I remember some stat about the win record of the Durant era warriors when Durant/Klay/Steph combined for 75+ points, and it jumped out to me immediately last night that we got a balanced *74* points from JK/Jimmy/Steph and not a ton from the rest of the roster.
OT: I’ve had to wrangle eight scorpions in our house over the past week. Despite their scary reputation, they’re pretty timid and docile and have to feel really threatened to attack. The problem is that they’re nocturnal and easy to step on if you’re walking around the house at night, which definitely makes them feel threatened.
Also, a friend here made the mistake of sticking his foot in a shoe without checking it first. They don’t like that, either.
I'm not as mad about this game. Sure, we played sub-par, but the Bucks played and shot really well... and zomg, they got so many rebound bounces. There were like 5 separate plays where they contested a rebound and a Warriors player knocked it out of bounds, on top of the 5 other clanks that bounced right to them. Stuff happens. Onto Indy. Hope we play better.
*I thought this was another schedule loss with Giannis. And then I saw Giannis out and realized what was going to happen. The Dubs play down to their competition when the star is out. This reminded quite a bit of the loss to Denver last year with no Jokic. It's a blip in the radar. But these losses count as losses in the record books and add miles. This will definitely be a game we look back on and say it was a dumb loss.
*This schedule is so brutal. They almost need to go 3-0 against IND, PHX, SAC in their next 3. Because the gauntlet is coming. @OKC, IND, @DEN, @SA (B2B), @SA. I'm not sure you could find a harder 5 game stretch in the NBA season for any team. 5 games in 4 different cities against bad matchups and great teams. All within 8 days. A winning record in these next 8 would be incredible, but I don't think it's possible without going 3-0 to start.
*Actual performance of this game: it was kind of just meh. No one was terrible, but no one was particularly amazing. JK was good offensively with a few too many giveaways. I think two makes were wiped away by whistles. Steph made a half courter that didn't count. That was fun, but he was otherwise pretty meh. Horford is not wowing me.
Steph is allowed to shoot any shot he wants forever and ever, obviously, but I didn’t love that moment in the third quarter when, after working his way into a game by sheer perseverance and discipline, and with the team finally having crested the hill to establish a 4-point lead, he hoisted an early-clock, 35-foot heat check. Felt like that led straight into a 12-0 Bucks run.
Getting beat in a Ryan Rollins Revenge game kind of reminded me of getting beat by Nembhard (without Hali) a few years ago. In fact Nembhard and Hali scored basically the same amount of points in those games. RR and Nembhard are both good, but if they’re going to outplay Steph we’re in for a rough night.
There are certain things in the contemporary NBA that regardless of context spell bad news for teams with serious ambitions. Giving up 120 to a Milwaukee team without Giannis is one of them. I want to see our first ten games play out fully, so I won't pull the "They need to trade for a defensive upgrade" alarm yet, but I am stretching my arm muscles to pull it all the more effectively.
Again blacked out in Greece; without GIANNIS, I would have bet on us and a win...they shot the 3 better than us 42 percent to our miserable 34 percent, hit 6 more 3s than us for 18 more points, and we had 7 more turnovers than they did, while their bench outscored ours by 9 points....not to mention though we out-rebounded them, they had 6 more points in the paint than we did...go figure...Good news is JK had another solid game, and, hopefully DALLAS will be impressed by trade deadline....we a need another 3pt shooter,, hopefully at SG
He's better than you think (see my post about 5 down). And I didn't know either til I looked him up after this game. dubs drafted him and had a sleeper.
Rollins is on the upswing, steph age 38 on the road 3rd game in 4 nights and targeted as the one guy you can't let beat you, not so much. Next time they play rollins will be a marked man. Note how on back to back plays in 4th dray and kuminga dropped him to the deck with stiffarm lumber (one common foul each, which did not put them in foul trouble). They gave him some steph treatment, but it was too late to beat some of the starch out of him.
I’m pretty sure those bowl overs were in response to Rollins laying out on Steph in the previous possession and not because he was having a good night. Steph looked pissed.
Eh. Entertaining game. Cant win them all. Id also like to see a Curry, Melton, Butler, Draymond, Horford starting lineup once Melton is fully spun up with JK first off the bench.
