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Bogyo wrote:If noone gets injured I'm happy. If we play good ball I'm happier. In the unlikely case we win this on the 2nd night of a B2B without Book, and keep our streak going - I'm popping a bottle.
King4Day wrote:I don't feel good about tonight. I think we exhausted a ton last night to get that win. If we weren't on this streak, I could even see Monty sitting Paul or giving the guy's less minutes. It's eventually going to be a drain on them.
2nd night of a back-to-back and no Booker. Already broke the franchise record for winning streak. Team may be mentally exhausted to keep doing it and while you can get away with letting up a bit against a team like Detroit, you can't against a very motivated-to-stop-the-streak Warriors group.
If we win, someone please quote this so I can feel bad about my lack of faith and beg for forgiveness
All your logic is sound and it wouldn't surprise me if they lost tonight. And if they do no big deal.King4Day wrote:I don't feel good about tonight. I think we exhausted a ton last night to get that win. If we weren't on this streak, I could even see Monty sitting Paul or giving the guy's less minutes. It's eventually going to be a drain on them.
2nd night of a back-to-back and no Booker. Already broke the franchise record for winning streak. Team may be mentally exhausted to keep doing it and while you can get away with letting up a bit against a team like Detroit, you can't against a very motivated-to-stop-the-streak Warriors group.
If we win, someone please quote this so I can feel bad about my lack of faith and beg for forgiveness
WeekapaugGroove wrote:All your logic is sound and it wouldn't surprise me if they lost tonight. And if they do no big deal.King4Day wrote:I don't feel good about tonight. I think we exhausted a ton last night to get that win. If we weren't on this streak, I could even see Monty sitting Paul or giving the guy's less minutes. It's eventually going to be a drain on them.
2nd night of a back-to-back and no Booker. Already broke the franchise record for winning streak. Team may be mentally exhausted to keep doing it and while you can get away with letting up a bit against a team like Detroit, you can't against a very motivated-to-stop-the-streak Warriors group.
If we win, someone please quote this so I can feel bad about my lack of faith and beg for forgiveness
Reason for hope would be this is a very professional group who will give good effort. Could be a night that you make it a point to feed Ayton and see if he can get on a roll and go for 30+. I also expect guys like Payne and Johnson to look to score more with additional touches available with Booker out.
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WeekapaugGroove wrote:All your logic is sound and it wouldn't surprise me if they lost tonight. And if they do no big deal.King4Day wrote:I don't feel good about tonight. I think we exhausted a ton last night to get that win. If we weren't on this streak, I could even see Monty sitting Paul or giving the guy's less minutes. It's eventually going to be a drain on them.
2nd night of a back-to-back and no Booker. Already broke the franchise record for winning streak. Team may be mentally exhausted to keep doing it and while you can get away with letting up a bit against a team like Detroit, you can't against a very motivated-to-stop-the-streak Warriors group.
If we win, someone please quote this so I can feel bad about my lack of faith and beg for forgiveness
Reason for hope would be this is a very professional group who will give good effort. Could be a night that you make it a point to feed Ayton and see if he can get on a roll and go for 30+. I also expect guys like Payne and Johnson to look to score more with additional touches available with Booker out.
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Revived wrote:So many idiots are gonna celebrate as if they won the title if the Suns lose tonight despite being without Booker and being on the road and being on 2nd night of a back to back.
If Bridges didn’t play 42 mins last night I’d feel much better considering he’s gonna have to run around and try to defend Curry tonight.
Warriors gameplan tonight will be get Shamet switched on to Curry or have whoever he’s guarding be the one to make plays. Shamet’s defense is gonna be the X factor tonight cause they are coming for him.
SlovenianDragon wrote:OUR TEAM DOESNT KNOW THE WORD QUIT ANYMORE.
BOOKER BEING OUT MEANS NOTHING.
THE REST OF THE GUYS KNOW WHAT TO DO.
