The issue is not that the Rockets arent the better team, The warriors are just playing and executing plays better...other than the miracle shot by Andre Miller, GSW has played well to be up 2-0 in this series...primarily because Curry is showing everyone why he should be the top point Guard in the West...he has statistically been playing extremely well since the Allstar break...shooting better than 40 from the field and 3-pt land and 90+ on FTs... If the Nuggets have a chance, I do think they should play Corey Brewer on Curry or Thompson, and have Iggy on the remaining player..they need to shut down Curry completely and make him a non factor...he still found a way to drop 30 and get his teammates involved for 13 assists...
Oh how I wish we hadn't choked and could have tried our luck against Denver instead of OKC. It's always better to have a player available than to not have him available. If he's not helpful, a coach doesn't have to play him.
Quote: Originally Posted by Yang_Wenli I used to think that the Rockets were the better team after the team whooped the Warriors' asses both in the Toyota Center and in the Oracle Arena, but these recent stretch of games had made me reconsider that thought. The Warriors have a lot of good and young talents, as well as veterans presence and they seemed to play better and better as the team enter the playoffs, while the Rockets appeared to have regressed. It doesn't hurt that they actually implement and execute their plays almost impeccably. I know it is silly to put Denver on the same level as OKC, but I think if the situation was reversed and we play Denver, we would still lose while the Warriors could take at least a game or two against OKC, given both teams' current performances. -- I agree.
I know that this opinion is unpopular, but I think George Karl is a horrendous coach. He fails to recognize that his most productive players are in his front court (Faried, McGee, Koufous) and relishes the opportunity to play sub-par guys like Corey Brewer, Fournier, and Wilson Chandler in their place. I think there was a point in the game where he had NO big men on the court with Wilson Chandler playing C and all the while Denver was getting murdered on the glass and the interior.
how are the nuggets heavily favored? Everybody was crucifying me when I was saying they would come back down because they were playing on pure high energy. Wilson Chandler can't play like MJ every game. I initially said the nuggets wouldn't make it past the first round with their injuries and am still adhering to that. Their biggest advantage was just having HCA.
joking right??? McGee is a walking mistake...it took a George Karl to harness some good from this guy... Koufous reminds me of a one Joel Pryzbilla...servicable..but not impactful... And Faried??? i have no clue what you are talking about...Faried has played so well for Karl, till he hurt himself at the season's end...
Denver has been playing well all season...and GSW started playing better down the stretch thanks to one Steph Curry... When a guy shoots 50/40/90 from the field and has a green light on his jumper as much as Curry does, few teams are going to have the fire power to win against something like that...it just takes him one make to go on a roll...and he is a gamer... Denver will adjust, and GSW is going to have a much harder time in games 3 and 4...Denver is a good team that will respond...Their coach demands it...
Karl got the maximum out of his players all season long and led them to a terrific record. Nuggets are playing with their 2 best players Lawson and Faried both not at 100% and the Warriors were super hot in game 2. It has nothing to do with Karl being a horrendous coach because that's the last thing he is.
Didn't know Curry was injured. If he can't play, GW will be a toast. http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/4/...y-injury-update-ankle-warriors-nuggets-game-3
Well I expected this kind of backlash. "George Karl is a bad coach" is an unpopular opinion, but I stand by it. Hear me out. This is the thing about George Karl and the Nuggets. When most people look at Denver's roster, they say "this is a ~40 win team," due to the absence of any big name/star players. Therefore, when people see that Denver is in fact a 50 plus win team with one of the best records in the league, they tend to attribute those "extra" wins to George Karl. This isn't necessarily an unreasonable assumption. After all, if my heart tells me that Denver's roster is an average team, then the fact that they're actually very good can only be explained by some external factor (in this case George Karl). This is false, however. The reality of the matter is that Denver actually has very athletic, productive players and a bench that is arguably the deepest in the league. So it's the team's incredibly productive players, and not Karl, who's responsible for Denver winning as many games as they have. So why is Karl a bad coach? Basically, the guy is incredibly bad with his rotations and tactical decisions. Getting killed in the paint? Lets play Gallinari at center. Losing the rebounding battle? Time to sub out my big men. Trailing by 7 in the fourth? Let's pull Faried so Corey Brewer (a poor player by nearly every measure except raw PPG) can get us back into the game. Now, I wouldn't mind if Faried, Mcgee, and Koufos were bad players, but they're three of the best rebounding bigs in the game. 20 teams in the league would love to take any of these guys in their starting lineup and give them big minutes. Instead of recognizing their value however, Karl insists on replacing their minutes with the likes of Wilson Chandler and Corey Brewer so that his team can get destroyed in the paint and on the glass. It's one of the most befuddling and frustrating things I've ever seen, and it loses them games (as you'd know if you watched game 2). Karl really just isn't that good of coach.
Curry now questionable for tonight's game with a sprained ankle. Western Conference point guards are dropping like flies. Lin, Westbrook, Blake and now possibly Curry.
Oracle is rocking. They must be 10x louder than rockets fans, and the entire arena was filled by tip-off.
I told you he is an excellent back up big man who can play defense and catch the balls for dunks. Warriors are big time.
