Game 66: Warriors @ Lakers 5:30pm PT

[SinceGatlingWasARookie]

Knicks have a 5 point lead over Kings at halftime.

[wraith985]

Part me wants to think that if the Lakers had AD to close the game, Kerr wouldn't have put out that 3 guard lineup.

It's obviously wrong...but I want to think it.

[Crazy-Canuck]

Jk on bron again? Why?

JK has done well on LeBron over several games. But Wiggins also has done well on LeBron. LeBron is not all that tricky. You know what LeBron will try to do but can you stop it. Kuminga must stop LeBron from driving which is simple but difficult.

It’s Lebron chicken wing elbow push off that he gets away with. You need to have strength to withstand the first blow. Wiggins, Iguodala have it. JK is better as a 2. Moody is functionally stronger than JK and plays like small ball 4. The issue is Kerr wants to go smaller where every player has to guard a position up.

You cant really play jk at the 2 either because he's a poor screen navigator. But if you put him defending 2s, that leaves podz, cp3, klay, or steph as our big to rebound, protect paint, and box out.

Jk made a great weakside block tonight because it's easier for him when dray is controlling paint and wiggins in controlling top. Jk then needs to rebound and when he helps, it's usually just sliding 1 or 2 steps over. He's best at 4, but can look bad when it's the small ball line up. Wiggs has the same problem when he's the 4 with the 3 guards. He wants to spy and help, but now that leaves the paint empty usually with a couple of smalls. And we know kerr loves to trot out 3 smalls.

[cpower]

Knicks have a 5 point lead over Kings at halftime.

Kings will win. They are on a roll now

[SpreeChokeJob]

JK has done well on LeBron over several games. But Wiggins also has done well on LeBron. LeBron is not all that tricky. You know what LeBron will try to do but can you stop it. Kuminga must stop LeBron from driving which is simple but difficult.

It’s Lebron chicken wing elbow push off that he gets away with. You need to have strength to withstand the first blow. Wiggins, Iguodala have it. JK is better as a 2. Moody is functionally stronger than JK and plays like small ball 4. The issue is Kerr wants to go smaller where every player has to guard a position up.

You cant really play jk at the 2 either because he's a poor screen navigator. But if you put him defending 2s, that leaves podz, cp3, klay, or steph as our big to rebound, protect paint, and box out.

Jk made a great weakside block tonight because it's easier for him when dray is controlling paint and wiggins in controlling top. Jk then needs to rebound and when he helps, it's usually just sliding 1 or 2 steps over. He's best at 4, but can look bad when it's the small ball line up. Wiggs has the same problem when he's the 4 with the 3 guards. He wants to spy and help, but now that leaves the paint empty usually with a couple of smalls. And we know kerr loves to trot out 3 smalls.

You left out Moodz. If Kerr would play him, he would be the equivalent of small ball 4. The upside of playing Moody is much greater than what Podz is giving. Podz has already reached his limits for this year.

This game showed that while the Lakers are still an inferior team. They are still slightly better than the Warriors with both sides healthy. It will be difficult to beat them in the playin with Kerr’s usual tactics. I would bet the Warriors to lose if Kerr runs the same BS he has. They have to get to 7th or 8th spot or they will be out.

[Crazy-Canuck]

It’s Lebron chicken wing elbow push off that he gets away with. You need to have strength to withstand the first blow. Wiggins, Iguodala have it. JK is better as a 2. Moody is functionally stronger than JK and plays like small ball 4. The issue is Kerr wants to go smaller where every player has to guard a position up.

You cant really play jk at the 2 either because he's a poor screen navigator. But if you put him defending 2s, that leaves podz, cp3, klay, or steph as our big to rebound, protect paint, and box out.

Jk made a great weakside block tonight because it's easier for him when dray is controlling paint and wiggins in controlling top. Jk then needs to rebound and when he helps, it's usually just sliding 1 or 2 steps over. He's best at 4, but can look bad when it's the small ball line up. Wiggs has the same problem when he's the 4 with the 3 guards. He wants to spy and help, but now that leaves the paint empty usually with a couple of smalls. And we know kerr loves to trot out 3 smalls.

You left out Moodz. If Kerr would play him, he would be the equivalent of small ball 4. The upside of playing Moody is much greater than what Podz is giving. Podz has already reached his limits for this year.

This game showed that while the Lakers are still an inferior team. They are still slightly better than the Warriors with both sides healthy. It will be difficult to beat them in the playin with Kerr’s usual tactics. I would bet the Warriors to lose if Kerr runs the same BS he has. They have to get to 7th or 8th spot or they will be out.

This is kerr we are talking about, I didn't feel the need to mention moody.

[superunknown]

Street clothes doesn't leave the game dubs likely lose this one. kerr really doesn't know how to play against the lakers.

[floppymoose]

Refs and game clock:

[svart]

Player of the game: TJD. He kept AD scoreless in the last three quarters.

LE: now imagine Dray did that......

[SpreeChokeJob]

You cant really play jk at the 2 either because he's a poor screen navigator. But if you put him defending 2s, that leaves podz, cp3, klay, or steph as our big to rebound, protect paint, and box out.

