May 24, 2022·edited May 24, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot
Someone posted this Spurs game highlights a few days ago. This is where Curry dropped 37 in win 72. Notice at 3:06 the Spurs announcer channels E Apricot with: "Put it this way. Coach is never gonna yell at you if you stay with this guy (Curry)."
Weird to be bringing this up now, but I keeping thinking how this team could be even deeper with more arrows in the quiver had Wiseman had two summer leagues, training camps, not got gotten Covid, not hurt his elbow and not hurt his knee and had gobs more g-league and NBA minutes. After two full normal seasons of development, it seems he’d be at least “useful” at this point.
Thank Zeus Looney keeps getting better and better, but just imagine.
May 24, 2022·edited May 24, 2022Liked by punk basketball
If you isolate just Wiggins and the circle of the rim in that image, and color the rim gold, that's something I want on a shirt if they win the championship.
May 24, 2022·edited May 24, 2022Liked by Eric Apricot, punk basketball
I would like to take a moment to recognize Myers and the FO for recognizing that signing an extra big was completely unnecessary and focusing on the wing depth necessary to survive multiple injuries in these playoffs.
Aside from the fact that Draymond has been far and away the best playoff center over the past decade, and Looney was a key part of putting away a much tougher Rockets team than any WCF candidate this year:
Of the two MVP candidate Centers: Embiid is a 3 game player that just can’t seem to get through a 7 game series, and Jokic is on a team with zero perimeter defenders even when fully healthy.
Kudos to Myers for doing a great job with this roster and giving the team what it needs for a shot at this year’s title!
“We can’t be thinking about anything other than tonight’s game… We have to be locked in and focused just like we were in Game 3 when we got off to a good start.”
Steve Kerr at shootaround in Dallas on the Warriors mindset for Game 4
May 24, 2022·edited May 24, 2022Liked by punk basketball
Crazy factoid: the last time a Western Conference team NOT from CA or TX won the NBA Finals was 1979, when the Seattle Supersonics won it all. Only four [EDIT: five] Western Conference teams have won the finals since 1979; Lakers, Warriors, Spurs, and Mavericks [EDIT] as noted below, I forgot the Rockets!
Greetings from the BATT (Big Ass Train Trip)! After 4 days/nights in Memphis (what an incredible place to visit!), we took an overnight train to Chicago and arrived this morning. Had a few hours to walk around Chi-town for a bit and now are riding on the Empire Builder, a 3-day/2-night train to Portland that goes through IL, WI, MN, ND, MT, ID, WA and end in Oregon. We’re breaking it up with stops in Minneapolis for one night and Whitefish/Glacier National Park for three nights.
Streaming the game is looking doubtful, but we’re hoping for at least enough reception to watch play-by-play updates on NBA’s site. Go Dubs! 🧹
No OPJ tonight is huge. He's been great when it comes to buying valuable rest minutes for our big dogs. JTA or even worse Lee replacing him for a whole game will be noticeable. Let's hope they have the game of their life
Was looking at our playoff history to see how many teams we've swept during the Steph era and the Blazers are the lucky leaders because they've seen the broom twice. We're 12-1 against them in the playoffs. Jazz, Pelicans and Cleveland are the other teams. Hopefully Dallas joins them tonight.
Someone posted this Spurs game highlights a few days ago. This is where Curry dropped 37 in win 72. Notice at 3:06 the Spurs announcer channels E Apricot with: "Put it this way. Coach is never gonna yell at you if you stay with this guy (Curry)."
Edit: Add link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEP5DbwhPzE
Please dont play jta over kuminga, just please.
It's some acie law over curry shit
Lacob might want another home game revenue.
Weird to be bringing this up now, but I keeping thinking how this team could be even deeper with more arrows in the quiver had Wiseman had two summer leagues, training camps, not got gotten Covid, not hurt his elbow and not hurt his knee and had gobs more g-league and NBA minutes. After two full normal seasons of development, it seems he’d be at least “useful” at this point.
