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maybe draymond should stop podcasting? haha

problem is this is the exact kind of team that nullifies his strengths a bit.

yeah hes better when hes the most physical energetic guy out there but repeatedly crashing into other very physical players all game will make it tough

maybe draymond should stop podcasting? haha

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 9, 2022 9:01 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe he should be partying a bit and loosening up lol. actually get his mind OFF hoops for a couple hours.

draymond doesn’t have any advantages against a team whose small line up is actually big. he is getting killed on the glass and can’t shoot, his 2 man game with steph isn’t being utilized in this series, just not sure what he’s bringing to the table. the only time he’s really looked useful to me is when he’s basically been playing the 3 on defense guarding tatum & brown. this is why i posted last night that they should consider going even smaller by taking him off the floor and amping up the shooting. if they need a big in there play looney who can actually maybe rebound against this team

maybe, i just dont see it happening. drays too smart and good not to be able to have impact on a game/series consistently. game 4 is huge for him.

i don’t think they should outright bench him, they gotta see what he has in any given game. but if he’s playing like he did last night they have to try other things bcuz he simply wasn’t providing anything

jaylen was straight up isoing him up last night, blood in the water

you know hes gonna come out in full psycho mode for game 4, well see how the refs feel about that behavior on the road

everyone cooked everyone last night. it was a layup line

drays gotta hold up tho thats what hes there for

he was trying to get tossed after he fouled out last night just staring down the ref from three feet away after yelling in his face lol god bless

Draymond Green picks up his 6th and final foul and stares down referee Courtney Kirkland 👀 pic.twitter.com/byxpw5LFkx

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 9, 2022

draymond's two huge strengths as a player are 1. his two man chemistry w/ steph on offense 2. his help/roving style of defense. if this match up dictates that the warriors need to attack in traditional PNR and play iso defense then what exactly is draymond bringing to the table on either end of the floor

i dont disagree but if they go super small the warriors d just falls apart completely prob, like maybe you can try playing looney with four shooters but i dont think is a great series for him either, and the warriors secondary shooters have been so passive anyway like maybe theyll hit a catch and shoot but theyre not putting much pressure on the d, and of course boston has so many ways to match up with their various lineups

feel like the warriors just need that most basic of adjustments, play better

I’d say pushing the pace is up there for him too. And usually he’s good one on one they all just sucked last night

i think they tried steph/klay/poole/wiggins/looney last night and the celtics were just living at the rim

its interesting the celtics have totally refused to trap steph theyd rather live with giving him some good looks coming off screens than activate the draymond halfcourt fastbreak

this was a cool play

I'll let Mark Jackson give you the zone-beater breakdown.

If there's one thing I'll add, Jaylen Brown is in *that* corner for a reason. Look at the strain it places on Andrew Wiggins, and where things go from there. pic.twitter.com/vDjwLl2JO2

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) June 9, 2022

feel like the warriors just need that most basic of adjustments, play better

xp i dunno. seems like the obvious solution there is to just let derrick white take an above the break three. i know he's been hot but just strikes me as bad defense. did the warriors play a lot of zone in the regular season? it's hard to just start randomly playing zone in the finals

so good how white drew two with barely a fake then casually passes it back to al, must have been so satisfying for him

celtics used to have a lot of trouble with the zone now they shred it, pretty big deal for them

i dont think you can just give white that perfect look but sending two is prob not the way

feel like the warriors just need that most basic of adjustments, play better

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 9, 2022 1:05 PM (twenty minutes ago)

i think this is true but the thing is they actually have been playing pretty well. steph is having his best series of the playoffs, wiggins/porter/payton have been as solid as you'd need, klay has played near the top of what you could expect for him these days. so it really comes down to draymond and poole and on paper i don't really see the route for them playing better except for them to ummmmmm play better? so that's where i come back to kerr -- who is on the rigid side of the coaching spectrum -- needing to figure out ways to try and tweak the series strategically, in some fashion. i thought in the heat-celtics series there was a lot of "just play better" level changes from game to game -- the one bam game for instance -- but also thought each coach was noticeably adjusting strategically each night out. what does kerr have in his bag?

all this crying about celtics fans is so weak man lol

I’ve chatted with multiple Warriors staffers (who work in various diff roles in the org) and their experience here in Boston has been crazy.

One told me “I had to take off my Dubs shirt Wed morning because I kept getting cursed out.”

Another: “I’ve been flipped off 17 times.”

— Jason Dumas (@JDumasReports) June 9, 2022

[pullin The Bird out of my pocket] it’s 18 times now, bucko

so good how white drew two with barely a fake then casually passes it back to al, must have been so satisfying for him

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 9, 2022 1:28 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

love a good zone beater

*hands warriors staffer a box of kleenex but then my middle finger pops out of it*

did the warriors play a lot of zone in the regular season? it's hard to just start randomly playing zone in the finals

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 9, 2022 10:25 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they did some zone. they go in and out of it. worked really well against mem/dallas. but... these guys have only played together 19 games together this season, all of them playoff games.

blessed news

There is optimism today on Warriors star Stephen Curry’s status for Game 4 of the NBA Finals vs. Boston on Friday, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. It appears Curry won't need MRI, has avoided major issue with his left foot, and will attend Golden State's afternoon practice.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 9, 2022

ah thats good didnt look too serious at the time but you never know

so that's where i come back to kerr -- who is on the rigid side of the coaching spectrum -- needing to figure out ways to try and tweak the series strategically, in some fashion.

yeah it feels anathema to what kerr is about to do so, but might have to play the rooks just to throw something at the celtics that they haven't seen and throw a wrench in the way things are headed. i get that you don't want kuminga out there getting lost and making mistakes, but let's be honest the front line dubs are not exactly holding the fort either, so.

an act of desperation that probably backfires but sometimes you have to take the big swings. call it the uh sarah palin option

Warriors offensive rating this Finals:

116.8 with Steph on the floor
(Would rank first this season)

91.5 with Steph on the bench
(Would rank worst in last 50 seasons) pic.twitter.com/7J9AzltBeL

— StatMuse (@statmuse) June 9, 2022

thats legit crazy

poole has gotta cook.

also steph needs to play 44 minutes even if he cant. just stand in the corner for about 6 posessions

every time ime talks it sounds like he’s holding in a toke

steph can't really take possessions off because he is getting targeted on defense, particularly in the 4th when the celtics know he is tired and are runnning their spread offense

yeah the celtics have gotten this far by in large part wearing teams down, except for the heat you cant wear the heat down because of heat culture

Except lowry

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FU6CkwzXwAE2JRc?format=jpg&name=large

the fellas

football with the guys.

lol it does look like football

hello I’m Marcus Smart and this is The Finals

lol nice

Horf has classic juicin spot atop his head

gotta say i love this matchup and hope the dubs extend it cos we need more games between these two teams. i like the guys on both teams. good characters, hard playin players and defenses, good coaching, sweet shotmaking... the nba finals baby need more of it.

weirdly another one of these series where we haven't had a great game yet. 12, 19, 16 point margins in the three games. have certainly had some great halves, great quarters tho

yaeh the endings havent been incredible but every game has had drama. games 1&3 were closer than their final scores and the first half of game 2 was shot for shot.