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am i allowed to say bench him yet? just wondering

Johnny Marko

"Sar" is pronounced "Shar"

Jalen McIntosh

Hey Alch-Here’s what I’ve used to help me pronounce Saric’s name: “Sar” is pronounced like the start of the word “sergeant’, then the last part is pronounced like the word “itch”.

Joan McErlean

Going to go see my first dubs game in denver so excited

sam baines

who would you give up on the current roster to match the salaries?

Stevie Ray

Podz can do that easily, at least from deep.

Neal X

I think jk can be that guy once he gets more used to his role... he's shooting significantly worse than his last 2 seasons so once that levels out jk could easily avg 16 which would encourage kerr to give him more mins so he can really be our main guy off the bench

Edward Jahen

Alch! Again awesome content. Just a thought from Germany yet not biased and fully in Support of a better frontcourt for the dubs: Get Daniel Theis from the Pacers! Dude is in best shape of life and contributed massivly during Germanys world Champion run. He is not happy in Indiana and gets DNPs for no reason. Also a team friendly contract with a team option in 2024. Any thoughts? Would bring Leadership, vertical spacing, Defense and is just a Hard worker.

Bensation

😂 THE ONE WHO'S SUPPOSED TO LEAD YOU INTO THE FUTURE???

Luke Zhang

IS THIS YOUR KING!?

Neal X

I always felt like wiggins was a guy we'd look at moving eventually. He definitely fills a spot, but since we have guys that are younger that can fill that role potentially better, that's when the thought about moving him comes into my mind.

Pelvis

You guys really love over reactions, why would you move Wiggins just because of a slow start? You probably wanted to move Klay last year where he was shit untill january

Ahmad Azem

Gratitude onya, Alch. I probably like Detroit’s upward arc more than most. Kinda like OKC a couple years ago, showing positive signs w a lotta quality young players. I’m a Monty fan, too. I have to agree on JWise, simply needs to play a lotta ball somewhere to make up for all those missed development years. No feel, and that’s not easily taught, has to be absorbed on the court. I’m still rooting for him. I like how Kerr is handling Wiggs’ slump, not ignoring the problem, but also not lazering his confidence by not starting him. I’m betting he’ll earn it all back, including closing. Gotta wonder who gets through to him…CP3?

Chip Tingle

My thoughts exactly. Give him the minutes now while Wiggs is out of sorts. Kuminga needs the experience to get to the level where we can use him in the playoffs reliably.

Neal X

GP2 has more hops in his ankle than I do in my entire leg.

Neal X

there's a reason the bench has been better than the starters this year. Steph's having an mvp season so it cant be him, klay is shooting fine, draymond is shaping up to have a career year and looney has been solid as always. so who's the problem?

Johnny Marko

you're bringing up a 6 game stretch from 2 years ago, come on man. it looks like he's never shot a basketball in his life and his defense has been poor. a shooting slump i understand but he's missing point blank layups. I'm not saying drop him from the rotation but there's a reason kerr has been playing kuminga over him in the last stretch of games. I'm not being reactionary, he just doesn't look right and is not playing the way i know he can. its just frustrating seeing Minnesota wigs out there when i know he can do better

Johnny Marko

He will most likely be scraping minutes in garbage time.

sherwin poh

Cmon it's been 8 games. Players have slumps all the time. Are you really going to bench a player that's the reason biggest reason why you won a championship 2 years ago? There's no way warriors beat the Celtics, without wiggins locking down brown and tatum and crashing the boards. If the warriors followed fan's overreacting cries, the warriors would have benched Klay and cut his minutes two years ago. Yet, look at him now. As fans, it's hard to look at the big picture at times and easy to jump to conclusions, but understand that the goal of the regular season is best prepare for the playoffs and championship.

sherwin poh

In the highly competitive NBA where there is so much talent these days and only so much you can do defensively, you can only choose to take away some things, not all. This means locking in on Cunningham and leaving the worst 3pt shooter open from last season, letting Beef Stew a career 32 % 3pt shooter shoot his shot. Attacking the dribble of the unicorn Homgren and leaving lu dort a career 33% 3pt shooter semi-open. It's a percentage game and all you can do is maximise your percentage of winning. Of course you don't live and die by percentages, sometimes the unlikely happens. The warriors adapt quickly, closing out on beef stew, lu dort once they start hitting shots early. That's smart and adapting defense.

sherwin poh

Rofl, ye CP3 sends all the refs xmas cards... except Scott Foster 🤣🤣🤣 who apparently he's never won any games where he's lead official

AK

My guess is they are going to give him a bunch of games at home to figure it out.

A m a r Singg

Killian Hayes like James Harden after 48 hours in a strip club 🤣☠️

Dan Shupack

facts bro

Ballin Forever

I think I'm to the point of liking most of our bench guys more than some of our starters. The energy and defensive string they're on has been very impressive. Some of those lineups with Steph and bench guys have been insanely good. The concern level for Wiggins is at an all time high. I'm sure he can bring it back around, but would the idea of moving him be a bad one? You touched on JK in the post, but the thing I kept thinking of was his lack of a bag. Jk continued to try to spin to his back shoulder without really setting it up. Kilian was kinda clamping JK whenever they had that matchup. Gotta also say Moody continues to impress every night!

