Official Around the NBA October/November 2016

Westbrick - 44 shots.
Rest of team 52.

 

Yep, as I predicted, he will be the first player in NBA history with a USG% > 40.

BNM

 

Are you serious? It was the addition of Bogut that made them relevant. Now he's gone and they suck. Barnes had 31 tonight, btw.

 

First OKC almost loses to Philly and now PHX takes them to OT. A wins a win is true but thats disturbing.

 

And they won

 

Yes, they did.

In overtime.

At home.

Over a lottery team.

Not impressed.

BNM

 

Terrence Ross, Andre Miller, and Mo Williams have had 50+ before. 31 points makes him good?

It was the addition of Bogut that made who relevant, the Warriors???

Please don't tell me the reason the Warriors have been relevant the past couple years has been because of Andrew Bogut. If you really think that then I worry for you.

 

Tim Frazier.
18 Points, 10.5 Assists, 5.5 Rebounds per game.

 

All 15-16 season you hammered Lillard in every post over efficiency.
Surprising you'd post this.
But then again you like Lowry so not surprised.

 

Tim Frazier deserved more minutes, not just because he's a damn good player but because playing him 10-15 minutes a game would have made us that much stronger.
We can't afford to play half the minutes with just one of CJ and Dame and with no other natural guard. We need to at least give Napier real minutes and ideally bring another combo/shooting guard for 10 minuts of the bench.
Our best lineup is no doubt playing both Dame and CJ. Both of them are small skilled guards. Then why do we choose to play so many minutes with just one guard and two SFs? Situationally this might work, but as our regular rotation?!

 

Tim Frazier would obviously have been the 3rd star of our big 3

 

Working out with dame in the summer looks to have helped his game.

 

GSW hardly looks like the powerhouse team they were last year. It is most noticeable on the defensive end.

 

Let's at least wait until after Tuesday before we declare them has beens.

 

They are still a good team, my point is more so that the people claiming they are a Finals lock are off their rocker.

 

Yeah, I know. Just giving you a hard time. My money is still on GSW figuring it out and being pretty tough to beat, but they're definitely dealing with some issues.

 

They are already tough to beat, but the difference is they try to win on the offensive end rather than on defense. They are pretty bad at guarding the three point line too. If they don't lock down in defense vs us we will eat them alive.

Let me put it this way, their effort on defense in their first 3 games mimics our defense in 3rd quarters this season. It's similar in the sense that we have slacked in the third because we know we can lock it down and mount a comeback in the 4th. The Warriors think they can slack on defense and let their shooting carry them. They don't have the defensive minded anchors of Ezeli or Bogut anymore, and the visible differences are glaring.

 

And as far as 'figuring it out' in the sense that Miami 'figured it out', Durant is a shade of the champion Lebron James is, and Dwayne Wade as well for that matter. The only real 'champion' competitor on the Warriors is Draymond, and he is also the most volatile. The heat figured out how to come together to make the team greater than the sum of their parts, I don't see these Warriors being able to play like themselves and still be able to let Livingston go off in the playoffs, which is what lebron bosh and Wade were able to do when they got the best out of players like Chalmers Miller and Haslem.

 

I agree with most of this, but we'll see what Kerr can do with them defensively. It's not just a matter of how the big 4 work together, it's all the other new pieces who, IMO, aren't going to contribute as much as the other role players they're replacing. Maybe Kerr can work some magic, but I'm not quite sure.

 

Oh trust me I hate it