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Quote from: mirakal on December 03, 2023, 06:43:49 AM

How about the Warriors losing to the rockets despite enjoying over 20+ points lead?

That was like a Deja Vu of the game between the Warriors vs Kings where despite taking a good lead they still lose in the end. Regardless though, it was a fun game and I've seen how the Warriors are very comfortable with their shooting, they just have to improve their defense like always but in terms of shooting, even Draymond have hit 4 stragith 3 points if I'm not mistaken, so they have live their identity in this game.

The Warriors are really not in good shape early this season. Even the fans knew they are struggling, we only thought of one thing in common, it is for them to figure out how to gel together and make this team work.
NBA is indeed crazy today, I mean no lead is really safe. We have seen several come back games from different teams and it's just less than 20 games yet for this season. One of the craziest come back was the Dallas Mavericks 30-0 run during the 4th quarter yesterday. Though they still lost the game, but that come back was something. 20 pts lead today may not be considered safe until the game is done lol.

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Quote from: SquallLeonhart on December 01, 2023, 03:21:42 PM

I mean Warriors won with a lot of help from the bench as well, there are plenty of players I have never heard of that played very well games that allowed them to have a good win against Clippers. I have never heard of "podziemski" for example and dude scored 13 points, or Kuminga had a great game and got 17 points, Dario Saric is still in the league, I thought he retired and dude had 13 points too.

So all in all, Warriors should be quite thankful to their bench team to be this good in order to win this game, and I think it's quite clear that they are going to end up with a much better result if they can keep getting this type of production from the bench all season long. Their starting five doesn't look all that championship level to me, it looks like they are fine but not at Denver levels or Celtic levels anymore, they look like a barely playoff team to me, like first round exit level team, and very best case second round exit, that's it, I do not see conference finals for them this season.

Steve Kerr is getting the wrong call nowadays and has put a loss to the Warriors because of him for sure Steve Kerr needs to have more time for the new players to make them improve and let them gain experience in playing inside as they badly need it to improve and right now the Warriors Bench also has a solid play and Brandin Podziemski is one of that guy that likely will shoot three-point shot without hesitation even the lay-up technique of Stephen Curry he also doing that even with a taller defender, Mosses Moody as well got a great time getting those 3 point shots without any problem at all for me the new players of the Warriors needs a lot of playing time,

Quote from: avp2306 on December 02, 2023, 06:43:54 AM

They actually have decent squad, but the problem is they can show their reap potential since the ball is always with Lebron. Lakers is building the career of Lebron that's why their production became questionable and their talented roster cannot show their potentials.

If Lakers should focus on how their player can share the ball and also can shoot on they touch the ball so that they could win. Since if they rely on Lebron and AD only for sure they would never go any far this season.

They already made a mistake for having Westbrook since they don't have chemistry with their team so its good if Lakers would focus to create good chemistry and confidence with their current roster.

For sure they have problems with their chemistry and the important part of these is the player's confidence just like the Warriors I think the Lakers have a lot of talented players right now who need confidence in taking up for themselves and not consistently doing nothing, for me they need to improve Jarred Vanderbilt, D'Angelo Russell, Cam Reddish, and Austin Reaves, to take more time in getting those plays,

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Quote from: FanEagle on December 02, 2023, 03:53:04 PM

It is 100% shocking to me that OKC is doing this great, I mean they do not have any star level players aside from SGA, that dude and bunch of role players have made them a successful team somehow, and we are talking about a team that owns THIRTHY!!! picks in the next 7 years, which means that they may very well use all their picks to get even better picks (give 28th and 15th to get 10th type of deal) or they may even use it to get other players as well, they could just swap picks for a player and make the team stronger.

This team is already good, when you think about the growth they may have, they are going to be unstoppable by that logic. Or maybe this is an outlier season and next year (or even rest of this season) they may not be all that great.