Pelvis

Maybe the more important question is can gui be that guy?

Gunners4life

My guy is fed up lmao

Gunners4life

Two things I am liking this year from the broadcast team: 1) they are clearly JK fans. They are not really critical of him and then when he does something right its like theyre watching their 8 year old son ("thats so good for him, even tho he missed it"). 2) Kelenna taking shots at Fitz. Last night when Fitz was like guess what is Monty's home town? "pass". Guys got some wise ass in him I like that.

Jim

Ausar is my favorite player from this draft class. Love his hustle, his patience and his athleticism. Dude tried pulling off a 360 layup for his first NBA basket

joss gitlin

We also haven't played at home at all. The one home game we played we handed NO their first loss by 30. Road games are rarely super pretty unless you have steph and KD on your team

KuraiT

Yeah, I feel the same way (about LeBron).

Ejikeme Uzoigwe

Does it look like we need a microwave scorer off the bench? An Alec Burks type who’s not so good defensively but can give you some offensive burst? Can’t rely on a 40 y/o cp3 for that

Gunners4life

Re JK’s scoring scalability. It seems that JK has typically played better the longer he plays. Last season, he was ass until Wiggins was out. He was amazing in the preseason when he had more room to spread his wings. Not a great attribute for a hopeful superstar, but just an observation.

Ejikeme Uzoigwe

to add to the vicious element from steph, those all black currys are cold!

Keith Waters

Alch, Steph does 3x as much dribble shoot run everyday in practice. His off-season videos were wild. All he's doing is replacing his drills with the game day. The Warriors no longer have a 2nd star. High Volume, score 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Chef is Curry they need to win in the playoffs. No more waiting to use it. He's out for blood to show He's rhe most dominant offensive weapon in the West.

Stevie Ray

so coooold in the D!

Ron Rierson

kerr needs to bench wigs, this has gone on long enough

Johnny Marko

no joke, this shit is insane 🤣

Johnny Marko

I know Bob and Kelenna kept chalking it up to "everyone gets up for the Warriors", and while I admit that does have a grain of truth to it, how much is it just the Warriors AWFUL defense letting teams get into comfortable rhythms right off the tip? OKC shoots fucking nearly 70% for A WHOLE DAMN GAME against us, and then Detroit comes in and nearly does the same with 3-4 players. Yeah they are winning right now, which is good. But this type of defense is NOT sustainable over the course of a season. You cant keep letting average teams (not even contenders!!!!) shoot the lights out constantly and expect to keep winning. Hayes was balling out. But I guarantee thats one of the best games he'll play all year. Same with Dort in that OKC game. Dort may never play that good again in his life (that is until he plays the Warriors again of course). Leaving good shooters wide open, bad angles, letting straight line drives towards the rim, its all very concerning despite the team still winning. But aside from the Kings, the Warriors havent really face a contender. This Wednesday will most likely serve as a wake up call to the Warriors "defense". The Nuggets will EAT THEM ALIVE if they think they can let MPJ or Murray start off hot and then try to play catch up later. Jokic is definitely gonna do his thing, but Im seriously concerned about how this team will fare against actual contenders. OKC and Detroit are no slouches by any means. But they arent on contending level. With Wiggins playing as poorly as he is, I hope they can get it together by January. We cant keep letting teams shoot 55+% on us and expect to go anywhere. Curry is taking on a MASSIVE offensive load so early into the season.

Jansen E

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Terrance figgs

they need that guy if they want to contend this year.

A m a r Singg

Kuminga playing like he wants to be an MVP. Moody playing like he wants to be the best version of himself. Totally understandable on JK’s part considering his athleticism, but I think that it ironically impedes his progress

thomas

And how much longer until we seriously consider Wiggs a no go? Can’t let him be completely mentally checked out all year making 20+ mill. Gonna have to adjust and move on if he keeps playing this terrible.

Brayden Merkel

If I have to watch one more fucking Footlocker off the streets NPC come in and shoot 50+% from 3, or see someone like Killian fucking Hayes play actual good basketball, I might bleach my eyes. It is a NIGHTLY occurrence against the Dubs man, Jesus Christ.

Brayden Merkel

great breakdown alc. one of my friends actually played aau wit the thompson twins in the east bay. it’s surreal to see people my age hooping in the nba now

bigDOng aka Dylan Ong

yeah he's not even defending well. the only POA wing defender who is defending well is GP2. they need a lot more.

A m a r Singg

I don't think size or a "proper big" is their issue. they are getting literally nothing from their wings. Wiggins and Kuminga are needed for this team to reach its ceiling.

A m a r Singg

hey alc, noticed you said "bond fire", i think you're looking for "bonfire", no d.

COLD GETTING DUMB

I think Dario plays a lot more next game

santiago Cintron

I don't want to be too critical in a win - a win is a win - but Kuminga and Wiggins need to play better for this team to go anywhere. You can't have your main athletic wings poooping up and down the court like this. Not sustainable.

