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It will obviously depend on how the game plays out. If something extremely flukey happens, of course it won't matter.
It's not the game itself, it's how dominant are the match-ups.
How many match-ups can Houston dominate the Spurs?
I don't think enough. The Clippers?
They could have enough match-up problems to actually be problematic.
That's the true word: which match-ups are truly problematic to the team, as a whole, over a 7 game series?
It will obviously depend on how the game plays out. If something extremely flukey happens, of course it won't matter.
The Hawks beating the Warriors would be worrisome to GS. Atlanta doesn't have the talent to beat even this version of them. It would be all coaching. Spurs East might be the smartest team in their conference, but other teams could emulate them.
It literally took 2 minutes of game time for Bogut to leave the game with an injury in his Cavs debut. Not kidding.
Doesnt look serious, but still. Took a knee to the shin and went down in pain.
Bogut man.. Dude just can't stay healthy
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No more worrisome than a healthy Spurs team losing to the Knicks.
The Warriors announcers are the worst. Straight watched a video of Klay slapping Dennis in the face and said, "He didn't touch him."
Yes. This isn't a hiccup. This is a team doing a clinical version of what every team has been doing since KD got hurt. And GS is clearly reeling in this game right now.
42 points in the 1st to an East team, after barely beating the NYK... Draymond is truly the fakest prospective DPOY.
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At least he's a bit eloquent, during interviews... Yay.
I watched Kawhi take entire teams out of their offense, personally, like a 1 man wrecking ball on a building for condemnation...
That man completely wrecks teams, but yeah... let's vote for Draymond, who constantly allows his team to give up well over 110 to decent offenses.
He can guard positions 1-5 in equally ty ways. What a game-changer.
Durant goes down and they lose and lose and Dray-Day says the are " ed" without him and he's the leading candidate to win... anything?
Is there a Mouth Award?
The Warriors are the "2nd best defense" in the NBA. I wonder if Warrior fans have meltdowns over those 40 point quarters.
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Draymond is a good defender but he isn't the impact/game-changing defender that Kawhi and Gobert are.
Hawks doing the work
Bonner is such an awkward TV analyst
Danny, even when he's in a terrible slump, never let's me down when I make a Danny 3 counter prediction. I know he's struggling, but I also know this game and as long as he's not in early foul trouble guarding Harden he makes AT LEAST 5 3's.
Which is my point.
Thank you.
Patty is an extreme liability on D. He HAS to perform on O, or he's a massive negative for the team.
What does he do, when he's not hitting shots?
He makes a few hustle plays?
Yay.
He gives up tons of points in the interim, unless he's hitting.
He's not hitting... he's useless, other than his gravity, which is actually more useful than current Parker.
The PG situation is so sad right now... I'm praying for Murray to make a huge leap next year.
We'll see what Pop does, tbh, but he rarely plays his matchups as he would in a playoff game during the regular season... it's just two different goals at the respective times. Regular season is about building the rotation and cohesion, on the playoffs you go at individual matchups much more.
Yes, we need Deadman. We need Tony (or somebody) to get him going early with a couple of lobs. And we need the good, tough LMA not settling for fadeaways but taking it to the hole.
We still have a radiant 48-13 record to fall back on for the next couple hours.
Pop doesn't do much during the playoffs, you know that.
When has he gone drastic, or cray cray on a team before it got desperate?
When has he truly changed the game-plan in the playoffs that ended up salvaging things?
Or going pro-active and changed the whole scenario of a series with his match-ups?
Just Diaw in '14... that's it, in my memory.
Man, the refs assigned for tonight's game are terrible. They even assigned a guy that was drafted by the Rockets in 1992, Curtis Blair
The Spurs are winning but, I wouldn't say they're clicking on all cylinders either. In GS's case, take away Durant, Bogut, Barnes, Rush, Ezeli, Barbosa and Speights and you basically have a s of a team. I wonder what the Spurs would look like without Kawhi? Atlanta is a halfway decent team at home. They nearly overcame a 27 point deficit to beat the Cavs.
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