golden state warriors thread

so we dont spam up the main thread with too much gsw stuff

i love any and all klay boat content
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I totally missed Avery Bradley is on the team now

he might not make the final roster. everyone is hoping its gary payton II. bradley has looked bad in the minutes ive seen him and hasnt looked good in a few seasons really

My understanding is: Payton is signed for this season so they'd have to eat the money for this season if they waive him. Bradley is on an exhibit 10 which they could convert to a 2-way even if they keep Payton. If they cut Payton they'd have to have him pass through waivers to sign him to a two-way.

actually, bradley is ineligible for a two-way due to service time, so he would have to be a straight up g-leaguer

hmm. i think they should roll w GP2. Obv if AB was even like 80% of what he was he would be better but I like the idea of a real defensive ball hawk that's young and hungry to prove himself.

Spottie, thanks for creating a safe space to talk about how Jordan Poole will make the all star team this year

haha i think 6th man of the year would be ideal honestly, or most improved. he may get too many starts in klays absence to be eligible for 6moy. either way im probably more excited to see him play than anything outside of klays return.

Nice to see Steph and Dray at the Giants game.

well thats an option i guess. might not be too bad an idea to leave that spot open for buyout spot idk

Warriors waived tonight: Jordan Bell, Avery Bradley, Mychal Mulder and Gary Payton II. 15th roster spot open for now.

— Monte Poole (@MontePooleNBCS) October 16, 2021

aww was kinda rooting for bell.

yeah same, i thought he was a building block!
is payton's son an nba player for the long haul or no? i haven't seen enough of him.

apparently payton II can’t do anything at all on offense

Yah report on him is that he’s an all time on ball defender but a zero on offense. Like a shorter and worse offensive player than tony Allen

so.... euroleague?

After waiving him Saturday, Golden State has re-signed Gary Payton II.

More NBA from me: https://t.co/LGN9cVpeGP pic.twitter.com/Od3jt7rMDF

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) October 19, 2021

makes sense

GP2 played for like 3 seconds to end the 1st half and he got a steal haha

wiseman is a large human
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cuet
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-damion-lee-juan-toscano-anderson-share-evil-twins-bond

Toscano-Anderson said their friendship helped him survive in the NBA, a place he “thought I knew” but discovered was far different. He trusts Lee with his deepest thoughts.

“You need that. You need that in life, you know, as men we don't express ourselves when we don't find people we can just be vulnerable with. Not only as men, but as Black men. We tend to just kind of mask that stuff.”

Well, I finally saw my first pro 8-second violation. One of Dray's many boneheaded turnovers last night.

the TOs were brutal last night. felt like the majority of them were just plain stupid and pointless

I was yelling at the TV “a no-look pass means you don’t look!”

lol Andre - 2p/4r/10a/2s in 17 minutes

insane line

and liek every assist he was pointing at the pels bench someone musta said something to him early on

Andre Iguodala on their 7-1 start and if he thinks they are a good team: "Uhh, we okay, a work in progress. We had a favorable schedule so you shouldn't look too much into it.

— Joe Viray (@JoeVirayNBA) November 6, 2021

I agree

classic iggy lol

seriously the chase crowd is doodoo steph and dray having to yell at them just stand up and clap

“Come on muthafuckas” he fed up wit that bunk ass crowd 😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/gMRiNdTH0k

— STAY100 (@Bounc3Bike9800) November 9, 2021

shouldve stayed in oakland

i watched the hawks feed last night and those boys were salty when curry got his 50 lmao

Hawks Play by Play guy in his feelings about Steph getting 50 pic.twitter.com/t1IdYBfNwb

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) November 9, 2021

lol what babies

pffffft 50 i do that for brkfst

I wonder if I'll ever go to another Warriors game. $120 for nosebleeds with a bad crowd? In a boring neighborhood? Zzz

come out to phx we can see them for less

Yeah the tickets are ridiculous for the Dubs. .01 percenters only.

I love Steph, Klay and Dray with all my heart but if they never get another ring because of the Curse of Oracle I'll understand.

So fun tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbqxrHpdE6g

Wiggins most aggressive game I’ve ever seen.

Does he promise to?

Andrew Wiggins: “I’m going to keep it rolling. I’m going to stay aggressive.”

— Rusty Simmons (@Rusty_SFChron) November 11, 2021

the highlight clip on espn was titled wiggins dunks hard on kat twice lol i was like hmm

really promising stuff from kuminga the last few games.

From @ElGee35’s recent video: Steph’s greatness pic.twitter.com/HckrWeS00q

— mathketball (@Mathketball1) November 19, 2021

and after all that the most impressive part is how he's able to set his feet and get off the shot after sprinting to the spot from the other direction

The Warriors starters tonight

Gary Payton II
Jordan Poole
Andrew Wiggins
Juan Toscano-Anderson
Kevon Looney

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 19, 2021

and after all that the most impressive part is how he's able to set his feet and get off the shot after sprinting to the spot from the other direction

― J0rdan S., Friday, November 19, 2021 2:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah all that and he still has less than a quarter of a second to get the shot off clean, and does

they won with that lineup! know your opponent i guess.

