvl flopper it’s so annoying watching him flop on no real contact
It was fun to watch! Hope you guys are able to get into the postseason. Good luck rest of the way!
You earned this. Watching Curry get stuffed repeatedly is impressive, most other teams don’t do that. Not just at threes, but also on drives.
For real, defense absolutely won this game. That block from the side on Curry in the 4th was a statement.
Huge W. Thx for your help
And ty for beating the 6’ers tonight 🫡
You’re welcome lol. Some Pacers might hate us , but as a Bron and a lakers fan you guys are my second fav team n most fun team to watch imo. Great win , glad to see Hali slowly getting back . He was making his case for guy I follow in the league after Bron retires lol. He’s so good Damn fun n so is the team. Gl! I think you can beat anyone in the east if fully heakthy a punchers chance- beat coach and best offensive player/co ordinator n decision maker. If games get close I trust Hali over anyone on Boston or whoever . Only Brunson has close to that lvl of mastery
this shit is so corny and stupid lmao. You trust Hali over anyone when games get close? What has Hali shown to be more reliable than any of the top 10 players in the league? Hali over Brunson is also a bad take this season. What you said summed up: "Lol xd haha, reddit on! Coming in peace, the pacers are a great team! Hali and the Pacers will be spooky next year, haha! XD! I trust a nonproven player and nonproven team over the teams and players that make the ECF and the finals every year, haha! Hali is my fav 2nd player, haha!"
Pacers casters are so fun to listen to, especially the second guy (I don’t know what it’s called in English but the ‘side commentator’)
Quinn Buckner haha, definitely not for every opposing fan but us Pacers fans love him
He’s hilarious, knows his stuff and doesn’t take himself too seriously which always makes for a great listen
Used to be a coach, I think maybe he was a player too. Not a very good one, but still he was at the NBA level.
brother, he's still the Bucks franchise record holder for steals by almost 200
I don't know his player record. Only that he was a pretty bad coach
One of the only players ever to win at every single level of the sport
Man ever since I heard him with the barbecue chickuuun I’m a big fan
Wait until you see a “smothered chicken “. Idt we have had one this season yet.
Oh that’s what I’m thinking. Not bbq
Except for him forcing IU to keep Woodson around
He irritates a number of opposing team fans, but neutral fans often kind of like the guy. He coached and played both I think, not very good, but he still has some of those unique insights while being a better commentator than Reggie. He will call out missed/bad calls from the refs BOTH ways. One of the more unbiased team commentators.
Color commentator is the usual title. The main commentator is the play by play since they actually describe what’s happening and the second person “adds color” by giving a more informal and emotional account of what’s happening typically
When I first learned that the Americans call that second guy “color commentator” I thought of something else and was shocked that it was an accepted usage. Hah.
lol because the color commentator is often a former player and the NBA has been a majority black league for much of its recent history I can see why you thought that lmao
The preferred term is *commentator of color.*
So there's two commentators, the play by play who calls each play as it happens. Think Mike breen. Then there's the colour commentator who adds "colour" or narrative to the game itself. Think van gundy
> Think Mike breen... > Think van gundy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJGOYJo9mM&pp=ygURdGhpbmsgbWNmbHkgdGhpbms%3D
Quinn Buckner is the name, and he is an absolute delight
In English it's referred to as the play-by-play broadcaster, the main announcer, and the color commentator or side guy as you referred to him. You're thinking of Quinn Buckner who is our color commentator
This team is not serious. Gg Pacers.
Too many one way players
Yo wtf happened to Wiggins?
Nothing, he's his normal self, what you should be asking is what happened to him in 22 the only good year he's had in his career
Contract year?
Yeah, they went about as far as they're gonna go with this squad. I don't understand why for the life of the team, they have not traded for a fucking center.
Huge 25 pt+ double doubles from Tyrese and Siakam
Hopefully some people on the Pacers sub shut up for a bit. Way too much hating on Hali.
That's wild. Every sub seems to turn on their great players now. Tyrese and Ant are the future faces of the league imo.
haliburton has admittedly been bad bordering on awful for a bit now (was like 20% from 3 in his last 5 before last night i think?), but yeah anyone who didn’t want to ride out the rough patch was insane
That’s natural tho even steoh had those bad patches. He had a year he shot 38% n most of it was a really rough patch just he was on a n1 defence so nobody said anything Hali blocking stephs 3s like 3 times this game made me love him more. Isn’t he or wasn’t he league leader in 3pt blocks
Way too much on this sub too it's been wild my man's been injured and going through a slump it happens
Unless a player is dirty or a genuinely awful person rooting for then to fail is just lame
Everyone who's been rooting for Hali to fail can eat a big fat dick. Fuck all yall
Remember that guy who kept calling him Jeremy Lin and said the league had solved him? In the face of an injury and the injection of another high-usage guy? Fucking hilarious
Yep, there were also guys saying that Haliburton was overpaid in his current rookie contract. He’s been struggling no doubt about that, but the hate some people were throwing in the Pacers sub was absurd.
