Greedily collect all-stars, making the league much less competitive, and give them a lame nickname which references an elitist enclave, but they still get to be the baby faces. Amazing.
Ryno will have to play this series, He needs Nene's minutes, if he's hitting his shots extend them if he's not we don't lose anything by giving him the few minutes Nene plays. Nene cant play with that 5 GS starts with
In my opinion we should be able to kill that line-up on the boards. Capela and Tuck should be able to handle Donkey and dominate on the boards.
Yeah, no Harden on Klay or Curry. CP3 can hold his own against Curry and Harden should be on KD / Iggy with Tucker on Green. I really hope MDA is flexible and at least checks if Ryno can play again. Maybe even Joe.
I think you'll see Harden and CP3 split the Curry/Klay matchups. JH tends to end up with Klay and I could see that staying in place. We've used Ariza in the past vs KD and I don't see that changing here. My guess is PJ gets Iggy and Capela handles Green. If I'm MDA I go to Capela early and often via lobs and low post plays. Green struggles against bigger players and Capela has the agility to create problems. I think we will struggle v KD and we'll need Ariza to give us something on offense. Luc might fare better, in which case we might need to consider starting him at some point if indeed he handles KD better. I also think we might see RA come in this series as Capela's backup instead of Nene. Nene has struggled mightily and he is too rigid, fouls too often, doesn't bring enough offensively, etc. To warrant heavy minutes. I hope I'm wrong but this is a guess.
“Hampton’s 5”, that’s cute if they plan to play 48 minutes 7 times...... Our second 5 is head and shoulders above theirs.
with the way we switch and the way they move around the ball nobody is going to primarily guard anybody in this series.
I agree, because my biggest concern is the Curry and Durant side PnR, where they put everyone else on the other side of the floor. Being able to switch Tucker and Ariza doesn't leave us as vulnerable. I also let Green and Iguodola have as many 3s as they can shoot with a hand up. Don't blatantly disrespect them but show on 3s. Gordon, Green, Luc, and Nene have to dominate their bench.
I'm calling it now...Ryno coming out party. He's going to have a throwback to his games against the GSW this season. Watch out yall
My god we gonna crush them! cant wait for media to find excuses for the worriers...only adam silver can stop us worriers cant...
interesting read... 1. HARDEN-PAUL-ERIC GORDON-MBAH A MOUTE-TUCKER 2. HARDEN-PAUL-GORDON-TREVOR ARIZA-CLINT CAPELA 3. HARDEN-GORDON-ARIZA-MBAH A MOUTE-TUCKER 4. HARDEN-PAUL-MBAH A MOUTE-ANDERSON-CAPELA 5. HARDEN-PAUL-ARIZA-MBAH A MOUTE-JOE JOHNSON https://www.si.com/nba/2018/03/07/rockets-lineups-james-harden-chris-paul-mike-dantoni
If that’s the lineup that they want to run, then you have to destroy them in the paint, with either Harden driving or tossing it up to Capela If they collapse.
This made me laugh, but to be fair they didn't collect all-stars outside of signing Durant. You have to give credit to GS for scouting, drafting and developing Curry, Thompson and especially Green. The Durant signing really made the team villains. Even the 73 win team had Barnes (drafted) and Bogut who they got through a trade. The Warriors built a team the correct way and took advantage of a once in a lifetime jump to get Durant, but the reality is what team would not do the same? Not many people, especially their new "fans" remember the really bad stretch they had after the Baron/JRich/SJax Warriors core where they were in the lottery several years in a row to get the pics to land Barnes, Curry and Thompson (not to mention the occasional dude like Udoh) Warriors organically built a dynasty (again up until the Durant signing)
Absolutely, it is pretty obvious but the key is can Draymond and Iguodala make their threes/jump shots. Basically have to leave them open and dare them to beat us - would rather watch them take wide open shots than Curry taking contested threes. NO played at such a fast pace and turned the ball over it allowed GS to get a bunch of transition looks for their stars - I think that's where our low turnover rate and isolation offense (which has slowed down as the season has gone on) will help us.
