I’m not a fan of the word “unacceptable”, but that’s how Draymond Green described the Warriors’ performance the other night against New York, on his latest podcast. But I’m a little different, as the regulars on our livestreams have learned.
[ASIDE: I chose the game pic above because the co fluency of bodies made it seem like Dray had fiery hair lol. Plus the forthcoming reference to Jekyll and Hyde.]
But I’m trying to eradicate words like “stupid”, “dumb”, and “idiotic” — also “trash”, “clown”, and, well, “unacceptable” or similar words that tend to throw the subject under the bus — from my every day vocabulary because I do believe your brain becomes trained on your thoughts and what you say.
Sooner or later, you yourself will mess up on something and your brain will be calling you those names as well. I prefer a more productive, forgiving mindset and lean more on positive vibes, therefore less-judgmental words that are based more on humility and gratitude than on entitlement. More on this some other day.
At some point, something “bad” is going to happen and there’s like a divine choreography to everything out there, which means at some point you have to accept an outcome, especially when you realize it’s not necessarily a one-off, which is philosophically why I do not agree with Green’s one-word judgment as said on his podcast. And I rarely disagree with Dray.
And so with the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde results at the Lakers and then at home vs the Knicks, as Steve Kerr said on his two radio spots yesterday with KNBR and 95.7, this iteration of the GSW has the capacity to beat any team in the NBA, but also on any given night, any team can beat them as well.
Ergo, I’ve come to accept it, and if the Warriors end the season as Mr. Hyde (i.e., the Knicks performance), then I can envision the roster being altered as needed. So for me, whatever happens happens. But in the immediate term, I can accept the possibility that there are reasons for things:
• Draymond is now listed as “questionable” for tonight’s matchup against the Grizzlies, although during the pregame Kerr said he’s likely to play. If his back is locking up on him as he described in his podcast episode prior to the latest, then that could explain the paltry 1-for-7 from the field and shanking some of those threes he took. This team is not going very far with Dray not at 100%. I’m going to chalk up the Knicks loss as Dray not 100%. By my tally, GSW is 12-19 when he’s not fully healthy (I may have miscounted a game, I admit). Therefore, overall the Warriors are 23-13, or ten games over .500, with a fully healthy Green.
• Brandin Podziemski had a rough night. But I credit the triumvirate Villanova grit in Josh Hart, Jalen Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo for neutralizing him. Those a three guys who are very similar to Podziemski. For one night, he met his match, off the ball, chasing the ball. Oh well, it happens.
• Andrew Wiggins also was night and day in his Lakers/Knicks output. However, and there’s no indication yet of any correlation, today his brother Nick Wiggins said via Instagram that due to “some serious personal problems at home,” he will have to leave the Indonesian league:
Nick was in Houston, TX, at last check of his IG. Back to Andrew, in the longer term, I can understand if Joe Lacob and Mike Dunleavy, Jr. have concerns about longer-term availability and how it affects Wiggs’ psyche.
• The NBA is just getting tougher, at least for the regular season. On the radio shows, Kerr mentioned that the vets aren’t quite able to “will” their way to victories anymore. What I have seen this year from the team is a general inability to stay in front of defenders, because when they do, that enables the championship-level-type stops — one sequence of which we saw, finally, against the Lakers. But then again the regular season seems just so faster-paced these days, I think it’s really just length, speed and athleticism. Sometimes BP stays in front, but it doesn’t matter, they still score or get a foul call. Moses Moody can’t stay in front (footwork, per Kerr) and his recovery defense is average, even though his wingspan is 7-feet — hopefully he’ll learn more defensive tricks in the off-season. However, this could all change for the playoffs. The playoffs is a different animal. We shall see, if the squad gets that far. For me, the offense starts with defense. I will be shocked if Dunleavy doesn’t seek some length on the wing this off-season, whatever happens in the play-in and, if possible, the playoffs. The lack of length during the regular season is not sustainable. I think you can get by with Podz being the playmaker with Klay Thompson and Trayce Jackson-Davis in a future second unit for next year and promote Moody to the starting unit. That probably means utilizing the salary slots of Chris Paul and/or Wiggs to get back some length on the wings, but I’m just spitballing and it’s a little early for that, because…
• I still think Dr. Jekyll can reappear and rattle off a 12-3 finish to the season, which will end them up at twelve games over .500. As I’ve said the last couple articles, the sixth seed has been mired at ten or eleven games over .500 since the All-Star Break.