A m a r Singg

Denver feels like a given loss but we will be the best team Denver have faced so far this regular season so maybe we can pull it out

Offtopic K

good insight

YANCEY WADE

I'm just happy that we have Dario playing as he is and not trying to make something of Paddles Wiseman anymore. This team is happier, and a lot more skilled with Dario and CP than we were with Joran Toole and Wiseman. Thank you Kerr, Dunleavy, et all.

Russ

Steph going off as soon as Wiseman checked in was giving me Jordan and Pippen dogging Kukoc at the ‘92 Olympics vibes 😂 Lookin at Joe like “is this your future???”

Luke Zhang

Huh, interesting that it wasn’t in the play by play. I looked away from the game for 30 sec and didn’t catch the deflection. Atta boy klay lol

Harrison

Clock was right. As Detroit brought the ball up in the backcourt, Klay deflected a pass out of bounds. :04 ticked off during that. Detroit seemed to think the clock would reset, but of course it doesn't.

Keith Richards-Dinger

I don't think Jamal Murray is playing tomorrow, so we might just have a chance.

Jacob

Idk whats up with Wiggs... its super concerning. With his athleticism, he can roll out of bed and be really impactful defensively and on the glass. But the way he was missing those shots yesterday was wild... airballing... hitting straight backboard... missing both free throws. If we cant get 2022 Wiggs back.. we are in trouble

Ballin Forever

I believe this was the possession where Klay almost got a steal but knocked it out of bounds, hence the :20 start

Joe Zhang

Right right.. and they thought it reset the count. But you are down with 2min, no ball pressure why are you walking it up?

Athletic Alchemy

I thought it was just me who noticed Steph been different lmao. The evil smiles... the death stares to the crowd.... the iso dribbling. I like villain Steph... And you can visibly see fear in opposing team faces too after he makes a tough shot.

Ballin Forever

That 8 second violation at the end wasn't just random, it's because Klay poked the ball away so they only had like 3 or 4 seconds..

Ivan (Vanya) Kashperuk

Klay deflected the inbound pass on that possession. Not sure how 3-4 sec came off there but that's why Detroit was clueless about the violation.

Nos Dollas

I would love to see JK play 30mins with the starters bc my eye test almost says JK plays better later into the game when he's a little more tired and he slows down

Edward Jahen

I think generally teams don't want to get shit on by Steph, which would support the hypothesis. Teams getting shit on my Jokic or LeBron can just shrug and say what could we do? But teams getting shit on by Steph probably feel like they should have been able to stop him.

james v

Warriors have been good in late game execution but the team isn’t blowing anyone out. Seem limited in size, athleticism. I don’t get why they can’t get a proper big on the team. And having CP in crunch time means we are always gonna be too small. Something tells me Dunleavy gonna try something at the deadline. Meyers never did but he ain’t here now

Gary

Dubs don’t get that respect any more. What team is circled for every team this year? Hard to imagine it’s Denver. Boston?

Gary

I hope Kerr keeps it simple for Wednesday's matchup. Force Joker to defend early and often.

Jimmy Ji

mmmm I think he had better rhythm in his feet by looking for his first a lil more

Athletic Alchemy

twins are dripping with intangibles in big super athletic frames

Athletic Alchemy

MPJ licking his chops.. they got a bunch young fellas too tho

Athletic Alchemy

lol facts

Athletic Alchemy

early sample size but my eye test says the same thing.. its been weird, in a good way

Athletic Alchemy

On that Detroit 8 seconds at the end, it looks like the shot clock incorrectly started at :20, and they called the violation at :15 (as they normally should). If you look at the play by play, only 5 seconds elapsed from the rebound to the violation. Shot clock operator must be a 30 fan, got away with one there lmao

Harrison

I think he has got a good shot, people will want to give it too him at 36, but probably got to be the 1 seed

Athletic Alchemy

Chris Paul got his shots falling after he took off the finger wrap thing from his shooting hand, coincidence? I think not.

Sean An

Definitely give me Thompson over Ivey. Iveys the more polished scorer (pretty easily honestly) but he doesn't defend. I'll almost always take a two-way player over a bucket that doesn't defend

Branden Edwards

Schedule loss is crazy 😂 but honestly feels like it

Aben

I saw no Murray tomorrow in Denver, do they just run everything through Joker? Draymond looks ready for another DPOY game against Denver

Matt Hanna

I knew Fitz was a liar when he said every team gives the Warriors their best effort, then the Pistons decided to play Wiseman for 11 minutes

james v

The strangest season for the Warriors I have ever seen.When you dig into the numbers. You can objectively call the starting unit bad. A defensive rating of like 130.Plus minus in the gutter.But Steph barely has to play 30 minutes because the second unit is so good. Even when it looks like they are struggling. They win in those minutes

mr.bean

What do you think on Steph chances of winning mvp

Malakai

ugly ugly win lmao

Alex Lee

Kuminga want to play with the splash bros

DLP

Kuminga has been giving me a good laugh this season.First two quarters be ass and then it clicks for the second half 😭.two different players man

mr.bean


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