GT: Game 5 - Portland @ Golden State

[RichmondWarrior]

What's Bogut's availability....any news yet?

[Impuniti]

What's Bogut's availability....any news yet?

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nba/1119/andrew-bogut

Hmm just checked rotoworld and they say questionable for game 6. I don't know if they are guessing but if it's that minor of an issue, he should be ok by Game 2 at the latest. But as of now, there's nothing concrete. Green being 100% is more important than Bogut considering how ineffective he's been vs OKC and we have Ezeli. Green is the new Curry in terms of checking on him daily for some progress.

[East Bay Sports]

This is scary to say... but if they insist on going big and we insist on going small we are going to be dependent on Barnes knocking down the opens shots he will get when being guarded by Kanter.

[wco81]

I think they will let Roberson and Ibaka take 3s in crucial possessions, try to force Westbrook and KD to pass.

[rcfc1]

I'm not seeing any signs that Bogut will be out. Is that right?

[NBAfan3024]

Think he's day to day

[East Bay Sports]

I think they will let Roberson and Ibaka take 3s in crucial possessions, try to force Westbrook and KD to pass.

Roberson for sure. Serge is a good spot up shooter though.

[Mylie10]

If Speights is hitting from range it would take either Kanter or Adams off the floor. Same when we go small with Draymond.

When Ezeli plays it's going to be knock down drag out physical play.

[Impuniti]

Speighs, Bogut and Ezeli ranged from mediocre to just bad last series, but I think 2/3 will be much better match ups in this series. Ezeli and Bogs in particular will need to be up for it at the boards, otherwise it's game over.

[wco81]

Warriors averaged -13.5 boards against OKC in the regular season. Maybe that's why the games were close.

I didn't go back and look at the box score but I heard that the Warriors were pounded on the board in the game at OKC. Not sure how much minutes the big men played. The Warriors were down a lot and Curry hit 12 3-pointers. OKC screwed up the end of the game in regulation, throwing a bad inbounds pass that the Warriors got which allowed them to tie it and go to OT.

But if OKC play 2 or 3 big men, they also leave themselves vulnerable to 3s and cuts to the basket by the Warriors small lineup. Spurs shot 39.4% from 3 in the series, which is not a bad percentage, yet it wasn't enough. Thunder only shot 31.4%.

So unless the Warriors shot an ungodly percentage as a team, it might be risky to give up so many boards.

In the regular season games, Warriors only shot 50.2/34.8/69.7 but held OKC to 45.7/29.4/75.6. Warriors made an average of 10.7 3s vs. 6.7 and OKC made an avg of 22.7/30 FTs vs. 15.3/22. Point differential was 8.7 so hitting an average of 4 more 3-pointers was more than the difference.