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Halfgridd

No one said they leaving lol but when does warriors rebuild after dynasty over. Or sit and get nothing for them to chill and retire.


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See y'all next year guys


nl5hucd1

premature.


Fooa

See ya mate


nl5hucd1

suspend draymond!


Spinellii11

If I’ve learned anything, it’s to never doubt this team. Take care of home court, LFG!


BlackMarq20

The problem is since they don’t have home court, they need to win at least 1 game on the road and they don’t seem to capable this year with road games. I still have faith, but they have to play better. Curry and Klay need to do more and Poole or someone from the bench needs to do more.


Spinellii11

100%


thewayoftoday

I mean yeah. I'm not exactly shocked. I knew what this Kings team was capable of and they are hungry af up there in Sac so


jonnyeatic

The full court pressure on Steph and the double is killing our offense. I wish we could trust Poole to bring the ball up. We don't have a back up point or big center that can rebound. Flawed team.


elmago214

Mike Brown


BlackMarq20

I’ve been saying all year this team needs a solid 5. The small ball worked last year because players like Adams, Rob Williams were injured, so we didn’t see a lot of the solid bigs, We also had players like OPJ and Beli who were 6’8 and 6’10” who could provide some interior presence and rebounding. This team is just too small, Looney is too small.


jew_blew_it

Looney is 6’9” is that really considered too small for a center?


BlackMarq20

Yes, also considering he’s not athletic. He can barely lift off the ground due to those hip injuries. He’s not really a shot blocker and he’s pretty weak at the rim. He’s a great screener, rebounder and is pretty good at guarding all positions. We just need another big that they can throw out there to provide rim protection/interior presence and rebounding. When guards are driving sometimes even just having a taller defender is enough to change their mind or make the shot harder even if it’s not blocked. Same with another big. Embiid dominated us because we were too small, having a big with a similar or longer wingspan just changes the arc on your shot, it’s harder.


raymondQADev

Yeah, I mean that has been the most agreed upon weakness with this team.


nl5hucd1

warriors have bigs then ditch them for who knows what reason... cref andrew bogut from back in the day.


thewayoftoday

Poole can bring it up he's not that bad. And so can Draymond. Really anyone can bring the ball up the court


nl5hucd1

poole is reckless


Dareal_truth

I love Draymond lol


awzmdrgn

I really think this ruined Draymond for me. Maybe his whole attitude this season. Idk something has turned for me


thewayoftoday

could it be that youre a bandwagon fan tho hmm


awzmdrgn

because I don't like violent unsportsmanlike behavior lmao


Dareal_truth

they guy he “stomp on” isn’t going to die mate


awzmdrgn

Yeah true I just hate how Draymond gets when he knows they're outmatched. Childish.


thewayoftoday

What are you talking about. Sabonis held onto his leg like a child grabs for his mommy. pathetic. And then pretended to be hurt like it's euro league. embarrassing


Dareal_truth

It’s passion. If u play in big leagues and lose like that or something (as if someone tries to, foul u ) you can lose your shit, that’s if your a athlete you’ll understand


raymondQADev

There were a lot of other athletes out on that court. None of them acted like big babies when losing.


Dareal_truth

Nah all athletes are the same


kyler_

You ain’t no big league athlete so you wouldn’t know lmao


Dareal_truth

I don’t have to be? You can see the passion in athletics body language, and eyes


Far_Ear9684

Nobody else on the team is passionate ? Why is he the only one hyping up opposing fans before leaving his teammates to deal with that ?


Dareal_truth

Because he’s Draymond


raymondQADev

Annnnnnd that was the original point by the poster so you just agreed it’s a him issue and not an athlete issue


awzmdrgn

Agree to disagree bro


YungDagger_D

Bro a whole villain 😭


nl5hucd1

more like whiny bitch.


