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Curry Can’t Do It Alone
Game 3 didn’t just bring that now-old-school Curry phenomenon back for a game; it also provided a glimpse of what Curry might look like if he were to adopt Russell Westbrook–like usage. Because no other Warrior besides Curry could consistently hit a shot, he had to become the version of Curry many have longed to see, not the #StrengthInNumbers facilitator, but the blinding supernova. At halftime, he had 25 points to the rest of the team’s 27, four 3s to the team’s one, and seven field goals to the team’s nine. In the second half, Curry put up 22 and finished with more field goals than the rest of the starting lineup combined. He ended up with 47 of the Warriors’ 109 points—a playoff career-high—on 31 shots. But Golden State probably needed him to go for 60. In his last six playoff games, Green, who was a killer for the Spurs in the Finals of years past, had made a total of six 3s. In Game 3, he hit six on 10 attempts (he also added a couple of crucial plays on the defensive end, including a savage chase-down block on Quinn Cook). Larry O’Brien is looking down from basketball heaven and frowning. This is not what he’s used to seeing from the Warriors roster. It’s not what he’s come to expect of the team that’s owned his trophy three of the past four seasons. He sees Quinn Cook driving to the basket and getting stuffed twice, playing 29 minutes and ending up with a minus-8. He side-eyes Jonas Jerebko, who air-balls a 3 and finishes 1-of-6, and he sighs as Jordan Bell freezes up on defense, Alfonzo McKinnie makes one shot in 18 minutes, and Andrew Bogut records six points in 22 minutes.
These Finals are not supposed to look like this, but here we are. Game 3 was a dark reality for the Warriors. Where Steph shined, nearly everyone else failed. TR
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On June 06 2019 22:13 Twinkle Toes wrote:Imma share this: - KD may be out for game 4. Calf pain still present. If he plays game 4, its a desperation move
- Klay 50/50, but will likely play game 4
- Cousins is done being significant this series.
- Bogut is untapped this series. He could tilt this back in GSW's favor
- Lowry is fool's gold. He may have put up good numbers and made key plays down the stretch, but its the blunders that we have to pay attention to, namely that bad pass to Green leading to a Curry steal, the ill-advised dunk late in the fourth, the fould troubles, and the constant blitz drive that always miss. His saving grace was offensive boards and the clutch replies to keep the lead above 10 when GSW was making a run at the end of regulation. These blunders are not incidental or judgment ones, but are part of Lowry's game style, and if not neutralized may cost them some games and the championship.
- The game was closer than it seems. There was a stretch when 2 goaltends where uncalled and Bogut had a 50/50 on the tip in. That would have cut the margin to 4 with GSW with the tempo
- Even with KD out but Klay in and Iggy functional, the Warriors are still very slightly favored. Unless something epic happens for Toronto, like Kawhi putting up a Kobesque 80-point game, Siakam not missing again, and Lowry playing his contract worth.
On a personal note, this game proves Curry's legacy to me. To add to Zenith, Curry is goat shooter, and legit on defense. He seems to have shed of his stupid 2016 antics. And although I cant help but notice some not nice guy rearing its head on rare occasions under the cookie-cutter nice guy media-managed persona but it proves to me that he is an all-time great with the correct team-guy attitude. I understand that he also has a legacy to build and a brand to protect but hey, I dont look at Curry as a role model and I dont plan to be his friend, so those stuff are irrelevant, unless he does something criminal.
Lowry is a beast, I totally disagree with you. At times this playoffs he has been their best player.
Bogut is done, if they are expecting to get much or anything out of him this is Raps series easy.
Warriors need to get healthy the Raptors are too good vs this version and if they make shots like they did last night they could beat the full squad.
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On June 06 2019 23:01 JimmiC wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2019 22:13 Twinkle Toes wrote:Imma share this: - KD may be out for game 4. Calf pain still present. If he plays game 4, its a desperation move
- Klay 50/50, but will likely play game 4
- Cousins is done being significant this series.
- Bogut is untapped this series. He could tilt this back in GSW's favor
- Lowry is fool's gold. He may have put up good numbers and made key plays down the stretch, but its the blunders that we have to pay attention to, namely that bad pass to Green leading to a Curry steal, the ill-advised dunk late in the fourth, the fould troubles, and the constant blitz drive that always miss. His saving grace was offensive boards and the clutch replies to keep the lead above 10 when GSW was making a run at the end of regulation. These blunders are not incidental or judgment ones, but are part of Lowry's game style, and if not neutralized may cost them some games and the championship.
- The game was closer than it seems. There was a stretch when 2 goaltends where uncalled and Bogut had a 50/50 on the tip in. That would have cut the margin to 4 with GSW with the tempo
- Even with KD out but Klay in and Iggy functional, the Warriors are still very slightly favored. Unless something epic happens for Toronto, like Kawhi putting up a Kobesque 80-point game, Siakam not missing again, and Lowry playing his contract worth.
