If Taylor Jenkins could somehow make Brooks realize his role is essentially a Draymond Green/ Pat Bev defensive role and limit his shots to under 5 a game this team will become unstoppable. He kills so much potential momentum with his idiotic shot choices.
Definitely liked what Steven Adams brought to the defense and offensive rebounding side tonight. I think if they can get Ja back healthy for game 5 they can build a little momentum with a big win back in Memphis. They just need to put together a game with everyone playing up to their potential. I realize they’re young, but it’s frustrating letting Golden State get into our heads and switch our game plan. Why are we settling for so many ****ing 3 pointers. That’s not our game. If we would have stuck to driving the lane, this game would have been over before the 4th quarter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
This series is over in Game 5 if Morant remains out. Warriors were terrible tonight and still pulled it out.
They didn't even have a field goal in the last 3:28. With about a minute left the refs said "Ok this game was fun but time to take over". The Warriors got 12 free throws in the final minute and that's all she wrote. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
This series is over in Game 5 if Morant remains out. Warriors were terrible tonight and still pulled it out.
I hope Vegas keeps forgetting how deep this Memphis team is too. A +9.5 betting line was hilarious tonight and won me a few hundred easy bucks. If they put it anywhere near that for a home game I may just have to put down a bigger bet. People act like this team can’t win without Ja. This team plays differently without Ja and can definitely grind out wins against anyone. Ja is by far the most exciting player in the league, but his defense obviously causes some issues. There is no way the Warriors ever have another shooting night like game 3 with Brooks in the lineup. He’s a huge liability on the offensive end, but he’s very valuable defensively. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DanBecky:
The GP3 injury hurts more than some people think bc he seemed to be the only one athletic enough on the Warriors to remotely stay in front of Ja. And if people want the Warriors to win this series you better hope Brooks isn’t suspended. He’s absolute dog shit, you want him out there with that ugly ass jumper taking the ball outa Jan’s hands.
Evil Danny Green was 5-19 this evening. Was chucking up shit like he had something to prove. Bodes well for GS. [Reply]
Originally Posted by lcarus:
They didn't even have a field goal in the last 3:28. With about a minute left the refs said "Ok this game was fun but time to take over". The Warriors got 12 free throws in the final minute and that's all she wrote.
Road game at Golden State, nobody is getting the calls there. Memphis also didn’t take a quality shot in just about the last 4 minutes of the game. They deserved that loss with that kind of execution with the game on the line. [Reply]
Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED:
I hope Vegas keeps forgetting how deep this Memphis team is too. A +9.5 betting line was hilarious tonight and won me a few hundred easy bucks. If they put it anywhere near that for a home game I may just have to put down a bigger bet. People act like this team can’t win without Ja. This team plays differently without Ja and can definitely grind out wins against anyone. Ja is by far the most exciting player in the league, but his defense obviously causes some issues. There is no way the Warriors ever have another shooting night like game 3 with Brooks in the lineup. He’s a huge liability on the offensive end, but he’s very valuable defensively.
I hate the Warriors but there’s simply no way they play as badly as they did tonight again in this series. [Reply]
I went to bed at halftime last night because I had to get up early this morning plus I figured they would play better if I wasn't watching. The first half was like watching every college basketball game ever, total brick city. I was surprised when I saw the final score got to 100.
I have made this comparison before but GS and the Chiefs are very, very similar. They always think they can turn it on when ever they want and I am sure their intensity went way down when they learned Ja was out.
Pond of Red you were right, no need to suspend Brooks he was one of the best GS players last night. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by alpha_omega: Chris Paul's wife, mother were pushed by Mavericks fans during Game 4, per report
The relationship between fans and players has been a major point of discussion this postseason. Both Draymond Green and Kyrie Irving have been fined for giving road fans the middle finger in these playoffs alone, and now, Chris Paul is dealing with a somewhat similar situation.
A fan in Dallas was ejected from Game 4 of their second-round series between Paul's Phoenix Suns and the Mavericks, and as he was escorted out, Paul was seen on video saying "I'll see you later" to him. It is too early for the league to have issued any discipline at the moment, and it is unclear if they will do so.
"I'll see you later!"
— Chris Paul to a Mavs fan who is presumed to have heckled his family
While it wasn't clear at the moment why Paul was so upset, Dave McMenamin did his best to explain it after the game. He reported that a Dallas fan put his hands on Paul's mother and that his wife was also pushed. Paul's children were also in attendance, and according to McMenamin's source, "they felt very unsafe."
Paul echoed those sentiments on Twitter after the game. "Wanna fine players for saying stuff to the fans but the fans can put they hands on our families….f--- that!!" Paul wrote.
Paul is the former president of the NBA Player's Association, though his term has now concluded. How exactly the league and the union could go about fixing these issues is unclear, but the past few seasons have seen a number of high-profile incidents of fan misbehavior. A fan in Boston threw a water bottle at Irving in the 2021 postseason.
Others have been accused of racist speech towards players. It has become one of the bigger problems in all of basketball, and while fans are getting ejected for it, players often face discipline for merely responding. Paul is clearly frustrated with that state of affairs, and if the league won't give players room to respond, it needs to do a better job of preventing these incidents from ever occurring.
Morant has a bone bruise obviously not from Poole’s super human strength. Doubtful for the rest of the playoffs. Tough break but he will come back strong next season. [Reply]
