Steve Kerr on Jordan Poole in that Klay starting SG vacancy: “For now, he’ll be in that starting spot and he’s playing so well, it’s hard to envision not keeping him there.”
1st League Pass game for me this year and first time I’ll be using the PS5 to watch the Warriors! Albeit, likely a late start unless the NL wild card game is a runaway. (Go Cards!)
My take or maybe I heard this somewhere is that Bradley and Galloway got a lot of run in the first preseason game not because the team is so pumped about them, but because it is unsure and needs more data. As far as I can tell Bradley is past his sell-by date. He's spoken very highly of his own defense lately but I think it has regressed since his peak considerably. Meanwhile, bad time for Gary Payton II to get a hernia. He's my pick. Or Mulder. Mulder isn't astonishingly good but has proven he can play in the Warriors system and that should count for something. Galloway: European team maybe? Sorry if that's rude.
I am hopeful for the team's shooting as a whole, though. I think it's not unreasonable to expect the team to be in the top 5 for both 3PA and 3P%. For comparison's sake, I looked at last season, when we were 9th in % and 5th in attempts.
While I was there I realized, holy hell, the Jazz's 3-point shooting was more impressive than I realized. They had a league-leading 43.0 attempts/game at a team rate of 38.9% for 4th in the league in % and 1st in total makes. To get there they had a *lot* of high-volume, high-accuracy shooters.
Meanwhile we got 3rd overall largely on the back of a certain guy shooting 42.1% on 12.7 (!!) attempts/game. Yes, that's more than 2 attempts/game more than the next guy in the league, Lillard, at a higher rate than anyone in the top 25 attempts/game.
This season is different, of course! We'll have Klay eventually, we're rid of Oubre and Wanamaker, and we added two sharpshooter free agents in Bjelica and Porter. Yet, even then, it's going to take a big improvement across the board for us to get to the quantity of quality shots Utah got last year. Here, have a chart.
Methodology: I assume Bradley gets the 15th roster spot on the Warriors, and the 2-way contracts are Mulder and Chiozza. I used per-game stats from bbref for each player's '20-21 season, except for the following:
- Klay's numbers come from '18-19, his last full season with the Dubs
- Porter's and Bjelica's numbers are their career averages, rather than their noisy numbers from seasons they spent injured and bouncing between teams
- Moody's numbers come from his college stats at Arkansas. There's an asterisk by his name because the shorter 3-point line among other things make these not exactly comparable.
- Kuminga's numbers are from the G-league Ignite, so they're not exactly NBA numbers but at least the 3-point line is the same.
One thing that's crazy is that Curry's 3-point production is about equivalent to Ingles' and Bogdanović's combined. Another crazy thing is how green Clarkson's light is, that he was shooting 8.8 attempts/game despite shooting only 34%. I think a likely scenario for Jordan Poole's growth this season is similar: hoist a ton of shots and make enough of them that we can't really complain.
Another thing is that outside of the Splash Bros, the Warriors basically haven't had anyone who chucks it like fully half the Jazz rotation. (Not pictured: Oubre last year took as many 3-pointers as Wiggins but made them at the same percentage as Wiseman.) So if the first preseason game was a sign, THAT is something that'll change this season.
At the Athletic, Hollinger predicts 39-43 for the Warriors in '21-22. It's behind a paywall. Can anyone who has a subscription tell me why he thinks they will be substantially worse than last year? I suppose outrageous stupidity is an acceptable answer ;-P
One part of last game that I'm excited to see if it continues - Draymond 1/2 from 3 and 2/3 if you count one that he shot after a foul. It's only 3 shots but I'm getting my hopes up.
Oct 6, 2021Liked by punk basketball, Daniel Hardee
Some more recent comments from the inestimable #9
"I stored a lot of things in the (tool belt) that I thought was full," Iguodala said with a laugh. "I thought I've seen everything but being there I saw some things where I was like ‘I’m stealing that, I’m stealing that, I’m stealing that,’ and ‘thank you' on the way out … Those things are going to translate to a lot of success and a lot of wins here, along with what was already put in place."
“I’m going to make sure Bob [Myers] gets executive of the year with vastly underpaying me.”
MY PEOPLE, WE ARE HAVING A POOLE PARTY OVER HERE: https://dubnationhq.com/p/game-thread-warriors-host-nuggets?justPublished=true
POOLE PARTY!!
> @anthonyVslater
Steve Kerr on Jordan Poole in that Klay starting SG vacancy: “For now, he’ll be in that starting spot and he’s playing so well, it’s hard to envision not keeping him there.”
1st League Pass game for me this year and first time I’ll be using the PS5 to watch the Warriors! Albeit, likely a late start unless the NL wild card game is a runaway. (Go Cards!)
