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I flew to a different country and went to a restaurant called Otto. Calling a big game for the Little Dipper!!

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Jun 10, 2022·edited Jun 10, 2022

The Draymond Green Problem by Thinking Basketball

https://youtu.be/PG8-l7HEn1k

It’s pretty good base level dissection of Game 3 adjustments from Boston. Pretty much since Green can’t score in space or on the perimeter and barely scores inside, it’s literally 4 v 5 on offense Boston ignores him on D. I don’t expect Dray to find his shot miraculously. He’s a “I rather podcast than work on my shot in the gym” kind of guy. He even tries to justify it. He says “Gym? I’ve done that” on his podcast, but what he fails to see is that he should be in the gym every moment he has. He doesn’t have the Mamba mentality to practice and he never did. You’d expect Draymond to extend his career by solidify his jumpers but he even says on a podcast with Colin Cowherd that “basketball isn’t the most important thing in his life”. Doesn’t Steph deserve better teammates? I’d

be surprised if Draymond got paid more than 15-18 mill a year once his current contract is up. Anything south of that figure would be justifiable also. We should’ve jumped on a Ben Simmons trade for Dray. At least Ben has finishing ability at the rim. Besides Drays Screening and Passing, he ain’t really shit on offense. His Floaters are shotty, his declining athleticism makes his layups super easy to contest. Non existent jump shot. God dam. He’s failed this team man. This year he went from being my favorite since he took over the Starting role from David Lee, to the one I’m most annoyed with.

Smh he’s lost his way.

TLDR: Videos shows Boston giving Draymond the Tony Allen treatment on defense and it’s working for them, since Draymond can’t shoot.

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Apologies if someone posted this already TK proposing the use of Kuminga

https://theathletic.com/3357518/2022/06/09/warriors-jonathan-kuminga-celtics/?source=user_shared_article

If we do this, we got to use the KISS principle. KEEP IT SIMPLE. Simple offense and on ball defense for JK. Set the guy up to succeed and change to accommodate him. It will be interesting to watch if it does indeed happen

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Just finished listening to Zach Lowe podcast. He thinks Dubs are gonna have monster desperation game to even the series.

Also he mentioned that Celt''s defense has taken away Warriors pet actions which as a result has taken away easy enough catch and shoot. And may be that's why Klay has struggled because he shoots best with catch-n-shoot. Dubs just gotta keep running these actions multiple times in same possession so as to elicit a mistake from Celt's D.

Let's hope Steph takes some magic potion and is pain free enough to have a monster game.

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Accept that the C’s defense is the main problem. People are acting like it’s Poole’s lack of heart that make Williams block him. Williams also plucked several rebounds over Dray because he’s TALLER. Yes, emotions matter, but our guys are not suddenly disinterested, old, lazy, or not passionate.

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Too early to tell but feels like we lost the series in G1-Q1 when we didn't adjust and kept playing drop coverage.

BTW - Why isn't Kerr playing Moody given how Poole is playing?

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Jun 10, 2022Liked by Daniel Hardee

Can’t wait for tomorrows game. The ultimate test for this squad. Time is now Dub Nation. LETS GO

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Betting odds are on Boston for Game 4 win.

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This is a very complimentary take on Steph from Boston.

https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-celtics/2022/06/09/steph-curry-celtics-defense-nba-finals/

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I had a random thought that kerr knows the adjustment he needs to make but saved them for game 4 since we came out with low effort n boston was firing on all cylinders. I think he gave poole one more chance to see if he could produce because he knows we only need to steal 1 game in boston to make it a 3 game series with home court advantage

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Size, athleticism, & age:Advantage Boston. Experience, sharp shooting, playmaking:Advantage Dubs. Both teams are prone to mistakes, TO's, missed FT's. Brown is possibly the wild card along with Derek White for Boston. When those two are playing well, Boston usually wins. Warriors have some deficiencies that mar their game, every game. TO's, disappeared players, sluggish starts and choking during periods of the game. They rarely play a complete game as the Warriors. This could simply be age along with the offensive decline of Green and Poole not being able to step up offensively and defensively yet. Boston looks like the tougher team. They seem almost tireless while Looney sometimes looks like he is going to drop dead on the floor, no disrespect meant to him. Love his play. Running on fumes is rarely recommended and the memories of championships past only goes so far. You either bring it or you don't to each game. The Warriors haven't.

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Jun 10, 2022·edited Jun 10, 2022

I think people are over-analyzing the 3 games thus far and blaming stuff on our offense when our offense has been great. Across 3 games, our ORTG with Steph on the court has been 116.8. For context, the best ORTG in the regular season this year had an ORTG of 116.2.

Our problems have not really been on the offensive end, but that:

1. Draymond Green is playing a terrible series, both offensively (expected) and defensively (WTF?).

2. This in large parts is leading to their offense being pretty goddamn good too. We're not winning the series unless we stop them. Their defense is incredible, their offense isn't. We have no hopes of winning this series unless we start defending significantly better.

3. Our offense without Steph is at a frigid 91.5 ORTG, which would be the worst offense in the past 50 years in the league.

4. They're shooting 43% from 3 for the series. Regardless of the quality of their looks (which imo has been pretty damn high), that's unsustainable.

So for us to win, we need:

1. Steph to be healthy

2. Steph to maintain his level of performance

3. Dray to be much much much better

4. Shooting variance in our favor

Would help if Draymond played like he actually gave a shit which hasn't seemed to be the case for G1 and G3.

And minimize Poole minutes please. It's not his series.

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This is why we have Andre - https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/v8t8ke/leadership/

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In a slight change to a quote from earlier in this current Warriors' team run:

"Dray gonna Dray..." And I really think the Warriors are a better team for it!

Just like "Steph gonna Steph..." even with some loopy telegraphed passes and ill advised shots (including last night) he still scores and leads the team- now into the game 4 of the Finals. And

"Klay gonna Klay..." with a some forced shots and surgically repaired legs that may not move as well on defense etc.- there are also some amazingly hot streaks that have carried the team.

I'll take all of what Draymond brings to a basketball game as being good for the Warriors 95% of the time, just like I will take Step and Klay's overall contributions to winning games.

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot, Duby Dub Dubs

Having a dynasty is extremely rare. Going to 6 finals in 8 years is extremely hard. We can expect these guys to be mentally locked in game after game against this good a team. But may be they are just cooked and outmatched given Klay's limitations and our main players being older by 8-10 years. We gotta ride with our guys. (except in game thread 🙂). No matter. They are not perfect. They are human. Win or loose these finals, love what these guys did this year.

That's all I got.

Let's get G4.

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Daniel Theis didn't get any minutes except during garbage time. I think that along with the Celtics attacking the paint frequently were the adjustments Udoka made in game 3.

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