WCSF Game 5, 5/14: Warriors at Timberwolves, 8:30 pm

[KGdaBom]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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[winforlose]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

[KGdaBom]

Here's Jimmy sucking up to the Wolves in his post game press conference.

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[Movics]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

We have THE Shai stopper. This is our year

[KGdaBom]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

When the playoffs started Stephen A had us losing to the Lakers. He has changed his tune.

[KGdaBom]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

We have THE Shai stopper. This is our year

Is Ant the Shai stopper? I never noticed it before.

[Movics]

He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

We have THE Shai stopper. This is our year

Is Ant the Shai stopper? I never noticed it before.

Jaylen Clark

[winforlose]

We have THE Shai stopper. This is our year

Is Ant the Shai stopper? I never noticed it before.

Jaylen Clark

Finch will not play Clark. Whether he should or not is debatable. I honestly probably would not, or I might try it in game 1 and then reevaluate. Clark slumped hard on offense to end the season, and you cannot win 5-4 against the best defense in the NBA.

[Guest84]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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Funny thing about their “analysis” is that the wolves aren’t even playing their best ball as a whole. Randle is prob the only playing great and consistent.

However, they’re finding ways to win which is all that matters. I don’t put much stock into reg season matchups when it comes to playoffs anymore. It’s a fresh start and the wolves match up well with both Okc and Den.

[Note30]

Bro... go have a pepsi and enjoy the win this is getting silly

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A beer you mean

[TimberKat]

There is a funny - amazing stat: the team that beat Jimmy Butler goes on to win the finals since Toronto did it. Let's hope the trend continues.

[Rookie-Mistake]

Stephen A now has the Wolves winning it all.

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He did last year too. I will have us winning it all when Denver wins games 6 and 7. If not I think we have a coin flip at best. OKC is the literal only team in the west that can guard Ant and match our size. Hands down the best answer to our strengths of any team in the league. They scare me .

When the playoffs started Stephen A had us losing to the Lakers. He has changed his tune.

Recency bias.. take it with a grain of salt..

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[FrenchMinnyFan]

We are 21-5 since March including PO (Best in NBA) and people still find ways to complain, amazing for me! Yes all is not perfect, we struggle at times but overall we are amazing.

[thinktank]

We have one of if not the most talented teams in basketball.

In my work I had to manage a group of very talented engineers. That was not an easy job, despite all success I had and individual success of my teammates and our team success.

I never said it was easy. Management of adults is not easy. Management of 20-26 year old athletes is not easy. Managing people who make more money than you is not easy. Managing people who have the leverage to get you fired is not easy. But the teams who win it all tend to have coaches that bring out there best. Have we been playing our best ball these past two series? Is the level of play and the level of preparedness good enough for us to win our first conference championship? My personal belief is that the Lakers and Warriors were too small to defend us. I think we were always going to win those series. I said so months ago. I think Denver lacks the depth and matchups to beat us. But OKC has both. Against that we need a coach who knows how to not only get the guys up to their consistent A game, but someone who can help them break through and find the next level. Is that Chris Finch?

I know you aren’t watching enough ball if you can’t see how Daigneault is getting outcoached by rookie Adelman right now.

Finch > Daigneault, it appears. And he was better than Malone. Maybe Finch had a rough series against Dallas, but so far so good. And that was much more about Luka and those centers than Kidd.

I think you’re unreasonably sour. Could you have been reasonably sour during the year? Sure. Now? You better check your ego.

[BlacJacMac]

In my work I had to manage a group of very talented engineers. That was not an easy job, despite all success I had and individual success of my teammates and our team success.

I never said it was easy. Management of adults is not easy. Management of 20-26 year old athletes is not easy. Managing people who make more money than you is not easy. Managing people who have the leverage to get you fired is not easy. But the teams who win it all tend to have coaches that bring out there best. Have we been playing our best ball these past two series? Is the level of play and the level of preparedness good enough for us to win our first conference championship? My personal belief is that the Lakers and Warriors were too small to defend us. I think we were always going to win those series. I said so months ago. I think Denver lacks the depth and matchups to beat us. But OKC has both. Against that we need a coach who knows how to not only get the guys up to their consistent A game, but someone who can help them break through and find the next level. Is that Chris Finch?

I know you aren’t watching enough ball if you can’t see how Daigneault is getting outcoached by rookie Adelman right now.

Finch > Daigneault, it appears. And he was better than Malone. Maybe Finch had a rough series against Dallas, but so far so good. And that was much more about Luka and those centers than Kidd.

I think you’re unreasonably sour. Could you have been reasonably sour during the year? Sure. Now? You better check your ego.

Daigneault's coaching performance has been the story of the Playoffs for me.

I had him pegged as a top-tier coach during the season. His whole team played with purpose and so well off of each other. Everyone seemed to know their roles.

But now its looking like he has a bunch of pretty high IQ guys that just know how to play. But when defense picks up and games get close, no one on that squad is performing to their regular season levels - especially the HC. He threw away Game 1 with so many mistakes down the stretch and he hasn't adapted since.

I'm sure it helped their record that they had so few close games, but now they look like frontrunners. Whereas we were a mess during the clutch in the regular season, but now that's where we're winning games.

I also have come away much less impressed with Mazzulla, Udoka and Atkinson. All 3 of which I had as an easy tier above Finch. Now I'm much less sure.

[thinktank]

I never said it was easy. Management of adults is not easy. Management of 20-26 year old athletes is not easy. Managing people who make more money than you is not easy. Managing people who have the leverage to get you fired is not easy. But the teams who win it all tend to have coaches that bring out there best. Have we been playing our best ball these past two series? Is the level of play and the level of preparedness good enough for us to win our first conference championship? My personal belief is that the Lakers and Warriors were too small to defend us. I think we were always going to win those series. I said so months ago. I think Denver lacks the depth and matchups to beat us. But OKC has both. Against that we need a coach who knows how to not only get the guys up to their consistent A game, but someone who can help them break through and find the next level. Is that Chris Finch?

I know you aren’t watching enough ball if you can’t see how Daigneault is getting outcoached by rookie Adelman right now.

Finch > Daigneault, it appears. And he was better than Malone. Maybe Finch had a rough series against Dallas, but so far so good. And that was much more about Luka and those centers than Kidd.

I think you’re unreasonably sour. Could you have been reasonably sour during the year? Sure. Now? You better check your ego.

Daigneault's coaching performance has been the story of the Playoffs for me.

I had him pegged as a top-tier coach during the season. His whole team played with purpose and so well off of each other. Everyone seemed to know their roles.

But now its looking like he has a bunch of pretty high IQ guys that just know how to play. But when defense picks up and games get close, no one on that squad is performing to their regular season levels - especially the HC. He threw away Game 1 with so many mistakes down the stretch and he hasn't adapted since.

I'm sure it helped their record that they had so few close games, but now they look like frontrunners. Whereas we were a mess during the clutch in the regular season, but now that's where we're winning games.

I also have come away much less impressed with Mazzulla, Udoka and Atkinson. All 3 of which I had as an easy tier above Finch. Now I'm much less sure.

Regular season doesn’t mean as much anymore.

Finch just said, “no repeat champions in the last twelve years. It’s about getting as many cracks at the apple as you can.”

Seeding is important but you still have to beat whoever is in front of you 16 times. That’s the real season.