The Official Golden State Warriors Thread
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Yea that chokejob was brewing for a couple of games and they eventually made it a reality. Horrible finals. Curry was too slow all series and way too nonchalant handling the ball. He did absolutely nothing for his standards; basically got shut out, and his teammates never gave him the support he needed. Only Draymond deserves praise, rest of them sucked hard. I just wish my Croatian boy Bogut didn't get injured. He could have been the difference tonight.
From my perspective (someone who didn't watch a single game this year and doesn't follow the NBA at all) seems like Curry shied away from the moment. It seems like he was the guy they leaned on for impact in the regular season and even in the beginning of the playoffs, but when it counted he wasn't there. Didn't score in the final 5 minutes, passed behind the back out of bounds at a critical moment, threw a temper tantrum game 6. That's on the coach.
You think Kerr is going to be fired? I mean a record breaking season is nice and all but to lose the only games that matter has to fall on the coach. For the star players to not show up falls on coaching. Anyway I'm not here to talk shit, just wanted to get an idea of what went wrong
You think Kerr is going to be fired? I mean a record breaking season is nice and all but to lose the only games that matter has to fall on the coach. For the star players to not show up falls on coaching. Anyway I'm not here to talk shit, just wanted to get an idea of what went wrong
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bad habits and mental weakness caught up to us.
during the regular season, we had such a high powered offense that it masked our weaknesses. and when those weaknesses put us in a losing, we just scored hella points and won. therefore never really addressing nor correcting any of these bad habits.
these habits include bad, lazy passing, taking plays off on both ends, not valuing offensive possessions, bad shots (even tho we hit those shots, they're still technically bad shots in the scheme of basketball). but we had the ability to come back on any deficits, score a shit load of points when we were dialed in, so we never worked towards eliminating these habits. arrogant to the point that the dubs felt all they had to do was show up and they could make it happen.
like, we beat okc in the regular season on a half court buzzer beater by curry. that shit was luck, but the dubs come to expect things to work itself out like that in their favor all the time, which isn't realistic.
in the offs, the waters recede and habits like that get exposed. which is what happened.
for this series, despite his performance tonight, draymon lost it for us.
he kneed adams in the nuts once on a layup, which wasn't a foul but it was noticed by all (the league and players). then he followed up by kicking adams in the nuts. basketball is all about body control, foot placement, etc. that chit wasn't an accident IMO, he meant to kick him. adams had made a comment about chasing the dubs on the court like little monkeys; there was no malice behind the comment but draymon seemed to have taken it personal. the first game after the monkey comment, dray hit his first shot and got in adams face talkn shit, it was obvious dray was fired up beyond just playing ball.
so after the adams nut kick, dray got a tech and was on notice - one more tech and he'd be suspended. the league was on notice too as to what dray was capable of. did that stop him? did he try and reel himself in just a little? no way, not dray. ornery as ever, he kept jawing to the refs, toeing the line the entire time.
so, come around to the cavs game (game four in cleveland) when lebron purposely stepped over dray (after throwing dray to the ground), dray swings his arm up and appears to possibly hit bron in the nuts. the dubs were up 3-1 at this point (if I remember correctly). double foul called on the court. but bron/cavs were able to lobby the league and get dray suspended for game five. which was huge. we essentially had the series clinched at that point.
dray had fucked up enough so there was no benefit of the doubt for him, he was out a game. this was a big mental mistake by him, costing the team big time. he'd accumulated enough 'points' under the league's flagrant foul system.
really tho? dray should've been suspended after hitting adams during the okc series since that was way worse. so the league was waiting for any reason to get him.
some say the league is rigged and this was what tipped the scales against dray. this could be true but I don't see it like that (and that's ultimately an excuse).
dray's out game five, cavs are able to win against us at home. I was at the game, the energy was just so flat. then game six, cavs take that one too. cavs kicked our fucking ass in games five and six. oh, and game six we lose bogut, the anchor for our defense, great passer from outside of the paint (forcing the opponent's bigs to come out the paint and guard him, opening up lanes) and he is our number one rim protector. and iggy comes out hobbled too.
we went from being up 3-1, looking like we're gonna coast to the chip, to being tied 3-3 with bogut injured and out and iggy looking hurt too.
so we come into game seven short handed. still have our bad fucking habits. barnes still doing nothing (tho he had like ten points or sunthn but still missed the wide open looks he had during crucial moments). coaching mistakes (ezeli ending up on james twice, once a foul on a three point shot and another three made, so six points total w just those two plays). kerr doesn't call a timeout late when he should have. and kyrie and lebron playing pretty amazing.
the game was close the entire time, we could have won it. but we shouldn't have even been in the position of a game seven! we should have closed it out in game five...
