He is the only player that isn't pulling his weight in terms of value to this team, all of the other rotation players are worth or ate more than the value of their contract. Do you deny that? If you do you are just an Anderson nuthugger and I can't be bothered with you.
fivethirtyeight.com right now has the Rockets with a 67% chance of making it to the NBA finals, and they give the Warriors a 19% chance. The Jazz get 9% and the Pels 5%. Their model is a cumulative of wins over the season (considering strength of opponent), point differential, and roster strength. It's not a perfect model because the Warriors losses over the last month of the season are factored in and the Warriors should do better with Curry back, but even when Curry was healthy we were ranked higher. Yes the Warriors looked better against the Pels than the Rockets looked against the Jazz, but it's just one game, and at least according to 538, the Jazz are the stronger team. Just something to consider if you're afraid of the Warriors.
GS will be the favorites obviously, but we definitely have a shot at beating them, especially since we have HCA...no shame in losing to them in 6 or 7 tho
Who gives a **** about his contract right now? It has no bearing on the games. He was +8 In the first win over GS with 13-8. In the second he was -2 but he had 13 boards. Hes a 9th man right now. Life is good.
4 letters. N-o-p-e. Seriously, the Warriors are a juggernaut with 4 frikkin future hall of gamers in the stating lineup. Maybe 5 in Iggy. We have just 2 future hall of famers potentially 3 if Capela play like this the rest of his career but that's a long ways away.
Other players with massive contracts underperforming is always pointed out, Ryan Anderson is no different, get over it. Its pretty pathetic honestly, he needs to be traded for a bag of chips in the offseason. He's dead weight.
I'm a big fan of Anderson being our piece that elevates us above the warriors (when he's on pentration from CP3/James is unstoppable since they can kick it out), but the dude won't even shoot. I have absolutely no idea why. Is nobody on the coaching staff like..."shoot the ****ing ball dude!"
GSW is the favorite for no other reason than Championship Pedigree. Rockets are the better team this year.
I'm not even sure the Warriors looked better against the Pels than we did against the Jazz. We looked pretty mighty in that first half, and let our foot off of the gas. If I'm remembering correctly, the Pelicans fought fairly tough in the first half, and the Warriors turned it on in the second half. Still hard to draw any conclusions yet.