19 WINSTREAK INCOMING!
Jesus_H_Macy wrote:Oh man how sweet would a W be tonight. Listening to the talking heads flailing around trying to, for the second time in a week, explain it away as the Warriors are still better would be so satisfying.
I think getting the W tonight will be extremely difficult though. I'm not too worried about the minutes guys played last night. Bridges is a young stallion, I don't think he'll be tired. Paul played a lot but wasn't really exerting himself too much. The things that concern me are:
--Dubs have had 3 days to review the film and gameplan for us. I think they'll figure out some way to limit Ayton in the paint and it'll be tough for us to overcome that on O without Book. On D you have to assume Curry will have a better game, though you might also assume that Poole and Porter won't be as good. They'll figure something out to get Curry loose more than he was on Tuesday though
--More minutes for Payton. He is great for a 3rd string PG and is a very good passer and driver, but there's a really big drop off from CP3/Payne to him running the O in regards to the quality of our offensive possessions. It would be nice if we still had Craig to slot JamJo and Bridges down, or even having AbomiNader available would be nice in case he could wind back the clock a bit and be productive on the floor again
--You know the Dubs are pissed deep down in their hearts and want to embarrass us on their homecourt. We'll need to play a near perfect game to win this one
I won't be worried about the team if we we lose but thinking about all the smug media faces slobbering all over the Dubs after the game if we lose is already raising my blood pressure. Let's go Suns!!!
bwgood77 wrote:Jesus_H_Macy wrote:Oh man how sweet would a W be tonight. Listening to the talking heads flailing around trying to, for the second time in a week, explain it away as the Warriors are still better would be so satisfying.
I think getting the W tonight will be extremely difficult though. I'm not too worried about the minutes guys played last night. Bridges is a young stallion, I don't think he'll be tired. Paul played a lot but wasn't really exerting himself too much. The things that concern me are:
--Dubs have had 3 days to review the film and gameplan for us. I think they'll figure out some way to limit Ayton in the paint and it'll be tough for us to overcome that on O without Book. On D you have to assume Curry will have a better game, though you might also assume that Poole and Porter won't be as good. They'll figure something out to get Curry loose more than he was on Tuesday though
--More minutes for Payton. He is great for a 3rd string PG and is a very good passer and driver, but there's a really big drop off from CP3/Payne to him running the O in regards to the quality of our offensive possessions. It would be nice if we still had Craig to slot JamJo and Bridges down, or even having AbomiNader available would be nice in case he could wind back the clock a bit and be productive on the floor again
--You know the Dubs are pissed deep down in their hearts and want to embarrass us on their homecourt. We'll need to play a near perfect game to win this one
I won't be worried about the team if we we lose but thinking about all the smug media faces slobbering all over the Dubs after the game if we lose is already raising my blood pressure. Let's go Suns!!!
We can't play Payton much. It kills us. He has such awful efficiency it hurts. TS% of 48%. He can't shoot AT ALL. He' only taken one 3 so no one will guard him out there and will just double someone else, usually crowding the middle to avoid an easy basket from a big and/or defend his drive. So when he DOES drive he almost always runs into 2 defenders and misses. He is under 39% from 3 to 10 ft and can't shoot beyond that. Almost every single one of his shots has been in the paint, yet he can't even make them in there.
All he can do is hope to get to the rim, which he has successfully finished 8 times out of 12 tries this year.
Look at his shot chart. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/paytoel01/shooting/2022
. Much stronger at backup 2, stronger at 3rd string 1, stronger at backup 5 (though Dario was a net positive). Much weaker at backup 3/4, and even though Galloway, Moore, and Carter weren't PGs I still think I'd feel better about them getting minutes than Payton as long as we also have CP/Book/Shamet on the floor. Payton's value is having an actual PG if CP or Payne get hurt, which is useful, but that's about it. DroughtsOverPHX wrote:Payton does have a weird game. I don't like seeing him on the floor which feels strange to say about someone with 17 career triple doubles. I have a feeling he will get serious burn so we better hope it's one of his ON nights.