And finally, my suggestion to the Warriors’ coaching staff:
HOW TO UTILIZE TIMEOUTS BETTER
With the ball movement and pace of today’s modern NBA, teams can obviously get on a hot streak quickly. Heck, even LeBron James talked about that with JJ Redick in the last 24 hours on his new podcast: https://x.com/mindthegamepod/status/1770164587524247699
JJ Redick: “People would clear their benches with a 17-point lead and 9 minutes to go.”
LeBron James: “Whenever that little light-skinned f*cker came into the league, that’s in Golden State, he changed that whole narrative. He singlehandedly changed the ‘no lead is safe.’”
When I coached amateur men’s league and traveling tournament teams, every timeout always was used when the other team went on a deep run or we made some mistakes, obviously. But it was always with the framing of, we did something wrong.
In the new NBA, it’s not always bad defense. Guys can get hot, just like the SplashBrothers. I’m not sure Steve or the coaching staff has come around full circle to this yet. Maybe it’s the last Humble Pie they need to eat.
Every timeout need not include some adjustment you need to make, some criticism on something somebody did wrong (Jonathan Kuminga be like “🙋🏻♂️” if you saw or heard his sit-down with NBCSBA the other day — check our previous article or two for the link). It may not even warrant an ATO! — you still might want to draw one up, though, I would think.
The point is, use your timeouts as a way to stop the ticking time bomb momentum of the modern game. My not-so-deep analysis of the last few games’ play-by-play charts tells me you do this when:
-
The other team hits two threes in a row, because when they hit three in a row, it could cost you the game (see Lakers, Bulls).
-
You commit two turnovers in a row, because three giveaways in a row could cost you the game (this has happened many times this season).
-
When one of their guys hits two in a row, in whatever fashion. This is the new one. This should be the Miles McBride rule.
Timeouts in the past were a psychological admission that the other team is whooping your a— the past few possessions. While that may be true ongoing, reframe it to be just another tool in your bag to counteract the inevitability in this generation of NBA players that someone is going to get his at some point.
I’ve written before and said on the livestreams that there is less pride in stopping your man these days, like back in the day when the playground game got to like 10-10 by ones only, “next point wins”, but then again there’s also less iso 1v1 plays. So let me retract that statement a tad. Teams are smart. NBA ballers are way faster and skilled and creative. It’s harder to recover, more than ever. And so I’m a little more forgiving of Moody’s on-ball defense. It’s no longer “unacceptable” to me.
Incorporate the timeout as your sixth defender, frame it that way. Tell your guys that calling a timeout, at least in the first half, doesn’t necessarily mean someone screwed up (other than the turnover issue in No. 1, above).
You have seven timeouts in the first half. Use them!
0:00 Stephen, is the home-road splits as hard for you to figure out as it is for us?
STEPHEN CURRY POSTGAME NYK-GSW: “Yeah, it’s just unusual, obviously. We’re under .500 at home. That’s been our staple. We’re giving ourselves a little cushion every season for the last however long. So it’s a challenge that we have to overcome at some point down the stretch of this season. And you understand the best-case scenario is to try to have home court in a play-in environment or, when you get into a series, you have to win here and protect your home court, especially as a lower seed. So you gotta correct whatever is ailing us. Tonight was just a slow start. They know what happened in New York when we jumped out to whatever it was. It was 20 to 4 or whatever. So you knew they were going to come out strong. They did. We responded, just couldn’t get over the hump. It was wire to wire for them, and that’s another situation that we can’t let happen on our home court.”
1:29 Is the energy any different on the road? Do you feel like there’s something on the road that you’re not able to replicate at home?