Thank Zeus Looney keeps getting better and better, but just imagine.
If you isolate just Wiggins and the circle of the rim in that image, and color the rim gold, that's something I want on a shirt if they win the championship.
I would like to take a moment to recognize Myers and the FO for recognizing that signing an extra big was completely unnecessary and focusing on the wing depth necessary to survive multiple injuries in these playoffs.
Aside from the fact that Draymond has been far and away the best playoff center over the past decade, and Looney was a key part of putting away a much tougher Rockets team than any WCF candidate this year:
Of the two MVP candidate Centers: Embiid is a 3 game player that just can’t seem to get through a 7 game series, and Jokic is on a team with zero perimeter defenders even when fully healthy.
Kudos to Myers for doing a great job with this roster and giving the team what it needs for a shot at this year’s title!
I maaaay have made the game thread image too large, but I'm still giddy off that Wiggins dunk.
14-15 people, mostly children, dead in a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school a few hours from Dallas. I suppose we’ll get a moment of silence tonight, a week of useless “thoughts and prayers,” a poignant statement from Kerr and, in a week or two, a Supreme Court opinion that will exacerbate the problem. So tired of this shit. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/05/24/uvalde-school-district-west-of-san-antonio-on-lockdown-after-active-shooter-report/?outputType=amp
“We can’t be thinking about anything other than tonight’s game… We have to be locked in and focused just like we were in Game 3 when we got off to a good start.”
Steve Kerr at shootaround in Dallas on the Warriors mindset for Game 4
https://twitter.com/957thegame/status/1529152891545694208
Crazy factoid: the last time a Western Conference team NOT from CA or TX won the NBA Finals was 1979, when the Seattle Supersonics won it all. Only four [EDIT: five] Western Conference teams have won the finals since 1979; Lakers, Warriors, Spurs, and Mavericks [EDIT] as noted below, I forgot the Rockets!
Greetings from the BATT (Big Ass Train Trip)! After 4 days/nights in Memphis (what an incredible place to visit!), we took an overnight train to Chicago and arrived this morning. Had a few hours to walk around Chi-town for a bit and now are riding on the Empire Builder, a 3-day/2-night train to Portland that goes through IL, WI, MN, ND, MT, ID, WA and end in Oregon. We’re breaking it up with stops in Minneapolis for one night and Whitefish/Glacier National Park for three nights.
Streaming the game is looking doubtful, but we’re hoping for at least enough reception to watch play-by-play updates on NBA’s site. Go Dubs! 🧹
No OPJ tonight is huge. He's been great when it comes to buying valuable rest minutes for our big dogs. JTA or even worse Lee replacing him for a whole game will be noticeable. Let's hope they have the game of their life
Predictions:
1. Wiggins shows Luka the dunk tattoo he got on the off day.
2. Draymond wears a Bluetooth onto the court and does an in-game podcast.
3. Steph and Poole Rochambeau to see who takes the first technical foul shot.
4. Moody goes for 17.
5. Wiggins Island grows so large, they just rename it Australia.
Edit: Oh, by the way, we lose.
Was looking at our playoff history to see how many teams we've swept during the Steph era and the Blazers are the lucky leaders because they've seen the broom twice. We're 12-1 against them in the playoffs. Jazz, Pelicans and Cleveland are the other teams. Hopefully Dallas joins them tonight.
Warriors are on a 16-3 streak, going back to the regular season. Their best stretch at any time during the regular season was going 18-2 to start out.
If they only drop one more game the rest of the playoffs then they'll end things off going 21-4, which is the same record they had after 25 games.
I'd say that would be a nice way to bookend the season. They might as well do it. For symmetry's sake.
In between those two stretches? Yeah, they went 27-25. But hey, starting things off well and finishing things off well is good, right?
I think they should just rest Porter tonight even if he is able to play just to avoid any risk of him getting injured again.