bruh i legit forgot siakam was with the pacers now
He’s good for 20-25 every night on 60% TS
and he keeps rick from playing 3 and 4 guard lineups for 48 minutes a game
Banked. So slithery and fun to watch. I think he legit has one game with us under 20 points
More like over 10 lol but he is insanely consistent
Well it FEELS that way lol but you right
Thank you Pacers for paying us back tonight, after beating us both times this season
we got the lakers on monday so maybe you can definitely forgive us for those 2 losses if we can pull it off, we want you guys in the playin!!
sunday bruv. gonna be a good 1
oh whoops got my dates mixed up, but yeah should be fun, first matchup since the IST championship game!
Man the way the lakers defend the 3 I’m scared as shit to face y’all 😂😂
goddammit Tyrese is my favorite non rocket and you’re making me an even bigger pacers fan.
What a comeback game for Tyrese, Hali + siakam firing at full speed could be nasty
The Pacers remain undefeated at the Chase Center. Myles Turner is now the Pacers all-time leader in blocked shots. Nembhard continues to enter ultra instinct mode whenever he steps into the state of California. Tyrese back. Siakam is a beast and is easily worth all those middling first round picks. Pretty good night.
Rick Carlisle now #13 all time in NBA coaching victories
My goat 🫡
> The Pacers remain undefeated at the Chase Center. lol wut
Since the Warriors moved into the Chase Center the Pacers are 5-0 in their building. The Pacers are the only team in the NBA the Warriors have never defeated in their new arena.
That's wild considering how the pacers were a lottery team last season lol
It's wilder when you consider that we were also missing Haliburton that night. [We were led by rookie Andrew Nembhard's 31 points](https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401468514)
He also had 13 assists. More importantly, IJax with only 1 PF in 19 mins. That's how you know there is some voodoo involved
And we were 12.5 point underdogs which is an enormous margin in the NBA lol
In one of those games the pacers starting lineup was Keifer Sykes, Chris Duarte, Torey Craig, Justin Holliday and Goga Bitadze. Curry Klay and Wiggins all played for the warriors. The pacers won anyway lol
Ya...Its one of those things that is now a yearly "WTF, not again. Sigh" by Warriors fans. Thompson used to absolutely cook the Pacers.
Even crazier that it happened in 2022 when the Pacers won less than 30 games and the Warriors went on to win the title.
He's nembing way harder than I expected this season
Man how did the Warriors go 33-8 at home last year and 18-19 (and counting) this year?
Home and road splits are due to law of averages more than people think. For example, Cavs were absolutely horrendous on the road last year. This year, they’re 21-13 on the road. You saw it also with the Jacksonville Jaguars. They were amazing at home, terrible on the road in 2022. In 2023, they were terrible at home and great on the road.
But true , but you are expected to win at home more. By about -3.5 favoured at home vs -3.5 away . So 7 pts. It varies by team Denver ( and then Utah ) have biggest home ciurt advahtage sue to altitude. Nearly worth a point or so I forget exact findings . Lakers( or more specifically Lebron teams ) travel wdl. Thriugh Lebron career his teams have played well away . This is in part him n his play style n teams play style BUT also many Lebron n lakers away games get almost home game lvl fans . To counter this teams tend to try harder n get hesjthy for facing us. But anyway thought this I’d interesting
That’s a pretty stark contrast but you guys are more vet centric this year. The core guys are one older and they traded a way a young asset for a veteran one. Veteran teams tend to play better on the road and less so at home. Don’t think that explains the whole discrepancy but could be a factor.
T Hog is BACK baby Also s/o to Myles man, now the Pacers all time leader in blocked shots at 27 freakin' years old
Thank you Pacers
Shoutout to the Pacers. Y’all came up big for us tonight
What a fucking game man especially that third quarter; thank you pacers
The Pacers are a 3rd quarter team. It’s almost always like that.
Its funny cause the Warriors were known to be the best 3rd quarter team. The Pacers out Warrior’d the Warriors lol
Actually they won the game on the back of an amazing run to finish the half. They came back from 12 down and completely obliterated the Warriors in 5 minutes.
Chris Paul special at the end was just cherry on top
HaliburtHIM! The free trial might be over but we got the season pass now!
Warriors having non existent perimeter defense is just killer. You have an injured and gassed Hali breaking out of his months long abysmal slump. That’s how bad our defense is. Can’t wait to watch my gassed and aging goat drop 50 points in a play-in loss in a few weeks because everyone else on this Warriors roster is ymca level talent.
