Worth it?
Yes. But they gutted the team. They're soft. All they can do is chuck threes, but then most teams won't be able to handle them. I thought they'd have to trade Klay Thompson to fill out the roster and because he's no longer needed. It'll happen in the summer.
NO and NO.
They already had enough scoring w/ Curry, Iggy, Klay, Barbosa, etc. It never works when you bring in a guy who main weapon is his scoring. Durant isn't a Lebron James. He is not a great two-way player.
Defense
Barnes better than Durant
Ezeli/Speight better than West and Varejao (s of himself after all those injuries).
Bogut way better than Zaza
Barbosa, well GS didn't get anyone to remotely place him so the just forces Iggy and Klay to play more minutes (not good in the long run).
Offense
Durant much better than Barnes
Ezeli/Speight combo still slightly better than old man West and injured riddled Varejo
Bogut a wash to Zaza w/ the edge going to Bogut for Offensive Rebound putbacks
Barbosa - nobody on their bench is even close right now to Barbosa.
All GS did, got much weaker defensively and are now forcing their starters to player more minutes.
They are worse off. Only so many shots in a game. And to top it off, GS signs the very player that Kawhi as pretty much owned the past two years.
Last edited by Cowboys_Wear_Spurs; 10-25-2016 at 11:43 PM.
No they have to protect rim
Fluke game imo, the Warriors will still win 65+ easily.
Chances are pretty good that tonight's game was a preview of the WCF. If both teams stay healthy, I don't see anyone else in the West posing a threat. Gonna be Cavs-Spurs or Cavs-Dubs in the Finals. Again, that's IF everyone stays reasonably healthy.
They will miss Bogut and they don't have a bench, but this game literally meant nothing outside of 1 game for the standings, tbh..
This game showed, DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS.
What I find amusing, Jerry West threatened to quit if GS traded Klay for Love b/c Love plays no defense. GS proceeds to gut their bench and let Barnes (a much better defender than Durant) go to sign someone who only Elite part of his game is offense. Irony at its best.
I know this is just one game, but you have to like the Spurs chances after seeing how easy for most of the night it was for them to get to the paint again. Boy is GS going to miss Bogut/Ezeli/Speights combo upfront.
Good analysis. They are worse off. They lost too much defensively. This wasn't even a bad game for Durant. He was on fire doing his thing shooting over guys on Iso. He was terrific on defense at times, and on rim protection since D-Worst was so inadequate. GSW got very imbalanced. They were killed inside.
It's better for Kawhi in the end that Durant wasn't signed by Spurs, he would have taken shots away from Kiwi and stolen "his thunder."
Credit to LMA and MVP Kawhi though. Simmons came out balling. Frankly except my boy Kyle who was disappointing, everyone balled out. But they were very much exposed.
The Lillards and Clippers will have something to say about that
Wrong forum.
Yes bc the rest of the league trots out Rodney Hood and Khris Middleton
Sigh. No one got the intent of this thread, not even Harlem....oh well lol.
^This. I'm gonna savor this win as much as I can but those who expect the Warriors to play like this all the time is in for a rude awakening. They'll figure it out at some point.
Bottom line, Durbeta won't be worth it. They will bounce back from this for sure, bc they just have too much scoring talent, but they will have issues on defense and that matters in the playoffs a lot.
Rim protection and no bench is a problem, but GSW won't turn the ball over that much and they missed a ton of threes.
Yeah, but not much. In the end, we all know what's coming, barring a bunch of injuries.
I obviously know what you were doingI was replying to the poster above me..
Bogut was a huge loss. All his moving screens and pushing/holding in the paint that was never called is a huge advantage. Durant's great offense takes possessions away from other already great offense. Then there is a lot of downgrades at other positions.
I fully expect them to crush the league come playoff time though. Hope I'm wrong.
Or even the trade deadline. With the bigs they currently have, Dubs would have no chance against the Cavs.
Glad at least you did, seems to of went over everyone elses head. I imagine there is a Warrior fan somewhere making this thread right nowI obviously know what you were doing
And for this reason I don't expect blowouts like this for the Spurs everytime they play GS. But they just pushed themselves back 2-3 years when the Spurs could score at will on them. They finally started to put it together last year and blew it all up for Durant. They went from a bench that actually owned the highest scoring bench in the NBA last year, to a bench that got completely and utterly owned tonight.
The stat that im looking is Rebounds, 55 Spurs - 35 Warriors.
Other than that, KD 27PTs, Curry 26, Green 18...Klay a lower than usual with 11.
GSW are gonna kill a lot of teams. Spurs had a great game tonight.
Yup...but the Spurs aren't one of them.
When you have a chance to add someone like KD, regardless of fit, it'd be hard for someone to convince you it's a bad idea. However they did gut their bench for him, moreso than the Spurs did last season for Aldridge.
They should start Iggy, and move KD to 6th man to accommodate the bench issue.
Not only did they lose Bogut(Funny how they lost the finals because they lost Bogut, then ship him off...."Light years ahead") and to add insult to injury they add David West. Not sure sure they're going to be able to manage with their ty big situation.
Nevertheless, they'll still be the favorites, and win 60+ games...If they make some moves like the 2014-2015 Cavs did, they could easily trot to a le.
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