GS wont make the finals, book it

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You're going to have to have somebody committed to playing consistent defense the whole game on Steph. The Pistons gave you the formula with KCP.
Bro do you by any chance have that game downloaded or saved on dvr?
 

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They have just been playing with their food. Its too tiring to play lock down defense every night, especially when you know you have a gamebreaker on your team that can win the game for you.

Draymond has looked tired on this road trip. Orlando was a back to back, a lot of guys looked tired.

Also, Kerr has been tinkering with different lineups, and has been reluctant to go small for long stretches to not wear down Draymond.
 

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So Im watching this game last night versus Orlando. Steph had a god tier performance. :wow:

But then I realized something. :ohhh:

GS games have become formulaic. They came into this season on their revenge tour and were beating the brakes off teams but have since stagnated. Their defense has taken a MASSIVE step back, constantly allowing bottom feeders to drop 100+. And their bench has only gotten older and slower, about as good at holding a lead as Amber Rose is at holding her legs shut.

Theyre formulaic because the same thing happens everytime. GS comes out sloppy, allowing teams they should outclass to keep up with them. That team may even take the lead. And then Steph is forced to go super saiyan and put out 40+ for them to win.

This works against the Magics of the world, but in the POs playing a 7 game series against the likes of San Antonio and OKC? :comeon: I dont think the Warriors as a TEAM are better than last year, Curry just improved that much. But his team is letting him down massively as crazy as it sounds and while its no big deal now it'll be their undoing in the post season.

Calling it. :blessed:
i mean you do have a 7 in 8 chance of being right


this sounds like one of those :skip: predictions


where he says outlandish things.... and then when he's wrong, you go, see he's crazy


but when he's right, he brags about it for 6 months nonstop









although i too have my money on the spurs :blessed:
 

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He did a great chasing him around and didn't even focus on D

Good lookin breh. This looks like a really good defensive strategy against him :ehh:

Have one of your best perimeter defenders shadow him and tell him to completely neglect team defense while Curry's on the floor. In the mean time, the other four guys are the only ones to take on team defensive responsibilities to help the shadow man and the other guys out
 

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Don't know about what OP said...but the Warriors really only have 2 bullets in their gun...

1. That small ball line up of death...

2. Livingston playing the backup point means that in damn near every matchup he can just back down his defender and shoot over him or get them some sort of good look around the basket...

But that is it...if someone finds an answer for that small ball lineup it is an utter rap for them...Bogut is not coming to save the day offensively...Ezeli is not coming to save the day offensively...Mo buckets might be he going to get torched...

Nothing much you can do about Livingston when they put him out there with Klay...

Now is anybody going to find an answer for that small ball lineup...I don't know...it's the best lineup in basketball (their are a few lineups with better per numbers but not nearly the minutes logs as GS small ball lineup)...so it is going to be hard and any team that does it is going to have to get out of their comfort zone...the closest team who could do it is San Antonio but that means TImmy...as great as he is...probably is coming off the floor when they go to that llineup...OKC could do it on paper if they play Ibaka at the 5 and KD at the 4...which I think they do in the playoffs cause Draymond is not a good enough offensive player to punish KD on the block...Cleveland maybe but it depends if Lebron is going to get dirty in the trenches...Clippers to on paper but I don't know if Blake can get into good enough basketball shape / rhythm by the time they play GS in the playoffs...there is a reason though that they tend to get up on GS by 10 to 15 points damn near every time they play them...because GS is absolutely powerless to stop Blake and Deandre from just jumping over Draymond and Bogut head and dunking everything...
 
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