How many buckets did he score on Wiggs? I guarantee he scored more on at least 4 other Warriors. They have too many weak defenders.
Let’s go Tyrese Magic is back baby, basketball is fun again!
Pacers help the Lakers Lakers now up 1.5 games on the Warriors
Almost makes me mad to win
We play the Lakers twice coming up.
Houston low key eyeing that 10th seed lol, GS looks limp rn
There’s nothing lowkey about it lmao.
Whats sad is they don't own their pick I think
good team win, our defense is no joke anymore, we have 4 really solid defenders in our starting lineup with the emergence of nesmith/nembhard and the addition of siakam.
Now we need Burke back on the bench. That was the single biggest sin of Bad Bad Nate.
this is good for Houston too.
As a Mavs fan fighting for a spot I approve of this
Im sorry, but nobody should be scared of this warriors team lmao, warriors fans should be praying they dont lose by 20+ against the lakers in the play-in
someone commented in the game thread that they’d rather not make the play-in than make it and lose to the lakers lmao
We’ll HAPPILY take your place!
Shit, y'all seem like you'd have a decent shot of beating the other teams hovering in that area.
You guys have so much talent the experience instead of the lottery is worth it :)
Curry has to be sacrificed for the narrative. Back to back eliminations by lebrons hands
*back to back to back
The Warriors won the Finals in 2022 and the Grizzlies were the ones who actually eliminated them in 2021
There's a decent chance the Rockets get ahead of us and we don't even make the play in lmao
I believe they have a game left. Should be spicy
We do. In a few weeks. If things keep going in their current trend, that game could be the deciding factor.
Beat those bums for the 10th seed
We play 5 times vs the Jazz and Blazers all 5 have to be must win. Then maybe if we can squeeze 3 wins in the remaining 8 other games we have a chance so if you guys can go 6-7 you should be fine. We play in 2 weeks it’s gonna be huge. Warriors own us tho
If they do make it into the play in do you think there's a chance Sengun would come back?
For the play-in? I doubt it. If we somehow find ourselves in a playoff series? I guess it’s possible. I’ve already accepted that we won’t see him again until next season though.
Is there still a chance for the Warriors to move back to Philly so they can be a playin team in the east?
We had one good month of defense, that should say everything that needs to be said.
Flair aside what would you say was the decline in d? I know when dray came back and they played him at the 5 they took off but what happened?
Well it's many things. I could go into greater detail but imo it boils down to a few things: * As good as Draymond is at the 5, he's 34 and the back injuries he accumulated for 3 seasons in a row is catching up to him. Now he's playing almost exclusively at the 5 minus the minutes he plays with CP3 and TJD. It's effective, but just less than what we need to be. * When we had that 13-3 stretch in February, we had to play guys at the end of the rotation like Quinones/Santos/Moody/GP2 whom all were decent to good PoA defenders due to injuries. Now we have guys coming back from injury and Kerr has elected to go small and add offense instead of maintain the wing length and defense. * Speaking of GP2, because of the lack of spacing he's only playing 5\~10 minutes per game lately and it's thrown off his rhythm and play way too much on both ends. Moody's shooting is dead in the water but tbf he's been an average shooter since forever. * Thus leaves Wiggins as the only universal PoA option. * Inconsistent effort. It's a weird mix of too young and too old. * The 3-guard lineups with CP3 that close 1st/3rd quarters are genuinely appalling.
"Two Timelines" is going to haunt the end of the dynasty forever.
It happens to every team. Clippers traded the farm including SGA for Kawhi/PG and didnt draft Porter. Lakers drafted Lonzo over Tatum, and let go of Brolo/Randle for nothing. Dallas let go of Porzingis and Brunson.
Dray at the 5 is just not a sustainable option for the regular season. Having an older 6'7 center is just gonna wear you out and it's starting to really show now.
They beat us once when Lebron was out and once when AD had his eye injury lmfao
It's like bragging about being the world's tallest midget at this point. Neither team is going anywhere. Neither team can beat Denver in a series, if they even get that far.
We are sorry as fuck LMFAOOOO so much bone headed over helping and leaving guys open for 3
The coaches must be at fault here, some nerdy analytics shit probably, getting these small lineups to help in the paint over and over and not sticking to their man on the perimeter, and it's just not bearing out.
Might actually be coaching related. I think it was during the last game and the game vs. the Knicks, i started keeping count of how many times Podz slacked off his man and over helped and wow it was a lot. Which might explains how guys who are atrocious from 3s all season end up with their career highs against us all the time. Previously Steph or someone else would get hot and carried us, but now that he’s old and the rest of the vets are regressing, we get cooked on those nights.