“I don’t know what the answer is. It’s always that thing if you did, you’d be able to get ahead of it. It’s just every game is a little different. Whether you’re giving up a big lead in the fourth quarter or not getting off to a good start where you don’t control any of the momentum. We’ve kind of seen it all, so you pick it, we’ve experienced it.”
1:57 It was 18-4, you’ve alluded to it, but what happened in that stretch?
“They probably got loose at 11 in the first five, six minutes. We kept Jalen (Brunson) pretty quiet to start, but Hartenstein got three floaters or finishes in the paint and they were kind of spacing us out. They played a starting lineup that gave Hartenstein the ability to roll, him and Brunson played pick and roll. Then when McBride was hitting shots, they held every option open and they were making them. So it’s tough. You can get the ball out of the basket every time coming down the court. We never got stops and it led to transition. But, like I said, we responded, got it to four at one point in the second half. And they just had every answer.”
2:53 How are you looking at your place right now in the standings and how reasonable it is to get in this 7th, 8th range and also below you, you know Houston kind of coming up?
“Maybe a week or two ago 6th seed was the motivation. Right now, I could care less about where you’re at, it’s just the consistency of how we’re playing. That’s the most important thing because honestly, who cares what seed you are. If you play like we did tonight, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, whatever it is, doesn’t matter. You’re not going to get very far. So that’s the perspective and the focus. It doesn’t really matter where the standards are.”
3:38 Steph, in a normal year, the toughest losses might be pretty easy to pick out. Do any this year stick out as like the ones that keep you up at night or do kind of all of them?
“If you’ve been around long enough, 82 games, you can’t think about that no matter what point in the season you are. When you ask the question, Denver, Jokic hitting the buzzer-beater, that’s the one, the first one that came to mind. But like I said, we’ve experienced some huge letdowns. We’ve had some that have gone our way. And we’ve had games like tonight where you’re supposed to win and might not be as dramatic as that Denver game, but it’s a tough loss. So yeah, it’s hard to keep the spirit – it’s not hard to keep spirit – it’s hard to maintain the momentum that we’re trying to create. And it sounds good when we talk about it, we just haven’t executed.”
4:43 Is there an ingredient that you notice that leads to the inconsistency? Is there like a symptom you notice in all of them?
“Mmm, I mean it’s a little bit of everything to be honest. Like I said, even that game I was just talking about, we played great for 42 minutes and then let go the last six minutes tonight. Our first six minutes was kind of the defining window that gave them all the confidence in the world that they could win tonight. So it’s confusing because you go to LA and you have that performance like we did in LA, we’re bouncing back from a tough loss against Dallas and you show a lot of life. So it’s a little bit of everything, but it’s all controllable to a certain extent and we just have to do it.”
5:53 Steph, Trayce, tonight, still, despite everything, Trayce puts up 19 and 10 with three blocks. Over the last five, six, seven weeks, what’s his development meant for you guys as a team?
“It’s been a great spark off the bench. Him and CP and even Klay have a nice chemistry in pick and roll situations. He’s understood the pictures a lot on defense and know where to be to get those blocks and get those hustle plays and give us a huge presence inside. So he’s proven that he’s learning on the fly and he’s making a huge impact in his minutes. It’s even big because we’re starting to see him with different lineups, even next to Draymond for a good, good run. And you need that size and that presence. And he’s doing everything in his power to impact the game.”
6:51 On the lobs Trayce is getting from CP3:
“Like I said, the chemistry, he’s gotten a bunch from CP, a bunch of them from Klay and when he sets good screens and you have to pay attention to other guys on the floor, his timing and his leaping ability and his pressure on the rim. It gives us a different dynamic. And now we have to utilize that and then get everything else going around, especially offensively when it comes to our organization and what we’re trying to do on every possession.”
7:28 Going back to Slater’s question and what you were saying about eyeing the sixth and seventh seed at one point and now just saying inconsistencies, you guys put together a really strong couple months and just because of the circumstances in the Western Conference, didn’t really see much movement in the standings. Is that like a frustrating thing that you do put together a good stretch and now as inconsistencies kind of creep back in, you weren’t able to make headway?