For sure the newer batch of players is more hungry than the veteran ones, but I really wish that they could have a solid mind when it comes to the playoffs as many teams have perished on the play-offs because they are not well experienced enough in playing for the playoffs as the veteran become more aggressive and thirty as they can taste the sweet victory for sure,

Quote from: danherbias07 on December 02, 2023, 11:24:03 PM

I like Paul George's courage to shoot those three. I mean it takes a lot of bravery to do that because all blame will be on him if he missed that shot. They don't need a three, a two would suffice to take it to overtime with a hardcore defense in those final seconds.
Oh and Steph, why? I know Draymond Green had been hitting his threes with a 50 percent shooting stat but that shot should be for Curry. There's a chance he could get a foul if he kept on attacking the paint but he chose to pass it to Draymond and just trust his hands.
Anyway, the Warriors are still playing great despite that loss, I can see Steve Kerr has been rotating his players very well and they could've really won that game and beat the Clippers twice. I think that's still a good thing. They are not dead yet and Steph has been getting the help that he needs.
Moses Moody especially has been stepping up his game on both ends of the floor. His last three games are all in double figures and I think Coach Kerr will keep on using him because of that. He played 32 minutes today.

Paul George becomes steamy hot with the three that have cut down the lead of the Warriors it was a sad truth seeing that the big lead of the Warriors came down to 1, I think that is a 20-plus lead and they had blown it bad even though Draymond Green made 21 points for this game the Warriors end up losing this game,

For me, Steve Kerr should give Mosses Moody much time as he was heating up from all of his 3-point attempts for sure Moody will need the experience for sure, and for the New Warriors team to make improvements for themselves,

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on December 03, 2023, 03:30:55 AM

I'm amazed nobody is talking about the insane 4th quarter in the Dallas game. Dallas went on a franchise record 30:0 run in the last quarter and after going up by 6 with 4 min to play still managed to lose. OKC closed out the game on a 15:3 run. Roll Eyes

How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

I missed this game. Shit! It could've been awesome watching it live. American Airlines Center went bananas. It's crazy. Luka is crazy. Grin

30-0 run. They beat their own record 28-0 run against the Golden State Warriors.
Seth Curry was hot and I think I also talked about Dereck Lively II somewhere in this thread. That kid has been stepping up his game ever since Jason Kidd gave him minutes to play and it shows again. He is always ready for a lob from Luka to slam it down and he is the tallest out there so it's not difficult to find him. 20 points with a perfect field goal 9/9. 16 rebounds and 7 monster blocks.
Luka Doncic also made a monster stats. 36/15/18. An awesome night for Dallas Mavericks fans but it could've been better if they won it. Well, that's still something good to talk about on their way home.

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Quote from: mirakal on December 03, 2023, 06:43:49 AM

How about the Warriors losing to the rockets despite enjoying over 20+ points lead?

That was like a Deja Vu of the game between the Warriors vs Kings where despite taking a good lead they still lose in the end. Regardless though, it was a fun game and I've seen how the Warriors are very comfortable with their shooting, they just have to improve their defense like always but in terms of shooting, even Draymond have hit 4 stragith 3 points if I'm not mistaken, so they have live their identity in this game.

You must be referring to their recent defeat against the Clippers.

There are opinions that Kerr should distribute the balance of their offense from the first to the second half and that argument seems valid if you look at the numbers against the Clips. They start well but fades away in the third then tries to hold on in the fourth quarter.

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How about the Warriors losing to the rockets despite enjoying over 20+ points lead?

That was like a Deja Vu of the game between the Warriors vs Kings where despite taking a good lead they still lose in the end. Regardless though, it was a fun game and I've seen how the Warriors are very comfortable with their shooting, they just have to improve their defense like always but in terms of shooting, even Draymond have hit 4 stragith 3 points if I'm not mistaken, so they have live their identity in this game.