Hhmph, looking at ryan rollins' stats, he's kind of good. Dubs scored again in the draft (44th pick) but threw him into the unload mr dribble-the-air-out-of-the-ball for chris paul deal. In his age 22 year suddenly turned the corner and became a good player. This year (age 23) he's got a 19.6 PER and that was before today's game. Last year 14.0 PER in 56 games, has a legit 3 (40% career) and he's only 23.
So yeah, he could have been steph's understudy and inheritor. Sigh, sometimes it's the deals you shouldn't a done.
Edit: in the unload mr-dribble-til-called-for-palming-while-GOAT-dies-of-boredom deal he went to the wizzles, who six months later waived him because kangz east. Month later bucks give him a 2-way, year later bucks are like, fuck that shit, here's a 4 year deal at $4 mil/yr. Well played, bucks FO.
No, I didn't. That's good knowledge. Some people shoplift for the thrill of getting away with it. If he was a head case acting up extracurricular that's a reasonable explanation for dubs then wizzles ditching him, wizzles especially given they're still trying to rebuild their internal and external reputations after the agent zero debacle. Plus the decades of sucking since the bruise brothers got knee trouble.
They signed a 4 year deal with him (4th is player option) on july 8th. You sure you're not referring to some routine procedural stuff around replacing a rookie min post-2way contract with a real multi-year deal?
No, his QO was rescinded July 1st. I believe any team could have signed him in the interim. He probably had a handshake deal with the Bucks though. But I doubt he'd have turned gown more money.
rescind july 1, sign july 8, I'm not going to read any negative meaning into that. Plausibly bucks said "ok mr shoplifter, see who wants you, and BTW our offer expires in a week."
I think it was a combination of needing to match salaries, needing to give fans a makeup star for unloading the guy who legit just earned a bag on a championship team, and finding a trading partner dumb enough to take him. Short list, and mostly or exclusively you gotta go with bad teams unloading expensive vets.
Just now that I know, I wish they hadn't thrown in ryan rollins. I'm not gonna give the kangz east FO assumption of doubt here.
That felt like a game where we could have used Melton, so I’m cheering myself up with the knowledge that he’s coming back soon :)
I remember some stat about the win record of the Durant era warriors when Durant/Klay/Steph combined for 75+ points, and it jumped out to me immediately last night that we got a balanced *74* points from JK/Jimmy/Steph and not a ton from the rest of the roster.
OT: I’ve had to wrangle eight scorpions in our house over the past week. Despite their scary reputation, they’re pretty timid and docile and have to feel really threatened to attack. The problem is that they’re nocturnal and easy to step on if you’re walking around the house at night, which definitely makes them feel threatened.
Also, a friend here made the mistake of sticking his foot in a shoe without checking it first. They don’t like that, either.
That's nuts. Where is this? I would freak out if I stepped on one.
We’ve been living in the Costa Rican jungle since February.
Would Rollins still be a Warrior if Draymond didn’t punch Poole?
I'm not as mad about this game. Sure, we played sub-par, but the Bucks played and shot really well... and zomg, they got so many rebound bounces. There were like 5 separate plays where they contested a rebound and a Warriors player knocked it out of bounds, on top of the 5 other clanks that bounced right to them. Stuff happens. Onto Indy. Hope we play better.
Added some APRIBOT stats to the article. (And updated again to fix a calculation bug...)
"Last game’s winner Quinten Post is not eligible."
moot point of the year, and I ain't talking about the niners
Some thoughts:
*I thought this was another schedule loss with Giannis. And then I saw Giannis out and realized what was going to happen. The Dubs play down to their competition when the star is out. This reminded quite a bit of the loss to Denver last year with no Jokic. It's a blip in the radar. But these losses count as losses in the record books and add miles. This will definitely be a game we look back on and say it was a dumb loss.
*This schedule is so brutal. They almost need to go 3-0 against IND, PHX, SAC in their next 3. Because the gauntlet is coming. @OKC, IND, @DEN, @SA (B2B), @SA. I'm not sure you could find a harder 5 game stretch in the NBA season for any team. 5 games in 4 different cities against bad matchups and great teams. All within 8 days. A winning record in these next 8 would be incredible, but I don't think it's possible without going 3-0 to start.