Good stuff from Poole and Wiggins last night. Once klay comes back Poole will fill his rightful role as the microwave 6th man and he’ll be able to maximize his strengths a little more.

i guess it was a pretty bad sprain

one of the good things about having all these guys is you can survive the loss of "a melton"

Nice to see Looney and Wiggins playing well

Wiggins looks like 2022 wiggs

Yup. Very promising

Also Dubs secured a quarter final spot for the NBA cup fwiw

That was a very 2023 loss tonight

a very 2024 win for us (we did not win in 2023)

the "what year is it dial" keeps spinning. came up 2023 tonight :(

Yup. Got flashbacks again and they weren't good

Turnovers and overhelping - the 2023 warriors are back

think kuminga may turn out to be very important to being the 2024 dubs not the 2023 version. he's been out past few games. let's see if they can be fun again when jk returns

Buddy is who we thought he was. Always been this way. 2-4 week heaters followed by 2-4 weeks of borderline unplayability.

Spottie, I feel your pain (though his heater for the Sixers consisted of a single half of a playoff game iirc).

haha yeah. the lines between a bench guy, a rotation guy, a starter and a star are always drawn by consistency.

Rotations are about 3 seconds too late on every possession and the suns are hitting every open three

I just don't see it with these guys.

Yeah looking rough.

Whelp, I guess the first 15 games was a fever dream. They haven't been able to keep up the defense and the shooting. Alas.

But a few of these losses of late have come from teams unsustainably hitting shots. Not sure if that's bad luck or bad defense, probably a bit of both.

dubs had the best 3pt% defense in the league as of a few days ago, which is pure luck

KUMINGAAAAA

huge dub against a good team with no curry/dray

needed that win lol

got a chance to watch a lot of that game, such a tantalizing vision of the path forward if kuminga and wiggs could play that regularly. if only

That's crZyyyy. Iso on Rudy and he started dribbling like he was 99 overall pic.twitter.com/Idq6dhb0I4

— chano (@chanodesigns) December 9, 2024

i wish i loved anything as much as draymond hates rudy gobert

it was perfect really

and he went night night himself
he was doing the night night all the way down the floor

lol

nursery rhyme ass call

<3

Draymond.
GP.
JK.

Masterclass pic.twitter.com/cB19IM56j6

— Denver📈🇵🇸 (@doubledworth) December 9, 2024

Instant oral history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GDZWlF9S8

crazy game, dallas seemingly never missed. luka played one of the best games ive ever seen.

podz is really bad and probably needs to be sat for a while or even get some g league reps to build his confidence back up.

kuminga starting over draymond is to build his value up for a trade.

i think i like the schroeder pickup, they just need dudes that can get a bucket and play hard on d but i do worry kerr is going to do some 3 guard nonsense like hes been known to do.

they need another trade.

I think we’ve reached the end of the line my friends

pretty brutal score

Curry 0 buckets

Yikes. Can I delete all my comments above?

Ugly ugly stuff out there whole team just out there jacking up threes very hard to watch.

just felt like steph aside there was no one the heat really needed to worry about. schroeder was the only other guy who you had to worry about doing anything off the dribble and he was bad tonight. it highlights how much they need kuminga to be consistent night to night on offense, but that doesn't seem like a thing that will happen

He was just starting to lock into a solid role with more consistency but the ankle injury is gonna keep him out 3-4 weeks, horrible timing.

lost 15 of the last 21. yikes

Dray left with a calf injury and never came back, limping hard on the sidelines. Steph rolled his ankle at the end of the game :(

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1st q tonight was the worst quarter of ball I’ve seen this year

Keerthika Uthayakumar ✧@keerthi✧✧✧.b✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧‬

Jimmy Butler has taken 28 free throws in 2 games with Golden State, the most in a 2-game span by a Warrior since Kevin Durant in 2018.

Yeah he's been a game changer so far. Definitely promising but I'm being very cautiously optimistic. It seems this trade has jolted life back into Steph, who had his 4th 30 point game in a row for the first time in 4 years

its pretty awesome cos it doesnt even seem like theyve figured anything out really, just kinda freelancing and reacting, not even being very assertive yet as he tries to fit in. he gets a lot of buckets and opens up a lot of stuff by just sealing dudes off in the paint. hes everything they needed, tough and secure with ball, not caring about threes and just trying to get the best shot, a connector and release valve.

im really hoping he can teach kuminga some of his game as thats the exact player he should be shaping his after.

That's a great point - we'll see, Kuminga at times seems to have a tank commander mindset though, someone who wants a bag and minutes and the rest is background music (a la Poole). Would love to see him improve his ball handling and finish at the rim better.

this is his last chance or he's getting shipped out this summer in a sign n trade imo

Brandin Podziemski on Quinten Post: "I think he's playing well because his girlfriend's with us on the trip."

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