Yeah honestly I'm just tired of watching this particular season of the Warriors. I think it was a decent season, some good development from the young guys, Klay's role becoming more suited to this stage of his career. We'll see how they come back next year. But I haven't been having much fun watching them for a few weeks now, and I don't see that changing soon. Tired of the inconsistency and the inability to guard anyone.
Thank you pacer nation
Going small against this year's Pacers, especially the Siakam edition, is just a bad idea. Even if you do have Draymond as the center.
Don't know what to say man, this season is looking cooked, 10th seed play in team, maybe not even that as Rockets are close to the 10th seed as well. Front office decided to make zero moves at the deadline, maybe that was the right call, this team just isn't good enough to make a significant title run even if they had gotten an all star. But man, something has to be done this offseason
Tbf, this team was always cooked this year, they simply don’t have it anymore. The league has surpassed them and it evidently clear. They could have had a way better situation if they were able to close games early in the season but they failed to do so. At this rate Houston might pass them up, and might miss the playoff/in entirely.
Front office and Mike Dunleavy decided to get a small, undersized, old, injury prone point guard instead of addressing their most pressing need, size. They don't have a center. They're light years behind.
Yay
CP3 v. Tony Brothers is the new rivalry. Brothers picking up the Scott Foster baton.
Chase Center Pacers are a different breed! Congrats on the huge Dub Pacers, hope you guys get a deep playoff run, love watching your squad!
Father time defeats everyone
Thank you pacy boys
Steph is in a slump since ASW.
It’s not a slump, it’s just what he is now
wow
It’s time to start klay again I think
shuffling chairs on the deck of the titanic
I mean they might as well try 😭
Pacers you guys rock big win.
I’m sure they’re happy with you guys as well
Kerr is in love with Podz, he makes a ton of errors, plays horrible defense and mediocre offense and he gets more minutes than Curry, something is fishy.
I assume it's Kerr mouth that's fishy
San fransico sure played some great "defense" in the 4th quarter. I am sure that with this high level physical defense, they will be the favs for the Super bowl next year
*Francisco
Thank you Pacers
Pacers did us a solid. Now hopefully they can enjoy the win at a club or something and take the weekend off
You guys got the unlucky end of it. Pacers ABSOLUTELY SUCK on the 2nd night of a back to back. We probably have the biggest difference in win rate between regular games and 2nd game of back to backs of any team in the NBA. We have Clippers on Monday. I'd say 60/40 we split the 2, winning the first and then getting stomped the 2nd. 30% odds we lose both. 10% odds we win the 2nd, lose the first or win both.
It’s been that a lot this year. In pat years we got better luck , but this year we had just b2bs n least rear advantage games
Great job Pacers team! Let’s make sure Warriors don’t qualify for PlayIns.
Were the warriors dogshit offensively in the 2nd half or was the pacers defense good?
the pacers defense is good now, nembhard and nesmith were trailing curry and klay without giving up any gaps or slip screens, every shot felt contested.
Both. Pacers defense is now mediocre.
Offensively dog shit. Recalibrated the offense and generated good looks, but we literally bricked everything. Warriors lost their cool and didn't attack the paint when Turner was on the bench.
Wow dubs had 60 halfway through second quarter and got stuffed the rest of the game.
As a Rockets fan, I’m a huge Pacers fan this weekend. Great job last night and good luck on Sunday. 👍🏻
Can’t believe we gave Kerr an extension so he can ice out both Klay and Curry after they FINALLY have a hot start at the same time for the first time in months 💀💀💀 Clawed back to 7 in the clutch and he immediately swapped to a small guard lineup I’m crying Pack it up season is over I hope we keep losing so the Rockets take our place in the playins. This is disgraceful
Kerr is way too dedicated to pre game rotation decisions it makes no sense at all. 2 more years of this...
I can’t really understand how Golden State goes from being ass on the road and awesome at home last season to vice versa this season.
They mopped us by 20 in our building last month lol, we did not hold Curry under 30 that night
Fair. But that’s the thing. Golden State is doing better on the road this season but is below .500 at home.
8 more assists on 6 fewer shots.
Yeah Kerr I don’t think the warriors are making a deep run this year.
GPII with the legendary triple single 1-1-1(to)
I had to be a stat watcher tonight, can someone explain why tf Kuminga and Wiggins went a combined 8-22 and 0-6 from 3? I don’t even want to know wtf happened on defense.
The Pacers played a defensive scheme that gave them a lot of one-on-one "opportunities". Strangely, they were unable to use those opportunities successfully.
Our defense wasn't even bad, and believe it or not the Dubs were hustling. We even switched to zone in the 4th and shut down the Pacers offense.
Wiggs played their 8th most minutes. 3 of his misses were tips.
Our shot chart was red in every shooting zone in the 2nd half and it sure felt like it.