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Spurs - Warriors

RoadDawg55
RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,147
Preview of the NBA Finals on NBATV. Warriors up 18 in the 3rd. I've been on the Spurs bandwagon, but GS is too good.

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  • BallSacked
    BallSacked Member Posts: 3,279
    Everybody talking about the Warriors. Everybody love it.
  • HuskyInAZ
    HuskyInAZ Member Posts: 1,732
    Pops should be fired after this embarrassment. I heard it's the thing to do.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    Do people actually watch the NBA regular season?
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,730 Founders Club
    Citing connectedness issues, Popovich has been relieved as head coach of the spurs. He's been replaced immediately by Bruce Bowen who looks forward to running a more uptempo attack to keep up with Warriors. "We will run, we will jump, and we will drop N-bombs in the locker room once again".

    When team leader Tim Duncan was asked how he felt he replied "Bout time N****" Then dabbed and limped off the court.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    PurpleJ said:

    Do people actually watch the NBA regular season?

    You missed out bro, Curry is on a higher plane this season.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,112 Founders Club
    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club

    PurpleJ said:

    Do people actually watch the NBA regular season?

    You missed out bro, Curry is on a higher plane this season.
    Which one? ;)))))
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,147
    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    That is what it looked like. We'll see though. The Spurs will adjust. I still doubt it will be an easy series in May/June.
  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    Warriors are about 3 levels higher than anyone else now in Jan. But that level of play isn't sustained forever. Come May and June the difference won't be as pronounced between GS and other contenders. Barring injuries to key players, they repeat. But not in 30-40 pt laughers.
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,730 Founders Club
    Curry is going back to back MVP and champion.

    He's the best player in the NBA. You pick him first over Lebron. I've never seen anything like him and what his team is doing.

    This isn't like the Hawks last year. That was unsustainable and they were exposed in the playoff.

    This has a chance to be the most dominant stretch since the 90's Bulls. Which means the Curry or Jordan talk will take over shortly.
  • BallSacked
    BallSacked Member Posts: 3,279
    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    Spurs have also owned this same Warriors team the past three years, last night not included.

    I think beyond Duncan's absence, Pop didn't really mind losing that game and getting plungered.
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,730 Founders Club

    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    Spurs have also owned this same Warriors team the past three years, last night not included.

    I think beyond Duncan's absence, Pop didn't really mind losing that game and getting plungered.
    True, but the Warriors are all entering their primes and SA is sliding off the back end of it. They are still an incredible team and Leonard is a superstar, but not one serious contributor for the Warriors is over the hill. Maybe Livingston.

    It's an incredibly assembled unit that has 4 years of prime play left on it at least.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    Doogles said:

    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    Spurs have also owned this same Warriors team the past three years, last night not included.

    I think beyond Duncan's absence, Pop didn't really mind losing that game and getting plungered.
    True, but the Warriors are all entering their primes and SA is sliding off the back end of it. They are still an incredible team and Leonard is a superstar, but not one serious contributor for the Warriors is over the hill. Maybe Livingston.

    It's an incredibly assembled unit that has 4 years of prime play left on it at least.
    Iggy. And Bogut only has a few years left. What makes it impressive for me is that the Spurs have been dominant this year largely without Duncan and Ginobili at full strength, with a team that's arguably stronger than the one that beat Miami. Yet they still got roasted.

    Curry is at early 2000s Kobe right now, with the chance to get in the conversation with Jordan if he keeps this up for 4-5 more years.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,112 Founders Club
    Green is the guy that makes the Warriors go
  • FreeChavez
    FreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223

    Doogles said:

    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    Spurs have also owned this same Warriors team the past three years, last night not included.

    I think beyond Duncan's absence, Pop didn't really mind losing that game and getting plungered.
    True, but the Warriors are all entering their primes and SA is sliding off the back end of it. They are still an incredible team and Leonard is a superstar, but not one serious contributor for the Warriors is over the hill. Maybe Livingston.

    It's an incredibly assembled unit that has 4 years of prime play left on it at least.
    Iggy. And Bogut only has a few years left. What makes it impressive for me is that the Spurs have been dominant this year largely without Duncan and Ginobili at full strength, with a team that's arguably stronger than the one that beat Miami. Yet they still got roasted.

    Curry is at early 2000s Kobe right now, with the chance to get in the conversation with Jordan if he keeps this up for 4-5 more years.
    Offensively Curry is just on an obscene level and i'm not sure there is a comparison for how he's scoring and dominating the game right now. That being said, he doesn't have the same game defensively that jordan or kobe did in their prime.