*Actual performance of this game: it was kind of just meh. No one was terrible, but no one was particularly amazing. JK was good offensively with a few too many giveaways. I think two makes were wiped away by whistles. Steph made a half courter that didn't count. That was fun, but he was otherwise pretty meh. Horford is not wowing me.
*Oh well, on to the next.
Steph is allowed to shoot any shot he wants forever and ever, obviously, but I didn’t love that moment in the third quarter when, after working his way into a game by sheer perseverance and discipline, and with the team finally having crested the hill to establish a 4-point lead, he hoisted an early-clock, 35-foot heat check. Felt like that led straight into a 12-0 Bucks run.
yeah. The whole team just looked unengaged (whether through fatigue, or whatever). Made some easy choices that didn't work, and got burned.
Getting beat in a Ryan Rollins Revenge game kind of reminded me of getting beat by Nembhard (without Hali) a few years ago. In fact Nembhard and Hali scored basically the same amount of points in those games. RR and Nembhard are both good, but if they’re going to outplay Steph we’re in for a rough night.
There are certain things in the contemporary NBA that regardless of context spell bad news for teams with serious ambitions. Giving up 120 to a Milwaukee team without Giannis is one of them. I want to see our first ten games play out fully, so I won't pull the "They need to trade for a defensive upgrade" alarm yet, but I am stretching my arm muscles to pull it all the more effectively.
Again blacked out in Greece; without GIANNIS, I would have bet on us and a win...they shot the 3 better than us 42 percent to our miserable 34 percent, hit 6 more 3s than us for 18 more points, and we had 7 more turnovers than they did, while their bench outscored ours by 9 points....not to mention though we out-rebounded them, they had 6 more points in the paint than we did...go figure...Good news is JK had another solid game, and, hopefully DALLAS will be impressed by trade deadline....we a need another 3pt shooter,, hopefully at SG
We don't need a Sg with Melton and Seth coming back. We need a playable center when Horford and Post looking terrible
And a pony.
Klay is washed, why would you wanna torpedo this teams chances?
If Ryan fucking Rollins is going to outplay Steph we have no chance. Alas.
He's better than you think (see my post about 5 down). And I didn't know either til I looked him up after this game. dubs drafted him and had a sleeper.
Oh, I agree he's good. But he's going to outplay Steph maybe 2% of the time. Bad luck.
Rollins is on the upswing, steph age 38 on the road 3rd game in 4 nights and targeted as the one guy you can't let beat you, not so much. Next time they play rollins will be a marked man. Note how on back to back plays in 4th dray and kuminga dropped him to the deck with stiffarm lumber (one common foul each, which did not put them in foul trouble). They gave him some steph treatment, but it was too late to beat some of the starch out of him.
I’m pretty sure those bowl overs were in response to Rollins laying out on Steph in the previous possession and not because he was having a good night. Steph looked pissed.
Eh. Entertaining game. Cant win them all. Id also like to see a Curry, Melton, Butler, Draymond, Horford starting lineup once Melton is fully spun up with JK first off the bench.
Jk will keep starting at least until he starts playing bad for multiple games or the team has a pretty big losing streak
Well that was no fun. On to the next.
Is the next tomorrow or the day after, and how many time zones do they cross?
Hhmph, looking at ryan rollins' stats, he's kind of good. Dubs scored again in the draft (44th pick) but threw him into the unload mr dribble-the-air-out-of-the-ball for chris paul deal. In his age 22 year suddenly turned the corner and became a good player. This year (age 23) he's got a 19.6 PER and that was before today's game. Last year 14.0 PER in 56 games, has a legit 3 (40% career) and he's only 23.
So yeah, he could have been steph's understudy and inheritor. Sigh, sometimes it's the deals you shouldn't a done.
Edit: in the unload mr-dribble-til-called-for-palming-while-GOAT-dies-of-boredom deal he went to the wizzles, who six months later waived him because kangz east. Month later bucks give him a 2-way, year later bucks are like, fuck that shit, here's a 4 year deal at $4 mil/yr. Well played, bucks FO.
