golden state warriors thread

he should stop worrying about carrying the ball in his palm and think about carrying christ in his heart. just one person's opinion

lol i pray for our brother poole to see the light

A+ win tonight. Defense looked incredible and they got completely jobbed by the refs and still got a W. I haven’t been this angry at a reffing game in years lol. Getting a w despite that is the best feeling tho. Steph still the goat obv.

Steph Curry with the CLUTCH look-away triple for the tie! 😱pic.twitter.com/QwPCi4RFhM

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) November 12, 2022

poole was COOKING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYkbp8ukTo

Is this a Dray starting rather than DLee situation where Poole should start over Klay ?

i dont think its gonna happen but its something to think about for sure, at least until klay gets to form (whatever the top end of his form is now)

Yes this needs to happen - I think it will by the end of the season if Klay doesn't improve on both ends of the floor significantly

Or ... and hear me out, Klay is traded. His contract is Westbrook levels bad if continues to play like this - he's slated to make over 40+ million next year. Drop him and a pick or three to a team and then resign Dray and have Poole start.

I know it feels like sacrilege to break up the Splash Bros but it's better now than end of next year.

if theyre going to make a trade they need to get better, moving a first to dump a contract is basically giving up on this team

Klays not going anywhere. He did enough in th playoffs to show he’s still impactful.

I could just see Klay not accepting a bench role and pouting, affecting performance. I could see them ditching him for maybe a decent veteran depth piece then. I do feel nostalgia might get in the way of winning with these guys.

Also Klay's pride has been almost blinding lately. If the team is better with Poole starting now, he needs to accept that ASAP and get over himself

starting poole prob isnt worth the drama, now giving poole some of klays minutes could be worth looking into

Only a matter of time: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35030343/warriors-james-wiseman-heads-g-league-extended-stint

hard to know with klay. hes never had the spotlight on him so even during his monthlong shooting slumps in the past or playing poorly in playoff games he usually escaped any scrutiny. but they arent winning right now and he keeps hoisting with no conscious. pretty much every other big player on the team has sacrificed or done something for the greater good of the team. i think it would be an easier sell than you think IF his poor play continues on into 2023. but who knows. hes earned enough good will to have a long rope and thats ok. where he is right now is where i thought hed be when he came back last season. so even if his max is what he showed in the playoffs/finals... its enough.

pooles gonna get his minutes regardless but he seems to be so much more aggressive playing as a starter. he might also need to suck it up and figure it out coming off the bench. also needs to get himself to a passable place on defense so he can be trusted at the end of games. klay is leagues beyond him in that regard even tho hes not what he was.

wiseman breakup is likely but the hope im sure is that he figures it out in the g league like poole did

also no one is leaving klay open and he still warps defenses with movement. thats still important even if he's not shooting his normal percentages atm.

Via @__adel11 (since I can’t rt) ….

Warriors since taking Wiseman out the rotation:
4 Games
4th in DefRTG
8th in OffRTG
2nd in NetRTG

3-1 record

— Andre (@OnBallSteph) November 15, 2022

oof lol

could have kept GPIII and traded Wiseman for picks

gp2 and prob otto too

idk who was taking wiseman for any kind of value, he’s often unavailable and doesn’t know how to play

Klay is the slumpiest great shooter of all time but a lot of wear on the tread now

gp2

lol my bad off by 1

idk who was taking wiseman for any kind of value, he’s often unavailable and doesn’t know how to play

Poole 0 shots made wtf

against top 10 offenses, warriors are third best in quality of shots allowed and *25th* in actual eFG allowed. insane shooting they're facing pic.twitter.com/K8SEkmoZL8

— doctor elon musk (parody) (@imisstheoldkyle) November 17, 2022

Per @statmuse, Steph Curry's currently having the most efficient 30+ PPG season in NBA history on a per-possession basis.

Essentially, a Steph shot is worth more than anyone's ever! pic.twitter.com/mGN45hRjVb

— mathketball (@Mathketball1) November 17, 2022

rest of the dubs are getting blinded by the steph light

that top three in shot location quality is just not that correlated with actual shot defense, its nice to force teams to take the bad shots but you have to get good contests too, if guys are just stepping into good 17 footers or whatever its not that great

no but it kinda matches the eye test. the defense is pretty bad right now but stuff like payne and bridges hitting 11/18 from three has been happening. theyre also getting killed on the glass and no one seems particularly locked in.

celtics d has picked up but at the very beginning of the season they were sucking while using shot location defense to uh defend themselves but watching them they just werent playing with intensity, the scheme was good but there just wasnt enough dog in the execution, think they were last in steals too, just not gonna get the job done

Klay's best game since the injuries! 41 pts, 10-13 from three including a couple clutch shots.

Was great last game as well. The team meeting seems to have got everyone on a similar page.

Also lmao this guy

Rockets Bench 😭 pic.twitter.com/BSyXgPSBEU

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) November 21, 2022

The vibes are back

The refs called a tech on Draymond for celebrating on the bench.

So the next play, Steph got a tech of his own in solidarity by intentionally overdoing a celebration 😂
pic.twitter.com/6kAQyqzUsU

— Guru (@DrGuru_) November 27, 2022

lol

new rule against xtreme bench celebrations is so bad they shouldve just drawn a dashed line between the bench and the sideline and been like dont cross this and it would solved the only problem which was guys standing too close to the court, bench celebrations are fun everyone likes them

It’s a dumb rule I don’t expect to stick around. Like sorry if you have 5-10k to sit right behind the players then that’s what you signed up for deal w it

warriors bench is figuring it out. kuminga has looked solid last few games and he should start to get more and more rope as the season goes on. if they can stick him on the likes of luka and he holds up then youve got something.

Jonathan Kuminga just completed one of the better halves of his young career. Bothered Luka Doncic in isolation, rebounded well, came weak side for a block, worked the baseline for cutting dunks. He was a +19 in 14 minutes. Here are a few highlights. pic.twitter.com/rKHGg28oxX

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 30, 2022

lol

Chatbots still have a long way to go pic.twitter.com/YMg9mC6wvn

— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) December 3, 2022

Steph Curry, Draymond Green and Andrew Wiggins will all miss tomorrow’s Warriors’ game in Utah. Curry left ankle soreness, Green left hip tightness, Wiggins right adductor strain. James Wiseman is with team and available.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) December 6, 2022

bizarre

Warriors this season:

11-2 at home
2-11 on the road pic.twitter.com/90Ftia4ukm

— StatMuse (@statmuse) December 8, 2022

That was the dumbest loss of the year and there's been some dumb losses.

indefensible

poole got hacked but whatever. they did so many dumb things at the end.

kuminga should be playing 25 minutes per night

ok kinda defensible since he got hacked then tackled by kelly o lol

UTAH JAZZ WIN pic.twitter.com/H74yrZI7zK

— Alex 👋 (@Dubs408) December 8, 2022

bay area billionaires not a fan of those recent draft picks

ESPN Sources: Golden State Warriors President of Basketball Operations Bob Myers – architect of four NBA championships in the past eight years – is entering into the final months of his contract and remains without a new deal: https://t.co/a5QUCVbCRc

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 11, 2022

Big stuff from Poole and Kuminga in the 4th, love to see it. Both ends for Kuminga

GSW has figured out that, if you're totally focused on winning the ring, it doesn't really matter where you're seeded because you're going to have to win every series anyway. And if you're eliminated, then someone else gets the ring and that's all you cared about, so why sweat the regular season?

Well there’s not sweating the reg season and then there’s real issues like not enough vet depth. Kuminga might be ready to help tho. Just need to trade Rollins or Baldwin or both