    Still a pleasure to watch his highlights.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,112 Founders Club

    Doogles said:

    Tequilla said:

    I'll wait until Tequila writes another book on a January NBA game

    Spurs are too big/slow to guard Golden State when they go to a 5 perimeter based attack.

    The people making a big deal about Timmy not playing don't get it ... Timmy's not going to make THAT big of a difference against Golden State.

    Spurs got waxed off the court and really struggle to matchup with the Warriors. Simple truth.
    Spurs have also owned this same Warriors team the past three years, last night not included.

    I think beyond Duncan's absence, Pop didn't really mind losing that game and getting plungered.
    True, but the Warriors are all entering their primes and SA is sliding off the back end of it. They are still an incredible team and Leonard is a superstar, but not one serious contributor for the Warriors is over the hill. Maybe Livingston.

    It's an incredibly assembled unit that has 4 years of prime play left on it at least.
    Iggy. And Bogut only has a few years left. What makes it impressive for me is that the Spurs have been dominant this year largely without Duncan and Ginobili at full strength, with a team that's arguably stronger than the one that beat Miami. Yet they still got roasted.

    Curry is at early 2000s Kobe right now, with the chance to get in the conversation with Jordan if he keeps this up for 4-5 more years.
    Offensively Curry is just on an obscene level and i'm not sure there is a comparison for how he's scoring and dominating the game right now. That being said, he doesn't have the same game defensively that jordan or kobe did in their prime.

    Still a pleasure to watch his highlights.
    this. I don't want to go all Steph Sucks because he doesn't. The best guy to watch today hands down. A great great player.

    Does he carry the Warriors and can he carry a team to the Finals? Who knows, the thing that is so great about the Warriors is they are a team.

    If you traded Green for Love who would be favored? I don't deal in hypotheticals
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102
    The thing that I enjoy the most about the Warriors right now is that each player knows how they can make the machine roll, they accept what their job is, and they go out and execute that job at the highest level.

    Curry can't do the things he does if he has to play defense on the other end against the best PGs of other teams. Green isn't anywhere close to as good as he is offensively without a guy like Curry that can command double teams 35 feet away from the basket allowing him to essentially run a 4 on 3 break on command. The 4 on 3 doesn't work if you don't have guys like Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes in the corners able to spot up and/or slash as needed. Their strength defensively doesn't happen without Bogut and Ezili defending the paint and Iggy coming in off the bench to shut down any wing player that thinks he's going to have a good night.

    No question that they have great players. But when you get great players playing as a team ... you get this kind of result.
  • FreeChavez
    FreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    Tequilla said:

    The thing that I enjoy the most about the Warriors right now is that each player knows how they can make the machine roll, they accept what their job is, and they go out and execute that job at the highest level.

    Curry can't do the things he does if he has to play defense on the other end against the best PGs of other teams. Green isn't anywhere close to as good as he is offensively without a guy like Curry that can command double teams 35 feet away from the basket allowing him to essentially run a 4 on 3 break on command. The 4 on 3 doesn't work if you don't have guys like Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes in the corners able to spot up and/or slash as needed. Their strength defensively doesn't happen without Bogut and Ezili defending the paint and Iggy coming in off the bench to shut down any wing player that thinks he's going to have a good night.

    No question that they have great players. But when you get great players playing as a team ... you get this kind of result.

    A "team" in 2016? How is that possible?
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,147
    Curry is actually a pretty good defender. Give him time. If he keeps this up for another few years, he will be an all time great. The scary thing is quite a bit better this year than last year. His shooting line this year is unbelievable. He's hitting almost 46% from three and he takes a ton of tough ones.

    The Warriors tweaked their offense and Green facilitates a lot of the offense while Curry and Thompson run around screens. Draymond Green is a superstar role player. 14.6, 9.5, and 7.3 while being one of the best defensive players in the league.
  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,730 Founders Club
    edited January 2016
    Agreed, just because he's small doesn't mean he's a bad defender. He's top 5 in the league in steals. He may not be as versatile in the positions he can guard, but his scoring is so explosive he is most certainly a + over any other guard.

    Ultimately, the goal is to score more points than the other guy. Curry is so over the top good at that, being serviceable on D is enough to be elite overall. As Roadie said, he's actually above average at it, so there really isn't a knock on his game right now.
  • doogsinparadise
    doogsinparadise Member Posts: 9,320
    Outside of Westbrook there probably aren't any pgs that would scare you against Curry.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,147

    Outside of Westbrook there probably aren't any pgs that would scare you against Curry.

    Westbrook is my favorite player to watch after Curry, but he's not a good defender at all. Activity doesn't equate being a good defender.