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I dont like that we lost when curry and klay were going off and we had a vintage fourth, feels like a game we should have stole

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Kerr suspect rotations.

Poole’s shit D.

Klay daydreaming during rebounds and missing his rotations on D.

Green focusing on his podcast instead of working on his offense.

Steph not getting foul calls, cuz he doesn’t speak up LOUD enough.

This Team is Frustrating but Warriors in 7.

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Yea idk why he brought poole in the fourth when we were gettin killed in the paint

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And now we wait.....

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Klay said to Dray after the game "Dray, This feels like 2015". That sounds sweet to me. Never change Klay and let the game come to you in G4 just like G3.

Also if you are feeling down and ready to ride with Dray, listen to Draymond Green show. Loved it.

In his own words to Celtics fans - "........... Fuck you too."

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Regarding Dray, I feel like that at this stage of his career against this good of a team, he is not able to walk the fine line of being agressive w/o getting in situations of possibly getting tossed out. There is no choice but to live with whatever comes with his aggressiveness. I would take G2 Dray which gets tossed out than G3 Dray.

I hope Curry is not injured and Dray can play like G2. Screw the consequences (in regards to Dray).

Three out of four is possible but it is going to require herculean effort from everyone.

Ugh! Steph's injury.

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Yup. He mentions as much on his podcast - that he dialed it back down too much because he let in the noise of refs/techs/him getting tossed out (and possibly a talk from Dre, Kerr, Myers).

2016 G6, Dray played very passive but then was a monster in G7.

He is Draymond Green experience. Just gotta ride the rollercoaster with him. He gets tossed out or gets suspended, so be it.

Let's go baby. We get one more swing to get home court advantage back.

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If Steph is hurt we're fucked :(

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

He will be out there for Game 4, but I’m what capacity remains to be seen. It’s so disappointing because he was putting on a master class.

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He’ll probably be in slight pain and slightly diminished physically, but (here’s hoping) sometimes slight pain can focus you. And if he gets through Game 4 okay, it goes back to two off days between Games 4, 5, 6, and 7.

We may not even be halfway through this series yet. Ten days for Steph to heal between now and his epic series-clinching performance in Game 7.

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Yup, two-way FMVP Steph fo sho

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After game 1, I was still pretty confident that we were the better team. But for some reason today's loss really just took a lot out of me. I felt that this was the first time Boston really dominated us for pretty much the whole game except for some parts of the third. Doesn't help that Steph suffered a pretty similar injury situation to the one back in March. I'm just praying that Steph will miraculously be 100% for the rest of the series and Kerr has some magic up his sleeves.

Damn Friday can't come soon enough.

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Yeah feels like the series-defining game sadly.

Hopefully warriors surprise us tomorrow

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

Today's loss looked 100% like the physical domination and winning 50/50 balls the Grizzlies put on us in Game 5. In Game 6, we cleaned up stuff and ended the series (notably behind a big game from Klay).

The Warriors have won a road game in 26 straight series. They lost the first opportunity this go around, they'll get another shot on Friday, and should get yet another shot next Thursday. I'll also recommend to go watch the Celtics/Heat series... Celtics were very up and down. Marcus Smart scored 24 efficient points tonight... he scored 2 in the last game. Every time the play a good game, they look like world beaters.

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Agree. But if we are thinking Celts-Hest series and Celts win alternate games similarly, we don't get the chip. That G1 Q4 will be the stinger.

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I’m cool with alternating till Game 7, then flipping the script. :-)

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We've talked about Kerr's rotation patterns in the past but I wonder if this game would have turned out differently if he kept Steph in to end the 3rd when he was on fire

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He should have. I hate that he pulls Steph when Steph is hot.

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Everyone looked gassed by end of the third. That one Wiggs TOV was so unlike him and he looked like he could use few days off.

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

He looked exhausted and they needed him for the 4th. I assume that’s why they pulled him?

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And he had just played with 4 fouls for 3-4 minutes. Better to get to the 4th with just 4, imo.

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

No, it’s not. And the late 3rd-early 4th stretch proved it.

You play Steph through the third quarter, and let him shoot the bulk of the shots, when he is that hot. Fouls should never be a consideration with Steph. If it comes down to it, you even play him with 5 freakin fouls. Dare the officials to foul him out on ticky-tack crap calls, if they have the balls to.

When it comes to your best player and best offensive weapon, you ride him and dare the officials to fouls him out. Don’t help the other team out by pulling him while he’s hot. That substitution killed all our momentum in the 3rd, and set Boston up nicely for the 4th, and they capitalized.

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Steph reached in on Marcus Smart from behind for a really dumb, easy to call, obvious foul. He does that sometimes.

Kerr could have kept him in cuz he was hot, and it could have been the wrong choice too. Stuff happens.

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

I don’t want to help the Celtics out by pulling our best player from the game (especially when he is in hot shooting form) before we absolutely have to.

The less hot Steph Curry the Celtics see, the better for them. Don’t make things better for them by pulling a hot Steph Curry unless you absolutely have to. It’s really that simple and basic.

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U know Kerr fan boys will make every excuse for him, it was just an extremely poor decision to pull him and btw we were getting killed on the glass why only 16 min for Looney? Kerr and his small ball nature killed us yet again

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

Just saw highlight of Jaylen Brown's block of Klay's layup. He, once again, puts his off hand on Klay's shoulder as Klay's going up (just like he pulled on Poole's jersey, everybody's lucky he didn't pull any harder there). Dude is constantly pulling on people airborne... whatever. IMO, Klay had no business taking that shot and deserved the block, Brown was too close trailing him and he was too far under the basket, even had to reach behind his head to attempt the shot.

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Has anyone else thought if we lose the next game and go down 3-1 and this forum becomes DamNationHQ... but then we win at home in G5... and then we steal one on the road in G6... and then we hang on in G7... and Curry wins FMVP... what a hell of a redemption story arc that would be?!

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Please let it not come to that!

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It would result in a championship, so PLEASE LET IT COME TO THAT!

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OMG, I just remembered... they gave up ANOTHER layup off out of bounds play because they didn't get back on defense. In the Finals... in an important game. Another reason this game was doomed. What a weird, crappy game. On to the next.

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Draymond Green said he picked up his sixth foul for pushing a Celtic off Steph Curry on the play Curry may have been injured on because Curry was "screaming at the bottom of the pile."

https://twitter.com/kendra__andrews/status/1534748975013707777

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Just had to win 1 game of these 2 and it'll just have to be the 2nd one

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Draymond Green asked how he played in Game 3: "Like shit."

https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1534746645639876609

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so, there's a bit of a Thing happening about Boston fans chanting profanity (Dray's wife complained on Insta), and it reminded me…

I went to Grizz Game 4 at Chase. Dillon Brooks first game back, some people in the stands with us wanted to be sure he got an appropriate welcome, and were yelling a lot of "fuck you Dillon Brooks, you're a bitch, etc etc"

a team employee came up to tell them/us as fans in that section (I was yelling but not going ham on the profanity like the couple next to me) to stop! or we'd get thrown out!

then he stood around for a bit in that section, which I will say honestly was a little bit of a buzzkill from a "hyped & loud fan" perspective

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022

Yeah, they even waited till Dray fouled out, lol... weak sauce and a bad look, but is it really unexpected for Bahston? I hope the Basketball Gods were watching... did any of the Celtics players get asked about it? I heard Kerr & Klay spoke on it, calling the Boston fans "classy", lol

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Draymond in the Grizzlies series through like game 4 had more turnovers then shot attempts, this series he has 15 fouls to 15 points

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