The Adventure Continues: The Raptors Chapter - 7pm PDT

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[cpower]

i blame a lot of Curry's injury on Steve Kerr...

Someone here needs to start a thread titled "Are Dubs fans NBA caliber fans?"

you should do it. but answer me first, what are we doing here to play

Curry, Post, JK, Santos, Buddy when Steph got injured. Why are we asking 37 year old Steph Curry to playmake , score and carry this bad lineup at this time of the season?

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[statsman]

Moody has picked a bad time to have his offensive game disappear. At least he's making his FTs. 89.4% since Butler's first game with the Warriors. 92.5% since the ASG break.

[DB23]

what I hate Kerr is he always throw 4 random guys with Steph and knowing Steph would carry them just ok.. he is not a NBA coach and I dont think he will get coach another team because he will get exposed...how many times you seen him throwing 4 non shooters with Steph and ask Steph to do his thing at 37 years old? unreal

Yep, the winningest coach in our history is not nba standard.

And who is in your opinion?

i dont know but i would guess someone who understands how to win games when margin is thin. For example when we played against a broken mavs team with 1 player Irving. We let him score 40 and not double team him.. i can name 1000 coaches including middle school coach would not make that mistake.

Every time I ask this question, no one has an answer. What does that tell you?

You’ll never be happy with who is coach. It’s exceptionally difficult and yes mistakes are made. But more often than not Kerr does a hell of a lot right.

[superunknown]

Did Curry seriously not get a foul call on that play? If he was in a Laker uniform, he would still be shooting free throws.

I came to the conclusion the league is rigged. there is too much discrepancy in the way different players (and therefore different teams) are officiated on the court. and it's blatant.
most refs are also morons. not as refs, as men in general. they are genuinely stupid. and if you are stupid by nature, of course you will be stupid in any job you do, either being a lawyer, a doctor, a player, a ref. you cannot not call that a foul and then, in the 4th quarter, call a touch on the arm of the attacker on the first step 9m away from the basket. you must be an idiot. so they are.

[SpreeS]

The rest was needed to Curry either way. He could return on April 1st with MEM

[superunknown]

Is it me or has Kuminga still not learned how to move without the ball switch on D? Watching him in this first quarter has been a bit disappointing.

he is completely lost out there.. we should not play him against good team at all .

for me the main issue is not even this one. which is a big issue, don't get me wrong. but I start to question his heart before his BBIQ.
he's got all this athletic dynamism which is "irreplaceable" for this team, then why he's not making the effort/athletic defensive plays dray and jimmy made tonight down the stretch? or the ones GPII made in the previous ones?
he's got all this athleticism and strength and speed, yet two 35 years old players (and a 32 years old with a history of injuries) make D plays he don't. you got all these phsycal tools? use them to make effective D plays. sprint back to intercept a pass like dray did, block a shot like jimmy did, jump higher than your opponent like GPII usually does, basically use all these tools to make impactful plays on the defensive end of the ball. if you have them but in the end the plays are not there, then it's a different matter. it's about desire, effort, motor. in short it's about heart. this guy doesn't seem to have it.

[powerball1373]

i blame a lot of Curry's injury on Steve Kerr...

Someone here needs to start a thread titled "Are Dubs fans NBA caliber fans?"

That poster in particular is the worst one on this board lol. Just constant garbage takes, ready to be spewed at anyone and everyone (including Steph) the second anything doesn't go perfectly.

[HiRez]

Ugh. They are going to be lucky to hang onto the #6 seed now, forget about moving up. But now they're all "non-Steph" minutes, and Jimmy can't fill in the whole time, he's probably pretty tired too after playing 36 tonight. Podz is going to have to step up as a playmaker because they really don't have a serious backup PG (much as I like Spencer, he's pretty limited).

On the other hand Post looks incredible, along with maybe Podz I'm struggling to think of another Warriors rookie who made this much of an impact since...Draymond? Dude could be a monster in a few years. He's got skills but Jimmy really unlocked him by getting him so many clean shots on the line.

[SpreeS]

Ugh. They are going to be lucky to hang onto the #6 seed now, forget about moving up. But now they're all "non-Steph" minutes, and Jimmy can't fill in the whole time, he's probably pretty tired too after playing 36 tonight. Podz is going to have to step up as a playmaker because they really don't have a serious backup PG (much as I like Spencer, he's pretty limited).

On the other hand Post looks incredible, along with maybe Podz I'm struggling to think of another Warriors rookie who made this much of an impact since...Draymond? Dude could be a monster in a few years. He's got skills but Jimmy really unlocked him by getting him so many clean shots on the line.

Curry is my favorite player of all time at first, but I am not so fanatic as much as some of you. The World isn't collapsing with this Curry injury. At first he wanted comeback into the game and this is good sign. At second he had similar injury in 2021 where was out only 12 days.

What we have in these 12 days? MIA ATL NOLA SAN...All games are winnable without Curry. GSW has record 7W and 3L w/o Curry this season.

