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Thank you DRAYMOND

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So here's the question about Klay in my mind...

When he's having an off-night, is it a question of bad shot selection? Because last night it seemed to me he made a bunch of bad ones and missed some open ones. So it seems a lot more like a make-or-miss problem.

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I think when he's focused, unhurried, takes his time, he gets in the zone and makes all sorts of shots. When he's rushed, pressing, and the game is moving a bit too fast, he can't find the zone and misses a lot.

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Apr 3, 2022·edited Apr 3, 2022

There were some "controversial" calls towards the end. They all went against us. I think fan replays (since the refs refused to check important calls in a tight game in the last 2 minutes) showed pretty conclusively that at the calls were not entirely correct. am pretty glad things ended up going the Warrior's way,so I didn't have to come on here and whine about the calls ;)

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We were at the Suns game on Wednesday and there were three plays refs ruled out of bounds off Warrior hands that the Chase replay showed were blown including the one where the ref came up from the middle of the Court to overrule the official closer to the play, I’m not sure why Kerr didn’t challenge either of the two last night in the closing two minutes but if they had led to us losing I would probably have driven straight out to the Marin Headlands and beyond, perhaps, Kerr needs a Minder half way through every close 4th Quarter

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I was at that game too. I can't remember that many ticky-tack calls that went only one way.

They probably let a lot of Warrior fouls go, but still, they called a lot of cheap ones.

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Agreed. Being able to play through bad calls is a skill that this team needs heading into the offs.

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot

Those JTA OK-3s might have been in superposition with the Van Halen guitar-solo variant?

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Intriguing theory, Prof Neilm

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot

Wiggins: “I used to be an All Star” 😂

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot

I missed the game, and that highlight reel was just what I needed.

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You should watch from the last few minutes of the third quarter on, if you can.

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot, punk basketball

I like this one because it shows how the comeback needed everything:

- Exploitable defensive scheme from the Jazz

- The 3-point accuracy to actually exploit it

- Big hustle to defuse plays and defend multiple actions

- The luck to have the Jazz ultimately miss/TOV instead of getting something like a lucky OReb into a 3.

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Excellent as always. Here's hoping for more work for you tonight, with a likely substantially different set of names.

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As long as we can get teams to run out of scoring gas in the fourth quarter plus throwing the ball away, we'll be just fine.

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot, punk basketball

Love the explain 12 plays (E12P)? Great review of a wickedly good ending.

Face full of Stifle Tower ??!? (Or is it Steifel Tower?) Genius.

Klay being hotter and colder than the two faces of Pluto? Killing me but glad it worked last night.

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An extreme heat wave on Pluto is something like -370° F.

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Apr 3, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot

That was some choice viewing material. Thank you.

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