Gill we beat the suns I believe twice last season with woatmore and poopbre
Random NBA Observations 2021 - 2022
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Knicks remind me of that Heat team with Whiteside, Waiters, James Johnson, Winslow, Josh Richardson, etc. that significantly exceeded everyone’s expectations and had a winning season but we all knew they had a low ceiling. Only difference is the Knicks didn’t give everyone 4 & 5 year contracts
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Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
I don't know, but that shyt sounds fire
Go to 1:28, it is against the Jazz.
Maxed Randle
Not high on RJ Barrett just don't see it as well. Any time Alec Burk & D Rose are the most consistent players, that is an issue.
VegetasHairline
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Gil Scott-Heroin
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- Lakers aren't real, certainly not in the first game of the season, with new pieces
- Bulls were missing Vucevic, and they have limited depth
- Nets aren't contenders without Kyrie and they don't have the defensive personnel to stop Steph.
And I'm speaking in terms of how a certain style of play and personnel can trouble the Warriors. The games against the Suns will give us the best indication of how they can handle the postseason.
This is a group that's been on a Finals run (you can't really use last season's regular season games as evidence to the contrary), so they have that experience that GS doesn't have as a complete unit, they've got more shooting personnel, an experienced backcourt who're healthy, a legit scoring option at the 5, and better offensive depth.
Booker - 6 threes per game at 37%
Crowder - 5.5 threes per game at 33% (he shot at 39% last season)
Johnson - 4.8 threes per game at 37%
Shamet - 4.5 threes per game at 37%
Bridges - 4.1 threes per game at 41%
And then you have CP3 and Payne, who're both shooting at 32% this season, but are proven from deep, shooting 39% and 44%, respectively, last season.
The Suns have seven legitimate shooters. Seven.
The Warriors have:
Steph
Poole (who's been wildly inconsistent and is in his first season starting)
Wiggins (who's certainly improved his shooting over recent times, but has no playoff inexperience, and is not a noted shooter)
Lee (inexperienced)
OPJ (the only experienced shooter who has pedigree).
Steph, by himself, is more than enough to go shot-for-shot with the Suns, but I can't say the same for his support cast if they're forced into carry that load. Needless to say when Klay comes back, and if he can return to what he was before, is going to give them that firepower, but I'd certainly trust the Suns' shooting to translate on the road and at a more stable rate before I do the Warriors'.
Muscles for no reason like Eric.Bledsoe. 
nah we only beat them once. But it was encouraging cuz Steph played like garbage in the game we won
Gil Scott-Heroin
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Uh oh.
Mavs' season unraveling before it even has a chance to begin.
Gil Scott-Heroin
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You watch the Warriors/Cavs game a few days prior?
That was Minny Wiggins.
12 points on 11 shots, while he watched from the bench in the 4th quarter as Steph single-handedly brought the team back to life. That's who Wiggins is. He'll have games where he's stepping up to the plate, where he has some emotional incentive to do so, and other games where he might as well not even be out there, either being passive and/or taking ill-advised shots and hindering the ball-movement.
The Warriors can cover for that during the regular season, but that margin of error is no longer the same in a playoff climate.
isnt Jordan the same guy who refused to take a stand as a player because politicians wear shoes too?