“Absolutely. We think about it in the sense that we still have confidence that we can be a team that we say we’re trying to be. It just highlights the couple games, especially at home, that we’ve lost that, if you want to look at it and do the math, it could be one game out of sixth, or we could be securely in that 7th, 8th. The Chicago game and this game, the San Antonio game, like, you know that’s the frustrating part, but on the whole, there’s enough body of work outside of how everybody else is playing that we can look at ourselves and say we have the capabilities to do it. Just, it’s like one out of every two games as opposed to what that little stretch we had coming out of All Star Week and all that stuff. So, yeah. Who are we gonna be, we gotta figure it out.”
8:49 Steph, do you think there’s enough time in the season for you guys to build the momentum you’re seeking?
“Absolutely. Sorry for the short answer, but absolutely.”
0:00 What happened early and did you feel like that start kind of dictated the game?
STEVE KERR POSTGAME NYK-GSW: “Yeah, it was almost the exact opposite of our game in New York a couple weeks ago where we started out that game 14-0 and I thought the Knicks were great tonight right from the very beginning. They took it to us. They were physical. They played with great force and I thought Tom (Thibodeau) made a great move starting McBride with OG out, putting McBride in there, spaced the floor, and obviously he got going. And they had us really spread out early, and we knew they were going to come in and play hard, after we got them a couple weeks ago. That’s kind of their identity, they’re a hard-playing team, and they took it to us tonight.”
0:53 Why do you think, outside of Steph and JK, just the starting unit not really having that momentum, tonight, really just not being able to find anything?
“Yeah, just one of those nights, where we didn’t really get anything going from that starting group; they’ve been really good, but it just felt like from the very beginning, we were swimming upstream. So it was 15-4 out of the gate and we didn’t once have the lead in the game. We made it a good comeback, but I just didn’t think we were disciplined enough, throughout the game. To earn the win, we were biting on pump fakes on non-shooters. We were getting back cut and over and over again, which compromised our defense. They had 14 offensive boards. They just outplayed us. Simple as that.”
1:46 Steve, what do you make of a start like this in a game at this point of the season? What do you make from that? What do you take away from that?
“Well, it’s, I don’t think it’s a lack of effort. It’s, just, we weren’t good enough. That simple. We just did not play well enough. And it’s disappointing because we got these three home games here this week and we wanted to get off on the right track, but that’s a really good team and they just outplayed us, as simple as that.”
2:24 How important is it over these last 15? You have six more home games, and I know you’ve talked in the past about how important it is to establish a home court. Is it still as important as it always was, or has that dynamic changed a little bit with the way the season’s going?
“It’s always important to control your home floor. This has been a strange season in that regard. We’ve been good at home for a long time and just haven’t been able to establish that dominance at home and that’s what’s keeping us from climbing up in the standings.”
2:58 Any broader reason for that?
“No.”
Random?
“Yeah, I don’t know.”
What did you think of how Andrew Wiggins played tonight? It looked like you went with Gary over him for a little bit there. And what went into the decision to keep him in, in the fourth during crunch time?
“Well, we were searching for lineups tonight, for sure. I liked Moses’s minutes in the first half. And then he went out with a knee injury and with Moses unavailable, we were searching for lineups, whether it was Wiggs or JK or Brandin. And you make the best decisions that you can, and you have to be able to guard. So we wanted Wiggs on Brunson and that’s why Gary played as many minutes as he did as well, because they spread you out and Brunson is really tough and so we were matching up and trying to find lineups that clicked.”
4:00 Steve, Klay coming off the bench, it’s not like, I wouldn’t say he’s embraced the role, but he’s kind of attacked it. It seems like he’s really gotten after that role and taking it to heart, would you say that?
“It’s been great. It’s not just his play, but it’s his approach. I really like the way he’s handled himself and handled the role. I would say he has embraced it. I’m sure he’d prefer to start, but he’s really done a good job of taking the job and running with it and recognizing that it’s been a good move for our team too.”