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How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

There was plenty of time for OKC to recover from that collapse then there's Chet's crucial block and second chance points which allowed them to regain their confidence. If Mavs took the lead with a minute or two remaining then they probably would have won that game.

If the vote for MVP was happening right now, I would say it belongs to Luka Doncic. He’s playing the best basketball in the league right now. Unfortunately his heroics tonight couldn’t secure them a win, but that’s somewhat to be expected with Kyrie Irving out with an illness and them having given up most of their team to get him.

He did everything to win but their comeback was wasted because they weren't able to close it well. a 30-0, biggest in the franchise history, that would be remembered forever and Luka could be remembered as one of the best players of Dallas as long as he stays with this team until retirement.

I thought Dallas would win, actually I'm a bit worried because I bet on the other side which I had -5.5 for OKC, luckily the last 2 FT went in, so I was also lucky though.

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How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

There was plenty of time for OKC to recover from that collapse then there's Chet's crucial block and second chance points which allowed them to regain their confidence. If Mavs took the lead with a minute or two remaining then they probably would have won that game.

If the vote for MVP was happening right now, I would say it belongs to Luka Doncic. He’s playing the best basketball in the league right now. Unfortunately his heroics tonight couldn’t secure them a win, but that’s somewhat to be expected with Kyrie Irving out with an illness and them having given up most of their team to get him.

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on December 03, 2023, 03:30:55 AM

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How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

There was plenty of time for OKC to recover from that collapse then there's Chet's crucial block and second chance points which allowed them to regain their confidence. If Mavs took the lead with a minute or two remaining then they probably would have won that game.

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Quote from: AHOYBRAUSE on December 03, 2023, 03:30:55 AM

I'm amazed nobody is talking about the insane 4th quarter in the Dallas game. Dallas went on a franchise record 30:0 run in the last quarter and after going up by 6 with 4 min to play still managed to lose. OKC closed out the game on a 15:3 run. Roll Eyes

How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

It would seem that when a team loses by 24 points with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the outcome of such a game is usually obvious. However, this time, the Mavs players disproved it and showed a great example of never giving up early. The fact that the Thunder players couldn't score for 7 minutes and had a very poor field goal percentage in the 4th quarter shows that the Mavs players were too good both on defense and offense.
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I'm even wondering what the odds were on the Mavs winning at the start of the 4th quarter.

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It's a battle of number 3 (OKC) and number 4 (Dallas) in the West. This should be a great match, but unfortunately, we might not be able to witness a full strenght Dallas in this game as there are players who are listed as questionable to play, such as Hardaway Jr. and their main star Luka Doncic who missed the last game.

That didn't happen, Hardaway Jr. and Luka played, but I imagined only Hardaway Jr. wouldn't play.
Luka didn't play on Friday because of the birth of his daughter.

But... it was still an excellent game, Luka had an excellent performance with a triple double, Chet Holmgreen had a "shy" performance, but his teammates stood out and also played an important role in OKC's victory against the Mavs

I'm amazed nobody is talking about the insane 4th quarter in the Dallas game. Dallas went on a franchise record 30:0 run in the last quarter and after going up by 6 with 4 min to play still managed to lose. OKC closed out the game on a 15:3 run. Roll Eyes

How you can still lose after getting the full momentum and the lead is beyond my understanding but at least the fans had an exiting game to watch.

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Pacers looked good tonight and they did it without 1 of their top players. Haliburton out with knee issues had to watch his team catch fire from the bench. 6 different players with double digit scores is pretty impressive. Would love to see these guys get healthy and make a deep run in the playoffs like they used to do in the 1990s.

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Quote from: Sanitough on December 02, 2023, 10:54:39 AM

It's a battle of number 3 (OKC) and number 4 (Dallas) in the West. This should be a great match, but unfortunately, we might not be able to witness a full strenght Dallas in this game as there are players who are listed as questionable to play, such as Hardaway Jr. and their main star Luka Doncic who missed the last game.

