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Should hope to climb to 9th so the play-in game won't be LA where Curry can't shoot for some reason.

The upcoming mavs and lakers games will be huge in the standings.

Even with the Spurs loss, the dubs can still make a push for top 6 (morelikely top 8).

whatisacenter wrote:Should hope to climb to 9th so the play-in game won't be LA where Curry can't shoot for some reason.

It's most likely the lighting situation. Where they darken the stands. The only arena that does it

NOP 25
SAC 27
PHX 27
DAL 28
GSW 30
LAL 30

Fug....just beat the short handed Spurs twice and Bulls and Warriors are in 8th already.

Onus wrote:

whatisacenter wrote:Should hope to climb to 9th so the play-in game won't be LA where Curry can't shoot for some reason.

It's most likely the lighting situation. Where they darken the stands. The only arena that does it

Also the background different. Lakers play at one end of a hockey rink. Its really weird in there.

floppymoose wrote:

Onus wrote:

whatisacenter wrote:Should hope to climb to 9th so the play-in game won't be LA where Curry can't shoot for some reason.

It's most likely the lighting situation. Where they darken the stands. The only arena that does it

Also the background different. Lakers play at one end of a hockey rink. Its really weird in there.

I think the NBA makes more money when LeBron plays because Many fans are LeBron fans first especially in areas that don’t have a rooting interest for a home team like Kansas city for example.

The refs being instructed to help LeBron to advance further into the playoffs concerns me. I think refs may normally give the home team a few extra calls and that fans do effect the refs a little bit. Flagrantly helping the LeBron team might look worse when the refs are booed by home fans of the team the refs are rigging the game against. I don’t know if the commissioner is going to order the refs to help LeBron get into a playoff series.

floppymoose wrote:

Onus wrote:

whatisacenter wrote:Should hope to climb to 9th so the play-in game won't be LA where Curry can't shoot for some reason.

It's most likely the lighting situation. Where they darken the stands. The only arena that does it

Also the background different. Lakers play at one end of a hockey rink. Its really weird in there.

I'm pretty sure it's mostly the night prior that impacts the way most teams play in LA.

NOP 26
SAC 27
PHX 28
DAL 29
LAL 31
GSW 31


In the parallel universe where Steph didnt twist an ankle:

NOP 26
SAC 27
PHX 28
GSW 28
DAL 30
LAL 31

Warriiors vs Lahers big game Steph and Draymond questionable.

A lot of Lakers injuries. LeBron may not play…
We need to beat the Lakers and the refs in LA. I i think we need Steph.

The #11 Rockets are only 1/2 game more distant from us than we are to the #8 seed.

The only advantage to being the 7th seed over being the 8th seed is that the 7 vs 8 game is a home game for the 7th seed. Lately Warriors have played better on the road.

floppymoose wrote:NOP 26
SAC 27
PHX 28
DAL 29
LAL 31
GSW 31


In the parallel universe where Steph didnt twist an ankle:

NOP 26
SAC 27
PHX 28
GSW 28
DAL 30
LAL 31

I want the parallel universe where 2016 Steph Klay and Dray got experience they got but did not get injured, did not get slower and did not age and retained all of their boyish enthusiasm. Best of current Steph, Klay and Dray to be added to current Steph Klay Dray to make a version of Steph Klay and Dray even better than they ever were. A version where Dray only got the positive effects of the Poole punching experience and not the negative effects of punching Poole. Klay only gets the poise effects of his injury and rehab experience and not the negative effects of the injury experience. Each of Steph Klay and Dray are better in some way than the 2016 peak versions of Steph Klay Drat were.

Knicks beat the Kings

Bucks finally beating a western conference team.

Onus wrote:Bucks finally beating a western conference team.

I said the same thing about the Warriors after last night.

This current Warrior team is causing me to have a wider range of opinions on how good or bad they are than I can ever remember having about any of my 45 previous Celtic and Warrior home teams that I closely followed.

I wish our guards were faster and our centers were bigger and I wish the team made a more consistent effort and reliably beat bad teams. I wish Moody was they great defender that his fans think he is. I wish Klay was still a good defender. Chris Paul, Klay, Moody Payton and Podz are not as good as I want our 2nd best guard to be but they are all better than we need our 4th best guard to be. We have depth at guard / small forward.

Are we good? I can’t decide if the Warriors are good.

SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:This current Warrior team is causing me to have a wider range of opinions on how good or bad they are than I can ever remember having about any of my 45 previous Celtic and Warrior home teams that I closely followed.

I wish our guards were faster and our centers were bigger and I wish the team made a more consistent effort and reliably beat bad teams. I wish Moody was they great defender that his fans think he is. I wish Klay was still a good defender. Chris Paul, Klay, Moody Payton and Podz are not as good as I want our 2nd best guard to be but they are all better than we need our 4th best guard to be. We have depth at guard / small forward.

Are we good? I can’t decide if the Warriors are good.

What is good? Are they good enough to make the playoffs? Sure.

Are they going to compete for a championship? No. And their awful consistency has shown up all season.

Damn it Denver couldn’t seal the deal

Impuniti wrote:

SinceGatlingWasARookie wrote:This current Warrior team is causing me to have a wider range of opinions on how good or bad they are than I can ever remember having about any of my 45 previous Celtic and Warrior home teams that I closely followed.

I wish our guards were faster and our centers were bigger and I wish the team made a more consistent effort and reliably beat bad teams. I wish Moody was they great defender that his fans think he is. I wish Klay was still a good defender. Chris Paul, Klay, Moody Payton and Podz are not as good as I want our 2nd best guard to be but they are all better than we need our 4th best guard to be. We have depth at guard / small forward.

Are we good? I can’t decide if the Warriors are good.

What is good? Are they good enough to make the playoffs? Sure.

Are they going to compete for a championship? No. And their awful consistency has shown up all season.

For me good is getting to the Western conference finals and losing to the Nuggets or losing to the team that was hot enought to beat the Nuggets.

I have been a Warriors fan since 1991. Western conference finals is good enough for me. How should Curry fade away for his legacy? 3 trips to the Western conference finals with help from Kuminga and then retirement would be a dignified exit. Curry being on a non- playoff team for his last 2 years would not be a dignified exit from the NBA.

Rebuilding can be postponed until after Curry retires. Chris Paul and Klay salary slots can be used to make sure Curry can get to the Western conference finals his last 2 years. Let’s not be a bad team until after Curry is gone. Podz and Trayce are looking like lucky draft picks that should help Curry not be on a non-playoff team.

One more championship for Curry would be nice but is not realistic.

My perspective may be different from Warriors fans because I already lived throgh the rise and fall of the Bird dynasty as a Celtic fan. I have been rooting for Warriors since Gatling was a rookie. We got lucky with Curry, Klay and Dray. Kings fans were not as lucky with Webber, Peja and Bibby who were good but not good enough to win championships.

We are so luckys. Twolves drafted Rubio and Johny Flynn ahead of Curry.

Twolves should have drafted Rubio and Curry or DeRozan and Curry.