Beam me up Scottie! We all know shooters age well in the NBA. Curry & Klay could still be effective players into their mid-40s. On the other hand, Draymond plays a much more physical game and his tires are going to wear down much faster. His IQ and role as quarterback of the defense will keep him effective as well, but you would like to see his minutes managed to reduce long term wear and tear. The addition of Wiseman should help enormously as Wiseman can gobble up a lot of Embiid, Joker, Gober type bruiser minutes that can take a toll on undersized Dray. Adding Scottie Barnes (Dray Jr.) would give Warriors ability to
a. continue to play the same Dray-led off ball motion offense. In other words, when Dray sits, the style of play doesn't necessarily need to change which it often did because of personnel.
b. enable Warriors to cut a few minutes off Dray's workload. Would like to see Dray running about 28 min a game through the regular season and really set him up to be fresh in the postseason like Iggy.
c. Warriors got too Dray-reliant on offense, finding it difficult to close games after 12 straight minutes in the 4th of Dray running the point becoming less and less efficient as the quarter wore on.
d. find a successor for Dray at the Point Power Forward, maintaining the current system while Steph and Klay still starting, allowing Draymond to be the first to move to a bench role. He is your new Iggy. Imagine the opposing coach when Dray checks in just thinking ... "Damn."
e. New Death Lineup: Curry-Klay-Wiggs-Barnes-Dray. The old death lineup is all about Dray moving to the 5. With Barnes in there, it would be like having Dray at the 4 and the 5. And if you need to score, go small, swap out one of the Drays for Poole.
They always say that you should draft the best talent available over need. But if your car runs great, but the brakes are shot, you don't go to the dealer and replace your engine. Sometimes need and fit have far greater value than talent in a vacuum. And sometimes, as with Wiseman, talent and need coincide. I would make the case that the same applies to Scottie, so much so, that I would trade 8 & 14 (or Paschall) to move up 2 spots if need be. He just checks too many boxes, both short term (energy, Defense, IQ, playmaking) and long term (extend Dray's career, future point power forward who is perfect for the Curry-Klay-Kerr system, a future front court of Wiggs-Barnes-Wiseman?) I'm buying that stock.
Kawhi didn't tear an ACL or anything right? I think the Suns will realize how much they've overachieved and come crashing back down to Earth in the WCF. If KL can come back at any point before the Finals this might be the year they have a realistic shot to win a chip.
That was one of the greatest games of all time. My god. I was tense as hell and my team wasn't even playing lol.
KD is an alien. Giannis was really really good. Joe Harris missing wide open 3s was an underrated storyline. Makes us appreciate Steph and Klay more, guys who are incredible shooters under the brightest of lights (think of OKC G6 2016, where we won due to ridiculous shooting).
oh man, now all that needs to happen is the Sun's eliminate Kawhi and the Clips, and the Eastern team eliminate CP3 (and sadly, by extension, the Suns) and my full vicarious catharsis bingo card will be complete.
personal preference is 76ers. something about doggedly trying to build a home-grown team in today's climate is endearing to me. and coach buds incompetence is downright offensive
I really want to root for KD. Dude is really fun to watch and terrrrrrrrifying to root against. It's really a shame that he's on a team with Harden, Kyrie, and Blake. Glad the Bucks move on, but Giannis and the Bucks are really, really dumb. Chuck was right when he said they might be the dumbest team to win a ring.
This seems like a Kerr system dream draft!
Beam me up Scottie! We all know shooters age well in the NBA. Curry & Klay could still be effective players into their mid-40s. On the other hand, Draymond plays a much more physical game and his tires are going to wear down much faster. His IQ and role as quarterback of the defense will keep him effective as well, but you would like to see his minutes managed to reduce long term wear and tear. The addition of Wiseman should help enormously as Wiseman can gobble up a lot of Embiid, Joker, Gober type bruiser minutes that can take a toll on undersized Dray. Adding Scottie Barnes (Dray Jr.) would give Warriors ability to
a. continue to play the same Dray-led off ball motion offense. In other words, when Dray sits, the style of play doesn't necessarily need to change which it often did because of personnel.
b. enable Warriors to cut a few minutes off Dray's workload. Would like to see Dray running about 28 min a game through the regular season and really set him up to be fresh in the postseason like Iggy.
c. Warriors got too Dray-reliant on offense, finding it difficult to close games after 12 straight minutes in the 4th of Dray running the point becoming less and less efficient as the quarter wore on.
d. find a successor for Dray at the Point Power Forward, maintaining the current system while Steph and Klay still starting, allowing Draymond to be the first to move to a bench role. He is your new Iggy. Imagine the opposing coach when Dray checks in just thinking ... "Damn."
e. New Death Lineup: Curry-Klay-Wiggs-Barnes-Dray. The old death lineup is all about Dray moving to the 5. With Barnes in there, it would be like having Dray at the 4 and the 5. And if you need to score, go small, swap out one of the Drays for Poole.
They always say that you should draft the best talent available over need. But if your car runs great, but the brakes are shot, you don't go to the dealer and replace your engine. Sometimes need and fit have far greater value than talent in a vacuum. And sometimes, as with Wiseman, talent and need coincide. I would make the case that the same applies to Scottie, so much so, that I would trade 8 & 14 (or Paschall) to move up 2 spots if need be. He just checks too many boxes, both short term (energy, Defense, IQ, playmaking) and long term (extend Dray's career, future point power forward who is perfect for the Curry-Klay-Kerr system, a future front court of Wiggs-Barnes-Wiseman?) I'm buying that stock.
Kawhi didn't tear an ACL or anything right? I think the Suns will realize how much they've overachieved and come crashing back down to Earth in the WCF. If KL can come back at any point before the Finals this might be the year they have a realistic shot to win a chip.
The worst thing about the Bucks is Bud, he's worse than Giannis's free throws
That was one of the greatest games of all time. My god. I was tense as hell and my team wasn't even playing lol.
KD is an alien. Giannis was really really good. Joe Harris missing wide open 3s was an underrated storyline. Makes us appreciate Steph and Klay more, guys who are incredible shooters under the brightest of lights (think of OKC G6 2016, where we won due to ridiculous shooting).
oh man, now all that needs to happen is the Sun's eliminate Kawhi and the Clips, and the Eastern team eliminate CP3 (and sadly, by extension, the Suns) and my full vicarious catharsis bingo card will be complete.
personal preference is 76ers. something about doggedly trying to build a home-grown team in today's climate is endearing to me. and coach buds incompetence is downright offensive
The Bucks players deserved that win, but Bud didn't.
This playoffs has gone just about as well as possible. Lakers gone, Nets gone, now we just need the Clippers gone.
So who will win, 76ers or the Hawks?
I really want to root for KD. Dude is really fun to watch and terrrrrrrrifying to root against. It's really a shame that he's on a team with Harden, Kyrie, and Blake. Glad the Bucks move on, but Giannis and the Bucks are really, really dumb. Chuck was right when he said they might be the dumbest team to win a ring.
Coach Bud underwhelms again but does just enough to avoid being fired for another series.
What a thrilling game
Nets super team is out! Sad for KD but he went down swinging.
Alright, James Harden goes another year without a ring
WOW WHAT A GAME. EPIC. Both teams showed a lot of guts and no embarrassing flopping or other crappy foul baiting
Respect to KD. Played 53/53 minutes. Bucks' trash execution did not deserve this win, but glad they prevailed.