4:42 So you guys were third in defensive rating last month, 18th this month. Is there anything you can point at and say, what happened in the last few weeks?
“We’ve been inconsistent the last couple weeks. And sometimes shots go in, shots don’t. That happens too. It’s not always about effort or scheme. These guys, as my old coach Pop used to say, those guys make millions of dollars to play basketball too, and like you can game plan, you don’t probably expect Miles McBride to go 9 for 13 and have 29, but he’s a hell of a player. He’s an NBA player for a reason. And so he had a night and I thought they spread us out early with that starting lineup and with the pick and roll, and then McBride got free a couple of times and that got him going. And so there are nights where you can try to do everything right, but guys just, get free. With that said, I thought we had a lot of breakdowns tonight. Backdoor cuts, offensive rebounds where we didn’t box out. And those things can also free up guys to get hot. And I thought that happened tonight.”
6:10 How do you think Stephen Curry’s today’s performance? He’s starting to get points in the second quarter after the last five minutes.
“Yeah, it was a slow start to the game for Steph and for our whole team. And then, he did what he always does, which is he bounced back and played well and helped us win the game. So it wasn’t Steph’s best night. It wasn’t my best night. It wasn’t the team’s best night. So we’ll have to bounce back on Wednesday.
6:54 TRAYCE JACKSON-DAVIS on Miles McBride: “A few early ones got him going. And then with Brunson, we tried not to foul. Obviously did a pretty good job, but still eight free throws and then most of them were late, fouling shooters. Coach was – big emphasis on that before the game, especially with him. And so, those two things really hurt us, I think.”
7:17 How exhausting is it trying to play catch up the whole game? Every time you guys get close, they go on a run. What’s that like, kind of going through that?
“Yeah, it’s tough. And their coach did a really good job of calling timeouts. He used all of them. Every time we got a little bit of momentum, they called a timeout. But at the same time, you just gotta overcome, especially when you’re at home. You just gotta keep the momentum going, make plays, and play hard.”
7:42 Trayce, do you have any theory as to why this team is better on the road than it is at home? It’s such a rare thing in the NBA.
“Yeah, I have no idea, honestly. I feel like we came in locked in. We had a good shoot around. Start of the game was a little rough, but after we got into things, into the swing of things, I just think we started a little slow, and they got comfortable. So, we gotta make teams uncomfortable early.”
8:07 When you say that you guys started a little slow, did that surprise you at this point of the season, where so much is at stake, and you guys are trying to establish a way to get back up into that top six? It was talked about before the game.
“We went there two, three weeks ago and kind of jumped on them early. So as Coach said before the game they’re going to come out here swinging, especially the way that we started the last time we played. And that’s exactly what they did.”
8:32 Trayce, kind of following up on that, you guys went on a pretty hefty run a couple of weeks ago over the last couple of months to get solidly in that play-in picture, but throughout, you weren’t really able to make significant steps up in the standings. Now, as things kind of become a little bit more inconsistent again, is that a frustrating thing that you put together a strong couple months and it isn’t quite getting you where you guys really want it to be?
“Yeah, we gotta just take it one game at a time. 16 or 15 left… We gotta take it one at a time. And we gotta be locked in. And so, obviously we got Memphis coming in here on Wednesday. So we’ll watch the tape tonight and start focusing on them.”
9:25 You had 19-and-10 with three blocks tonight. How much more comfortable are you with the team, what they’re asking you to do than maybe you were when you first came in?
“Yeah, it’s night and day different for me, how I see the game. Chris, CP, has done a great job with me. Just talking to me, telling me things that I need to do. And it shows, his leadership. It’s him, Draymond, Loon, all of them. All the vets have really been huge in helping me develop. And they give me confidence every time I step on the floor.”
9:59 What went wrong tonight?
GARY PAYTON II: “They just made more buckets than we did. We didn’t get enough stops.”
10:22 I know you weren’t out there at the start, but what did you see during that 15-4 start that kind of seemed to dictate the game?