Jk made a great weakside block tonight because it's easier for him when dray is controlling paint and wiggins in controlling top. Jk then needs to rebound and when he helps, it's usually just sliding 1 or 2 steps over. He's best at 4, but can look bad when it's the small ball line up. Wiggs has the same problem when he's the 4 with the 3 guards. He wants to spy and help, but now that leaves the paint empty usually with a couple of smalls. And we know kerr loves to trot out 3 smalls.

You left out Moodz. If Kerr would play him, he would be the equivalent of small ball 4. The upside of playing Moody is much greater than what Podz is giving. Podz has already reached his limits for this year.

This game showed that while the Lakers are still an inferior team. They are still slightly better than the Warriors with both sides healthy. It will be difficult to beat them in the playin with Kerr’s usual tactics. I would bet the Warriors to lose if Kerr runs the same BS he has. They have to get to 7th or 8th spot or they will be out.

This is kerr we are talking about, I didn't feel the need to mention moody.

If this is Kerr we are talking about, we don’t even need to discuss anything because we already know what he’s going to do. He’s going to play the current starting lineup. Lebron won’t treat the playin game like a regular season game, will attack all game like the 4th quarter, Kerr will still stick to his rotations, including his 3g lineup, team will be down double digits, in an act of desperation he will bring out Moody after not playing him the whole season, too little too late, team gets bounced, Kerr gives his usual sound bites at the postgame press conference, real gm gets disgruntled for a week, and then off to discussing the draft and summer league.

My only hope is they are playing 3D chess and are so confident that they are positioning for the Thunder. They should play Moody though. From the times he played, his level of impact is about Podz level and he’s a third year player losing all minutes to first year players. He might as well do a JK and force his way. He’s only got a year left on his contract and I know he can help a team. This is some really messed up stuff going on. If it was any other player than Moody the locker room would be disgruntled.

Kerr has been a step too late giving consistent minutes to JK and moving Klay to the bench and finally playing Saric limited minutes. He’s always exhaust all failure before making a move.

[Onus]

Cp only played 13 min. Crazy that podz led the team in minutes at 34. But I guess he did lead the team in plus minus.

[ILOVEIT]

I'll take Podz closing over CP every day. Podz is a fighter...smart....tough and able to defend bigger dudes. Cp3 is a ghost of his former self and even then he was a target to go at.
closing lineup should always be:

Podz, Curry, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond

[Coxy]

I'll take Podz closing over CP every day. Podz is a fighter...smart....tough and able to defend bigger dudes. Cp3 is a ghost of his former self and even then he was a target to go at.
closing lineup should always be:

Podz, Curry, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond

Agree, but that lineup is far too big for Warior ball.

[Crazy-Canuck]

I'll take Podz closing over CP every day. Podz is a fighter...smart....tough and able to defend bigger dudes. Cp3 is a ghost of his former self and even then he was a target to go at.
closing lineup should always be:

Podz, Curry, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond

He's not going to close with that group.

He wants too close with steph, klay, podz, jk, and dray. The only reason he didn't last night was because wiggins had to do a jump ball, so he took podz out. Podz was shocked that he left the floor. Tells me that his closing unit is set. Refs saved kerr from himself.

No idea why no one in the media asks kerr about his insistence on playing 3 smalls, especially to close games when their lack of defense and rebounding becomes even more apparent.

[Crazy-Canuck]

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[superunknown]

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but why provokes that psycho of steph? like Dlo didn't know. and he played in the same team with him. what an idiot.

[superunknown]

I'll take Podz closing over CP every day. Podz is a fighter...smart....tough and able to defend bigger dudes. Cp3 is a ghost of his former self and even then he was a target to go at.
closing lineup should always be:

Podz, Curry, Wiggins, Kuminga, Draymond

He's not going to close with that group.

He wants too close with steph, klay, podz, jk, and dray. The only reason he didn't last night was because wiggins had to do a jump ball, so he took podz out. Podz was shocked that he left the floor. Tells me that his closing unit is set. Refs saved kerr from himself.

No idea why no one in the media asks kerr about his insistence on playing 3 smalls, especially to close games when their lack of defense and rebounding becomes even more apparent.

if this true then they're fu**ed.
and kerr is past help.

[Onus]

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but why provokes that psycho of steph? like Dlo didn't know. and he played in the same team with him. what an idiot.

But he didn’t really play with Steph. Wasn’t that the year Steph was out injured?

[superunknown]

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but why provokes that psycho of steph? like Dlo didn't know. and he played in the same team with him. what an idiot.

But he didn’t really play with Steph. Wasn’t that the year Steph was out injured?

yes, but I mean, they've been teammates. he should know better the fu**er.

[CDM_Stats]

No idea why no one in the media asks kerr about his insistence on playing 3 smalls, especially to close games when their lack of defense and rebounding becomes even more apparent.

This is why I dont get excited about wins anymore.. its not indicative of anything. The team won historically, not because of our offense, but because of defense. That gets lost in the shuffle because 2 guys, Steph/Klay (and for a while, KD) provide 3-5 players' worth of offense, and because of that they could get play defense only guys for long stretches, something other teams couldnt do

Now Kerr is leaning on old, smaller guys to keep up offensively, but these guys have no defensive upside. The likely smart move would be leaning on the younger guys, who can keep up defensively, but have to realize any potential offensive upside. We dont know if they can, or if they'd develop with PT, because Kerr is going for the route he always claimed he wasn't - chasing empty wins