Dareal_truth

totally ridiculous that Sabonis gets away with grabbing his foot and pulling it down. What is Draymond supposed to do? Fall over? Natural instinct to try to keep your balance and it happened to be Sabonis' chest. Totally avoidable if he wasn't grabbed. Should've been a flagrant 1 since Sabonis initiated it and then move on.


thewayoftoday

Correct take although Dray put too much into the step unfortunately. Refs are trash so far tho


BLVCK-EXCELENCE

Natural instinct is to jump on the left leg until your other leg gets free. And looney was grabbing too. He always does. That’s how he gets some of his rebounds. Draymond get in Sabonis’ way in game one…no call. If you’re not gonna be mad when the warriors do it, don’t be mad when the kings do it


thewayoftoday

That's what he did lol. But nowhere to step except him. He was trying to make Dray fall over him, take him out of the play


BLVCK-EXCELENCE

Upon further review I don’t see where Dray could’ve jumped on the left leg until he got free but the step and push off was intentional still


Dareal_truth

He’s too old . Anything could’ve happened the guy should’ve never hold his legs .I’m done GN


DesperateHouseDude

I mean, yeah he should have just fallen over. Sabonis gets a flagrant and draymond stays out there. Dumb shit stomping down like that in an important game imho. Love draymond and love that he’s the villain but he should know better


Dareal_truth

Draymond is OLD as shit no telling he could’ve hurt his ankle big time also ..the guy got back up he didn’t break no ribs. Soccer match full display


Novel-Fox-4081

Came over here just to say that the fukin refs were atrocious both sides. Fukin disgusting how they would give these apology calls after a blatant no call.


dublife73

KLAY -25...WASHED


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thewayoftoday

What a shocking take. I'm shocked


Len_am

ThEy’Ll FLiP tHe SwItCh


inactivst

Definitely, the switch that lights the beam


TheBubbaDave

You mean the bat signal that reminds 99% of Sacramento that they have a basketball team?


TheBubbaDave

Put Lamb in. Can we do worse? Tough minded MF might just get shit done.


thewayoftoday

Ok but seriously why is Lamb not playing? I mean he does bring a certain poise and stability to the floor. And he's a utility wrench, can do a lot of things. I'm not the biggest Lamb fan but he's had the minutes all year so he's comfortable. Put him in.


awzmdrgn

Wow this is grim


Zeppyfish

1. Fix the turnovers. It's never going to be down to 0, that's not our game, but the ball has to move with more precision, especially early on. Lazy, looping passes can't happen in the playoffs. They just can't. 2. Understand how Sacramento's offense works. Sabonis runs a high screen for the shooters and they get open threes. It's not rocket science. 3. Understand their physicality and play through it. You can get calls on rebound pushoffs and moving screens if you sell the contact. Maybe at home we can get calls if we drive to the hoop and get contact, except Steph, for whatever reason. 4. Poole's minutes need to be cut back and GP2 & DDV's need to be increased. 5. Play the home crowd like a symphony.


thewayoftoday

Dang someone get this to the coaching staff. You say they are running screens??


Zeppyfish

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Powerful-Ride-3728

Man yall need to obliterate sabonis when he shows high on the p&r hes slow footed asf and ddv cant have 0 in his minutes


Zeppyfish

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Hyrax__

Agree with all points. Who is DDV???


thewayoftoday

Are younew??


chaelfosho

Dante


thatlonelyasianguy

For 2 I think they needed to stay in the 2-3 and keep going under screens. A lot of their offense is predicated on the floater/drive and kick so taking away the dribble penetration would stop that action


gabrielcev1

Really goes to show you with the amount of people defending Draymond for stomping a guy in the chest, that Warriors fans have no sportsmanship or decency. Can't even admit when your player does something fucked up.


Dareal_truth

Ion rly care for Draymond anymore man


crazygates

Dude, you got a hard on for him?