On a personal note, this game proves Curry's legacy to me. To add to Zenith, Curry is goat shooter, and legit on defense. He seems to have shed of his stupid 2016 antics. And although I cant help but notice some not nice guy rearing its head on rare occasions under the cookie-cutter nice guy media-managed persona but it proves to me that he is an all-time great with the correct team-guy attitude. I understand that he also has a legacy to build and a brand to protect but hey, I dont look at Curry as a role model and I dont plan to be his friend, so those stuff are irrelevant, unless he does something criminal. Lowry is a beast, I totally disagree with you. At times this playoffs he has been their best player. Bogut is done, if they are expecting to get much or anything out of him this is Raps series easy. Warriors need to get healthy the Raptors are too good vs this version and if they make shots like they did last night they could beat the full squad. Look at it this way. Lowry is +8 when he is best, and -20 when he is worst. As mentioned about, those errors and natural flaws in his game are hidden by his late quarter points and the teams overall effort. So he can do all this good things, but once he reverts to his natural trashy instincts, he has the capacity to single-handedly hijack Toronto's chances and sink the team.
Bogut should be installed back to his 2015 role as an anchor/in between passer and take over the position from Cousins. That was among the rare non-Curry positive from the game.
They need Klay to be 55% favored, and KD to be 100% winners. (numbers made up, but a rough representation of reality)
Btw JC, these are aggregate-sourced cred sheets we get sent at work. But I agree with them, so you may challenge me on these takes and I will respond to you accordingly.
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+ - is far from telling the whole story. He is playing through a pretty major thumb injury, takes charges, plays hard 100% of the time. If he wasn't helping Nurse would take him out. I'm completely happy with him.
2015 bogut was a lot more mobile then he is now. There was a reason he was out of the NBA until the playoffs. If you need 10 minutes or something from him fine, but if you need a bunch more I don't think he has it in him!
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In order to take a charge you must be smart enough to anticipate where the offense is going and get their ahead of time..then stand there... and get rolled over. Lowry is a very smart defender and does this a lot.
As others have observed: Lowry is a streaky 3 point shooter. When his long bomb is falling the only point guard in the NBA better than he is ... is Steph Curry. At this point in his career Lowry is probably the smartest defender at his position. Its between Lowry and Chris Paul. Right now, I'd give the nod to Lowry. He is the middle-line-backer//QB of the Toronto defense.
http://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/DRPM/position/1
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On June 06 2019 23:13 JimmiC wrote: + - is far from telling the whole story. He is playing through a pretty major thumb injury, takes charges, plays hard 100% of the time. If he wasn't helping Nurse would take him out. I'm completely happy with him.
2015 bogut was a lot more mobile then he is now. There was a reason he was out of the NBA until the playoffs. If you need 10 minutes or something from him fine, but if you need a bunch more I don't think he has it in him! +- is not JJR +-, but its a rough placeholder to illustrate what he can contribute (which is why as you can see the numbers are whack). He is valuable, no doubt about that (hence the gold in fool's gold), but I think the point of the analysis is not to rely on his performance so much as you would with other prime superstars, as Lowry has the natural tendency to make the worst blunders (as pointed out earlier). If those are limited, then we get good results, but there is that constant danger of Lowry turning to trash Lowry anytime,
Wasnt he out because he was in AUS, as MVP. Kerr needs Boguts passing and spacing for Curry and the Warriors offense.
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Lowry's +/- numbers are great.... and deservedly so. You require a large sample size for the various +/- metrics to be a reasonable measure of anything though.
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The day JimmiC and JJ agree with each other!
Today is a good day!
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They are now reporting that Looney "may" be back this series. Not sure how this possible but the GSW could sure use him!
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Some say it is the day foretold as Gotterdammerung.
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Steve Kerr was thinking of out of retirement in case the Warriors need an extra spot up 3 point sniper. The Warriors keep adding to the list of possible returning players to make it more difficult for the Raptors to game plan.
Blake Murphy is very reliable and here is his view on Thompson and Durant playing in game 4.
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On June 06 2019 22:13 Twinkle Toes wrote: Imma share this:
[list=ordered][*]KD may be out for game 4. Calf pain still present. If he plays game 4, its a desperation move
My sources are impeccable. They knew it waaaaaay before anyone on twitter, r/nba, etc. even had any idea. They were right about KD to warriors and Lebron to Lakers too, although the Kawhi to Raptors blindsided them.
Back to KD, this is the correct decision. an aggravated injury could cost him his career. And he could, if healthy, return by game 5 for the epic superhero here-i-come-to-save-the-day type comeback and win it all for the Warriors.
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We truly are in the era of overreaction. This is iffy for more than just the "beautiful game", "quite", "put in jail", "let it manifest into my thinking" (DAFUQ???!), and those #. GSW officials are already dealing with it, in the best possible way, no need to be overdramatic about it. Goddamn!
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The Nets dumped Crabbe on the hawks and it cost them 2 first round picks to do so. They also pick up Prince who is a decent young wing.
This apparently opens up a max slot on the nets with them hoping to get Durrant and possibly Kyrie. At this point considering ages, attitude and health I'm not 100% sure I'd rather have Kyrie then Russell.
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Steve Kerr spends a week in Canada... next thing you know he is apologizing like Justin Trudeau. He has been assimilated. https://streamable.com/haa08
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Did he try to defame someone for reasons?
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Lowry claims the guy told him to go fuck himself
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Tbh, this is like a level 2/10 issue that's being blown to 11/10, with all this privilege/rich/black/white narrative. It was an spur of the moment excited fan gesture (which is still wrong), and he already apologized and donated and done everything to show he was sorry about it, we should have just accepted and moved on.
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