First we have to start actually hitting shots. Hendo Crabbe Aminu PLEASE start hitting your averages. That's all we ask!
Or less likely the Rockets could come back and win the series....what am I talking about...hahahahaha
Warriors fans are suddenly big Trailblazers fans, considering a 7 game Blazers/Clippers series causes Curry to miss the least amount of games, heh.
I'm so torn.... on the one hand, I want the Warriors to lose. But on the other hand, I hate the Rockets..... and I would rather see Golden State win out. I can't stand the idea of LaMarsha getting a ring.
Yeah makes our series more interesting. Even if we somehow advanced; Warriors would be huge favorites without Curry. It might actually be worse for them if he is in and out of the lineup, no idea what he can give them. If he was just done for the season they could move on. They have tons of depth. If they somehow won the title without Curry it'd have to cement them as the greatest team of all time, right? Can't imagine Jordan getting hurt with the 72 win Bulls or Bird out for the 1986 Celtics and they win the finals.
I actually really like our chances if we somehow ended up making it to the second round against GSW. He has lit us up in every game this season. If you take that away, with the way that Dame always plays against them, I really like our chances.
The stars are aligning. The blazers beat the clips in 6 and take out a curryless warriors squad. We match up well with the warriors but without curry we have the advantage at point guard. Holy shit can you imagine if tim duncan and tony parker go down and blazers beat the fuck out of lamarsha? I tried to tell those spoiled warriors fans all it takes is one knee or glass ankle on curry and you might not be so cocky. Blazers make finals in the season we were predicted to be 29th in the league. Fuck yes im so motivated now.
I think the Warriors will take care of Houston. But a second round series and a WCF, against Spurs or OKC, without Curry? No flipping way. Bummer for them. And really, I hate to see championship basketball stand or fall on one person's injury. But it does.
Depends on when Curry actually gets back. If he's back midway through the second round, with no major lingering effects, their title hopes are still alive. If after 2 weeks, his MCL still isn't good to go and he misses conference finals games...that'll pretty much write an end to their chances. To put the Curry-less Warriors in perspective, I thought this was an interesting article from Kevin Pelton: A better way to estimate Golden State's level of play without Curry is using the multi-year version of ESPN's real plus-minus (RPM). RPM suggests the Warriors are 1.6 points per 100 possessions better than league average on offense without Curry. That rate would made Golden State about the NBA's eighth best offensive team (tied with Houston). On defense, the Warriors would rate third in the league, at 4.4 points per 100 possessions better than league average (behind only San Antonio and Atlanta). So, using the minutes distribution we saw in Games 2 and 3, with Curry out, the Warriors would be about 6.0 points per 100 possessions better than league average overall. That is a slightly better than Cleveland (at 5.8) and it translates to about 57 wins over a full season. That estimate is similar to how Las Vegas has treated the Curry-less Warriors this series. The final line for Game 2 favored Golden State by 8.5 points at home after Curry was ruled out, and the Warriors were 3.5-point favorites for Game 3 on the road, suggesting that gamblers consider Golden State about six points better than the Rockets on a neutral court. The line went up just five points (to Warriors as 8.5-point favorites) for Game 4 when Curry was available. Quite a bit more here.