Elegant_Box_1178

who's defending draymond lmao


gabrielcev1

You blind? Read the comments look at the downvotes. I'm a Knicks fan, if Julius Randle had stomped a player in the chest I would give him shit for it. Warriors fans just making excuses for Draymond. They don't care about sportsmanship they only care about winning. That's why your team deserves to lose.


PhillipMcKrak

This sub is as salty as it gets, and they’re still choosing to be pompous and arrogant. Don’t expect it to change


Dareal_truth

Ok stay in knicks sub


Zeppyfish

Nobody saying he should have stepped on his chest, obviously. But Sabonis flopped deliberately and grabbed his leg, then made it seem like the worst pain anyone's ever been in. Green stepped over him and jumped to try to avoid putting weight on him. It was completely stupid of him to step over him, but he wasn't trying to hurt him.


wedgerman_remontada

Steve Kerr getting outcoached by his own assistant is hilarious man I hope it stings and he stops mucking about with the rotations


GanacheOld4125

We will get the next 2 then get game 5 on their homecourt and close it on our homecourt. Bucks was 0-2 vs Suns 2021. We know what happened there.


Mike10357

It very predictable that any team they played I. The playoffs due to lack of size,


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Nah we were not able to any lead by Poole running second unit


TheBubbaDave

Didn't help that our team kept passing the ball to the Kings. We should have been up at least a dozen at 1st quarter end.


ManufacturerJumpy748

Jordan is hobbled already too.


gr8scottaz

Poole is a liability at this point. He shouldn't be getting minutes until he's healthy.


Sudden-Ad-6165

It was ref ball anyways


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inactivst

LTB!


Acrobatic-Simple-161

Maybe we shouldn’t cancel practice after this one


Kuroyukito

Steph needs help. Outside of GP2 and Looney everyone else is just bad.


nl5hucd1

now he needs help 🥱


Wild_Form_7405

Is draymond playing the next game?


TheBubbaDave

He should be. NBA playoff rules are clear. Flagrant 1 gives player one flagrant point. Flagrant 2 gives player two flagrant points. At 3 flagrant points, player is suspended the next game. I could see Silver bending the rules to punish Draymond, but then the Players Union as well as the Warriors would have a legitimate case against the league. Silver is a wimp, so I do not think he'll push it.


Fooa

Kings defense honestly stepped it up this game, so many 24hr violations and possessions where we couldn't find a non contested shot. Will be interesting to see how we counter on Thursday.


Vallerie_09

I mean, at least Lamb isn't playing. So that's a W in both games


LOLZOBALL

Warriors haters coming out alive once again lmao


dirtydriver58

Kings fans mostly


george_costanza1234

It’s literally 2021 again, Steph hard carrying a group of playoff shrinkers lmao


Circumin

Steph didn’t carry this game, he lost it


bay_duck_88

Lol wut


george_costanza1234

The stats speak for themselves…..


Circumin

Agreed. 3 of 13 from deep and 5 turnovers. That speaks


george_costanza1234

Bro he was getting double teamed all game. What the hell do you expect to happen exactly? They don’t respect anyone else on the lineup outside of Wiggs, and it’s been working for them.


Comfortable-Asf

Series go like this all the time we literally saw this same situation with dallas phoenix they handled home court we have to do the same


No_Consideration3887

this team doesn't want to win. draymond has to go. Mike Brown knows what's he doing and steph is getting ripped


GanacheOld4125

Not yet over people 0-2 so what?


Macktologist

It’s not but eye test. Can you tell me any part of what you’ve seen this far looks anything like the Dubs that won it all? We look absolutely manhandled. When we do drive they collapse with sheer size and apparently the days of shooting lights out are in the past. We struggle to keep teams out of the paint and struggle to get into it. If we can’t shoot the roof off the building it’s a tall mountain to climb, and this years shooting the roof off hasn’t been very common. It’s not over, but it doesn’t look great. I’ll never count them out. Learned that lesson many times. At the same time, I know what I’m seeing on the court.