Did you also read the weird story about how Rollins was let go from the Wizards because he was caught shoplifting household items at Target. That’s pretty odd for a guy making $1.7M. I hope he got his mental health issues sorted. https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/former-wizards-guard-ryan-rollins-charged-with-shoplifting-from-target-multiple-times-while-with-team
No, I didn't. That's good knowledge. Some people shoplift for the thrill of getting away with it. If he was a head case acting up extracurricular that's a reasonable explanation for dubs then wizzles ditching him, wizzles especially given they're still trying to rebuild their internal and external reputations after the agent zero debacle. Plus the decades of sucking since the bruise brothers got knee trouble.
The Bucks rescinded the QO on Rollins this summer. He was UFA.
They signed a 4 year deal with him (4th is player option) on july 8th. You sure you're not referring to some routine procedural stuff around replacing a rookie min post-2way contract with a real multi-year deal?
No, his QO was rescinded July 1st. I believe any team could have signed him in the interim. He probably had a handshake deal with the Bucks though. But I doubt he'd have turned gown more money.
rescind july 1, sign july 8, I'm not going to read any negative meaning into that. Plausibly bucks said "ok mr shoplifter, see who wants you, and BTW our offer expires in a week."
I still to this day cannot understand why we got CP3.
Because we hated Poole, was I thought the real reason
I think it was a combination of needing to match salaries, needing to give fans a makeup star for unloading the guy who legit just earned a bag on a championship team, and finding a trading partner dumb enough to take him. Short list, and mostly or exclusively you gotta go with bad teams unloading expensive vets.
Just now that I know, I wish they hadn't thrown in ryan rollins. I'm not gonna give the kangz east FO assumption of doubt here.
Other stats:
Podziemski: (-8)
9 points, 4/8 FGs, 1/3 threes
5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 turnovers, 3 steals
Hield: (-8)
8 points, 3/6 FGs, 2/4 threes
1 rebound, 1 steal
Richard: (-10)
7 points, 2/2 FGs, 1/1 three, 2/2 FTs
1 assist, 2 steals
Horford: (-20)
3 points, 1/6 FGs, 1/4 threes
2 rebounds (1 off.), 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 1 block
Prince: (+11)
10 points, 3/6 FGs, 1/4 threes, 3/3 FTS
1 assist
Trent Jr.: (-1)
13 points, 4/14 FGs, 2/7 threes, 3/3 FTS
2 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals
AJ Green: (+4)
10 points, 3/7 FGs and threes, 1/2 FTs
2 rebounds, 1 turnover, 1 steal
Notable stats:
Kuminga: (-1)
24 points, 7/11 FGs, 2/4 threes, 8/8 FTs
8 rebounds (1 off.), 4 assists, 5 turnovers, 1 block
Curry: (-6)
27 points, 8/19 FGs, 4/10 threes, 7/8 FTs
6 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 turnovers, 1 steal
Butler: (-7)
23 points, 7/18 FGs, 1/2 threes, 8/8 FTs
11 rebounds (7 off.), 3 assists, 2 turnovers, 1 steal, 1 block
Draymond Green: (+4)
7 points, 3/7 FGs, 1/3 threes
4 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 turnover, 1 block
Bucks:
Rollins: (+8)
32 points, 13/21 FGs, 5/7 threes, 1/3 FTs
3 rebounds (1 off.), 8 assists, 1 turnover
Turner: (-4)
17 points, 7/12 FGs, 3/6 threes
7 rebounds (2 off.), 1 turnover, 2 blocks
Anthony: (+6)
16 points, 7/15 FGs, 2/7 threes
3 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 turnovers, 1 steal, 1 block
Portis: (+14)
12 points, 5/10 FGs, 2/3 threes
5 rebounds (1 off.), 2 assists, 2 turnovers
Kuzma: (+10)
10 points, 4/10 FGs, 1/4 threes, 1/2 FTs
8 rebounds (1 off.), 4 assists, 4 turnovers, 1 steal
Honestly shocked this is the first time the Spurs have ever started 5-0
The team that regularly won 60 games with their big three never did it?
Interesting stat line in the Spurs game:
Julian Champagne: 31 minutes, 2 points, 1/5 from field, 0/4 from three, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block, 1 turnover, +24
They also never repeated. Kinda makes sense for those Spurs that they’ve never started 5-0 if they can pull 5 chips in 15 years without repeating.