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Glad they ere able to grab the W in spite of the ejection. Reminded me of Draymond's tech against ?Charlotte allowing game winning 3 pt corner shot from ?Rozier. Too many unthinking plays in closing minutes for a championship team.

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023

I am struck that Poole’s defense is getting better. He doesn’t seem to be running after play players towards the basket so much. Rebounding. Have other people noticed defensive improvements?

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The onely cure for us is some time and winning some games. Let’s Go! Give Wiseman and PBJ some minutes goddamit.

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Wait, is the Poole hate real around here? Cmon, DNHQ we can do better than this. You know JPs gonna shut the whole lotta yous up once he irons out his aggressiveness and y'know, grows a little older, since hes still 23

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Scenario A: A random young player, dribbling the ball up the court at the beginning of a possession, looking at the set of the defense and your team's offense, and thinking about which play to run. And then over-dribbling, not passing, and then dribbling into trouble and losing the ball. Poor decision making, low BBIQ, inexperience, whatever you want to call it. Annoying, possibly even extremely annoying, but one hopes that players that do this will listen and learn. Eventually.

Scenario B: A veteran player, proven star, watches Spanky make these poor choices and reacts with emotion in the moment and throws his mouthguard in disgust. Emotion! Terrible! Also annoying but in my mind more forgivable. These guys have emotions, even the best. Hopefully he reminds himself to count to five when Scenario A happens again in the future.

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Lost in the mayhem at the end was that the Russian judge only gave Steph's mouthpiece toss an 8.

Overnight I remembered that Dillon Brooks has also been tossed from a game this year because he threw something off the court.

I can't remember if it was our Christmas game with them (Scott Foster is the one who chucked Brooks ... that much I remember).

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023

Can’t stand this Poole hate… it was just the prior game that Steph over dribbled into multiple bad hero shots that actually lost the game. And a few games prior that he had two consecutive bad late turnovers…

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A (late but so relevant) shout out to Trckeeman for making this comment after the Cav game.

"Kerr might want to show this E1P to the team. Poole might understand why he is getting criticism..."

if Kerr/Poole had watched that E1P, Poole would not have taken that shot...

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Jan 26, 2023·edited Jan 26, 2023

Steph gonna wake up in the middle of some random night and be like “oh shit, THAT’S how Kerr feels when I throw a no-look one-handed pass into the stands.”

This is also a friendly reminder that single-game plus/minus stats are useless statistical indicators of a player’s performance in any given game, no matter how many comments you read or pseudo-statistically-literate podcasters you listen to that treat that column of the stat sheet like it is meaningful.

Also also: Kumingaaaaaaa

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Man I ❤️❤️❤️❤️Ros! She basically tried to teach Poole how to be more responsible at the end of games with her interview of Poole. Can she be the new coach when Kerr hangs it up?

Paraphrasing- Dear Poole Steph got ejected because he threw his mouthpiece in anger because you took a shot when he thought you should use more clock. How do you balance making good decisions with being aggressive as a young guy on this team?

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One thing the Grizzlies did extremely well this game was intercept and deflect overhead passes. The Warriors use those a bunch, and the Grizzlies were ready for them. Need a new strategy to hit the rollers next time.

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Wow, that game was perfectly representative of the season.

The refs called so many fouls on the Warriors in the first quarter (including two phantom fouls on Klay) that they had to let the teams play for a bit in the second and the game was super fun.

When it came to winning time Poole got Curry ejected with his boneheaded play and then made the winning cut and finish to end it. What a roller coaster!

What a game. Free Kuminga (he only went 1 on 3 once!) Trade Poole. I’ll take Curry and the right process over the next Jamal Crawford.

Lacob seen arguing with Curry after his ejection? Maybe the brain trust is going to jettison all the core a couple seasons too early, but they don’t have Steve Young waiting in the wings.

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If the Grizzlies continue with these extended losing streaks, the number 2 seed might be up for grabs soon, think the Kings are 3.5 behind them.

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Can we just acknowledge Donte’s great inbound pass to Poole’s winning shot.

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Only Klay..hitting a reporter with a paper plane.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WSandretto/status/1618504092782940162

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This past 4 game stretch has been really promising. 2-2 against top competition, playing with fire and force... and they absolutely should have won the other two games too. Now, give me an 11-4 stretch through the end of Feb against all these middling Western Conference teams, and let's start making April plans.

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