I wrote a lot, stream of consciousness style. prolly unread by most. but bad habits leftover from the regular season, arrogance, mental mistakes and missteps during this last series. ..we gave this one away. HUGE choke job
joe lacob jinxed us w his dumb ass 'light years ahead' comment, fckn dumb ass pos
during the regular season, we had such a high powered offense that it masked our weaknesses. and when those weaknesses put us in a losing, we just scored hella points and won. therefore never really addressing nor correcting any of these bad habits.
these habits include bad, lazy passing, taking plays off on both ends, not valuing offensive possessions, bad shots (even tho we hit those shots, they're still technically bad shots in the scheme of basketball). but we had the ability to come back on any deficits, score a shit load of points when we were dialed in, so we never worked towards eliminating these habits. arrogant to the point that the dubs felt all they had to do was show up and they could make it happen.
like, we beat okc in the regular season on a half court buzzer beater by curry. that shit was luck, but the dubs come to expect things to work itself out like that in their favor all the time, which isn't realistic.
in the offs, the waters recede and habits like that get exposed. which is what happened.
for this series, despite his performance tonight, draymon lost it for us.
he kneed adams in the nuts once on a layup, which wasn't a foul but it was noticed by all (the league and players). then he followed up by kicking adams in the nuts. basketball is all about body control, foot placement, etc. that chit wasn't an accident IMO, he meant to kick him. adams had made a comment about chasing the dubs on the court like little monkeys; there was no malice behind the comment but draymon seemed to have taken it personal. the first game after the monkey comment, dray hit his first shot and got in adams face talkn shit, it was obvious dray was fired up beyond just playing ball.
so after the adams nut kick, dray got a tech and was on notice - one more tech and he'd be suspended. the league was on notice too as to what dray was capable of. did that stop him? did he try and reel himself in just a little? no way, not dray. ornery as ever, he kept jawing to the refs, toeing the line the entire time.
so, come around to the cavs game (game four in cleveland) when lebron purposely stepped over dray (after throwing dray to the ground), dray swings his arm up and appears to possibly hit bron in the nuts. the dubs were up 3-1 at this point (if I remember correctly). double foul called on the court. but bron/cavs were able to lobby the league and get dray suspended for game five. which was huge. we essentially had the series clinched at that point.
dray had fucked up enough so there was no benefit of the doubt for him, he was out a game. this was a big mental mistake by him, costing the team big time. he'd accumulated enough 'points' under the league's flagrant foul system.
really tho? dray should've been suspended after hitting adams during the okc series since that was way worse. so the league was waiting for any reason to get him.
some say the league is rigged and this was what tipped the scales against dray. this could be true but I don't see it like that (and that's ultimately an excuse).
dray's out game five, cavs are able to win against us at home. I was at the game, the energy was just so flat. then game six, cavs take that one too. cavs kicked our fucking ass in games five and six. oh, and game six we lose bogut, the anchor for our defense, great passer from outside of the paint (forcing the opponent's bigs to come out the paint and guard him, opening up lanes) and he is our number one rim protector. and iggy comes out hobbled too.
we went from being up 3-1, looking like we're gonna coast to the chip, to being tied 3-3 with bogut injured and out and iggy looking hurt too.
so we come into game seven short handed. still have our bad fucking habits. barnes still doing nothing (tho he had like ten points or sunthn but still missed the wide open looks he had during crucial moments). coaching mistakes (ezeli ending up on james twice, once a foul on a three point shot and another three made, so six points total w just those two plays). kerr doesn't call a timeout late when he should have. and kyrie and lebron playing pretty amazing.
the game was close the entire time, we could have won it. but we shouldn't have even been in the position of a game seven! we should have closed it out in game five...
I wrote a lot, stream of consciousness style. prolly unread by most. but bad habits leftover from the regular season, arrogance, mental mistakes and missteps during this last series. ..we gave this one away. HUGE choke job
joe lacob jinxed us w his dumb ass 'light years ahead' comment, fckn dumb ass pos
