2026-27 Regular Season Official

[whatisacenter]

Curry news is a big bummer!

Interested to see how Podz and Draymond hold up without him.

[wco81]

**** Rockets were bouncing him around like demolition derby and not one foul called.

[TB]

Dray has only played 28 minutes this year without Steph, and he’s -18 in those minutes. To note in those minutes, Dray and Melton are the main assist guys with Yax almost exclusively looking to score with high turnovers and minimal assists. Podz in those minutes is pretty much just a connector not getting many shots.

Yax has played alot with Steph and Dray both off the court (232 minutes) and is +8 in those minutes. Per36 numbers for him are 26/9/5. Still turns it over but not nearly as much as when he’s with Dray trying to force scoring. Should also be noted that in those minutes Podz is putting up 19/6/5 per36 numbers.

Dray has played some incredible defense and had moments of great playmaking this year, but it would be crazy to look at those two data sets and not be hyper-focused on them over the next few weeks. If anyone has the IQ to quickly adapt to a new way of playing its Draymond, so it will be very interesting to keep an eye on how Kerr plays Dray/Yax/Podz during this time.

[AirP.]

While I don't think this was the main reason for the Porzingis signing, I do believe it was discussed... possibly by both sides before the contract was given and signed. Porzingis either plays which would have equated to being worth the contract or he doesn't play much if any and they use it to acquire a player during the season when they understand what they need. Basically, the downside of the contract wasn't that big of a downside.

GS still has to execute a good trade with it but as teams figure out they're not going to be good this year, they may want to move in a different direction and need to jettison a good player/contract to help them change course. The longer GS stay at least around .500 (possibly/probably a little below) the more they possibly can get out of the Porzingis contract.

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[HiRez]

- We are currently WAY better than every team in 3 point shooting. I know we have Steph, but virtually every guy we hope has a good year from 3 is shooting over 40% at the moment with Steph and Yax and Melt well over 40. Since the 2016 Dubs shot over 40% for the season, only one random clipper team in 2021 has shot over 40% for the season. Thats not to say we cant just stay a top 5 shooting team, but even that drop-off can push teams into the play-in mix in this conference.

It sucks because just hitting a few more of those open 3 pointers and we would have had a real shot of pulling this one out. We missed 11 3s in the 4th.

On the other side, Reed Sheppard banging 3 3-pointers in a little over 2 minutes in the 4th buried us, I don't think we ever recovered from that run.

I know people like to bag on Murphy like he's an overrated scrub and won't help us, and I know all 3 point shooters can go cold at any time (even Steph), but we probably could have used him in this game.

[killmongrel]

Yaxel being on a 6m a year contract gives this organization so much "optionality" when it comes to building a proper team next summer.

[HiRez]

The good news is there's what looks like some winnable games before the break starting on Dec. 2. Assuming they'll keep Steph out until then. But they could still be around .500. In the 9 games leading up to that, I only see 3 teams (SA, BOS, POR) where I'm thinking they have almost no chance of winning. They won't win all the rest, but they could keep afloat.

[TB]

Based on the list of other players oblique injuries (in the 4-8 weeks range) + the usual Warriors PR trends (re-evaluate in 2 weeks usually then gets a "things are progressing as planned and we will check back in a week or two" type of response)....

I'll put my guess for Stephs return at the Dec 22nd game at home against the Mavs. Which would be 15 missed games.

Again, zero medical knowledge just a guess based on the facts of past return times, what this type of Warriors PR note usually means, and a look at how the schedule breaks up with home and road trips through December.

[DAWill1128]

Based on the list of other players oblique injuries (in the 4-8 weeks range) + the usual Warriors PR trends (re-evaluate in 2 weeks usually then gets a "things are progressing as planned and we will check back in a week or two" type of response)....

I'll put my guess for Stephs return at the Dec 22nd game at home against the Mavs. Which would be 15 missed games.

Again, zero medical knowledge just a guess based on the facts of past return times, what this type of Warriors PR note usually means, and a look at how the schedule breaks up with home and road trips through December.

From what I am seeing reports indicate the recovery could stretch closer to 4 weeks depending on how the tear heals.

At 4 weeks Curry would miss 9 games, you have that big rest stretch in December without games so even if he missed 3 weeks he would still miss 9 games. By the time we play December 12th it will have been 31 days after the injury. We will have to win 3 of 9 to maintain an above 500 record at 11-10, and that likely puts us at about the 9th or 10th seed. I think that's okay for the middle of December.

By middle of December a lot of guys will be able to be traded opening up the Porzingis market. We will have to see if Moody is able to contribute off the bench at the wing, and if Butler can play like a borderline All-Star caliber player or close to his previous level.

[HiRez]

Bear in mind between now and Dec. 22 there are 2 back to backs, so that's at least 2 games Steph was unlikely to play in for rest reasons anyway. However, Al and Dray may also not play much in those games.

[DonaldSanders]

I know people like to bag on Murphy like he's an overrated scrub and won't help us, and I know all 3 point shooters can go cold at any time (even Steph), but we probably could have used him in this game.

I don't think anyone considers Murphy a scrub, just that the price is too high for his production/impact on winning. Of course it would have been nice to have him last night!

If anything Steph's injury highlights that we shouldn't be making huge multi-pick trades. We did everything right -- he was averaging 28mpg, sat 2 b2bs, and still got injured playing only 10 games.

We should be trying to be competitive, especially with Yaxel's contract being a huge value advantage for the next 4 years. I just am not ready to part with multiple picks (unless it's a steal), especially for a guy that plays the position of one of our best players. I do think we could consider using a pick (say our '27) finding the right C in his 20s to pair with Yaxel, but beyond that our future is too unknown (and the '28 draft is great). The idea of sending out anything past '27 seems very unwise in our situation.

Edit: now I'm hearing that the '27 draft might have some decent Cs, so unless it's a good trade maybe we should stand pat.

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