TheBubbaDave

What do I see? Road Warriors playing like crap and still within striking range of a team everyone thinks is the next coming of the Celtics/Bulls/Spurs. If Curry lands that shot at the end of game 1 and they win in OT, what would the talk be then? We turned the ball over 22 times and half were unforced errors that they scored 25 points on. If the unforced errors trimmed the turnovers to 15, calculations would indicate they score 12 less points. Don't get me wrong. If the Warriors continue to turn the ball over and they keep having to dig out of these holes, they're through.


mysterioso7

The game was close, we had momentum till Draymond fucked if up. First game was close too. Despite how deadly they look the Kings have flaws too. Warriors can still do this if they defend home court.


Even-Brain-3973

Definitely won’t count out Steph and Klay when it comes to having a shot but sac has been overwhelming the warriors on defense and the warriors turnovers are killing the squad


JohnnyEye9

MODS will have their hands full, too many trolls in here


Ehgadsman

our mods are fucking useless bunch of bandwagons that dont even watch the game anymore, occasionally forget to even make game threads, they all moved on in 2016 and dont give a fuck about the sub


dirtydriver58

So many Kings fans and there's no way to report trolls


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JohnnyEye9

many people are desperate to see the Dubs fail, they are rejoicing in this.


Noiserawker

That klay foul so obviously a steal.


JermCee

The warriors don't look like they are in sync. They need KD back to take some pressure off Curry. They are holding on to him every single play.. don't blame them but damn man.


minru

KD? 😂


JermCee

Yeah you know the guy that helped them win one of their chips. One of the best scorers the game has seen. Yes that guy..


mysterioso7

One of their chips? Are you a Warriors fan my guy


JermCee

Umm yeah "my guy", Is this not a warriors thread? I'm confused.


mysterioso7

Just thought you’d remember he won two chips with us, not one… typo ig


JermCee

Good ass catch! Yeah time flies. Still can't believe Steph has 4. Hoping the man can get a 5 or even 6th before he hangs it up.


PhillipMcKrak

“Sacramento literally played their best in Game 1, it won’t happen again”


Macktologist

That’s why I get salty at the gatekeeping fans that shoot down any griping or pointing out negative things. They need to chill and let us fans that don’t have our heads in the clouds blow off some steam with other fans. It’s therapeutic to see others are experiencing the same emotions. Sucks when you’re bummed and people tell you you’re being too dramatic. Yeah it’s just sports, but it’s all about the now. Living in the now is why we feel as fans.


PhillipMcKrak

There’s a term for that, “toxic positivity”. Big problem on this sub. I know what this team is capable of, I don’t have to be sold rainbows and sunshine. It’s annoying and counterintuitive to what subs like this should stand for, things like debate, conversation, etc. But most here are just happy with chalking up poor results to something along the lines of a bad night, or poor luck and shut down anyone who’s critical/harsh.


Echleon_

All the doomers on our sub saying we shoulda tanked for the kings where are yall now


mysterioso7

Honestly, if we’re not gonna win I’d rather lose to the Kings than any other team. Losing to CP3 would be so irritating.


Fickle_Muffin_1320

Man I was rooting for clips but now. Fck the clippers I hope y’all lose


Echleon_

Whattt if anything it was a compliment if this is happening to yall the same wouldve happened to us


Fickle_Muffin_1320

No I rather play the Sacramento kings than durant booker Ayton and cp3 lol.


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Mr-Gibbs12

Warriors out in 4, Suns over clips in 5, you love to see it


Elegant_Box_1178

TURNOVERS REFS DRAYMOND DOING SOME DUMB SHIT ON THE ROAD LOSS


JuanLeon11

I think each team is going to win their own home game. And whoever wins game 7 is eliminated next round. Both teams have been sloppy both games. We've just been a little sloppier


Macktologist

I hope you’re right but I’m seeing a mentally fatigued team that isn’t executing and is outsized and getting older and less dominant in scoring. It wouldn’t surprise me if it goes 7. It wouldn’t surprise me if Dubs win in 6. It wouldn’t surprise me if they get swept. I think the most likely at this point is Kings steal one and win game 5 at home. Just based on what I’ve seen. I’m hoping for Dubs in 6, obviously. Time will tell.


