golden state warriors thread

Don't the other team blogs on SB Nation have decent writers? The ones for the Warriors are uniformly unreadable.

Couldn’t stop grinning all the way through this:

Jordan Poole is a vibe.

Hear him mic'd up in Game 2... @warriors seek 3-0 series lead tonight at 9pm/et on TNT! pic.twitter.com/IZDh6IiPoa

— NBA (@NBA) May 22, 2022

He seems like a fun guy

xpost Poole. By 2nd half of G2 he was great. He figured out he has the speed and handles to get where he wants & that he can he finish around or over the Mavs relatively weak interior defense. He could go to town for the rest of the series.

the eye test matches

Stat of the day:

Opponents are now shooting 37.5% when defended by Steph Curry this postseason.

That ranks 1st in the NBA amongst all players who have defended at least 125 shots.

— Joey Linn (@joeylinn_) May 23, 2022

Two Way Steph. DPOY!

Steve Kerr’s pregame presser in Dallas. Gives another emotional plea for gun control. pic.twitter.com/aPYpFIInAq

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 24, 2022

better than most public figures

This was a really well-written article about Kerr and his reaction yesterday.

🐦[Steve Kerr’s pregame presser in Dallas. Gives another emotional plea for gun control. pic.twitter.com/aPYpFIInAq🕸
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 24, 2022🕸]🐦

ugh, sorry, that was a double mis-click. Just watched that Kerr clip. Pretty raw stuff.

Go Warriors, go! pic.twitter.com/yeHJIkvolK

— Jane McAlevey (@rsgexp) May 27, 2022

They're a good team, folks. Some might even say one of the 2 best in the league.

Moody's jumper is clean af

moses moody channeling kobe pic.twitter.com/QR22u7QCkz

— Chris Montano (@gswchris) May 27, 2022

I still can’t believe what looney did this series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3GWvLTG_9w

kd been arguing with warriors (steph stans) on twitter for like five hours about curry double teams lol. dray started it on his pod and kd is denying it and now dray is back in arguing. that final 1.5 years of kd in gs was such weird energy i would love to one day know what curry really thinks of the whole situation, im sure we'll never know.

stephs a pro's pro

chase sounded incredible last night. pretty sure that was the best its sounded yet.

Poole Party 💦 pic.twitter.com/PYddNS6yrN

— David Swander (@dlswander) June 6, 2022

That shot by Poole deserved that reaction.

seemed like they were on their feet most of the night and breaking out in random cheers amidst the constant buzz. sounded oracle-esque for sure.

Rough for Dray but happy for him that he was able to have an impact at the end there

GPII's shot wasn't falling but he made up for it with everything else.

Thought everyone had at least one big moment in that game

Yeah Dray had a great final couple minutes. No idea why he’s been anti-Dray so much of this series. Love seeing Klay gets some stops vs Brown down the stretch.

He’s in his own head thinking about things

40+ points in a finals game at age 34 or older

Michael Jordan
Lebron James
Stephen Curry

— Denver📈 (@doubledworth) June 11, 2022

Dray 2/9/8/4 is an actual normal good Dray line lol

Wiggins 16 boards. Career high was 11

I thought GP2 was doing much more GP2 things this game.

Think he got a deflection right when he came in

Still wild that GP2 had a broken elbow 4 weeks ago and is now back to doing GP2 things. That’s some A+ rehab.

Some of the shots Draymond passed up were truly Ben Simmons esque

He’s shook for sure. Worst one I remember was when he had a wide open dunk and kicked it out to bjelica

Sometimes you just gotta spam the pnr button

Steph received 48 on-ball picks tonight. Highest clip of the season, and his highest mark since Game 5 of the 2017 Finals lmbo

— Nekias (Nuh-KY-us) Duncan (@NekiasNBA) June 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6_vawdzRok

Some of the shots Draymond passed up were truly Ben Simmons esque

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, June 11, 2022 12:45 PM (yesterday)

I was thinking the same thing

think Boston has to change their scheme vs Steph otherwise the Chase Center is going get very very loud

so true pic.twitter.com/UgIcb42Syg

— strawberry garfield (@megan_e_riley) June 12, 2022

no one on earth has ever enjoyed having a boat more than this guy

Lmao. Very reminiscent of the lebron “I can’t believe this is my life” ig post

nice to see klay is a fellow Cassandra Jenkins devotee

andrew wiggins saw this tweet, instantly got the vaccine and then went on to play the best season of basketball of his career pic.twitter.com/56xOduNYR6

— Molly Morrison (@mollyhannahm) June 14, 2022

inspired by his fellow canadian

Windhorst seems personally hurt the warriors won tonight Hahaa what a dork

Owners sent this man out there to play the poor card this absolutely hilarious https://t.co/IzZxEpQwW6

— Jason Maples (@JJMaples55_MST) June 14, 2022

pooles playoff run was really something.

Highest TS% in a playoff run with at least 20% usage and 500 minutes. Whole lot of legends there. Not a lot of guys doing it under age 25. pic.twitter.com/II0Vp2Gjng

— Richard Yannow (@RichardYannow) June 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHPvcM246v0

he really danced around this one huh

Glad this was asked on @NBATV

Warriors have drafted and kept their best players and are now being punished while trying to keep Looney and Poole along with Steph, Klay and Draymond. pic.twitter.com/tyenREgMGz

— #FreeBrittneyGriner (@CandlestickWill) June 23, 2022

On the one hand, I don't want to see this homegrown team broken up over cap issues. On the other hand all these billionaires should be forking up the extra dough to compete. It's a bummer that none of that luxury tax $$$ goes to the players, though.

"Player sharing" is kind of a gross way of putting it too -- puts the focus on the team/management over the players.