“We just didn’t come out, it just didn’t make buckets early, couldn’t get stops. They made some and we didn’t, so we just had to crack it open a little late and then we just had to fight the whole game back. We got to cut it down to like five or something like that and then they just made another push.”
10:52 What challenges does Jalen Brunson present when he has the ball?
“Well, you know that the league, can’t touch anybody, so he’s pretty shifty. So, if he gets you leaning one way and then go, you’re probably gonna commit fully the other way. And then, it’s up to him if he wants to stop, pump fake, do what he wants. And all he needs is a little contact and they’re gonna call it.”
11:17 There’s been talk recently that the fouling has gone down in the league. Have you felt that? Clearly you’re not happy with some of them tonight.
“It’s every day. It’s every game. You just gotta adjust to how the refs want to call it all night.”
11:34 Gary, do you feel there’s enough time in the season for you guys to build up momentum that you guys want heading into the playoffs?
“Yeah, absolutely. We just got to want to do it, come down, be locked in and just, like I said, a whole 48 minutes. We haven’t put a 48-minute game together in a couple of weeks. So, we still got time. We just got to come in, be locked in from the jump in, try to win these home games. And then we got one more road stretch. So go out there and try to get those, but we gotta defend home.”
12:01 Why do you think that’s the case that you guys haven’t been able to put together a full 48 minutes?
“You just gotta come out every night with the same intensity and effort, from the jump. And some days, it just doesn’t go for us and we gotta find ways to get that spark and get going.”
12:21 Any particular reason you think for the struggles at home this year being under .500?
“No, it’s just, you win some, you lose some. Like, it is what it is.”
0:00 STEVE KERR PREGAME AUDIO
7:30 refs: Zach Zarba (21st season), Andy Nagy (4th), Brett Nansel (8th) — @Dean Agan That was one thing I was hoping to discuss with JD before the game. I think refs will call normal crapshoot fouls in the first half, then mid-Q3 to Q4, they’ll “buckle down” and call fewer. That’s just my theory, though. Hope to observe tonight. My concern is really just with the inability of guys like Klay, CP, Mo, JK to stay in front of POA. So then they reach. And fouls get called. In a physical game, maybe not. Hope that’s the case for Q4. ANOTHER THING TO WATCH TONIGHT: Will CP3 continue to confidently hit those midrange shots? That’s been something he’s held back all season long (granted, he broke his hand) while integrating w/ Steph.
7:50 tipoff!
12m00 Q1 Donte runs over Steph who fouled him no call
11m17 Q1 Steph steps on the line
10m52 Q1 JK really bad lob to Wiggs
10m24 Q1 good D JK vs Hart
9m39 Q1 Dray gambles
9m12 Q1 Dray yells at Brett Nansel for push on IH
8m57 Q1 Wiggs bad pass to Steph
8m30 Q1 JK 3 not a good shot again
8m11 Q1 Steph hero layup draws a foul
7m45 Q1 JK J good (Dray late arriving)
7m30 Q1 BP bad TD pass to JK (Hart physcality)
16:00 @Jimbo No answer for their big man — In a 7-game series vs NYK, would we start Loon vs Hartenstein? I’m gonna say no. The problem right now: turnovers. Also 2 missed threes. EYE ROLL
7m03 Q1 ATO: alley to GP2 fouled
6m20 Q1 JK BLOB easy bucket via Steph — NYK prob confused by Steph taking the inbound
5m43 Q1 Steph bad pass AAU style
5m23 Q1 JK dreb
5m11 Q1 Dray putback on JK downhill good aggression, Thibs with the Pop 2-0 run TO
3m45 Q1 after box-and-1, JK pull up
3m35 Q1 gave up a backdoor after a made bucket — Steph fell asleep
27:30 analyzing the last play (off-screen)
2m47 Q1 Klay drop pass to TJD
2m30 Q1 MM hits 3 over Klay, he shrugs
2m18 Q1 Klay another dime to TJD on the drive
1m59 Q1 Klay good recover slap down on Hart
1m45 Q1 TJD alley oop CP3
31:45 analyzing when Steph fell asleep
1m15 Q1 CP3 helps, McBride 3 again from same spot
1m02 Q1 Wiggs misses another 3
0m38 Q1 CP 3 confident also 2for1 catch
34:15 five tov all by the starters
35:15 your leaders have to set the tone for the other 3 guys (Steph and Dray, who btw had 4 rebounds), I think we underestimated the Knicks, sadly
11m40 Q2 Mo 3 via Klay at buzzer (in for Wiggs, probably normal rotation)
11m11 Q2 BP 3 no good up top why?