That didn't happen, Hardaway Jr. and Luka played, but I imagined only Hardaway Jr. wouldn't play.
Luka didn't play on Friday because of the birth of his daughter.

But... it was still an excellent game, Luka had an excellent performance with a triple double, Chet Holmgreen had a "shy" performance, but his teammates stood out and also played an important role in OKC's victory against the Mavs

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The Warriors vs Clippers game shows that Westbrook is a problem for the Clippers. Westbrook is the reason why the Warriors led by 20 points early in the game. In the fourth quarter, Westbrook missed three-point shots and didn't play depensively against Klay. Klay had 7 points straight against Westbrook defense. If Westbrook had played more minutes in the last quarter, they surely wouldn't have made a comeback. However, Westbrook's defensive rebound in the last minute brought the opportunity for Paul George to win the game against the Warriors.

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I like Paul George's courage to shoot those three. I mean it takes a lot of bravery to do that because all blame will be on him if he missed that shot. They don't need a three, a two would suffice to take it to overtime with a hardcore defense in those final seconds.
Oh and Steph, why? I know Draymond Green had been hitting his threes with a 50 percent shooting stat but that shot should be for Curry. There's a chance he could get a foul if he kept on attacking the paint but he chose to pass it to Draymond and just trust his hands.
Anyway, the Warriors are still playing great despite that loss, I can see Steve Kerr has been rotating his players very well and they could've really won that game and beat the Clippers twice. I think that's still a good thing. They are not dead yet and Steph has been getting the help that he needs.
Moses Moody especially has been stepping up his game on both ends of the floor. His last three games are all in double figures and I think Coach Kerr will keep on using him because of that. He played 32 minutes today.

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Early game on TV as usual, Warriors at Clippers. Looking at the odds Clippers is the favorite but I expect a close game. We may see over 230 points.
Rockets vs. Lakers also look good but that's too late, or too early for me. I'd love to see Alperen Şengün against AD but maybe next time. Rockets may upset Lakers tonight, be careful about your bets.

Just watch few minutes of the first quarter, Draymond Green already hitting three 3's, that is a bad sign for the Clippers. And when I come back after a walk, score is 48-67 in favor of the Warriors.

Good to see that they are back, they've beaten the Clippers in their first game, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it back to back. Yeah, Rockets vs Lakers is also a good game. Sengun talents against one of the most dominant big man right now. We might see some one on one plays for Sengun as I think he has the speed advantage against Davis. Or bring him out of the 3 point line to clear the middle for them.

The Clippers are starting to put together some wins here and there. With this win over the Warriors by a point, they’re now just one win away from being a .500 team. Not good but a lot better than things we’re looking a few wins ago. Kawhi has to be happy that there’s a chance to get some wins with this team.

I don't mean to take the efforts and resistance supposedly shown by the Clippers away from their win tonight, but the Wariors are becoming a more shitty team as they day goes by, they can effortlessly score 70 points in a row, but they can't defend those points being conceded back, so what's the point and they're becoming of the worse clutch team in my opinion, they've two of their last 4 or 5 games after leady by atleast 20 points, and more than 15 points into half way into 3rd or even the 4th Quarter, you really can't win a championship when you're that awful defensively, and Steve Kerr needs to figure out not just a bench unit that can only function with Draymond, Curry or Klay on the floor, he needs a unit that either hold it down and get going without any of these guys on the floor!

I do agree, they've lost games that they have built a good lead. I'm not sure about Klay's contract though, but with this kind of performance, looking bleak and this could be their final run as big 3 in Warriors uniform.

Age is also a factor for this 3, although they still have some young players, but it wasn't like they were build on their last championship. Their defense is no longer there, no effort whatsoever to scramble and shift that's why they gave a lot of easy points and 3's for the Clippers to make that huge comeback.