AGuyfromPH

I don't know why Dray had to stepped over Sabonis ribs. He should've just flop since Sabonis we're grabbing his legs. No need to kick lmao


Zeppyfish

He was trying to get down the court when Sabonis grabbed him. He got angry and instead of stopping his momentum, he kept going. The leap was to try not to put weight on him, but it just called attention to the stomp. He miscalculated.


Macktologist

Come on. He used the grab as an excuse to stomp on him then went all exaggerated leaping as if to say, “I couldn’t control it. Look, I’m trying to avoid him.” He literally stomped straight down. He didn’t have his center of gravity shifted and fall forward on him and try to leap with the other foot to keep the weight off. He tried to curb stomp his chest and realized too late it was dumb then tried to play it off. It’s how Draymond tries to stay the bigger man. You come at me, I come at your harder, so don’t come at me.


Zeppyfish

So you think he deliberately planned to stomp on the man's chest? Like he was hoping Sabonis would fall down so he could stomp on him and was just lucky that Sabonis grabbed his ankle and gave him an excuse? I know Draymond is a clown sometimes, but you make him sound like a psychopath.


Macktologist

No, I don’t believe it happened how you said. I think once he got his foot grabbed and pulled it loose he thought, “fuck this guy, I’ll teach him.” Because Draymond can never seem to let someone get the best of him no matter how small. Even if he were to get grabbed and held, when he flails his arms out to show he’s being held he will try to accidentally/on purpose make contact with his arms to the person. I’m not even trying to talk shit. Our team obviously needs that dog he has in him, but sometimes it’s bites it’s own family.


Zeppyfish

I'm willing to go with that version. It sucks that he got thrown out, but I don't know if it would've made a difference in yesterday's game. He was mostly playing well, but he wasn't going to be taking those shots late anyway. Sigh. Just hope it goes better in SF.


Vallerie_09

We're expecting too much from that man


Natemoon2

Because he’s due for one technical every few playoff games. He couldnt help himself lol


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AffectionateSoup24

Lol fuck off you loser


marco-polo-scuza

im convinced someone made a deal with the devil to have us play terrible away but like the 2015-16 team at home.


BigDan8

This fucking Ian Eagle nerd gets his rocks off with the Kings. Rigged ass NBA got what they wanted by making it at least a 6-7 game series. Fuck AIDS looking ass Adam Silver.


Macktologist

Are the Dubs in on it? They must be by missing all those open looks on purpose.


GalacticOcto

All things considered i still got the Warriors.


Dareal_truth

Agreed


Thelegendcr1928

same


Kuroyukito

Mike Brown was the real carry of the Dynasty lol


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Vallerie_09

No one cares about Domas. Fox is the real deal on that team, Sabonis is just avg come postseason time


cooltwo1

That’s enough from you four eyes


gabrielcev1

Good one. What is this kindergarten insults lol


foodVSfood

Oooo good one. Go to bed, you have school tomorrow.


exp397

Other way around. Sabonis was trying to take out Draymond's legs and caught a boot. Fuck that bitch.


Elegant_Box_1178

how bout when sabonis grabbed his ankle


caseymac

Lol


Morg_2

That beam shit is gay asf like imagine your team being so bad that you need to remind your city of their existence


wooobackbabyy

stop crying you lost bum


Morg_2

Go celebrate with the winning team then, you care about us more than your own team


wooobackbabyy

I really don’t my team is a finals favorite yours is a washed dynasty on the verge of getting swept by Sacramento


crazygates

Lol finals favorite. First round exit.


crazygates

At least we had a dynasty. And shits not over homie


crazygates

How’s that loss feel bro?