10m55 Q2 BP bites on Burks fake
10m18 Q2 CP J
9m35 Q2 MM 3 again (over BP)
9m26 Q2 CP 2nd midrange in a row
9m10 Q2 BP gets away with a reach-in on Bojan
8m55 Q2 Klay 3 on catch, Bojan fell asleep
8m27 Q2 Dray can’t get rebound, IH scores on putback, Klay loses dribble, Mo misses 3, Bojan fade good
7m35 Q2 Steph misses layup
6m33 Q2 CP hits open 3 via Steph with Klay there, another one! 5/6 fg, another good TO by Thibs
49:30 @Fernando Garcia wants to sub out Podz — I mean, it’s hard to just give up on a guy after a good game, you know? I don’t think the answer is always “sub!” It should be PLAY BETTER. Not always on Kerr for guys to play well
5m45 Q2 Dray roll no good off two picks for CP, Jalen 94ft, Steph answers hero ball
5m07 Q2 Steph great D on Jalen 3
4m29 Q2 Dray great help for Wiggs on Jalen
4m21 Q2 BP misses a layup 5v4
3m57 Q2 Dray good close but exasperate by Jalen 3
3m49 Q2 JK baseline bucket NYK forgot to D
3m14 Q2 JK short on 3, watches, Hart tap out, Donte 3 transition
2m57 Q2 Steph hero ball no good out of timeout
2m37 Q2 Dray great help and box out —– BP bad pass but Steph gets TD and1 vs Hart
2m17 Q2 JK steal, BP another bad pass, GP2 great save to JK
1m56 Q2 Dray good deflection (Steph couldn’t come up with)
1m47 Q2 BP finally good D all ball vs Hart shotclock violation
1m25 Q2 JK picks up Steph fumble for dunk
1m11 Q2 Steph more good POA vs JB
1m02 Q2 Dray great rebound, outlet JK to Steph 3
0m40 Q2 Steph JK P&R goat layup
0m27 Q2 BP draws a foul on Sims pick (wrap on his hand)
0m12 Q2 Dray bad pass but Klay back on D vs Jalen 94ft saves day —-
1:07:15 JD JOHN DICKINSON JOINS US AT HALFTIME: suggests maybe starting GP2 instead of Wiggs to start Q3
11m53 Q3 Steph around Dray for the push shot yay!
11m17 Q3 Dray pass stolen by Hart, Jalen 94ft
10m52 Q3 Dray fouled by IH? yells at ref
10m45 Q3 Steph superstar 3
9m55 Q3 JK late to make move, backpack 3 no good, Jalen reverse
9m08 Q3 Wiggs got a rebound! JK downhill 94ft fouled — JK hitting FTs and Wiggs getting boards are DRINK moments lol
8m00 Q3 JK decisive post up vs Hart, not messing around like last time —– (down 9)
7m38 Q3 Donte gets away with travel, Andy Nagy no call (finds IH for bucket, timeout Kerr)
7m19 Q3 ATO Dray to Klay past DDV and1
6m38 Q3 Klay almost loses dribble, finds TJD for dunk
6m19 Q3 Steph beaten backdoor, Jalen 3
5m04 Q3 Steph splits double on GP2 pick
4m28 Q3 TJD tip-in
3m59 Q3 JK blows layup, TDJ fouled (just dunk it)
3m35 Q3 Jalen 3, Klay exasperated again
3m23 Q3 TJD tip-in off Klay miss (saving us)
2m51 Q3 Hart easily fakes Klay for a drive
2m29 Q3 Klay telling himself not to bite on fake
2m57 Q3 GP2 foul on close — GP2 sometimes takes awhile to get effective (fouled when he got in)
1m48 Q3 Donte 4th foul on GP2
1m24 Q3 not challening ghost foul on Precious, should’ve been a charge on Hart on BP
0m59 Q3 soft foul CP vs MM (I thought they were letting them play?)
