Doubters, Please Form a Line To Submit Your Apologies

Forward your sorries to me

 

Well, we are elite with our 2pt field goal efficiency, so that's not going to work.

Honestly, honestly, don't you think if it were possible to do that, there is no way we would have won 70% of our games so far? You see these coaches flipping out on the sidelines against us, you see players fighting, we're playing people who are competing for our #3 seed, we play people better than us... do you really think their defensive coaches and head coaches would say to themselves "I know I can stop their offense TONIGHT by just giving them the 2, but I'm going to do that in the playoffs if we make the playoffs"?

There is only one way to stop us. Take away the 3pter and take away shots at the rim and don't foul James Harden. To take away the inside and the 3pter on a team that can shoot from 25 feet out and gets to the line on average 25 times a game and is running the PnR abusively and is attacking your transition defense even on your MADE field goals, you basically have to have an INSANELY good defensive strategy AND a couple of defenders who are smart and can jump high and can move ultra quick and put up a fight against stronger guys and those guys shouldn't be offensive liabilities otherwise what's the point. There are, at best, a few teams who can do this.

To put that into perspective, we have a tremendous defensive strategy but lack the best players to execute it. When we're rested and healthy and have had practice, we have excellent defensive games, but those are not very common. Ryan Anderson and Trevor Ariza are not going to be Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green. Barnes and Green could take away your 3 and recover to contest the 2, and they could protect the paint and close out in a second. That's what made the Warriors such an excellent defensive team. And that's my mark of an excellent defensive team, being a great defense without dedicating aaaaalllllll your resources to defense such that your offense is just mehh (see Grizzlies, Thibs' Bulls, JVG Rockets). That's why being top 10 defense and top 10 offense is important.

But what we've done is acknowledge that those types of players were not available to us and we're playing to our strengths. You need to be a top 10 defense and offense. Like 5th offense and 9th defense would make you a contender. But we are, again, trying to blaze new trails and make the best of our situation. So we signed Anderson and Gordon and MDA and we're now asking ourselves.... if you can be 5th and 9th... what about being 1st offense and, say, 12th defense? Can you pull an upset like that? So we brought on Bzdelik and his task is this: "Jeff, we HAVE TO be the #1 offense in the league so that's what we are going to shoot for. What is the best possible defense you can achieve given that system and given THESE particular players?"

The results have been stunning. Winning at 70% rate with, by far, the toughest part of the schedule out of the way. We have probably practiced LESS than any other team in the NBA. We have travelled MORE than any other team. We have had fewer rest days than any other team. It's crazy.

I think with the amount of practice and rest coming up, being able to focus on games and apply more of MDA/Bzdelik are preaching, giving coaches opportunity to tweak things that have been problems, and test them out on an easy schedule before ending the season on a tough 5-6 games. I think we are going to be ready for the playoffs. I think MDA is fully aware of how his offense is impacted when teams are more concentrated and more athletic and just better teams. I THINK what will kick in for us come playoff time is we will turn up our defense by a greater proportion than other teams.

Fingers crossed.

 

It's about the game thread. And yeah, there is a big diff between runaway negativity early in games and analyzing / doubting between games. It's like cheering and booing versus arguing later. I can walk away from arguments after the game, but must listen to it during....big dif

I don't like doubting-negativity " sitting" next to me at games. So, I get to make fun of them now, after the game, thx to @DonKnock that's all

 

THIS

 

early in the game, there were some doubters for sure.

 

Line them up

 

Bow doubters!!! Bow!!!

 

Love this thread.

Call out the weak minded, emotional, t shirt fans that wanna cut themselves so easily.

 

there you go

 

Go to work Officer Don

Line them b****es up

 

line them b****es up!!!!

 

he's coming for yall.

lock up your daughter, lock up your wife.