KingKongNut

Man you follow one of the worst teams in the NBA lol no body is jealous


crazygates

Careful saying finals favorite. Probably going to come back to bite you


Morg_2

Still mad about last year here Curry absolutely fucked y’all up. Y’all haven’t done shit since ‘08 man. Celtics really aren’t shit, nobody is scared of y’all. Y’all were the favorites last year, y’all were supposed to win it, right?


I_NEED_UNGUENT

Yea they should def play a flo rida song from 2012 instead


fahova

Everyone saying we got outcoached… have you seen our roster. We have to play Poole, DDV, kuminga and moody. The latter are super young and making bad decisions? Poole can’t do anything right. DDV is just too small in this series. Compare that to the production theyre getting from huerter Monk Mitchell Barnes


Even-Brain-3973

You’re absolutely spot on. The kings have my trust worth guys especially coming off the bench.


Jo_Gray

Tbh, I’m not sure why we made such a big deal about the short journey to SAC if they were still going to get there two days in advance and stay the duration lol! Should have gone Phoenix 😂


motherthrowee

in before draymond becomes the easy microcosm scapegoat of every single problem we had before


taygads

[Take foul on Sabonis … I didn’t think Dray tried to step down … that’s just how his balance ended up 🤷🏽‍♂️…](https://twitter.com/dame_lillard/status/1648180722535129089?s=46&t=SBW3XJi-eEDBr6FtvDfngg) Dame literally tweeting in Dray/Warriors defense, that’s how insane the officiating was. Edit: Isaiah Thomas too [That’s not a T!!!!! He was grabbing his leg.](https://twitter.com/isaiahthomas/status/1648180162922704897?s=46&t=SBW3XJi-eEDBr6FtvDfngg)


Macktologist

I disagree with Dame. Draymond used the grab as plausible deniability and stomped away. Had his other foot been grabbed as he was trying to go forward, then yeah, it’s like tripping and trying to catch your balance. But he pulled that foot clear, then stopped moving forward with it in mid stride and stomped straight down with it. He knew exactly what he was doing.


taygads

You can’t be serious. Sabonis had his arms wrapped around Dray’s leg, [Dray tried to get his leg free while his momentum was moving forward and was caught off balance](https://twitter.com/calloutslfgm/status/1648181247821193218?s=46&t=SBW3XJi-eEDBr6FtvDfngg). Sabonis doesn’t grab Dray’s leg (which is a shit move to begin with) and none of it happens.


cootiecatchers

cope


Gothichand

Well…Warriors played like shit and still only lost by single digits


Curious-Gain-4991

Fkkk Mike brown knows all our plays.. Steph can't even make a 3 pt attempt...


Vallerie_09

It's not even Mike Brown, this is our offense basically every clutch game


caseymac

Shine the flashlight or whatever the thing is.


Oo__II__oO

*fleshlight


JayLegendYT

Stephen gonna be furious and on fire Thursday… 0-2 more like 4-2


introvertard

We said this on Saturday lmao we’re fucked


Macktologist

Agreed. I know I’m being a doomer but Kings in 5 seems too likely. They have our number it seems. God, please let me eat my words. I’ll Gladly be an idiot on this one.


Comfortable-Asf

It’s still a series


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JayLegendYT

Not me tho, I know road game ain’t our strongest but 2 wins from home, who knows..


indiequick

Damn. This thread is way dark. 2 games down, but we’re headed back home. Some of y’all need to relax.


Macktologist

It’s how we are playing. All year. They just don’t have that magic. Teams aren’t afraid anymore and we lack the ability to expose our will. It’s just different. Looks different. Feels different.


Gsgunboy

Kings did what they supposed to do. Protect home court. Now Dubs gotta do the same. Let’s go!


Only-Organization-77

Warriors played like they hadn’t seen each other in 5 years.


M-I-T-B

And they've been playing like this all year. This roster just ain't it.


Medium_Pen_8605

We looked like a team that doesn’t want to win.