Warriors vs Grizzlies |GM-76|

I should add that transitioning from being a top 16yo in an academy league to a professional league is a relatively easy change. (not saying its actually easy, but if youre one of the best 16yo in the world and then you get signed by Chelsea, the Prem League isnt gonna be wildly different than wherever you were playing) Whereas going from college to the NBA might as well be two different sports.

Jansen E

Its not impossible, but its very difficult for a sport like basketball. Though football (just gonna say soccer after this) and basketball are conventionally very similar, when it comes to basketball, individual personnel is SIGNIFICANTLY more influential to how a team plays compared to soccer. The court is so much smaller than a field and its only 5v5 rather than 11v11. Putting Messi on a field with 10 scrubs would hardly make for a competent team, but if you put Lebron on a court with 4 scrubs, he could still (and has) take them to the playoffs. For the Warriors especially, the system relies on Curry and defense is vastly different in basketball compared to soccer. It takes a lot of "vet savvy" and experience to be able to know how to defend in the NBA, because fouls are (unfortunately) an artform for offensive players. Inexperienced young guys may not bode well immediately with vets because they get in foul trouble and dont know how to read/react for set plays (another thing basketball has a lot more than soccer). Im not talking about set pieces in soccer either. Basketball runs plays out of a playbook a lot more, whereas soccer, its more free flowing and based on strategic pressure points (are we going to sit back and defend and counter? or we gonna try to pass out to the wings to attack outside in? or do we move the ball through the midfield and break them down that way?). All that playbook stuff for basketball also takes a lot of experience that young guys dont know, and it can be frustrating for vets to have to wait (and lose) for them to learn when theyre trying to win now.

Jansen E

I don't see why it's so impossible to blend in young players. In other sports like football (the one that's called soccer), it's done regularly.

Francisco Hazel

Fire 🔥 - really enjoyed the breakdown

Ryan Mitchell

Personally, I LOVE that we've tried to blend the OGs and the new. Kuminga is better than anyone we could have gotten in a trade package, and we have him for cheap for 3 more years. Lets us cheaply option Moody and Wise, and develop JP. I'd rather not trade away the next 7 years of Warriors teams to marginally upgrade us at the 5. If we'd known Wise would be out the whole year, we would have done things differently, but that's how injuries work.

John Pettus

My guess for us is we drop to 4 seed and then a 40% chance first round exit and 39% chance second round. The trajectory is a real thing happening for real reasons. We've gotten worse and worse since Christmas. Wiggins is soft and had imploded once he got his one All Star nod. He's content with his career. Dude has no competitive spirit or ambition.

John Pettus

I'm not sure who else wants to buy Draymond without Steph. I'm sure somebody would for some price. But his value to us is higher than anyone else probably.

John Pettus

Final standings look like a 4 seed Dubs vs either Utah or Denver at 5 to me. Dallas will pass Dubs at 3 seed (their only 1 game back and streaking). I figure Warriors could limp home with a 3-3....makes 4 seed very likely. If we get to the second round, we probably see PHX or Clips.

Noel Corcoran

This is amazing. This type of breakdown is the next level, to me at least. The diversity of the content made me hyper-focused for the entire video, I didn’t distract myself once. I was thinking to send you a voicemail telling you an idea regarding the breakdown which is basically to pause more during the clips and analyze some of the main problems that happened in that game, so you could be more focused and stop covering all the minor things. But I thought that this will is similar to the YouTube content/podcast. However, after watching this video I was astonished because this is even greater than what I wished for. Great to watch it, Keep going.

This sort of pod/breakdown hybrid makes perfect sense for games like this one that don't offer a great deal in the way of analysis point by point, bucket by bucket. When the team is either playing really well or playing really bad then it's a natural fit to tie it in to the bigger picture. I think that can apply equally for any team not just the dubs. I may be in a minority but more like this when appropriate I think. Keeps things fresh which I'm sure makes it a little easier for you too rather than repeating the exact same process over and over.

Alasdair Macdonald

I’m the type that likes to stir stuff up.. but it’s gotta be at the right value

Athletic Alchemy

thanks Eric 🙏🏽

Athletic Alchemy

Fuck, Alch, I’m so proud of you for breaking the mold and being real with this shit. I’m glad I upgraded to the $7 tier. Your content is worth it and you as a person is worth it.

Eric Constantinides

I mean, Wiggins is on an expiring deal so trading him to a team with some other asset like a first round pick(depending on how the season ends) for some big man depth is possible. I think the future of this team is with poole at the 2 and klay at the 3.

Robert St.Claire

Congratulations to your daughter that’s great to hear and I’m truly sorry for your dog hope they feel better man dog is a man’s best friend. As for the team I don’t have anything to say just want this season to be over with, steph klay and dray need to be in that or all three of them at separate times just individually I gotta say alch I’m one of those people that “just give him time give him a chance” I love the young guys and it maybe be biased because I’m around their age but I don’t wanna see any of them go :/ this is bullshit

Don't you forget how awful Bridge Troll was

Qiushi Hu

Question is: who can they pick up for Wiggins and Draymond? Those guys are sort of known quantities at this point and not exactly for all the right reasons

Tao Rodriguez-Seeger

Dope af

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