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Early game on TV as usual, Warriors at Clippers. Looking at the odds Clippers is the favorite but I expect a close game. We may see over 230 points.
Rockets vs. Lakers also look good but that's too late, or too early for me. I'd love to see Alperen Şengün against AD but maybe next time. Rockets may upset Lakers tonight, be careful about your bets.

Just watch few minutes of the first quarter, Draymond Green already hitting three 3's, that is a bad sign for the Clippers. And when I come back after a walk, score is 48-67 in favor of the Warriors.

Good to see that they are back, they've beaten the Clippers in their first game, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it back to back. Yeah, Rockets vs Lakers is also a good game. Sengun talents against one of the most dominant big man right now. We might see some one on one plays for Sengun as I think he has the speed advantage against Davis. Or bring him out of the 3 point line to clear the middle for them.

The Clippers are starting to put together some wins here and there. With this win over the Warriors by a point, they’re now just one win away from being a .500 team. Not good but a lot better than things we’re looking a few wins ago. Kawhi has to be happy that there’s a chance to get some wins with this team.

I don't mean to take the efforts and resistance supposedly shown by the Clippers away from their win tonight, but the Wariors are becoming a more shitty team as they day goes by, they can effortlessly score 70 points in a row, but they can't defend those points being conceded back, so what's the point and they're becoming of the worse clutch team in my opinion, they've two of their last 4 or 5 games after leady by atleast 20 points, and more than 15 points into half way into 3rd or even the 4th Quarter, you really can't win a championship when you're that awful defensively, and Steve Kerr needs to figure out not just a bench unit that can only function with Draymond, Curry or Klay on the floor, he needs a unit that either hold it down and get going without any of these guys on the floor!

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Quote from: Baofeng on December 02, 2023, 05:19:05 PM

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Early game on TV as usual, Warriors at Clippers. Looking at the odds Clippers is the favorite but I expect a close game. We may see over 230 points.
Rockets vs. Lakers also look good but that's too late, or too early for me. I'd love to see Alperen Şengün against AD but maybe next time. Rockets may upset Lakers tonight, be careful about your bets.

Just watch few minutes of the first quarter, Draymond Green already hitting three 3's, that is a bad sign for the Clippers. And when I come back after a walk, score is 48-67 in favor of the Warriors.

Good to see that they are back, they've beaten the Clippers in their first game, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it back to back. Yeah, Rockets vs Lakers is also a good game. Sengun talents against one of the most dominant big man right now. We might see some one on one plays for Sengun as I think he has the speed advantage against Davis. Or bring him out of the 3 point line to clear the middle for them.

The Clippers are starting to put together some wins here and there. With this win over the Warriors by a point, they’re now just one win away from being a .500 team. Not good but a lot better than things we’re looking a few wins ago. Kawhi has to be happy that there’s a chance to get some wins with this team.

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Quote from: EFS on December 02, 2023, 04:09:15 PM

Early game on TV as usual, Warriors at Clippers. Looking at the odds Clippers is the favorite but I expect a close game. We may see over 230 points.
Rockets vs. Lakers also look good but that's too late, or too early for me. I'd love to see Alperen Şengün against AD but maybe next time. Rockets may upset Lakers tonight, be careful about your bets.

Just watch few minutes of the first quarter, Draymond Green already hitting three 3's, that is a bad sign for the Clippers. And when I come back after a walk, score is 48-67 in favor of the Warriors.

Good to see that they are back, they've beaten the Clippers in their first game, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do it back to back. Yeah, Rockets vs Lakers is also a good game. Sengun talents against one of the most dominant big man right now. We might see some one on one plays for Sengun as I think he has the speed advantage against Davis. Or bring him out of the 3 point line to clear the middle for them.

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Early game on TV as usual, Warriors at Clippers. Looking at the odds Clippers is the favorite but I expect a close game. We may see over 230 points.
Rockets vs. Lakers also look good but that's too late, or too early for me. I'd love to see Alperen Şengün against AD but maybe next time. Rockets may upset Lakers tonight, be careful about your bets.

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