L to OKC (Wiggs missed last shot)
L to LAC w/o Green
L to IND w/o Green/Podz/Wiggs/Kuminga

Also Curry is tired and he needs to rest before Playoffs. 8 days break during AllStar weekend did miracle for his shooting %.

4 games before ALLSTAR with Butler .458/.397/.833
14 games after ALLSTAR with Butler .497/.411/.938

Butler and Green duo are playing great without Curry

Butler/Green w/o Curry 158min +27.2 nrtg and 95.3 drtg
Butler w/o Curry 262min +16.4 nrtg and 100.2 drtg

So this team will be competetive w/o Curry anyway and with better defence. Looking at schedule I expect only 4 wins until April 1st.

[Onus]

All the doom is wild. We have an easy 5 game stretch coming up that we should be able to win without curry. Curry gets some rest before the playoffs. We just have to hope Jimmy doesn’t tax himself too much drawing all these fouls while Steph is out.

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[EvanZ]

Is it a coccyx injury?

[cpower]

i blame a lot of Curry's injury on Steve Kerr...

Someone here needs to start a thread titled "Are Dubs fans NBA caliber fans?"

That poster in particular is the worst one on this board lol. Just constant garbage takes, ready to be spewed at anyone and everyone (including Steph) the second anything doesn't go perfectly.

talking about garbage takes..who makes the more ridiculous take? lol

[Onus]

I'm curious who wouldn't have closed at the end if Steph was playing ... At the end of the half it was Moody. Like I've said JK always has had the priority over Moody.

[HiRez]

All the doom is wild. We have an easy 5 game stretch coming up that we should be able to win without curry. Curry gets some rest before the playoffs. We just have to hope Jimmy doesn’t tax himself too much drawing all these fouls while Steph is out.

I like your confidence but they just nearly lost to a team that's 22 games under .500 ... in the East. They only play 1 game the rest of the year against a team with a worse record than Toronto. There are no easy stretches of games. Sure, there are games they can win without Steph, but also games they probably can't, and they need every game right now to avoid the play-in.

[Onus]

All the doom is wild. We have an easy 5 game stretch coming up that we should be able to win without curry. Curry gets some rest before the playoffs. We just have to hope Jimmy doesn’t tax himself too much drawing all these fouls while Steph is out.

I like your confidence but they just nearly lost to a team that's 22 games under .500 ... in the East. They only play 1 game the rest of the year against a team with a worse record than Toronto. There are no easy stretches of games. Sure, there are games they can win without Steph, but also games they probably can't, and they need every game right now to avoid the play-in.

It was actually 4 not 5 but they play the Hawks (really young right now), Miami (lost 9 in a row), New Orleans (Zion might get up for this game since he got shut down the last time and we have 5 days in miami), San Antonio. This is about as easy a stretch as you can get in the NBA. We're 7-3 in games without Steph. Maybe we drop one of these games but we shouldn't go 0-4. No back to backs. After that April gets hard and that's when you can start to worry.

Really I see it as Steph is going to get rest before the playoffs so he'll be good to go for a playoff run.

[GSWFan1994]

There's a silver lining in Steph being out for a couple of weeks: Podz, Moody, Kuminga, etc having a greater role, increasing their confidence for the playoffs.

The next 5 games are all winnable without Curry.

[DaHef]

Is it me or has Kuminga still not learned how to move without the ball switch on D? Watching him in this first quarter has been a bit disappointing.

he is completely lost out there.. we should not play him against good team at all .

for me the main issue is not even this one. which is a big issue, don't get me wrong. but I start to question his heart before his BBIQ.
he's got all this athletic dynamism which is "irreplaceable" for this team, then why he's not making the effort/athletic defensive plays dray and jimmy made tonight down the stretch? or the ones GPII made in the previous ones?
he's got all this athleticism and strength and speed, yet two 35 years old players (and a 32 years old with a history of injuries) make D plays he don't. you got all these phsycal tools? use them to make effective D plays. sprint back to intercept a pass like dray did, block a shot like jimmy did, jump higher than your opponent like GPII usually does, basically use all these tools to make impactful plays on the defensive end of the ball. if you have them but in the end the plays are not there, then it's a different matter. it's about desire, effort, motor. in short it's about heart. this guy doesn't seem to have it.

You pretty well hit on it. There's a certain laid backness at times that doesn't feel quite right with JK. He kind of zones out and still doesn't block off on the boards. My Scrappy Doo 5 on the Dubs for players who get more out of their physical abilities with their inner drive are
GPII
Podz
QP
Gui
Dray
If you could only bottle some of their inner dawg and feed it to JK you may have something. I know many are still high on his so called ceiling and I don't mean to offend but maybe this is it. My personal wish is if he doesn't improve is to use him to get back into the mid or early 1st round on draft day. Not sure if you can do an extend and trade or if you'd have to trade him as a 1 year rental.