I'm excited about this team.
(That's all I got.)
My take or maybe I heard this somewhere is that Bradley and Galloway got a lot of run in the first preseason game not because the team is so pumped about them, but because it is unsure and needs more data. As far as I can tell Bradley is past his sell-by date. He's spoken very highly of his own defense lately but I think it has regressed since his peak considerably. Meanwhile, bad time for Gary Payton II to get a hernia. He's my pick. Or Mulder. Mulder isn't astonishingly good but has proven he can play in the Warriors system and that should count for something. Galloway: European team maybe? Sorry if that's rude.
I am hopeful for the team's shooting as a whole, though. I think it's not unreasonable to expect the team to be in the top 5 for both 3PA and 3P%. For comparison's sake, I looked at last season, when we were 9th in % and 5th in attempts.
While I was there I realized, holy hell, the Jazz's 3-point shooting was more impressive than I realized. They had a league-leading 43.0 attempts/game at a team rate of 38.9% for 4th in the league in % and 1st in total makes. To get there they had a *lot* of high-volume, high-accuracy shooters.
Meanwhile we got 3rd overall largely on the back of a certain guy shooting 42.1% on 12.7 (!!) attempts/game. Yes, that's more than 2 attempts/game more than the next guy in the league, Lillard, at a higher rate than anyone in the top 25 attempts/game.
This season is different, of course! We'll have Klay eventually, we're rid of Oubre and Wanamaker, and we added two sharpshooter free agents in Bjelica and Porter. Yet, even then, it's going to take a big improvement across the board for us to get to the quantity of quality shots Utah got last year. Here, have a chart.
https://mduo13.com/stuff/gsw-uta-shooting.svg
Methodology: I assume Bradley gets the 15th roster spot on the Warriors, and the 2-way contracts are Mulder and Chiozza. I used per-game stats from bbref for each player's '20-21 season, except for the following:
- Klay's numbers come from '18-19, his last full season with the Dubs
- Porter's and Bjelica's numbers are their career averages, rather than their noisy numbers from seasons they spent injured and bouncing between teams
- Moody's numbers come from his college stats at Arkansas. There's an asterisk by his name because the shorter 3-point line among other things make these not exactly comparable.
- Kuminga's numbers are from the G-league Ignite, so they're not exactly NBA numbers but at least the 3-point line is the same.
One thing that's crazy is that Curry's 3-point production is about equivalent to Ingles' and Bogdanović's combined. Another crazy thing is how green Clarkson's light is, that he was shooting 8.8 attempts/game despite shooting only 34%. I think a likely scenario for Jordan Poole's growth this season is similar: hoist a ton of shots and make enough of them that we can't really complain.
Another thing is that outside of the Splash Bros, the Warriors basically haven't had anyone who chucks it like fully half the Jazz rotation. (Not pictured: Oubre last year took as many 3-pointers as Wiggins but made them at the same percentage as Wiseman.) So if the first preseason game was a sign, THAT is something that'll change this season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlKcef2XC-g
BBALLBREAKDOWN video on non other than Jordan Poole
At the Athletic, Hollinger predicts 39-43 for the Warriors in '21-22. It's behind a paywall. Can anyone who has a subscription tell me why he thinks they will be substantially worse than last year? I suppose outrageous stupidity is an acceptable answer ;-P
Klay protecting the shores of Albany I see!
One part of last game that I'm excited to see if it continues - Draymond 1/2 from 3 and 2/3 if you count one that he shot after a foul. It's only 3 shots but I'm getting my hopes up.
Some more recent comments from the inestimable #9
"I stored a lot of things in the (tool belt) that I thought was full," Iguodala said with a laugh. "I thought I've seen everything but being there I saw some things where I was like ‘I’m stealing that, I’m stealing that, I’m stealing that,’ and ‘thank you' on the way out … Those things are going to translate to a lot of success and a lot of wins here, along with what was already put in place."
“I’m going to make sure Bob [Myers] gets executive of the year with vastly underpaying me.”
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/andre-iguodala-has-perfect-bob-myers-joke-after-adding-tools-heat
Steph's training camp comments:
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/steph-curry-offers-early-review-warriors-training-camp
This might be the first time I've read the word "profligate" in a sports article. hehe
Great Klay video. I expect he will be playing in China in 2030.
When did Let's Go Warriors become Dub Nation HQ? It wasn't clear to me at all what happened with Let's Go Warriors.
listening to this now, and it's so good. There's apparently at least one more part to it that will be released later
> 'Hoops Adjacent' Pod With @StephenCurry30
‣ Expectations that lie ahead
‣ Balancing emotions
‣ Golf, MJ and the Ryder Cup
‣ Kobe, Shaq & Iverson advice
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@ThompsonScribe
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