0m43 Q3 Dray ugly 3, Hart scores 94ft, tov on the inbound wow —- BP should’ve stayed back
0m10 Q3 CP too slow to start the play
11m46 Q4 Wiggs good D on Hart, shot clock violation
11m28 Q4 Klay airball on the curl
10m58 Q4 Wiggs 3 open
10m47 Q4 CP 2 ball on P&R
10m28 Q4 Wiggs dreb while TJD gets held
9m42 Q4 Dray steal MM
9m32 Q4 Klay TJD dunk alley (tic tac toe CP3)
9m09 Q4 Dray good close out, can’t hold on to the ball again tov
8m16 Q4 Klay brick wow open
8m03 Q4 Hart baseline, CP help on P&R, Dray doesn’t drop — is his back hurting?
7m42 Q4 good D ATO vs Steph, JK misses
7m21 Q4 IH oreb over Wiggs after Dray ok D vs Bojan but shotclock violation
7m07 Q4 hero ball no good
6m39 Q4 JK downhill, hangs too much
6m06 Q4 Jalen loses ball vs Steph, JK can’t swing it, loses ball
5m59 Q4 wrong call, didn’t challenge again
5m35 Q4 no call IH over the back but no call TJD on block
5m30 Q4 GP2 TTBTTOT
5m05 Q4 Klay threads needle to TJD dunk
4m31 Q4 Steph side step hero 3 no good
4m17 Q4 Wiggs steal
3m57 Q4 TJD bucket via Dray
3m26 Q4 hero ball MM 3
2m56 Q4 Wiggs steal but looked slow
2:30:00 is this our squad? What identity will show up Wednesday? If this is the same then the CP3 trade was not that great, but it still is optionality. Looking at Jerami Grant: only 2 rebs for some games, less than Wiggs, both around 4 per game career. Need more of a rebounder?
2:38:15 ENTIRE STEVE POSTGAME AUDIO
2:46:00 let’s just move on since we can’t figure out the identity, why be encumbered by predicting doom? Let’s just see what happens, 15 more games
2:54:45 ENTIRE TJD POSTGAME AUDIO
2:58:15 Uday Kiran I think TJD should be starting when the teams have 7 footer in starting line bcoz we cannot expect dray to play center and defend the guy ..7 footer is gonna shoot above him look at today as example — Maybe, but it’s awfully late to make another rotation change. We were playing well with Dray at the 5 for a good stretch. That’s basketball.
3:06:15 ENTIRE GP2 POSTGAME AUDIO
3:11:00 need to win 5 games out of the these 9 solid teams (+ all we’re supposed to beat): ✅ Lakers, ❌ Knicks, Pacers, Timberwolves, Heat, Mavericks, Mavericks, Lakers, Pelicans.
3:15:45 Step 1 of therapy: Can we go 8-0 vs MEM ORL CHA SAS HOU UTA POR UTA?
3:20:45 ENTIRE STEPH POSTGAME AUDIO: Good, bold follow-ups by Marcus Thompson. Hard to ask these after losses. But his relationship with Steph helps (whole career).
3:26:15 someone says Monte Poole sounds stressed. He’s not stressed. It’s his way of showing respect to the players. The only stress reporters get is when there’s a deadline to write an article or submit something to some boss.
3:31:00 on going 12-3 or 8-0 vs the teams mentioned in the poll
3:41:00 one adjustment is JK could try to finish better instead of crashing into 3 people at the rim, Cholo and Dean think JK keeps the ball too low on Euro step
👍👍💛💙