Hilariously, I went to the game with a buddy who loves the Dubs and I guess I cursed them. Draymond looked like he went back to 2016 and just locked him up. Doesn't help that they basically funneled the offense into Mathurin and Garland and he was super cold. Kawhi also looks trash playing out of double teams. I think we all saw his last game as a Clipper, they are definitely going to dump him somewhere next offseason. Was quite impressed watching Porzingis play, but that guy feels like a ticking time bomb. I don't know how Horford rained down 4 3's like that when he was so garbage for the first 3 quarters. Curry...what more can be said, dude got magic in him despite coming off injury and being 38. I'd love to see Curry and the Uncles vs. SGA and Gen Z.
I'm glad y'all are old and cool enough to still get that reference! It's probably close to a 50 year anniversary, right?
I saw other sites talk about this, but do you guys think he's the worst star in the NBA? Banchero seems to only shoot well...when he plays the lakers. Orlando fans now thinks Desmond Bane is their best player.
I think there will be a ton of star movement this offseason. And we are in a great position to pick up the pieces. On the way out there seems to be Giannis and Ja for starters. Bron may too. Then Kawhi and Paolo/Franz may be moved as well. NOLA may shake it up too. Let's see who else comes up in the aftermath of the playoffs On the other side you have Miami and Warriors trying another fly on a star and teams like Jazz wanting to be competitive. Let's see how it shakes up and where can we benefit from it Kawhi to Miami makes a lot of sense to me. I think Clippers would like Jaquez and Ware and then they can figure out the rest to balance out the trade. But it's interesting on both sides Morant or Dejounte fit well in Orlando too.
What a letdown in the final two play-in games: scorching hot Charlotte goes into underwhelming ORL's arena, and earlier today I'm thinking I don't want to play CHA right now, esp if you're ORL, who looked lost in their loss in Philly. But ORL annihilated CHA: up 22 at the end of 1, 31 at half; the 2nd half was garbage. Paulo showed up. I skipped most of it. Crap game. CHA reminded me of a really hot college team who finally ran into a team that played defense; also CHA's big thing: hitting 3s: live by it; die by it: they died: 12 for 45: 27%. Knueppel was 1 for 5 and if he gets RotY over Flagg it's just wrong. In my opinion. Speaking of death: GSW's fading dynasty died in Phoenix; their glory years are officially dead as a rusty doornail. The entire team played like Steph's bum knee, and Draymond went out like the goon wrestling villain he so often plays: kicked out in the final minute for picking a fight with Booker, who Scott Foster also also kicked out. Booker looked like the A student teacher's pet who found out he just got a C-. Wha? But...but...I can do no wrong, teacher! Whatta drip. Booker and Dray didn't push or shove each other, much less throw a punch; - can you imagine Booker actually fighting anyone? I can't - and it was Bad Loser Theater, starring Draymond. All words. Probably something about Booker's mother. Draymond urged the fans to boo him louder as he exited into the tunnel. PHO has a player everyone rightfully loathes: Dillon Brooks. GSW has a guy like that, too. Draymond will go to the HoF, but I wouldn't want him on my team. You should hear and see the pretzel-like contortions GSW fans make to defend Draymond. I live in GSW territory and I've heard it all and I'm glad they're probably gonna suck really bad for a few years now. Since they last won a ring in 2021-22, they've won 44, 46, 48 and this year: 37. Their home team play-by-play guy is the worst homer in professional sports; I wish him and the entire franchise only the worst. Do I love Steph? Of course I do. His team and their fans? Eff 'em! A crummy game: PHO up 18 at the end of the 1st Q, GSW would go on a run and cut it to 7 or 5, maybe 4 for a second, before Jalen Green would hit a couple 3s after they stole the ball. GSW turned it over 20 times, total, but I think 12 were in the 1st Q. Jalen Green: 36 on 8 for 14 from deep. Jordan "They Still Call Me 'Zorro' in LA" Goodwin had 6 steals. Love that dude's defense. Steph and Zingis looked like they needed crutches. It was not to be. When the game was all but over, Jalen Green is guarding Podziemski near the 8 second line, and Podz raises his elbow a bit: Green goes flying. Brett Barry on the broadcast said it straight up: that's a flop. And it was. Podz was initially called for an offensive foul; it was challenged, reversed, and called a flop: one FT for GSW, ball out of bounds. Podz did a what the hell were you thinking thing to the ref - Mitchell Ervin - who called it an offensive foul. It was an embarrassingly stupid call initially. Jalen's flop was not PhiBetaKappa, as Chick would have said, unnecessary, and the kind of play that is remembered and tarnishes the rep of a guy (Jalen Green) in the astute NBA fan's eye. Stop doin' stupid jit like that, Jalen. Makes ya look like a weasel. You better than that, right? Kerr sounded like he was done after the game. I think he's a good coach who got really lucky with personnel in his career. Good guy, good coach. If the GSW don't offer him a new contract he said he won't coach anywhere else, and it would be far better if ABC hires him to comment instead of dippy overrated gravel-voice Doc Rivers. Great work, PHO: now you get slaughtered by OKC. Have fun!
This definitely looked like a goodbye Brooks already fouled out of game 1. SGA is going to average 50 FTAs per game.
i'm wondering about curry. that knee injury was just a wear and tear thing, it seems. i think he's closer to the end than most think/have discussed.
Yeah, father time showed up badly for the Dubs yesterday. Not saying that Goodwin didn't play amazing, but the Warriors looked super old, injured, and lost a step. Just slow to initiate their offense and getting to their spots. The Suns just jumped on the passes and Curry looked bothered by his knee. I think Curry has one more good run in him with some time off, but they're probably going to have to look to adding younger players to give them more depth.
Yeah I was watching the game and thinking it's not easy to justify continuing to spend on this team, they can't make a large run again. Curry said he wants to play multiple years more
Steph was playing okay until sometime in the 3rd Q when there was a play for the ball going out of bounds and he got hit on the knee and that seems to have re-aggravated what he had been dealing with. He was markedly less effective after that. He stayed in and kept going, but he missed 3-4 runners he usually would have made. His outside shots were short and barely hit the lip of the rim; his knee wasn't giving him the lift he needed. I suspect, like abeer, he's closer to retirement than a lot of people think. Everyone wants to see him go on because he's so thrilling, but I think he has the kind of body that won't allow that. Hope I'm wrong.
