golden state warriors thread

so we dont spam up the main thread with too much gsw stuff

i love any and all klay boat content
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBryU1pVcAYoZx4?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

I totally missed Avery Bradley is on the team now

he might not make the final roster. everyone is hoping its gary payton II. bradley has looked bad in the minutes ive seen him and hasnt looked good in a few seasons really

My understanding is: Payton is signed for this season so they'd have to eat the money for this season if they waive him. Bradley is on an exhibit 10 which they could convert to a 2-way even if they keep Payton. If they cut Payton they'd have to have him pass through waivers to sign him to a two-way.

actually, bradley is ineligible for a two-way due to service time, so he would have to be a straight up g-leaguer

hmm. i think they should roll w GP2. Obv if AB was even like 80% of what he was he would be better but I like the idea of a real defensive ball hawk that's young and hungry to prove himself.

Spottie, thanks for creating a safe space to talk about how Jordan Poole will make the all star team this year

haha i think 6th man of the year would be ideal honestly, or most improved. he may get too many starts in klays absence to be eligible for 6moy. either way im probably more excited to see him play than anything outside of klays return.

Nice to see Steph and Dray at the Giants game.

well thats an option i guess. might not be too bad an idea to leave that spot open for buyout spot idk

Warriors waived tonight: Jordan Bell, Avery Bradley, Mychal Mulder and Gary Payton II. 15th roster spot open for now.

— Monte Poole (@MontePooleNBCS) October 16, 2021

aww was kinda rooting for bell.

yeah same, i thought he was a building block!
is payton's son an nba player for the long haul or no? i haven't seen enough of him.

apparently payton II can’t do anything at all on offense

Yah report on him is that he’s an all time on ball defender but a zero on offense. Like a shorter and worse offensive player than tony Allen

so.... euroleague?

After waiving him Saturday, Golden State has re-signed Gary Payton II.

More NBA from me: https://t.co/LGN9cVpeGP pic.twitter.com/Od3jt7rMDF

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) October 19, 2021

makes sense

GP2 played for like 3 seconds to end the 1st half and he got a steal haha

wiseman is a large human
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCP1_PxUcAEghAg?format=jpg&name=medium

cuet
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/warriors-damion-lee-juan-toscano-anderson-share-evil-twins-bond

Toscano-Anderson said their friendship helped him survive in the NBA, a place he “thought I knew” but discovered was far different. He trusts Lee with his deepest thoughts.

“You need that. You need that in life, you know, as men we don't express ourselves when we don't find people we can just be vulnerable with. Not only as men, but as Black men. We tend to just kind of mask that stuff.”

Well, I finally saw my first pro 8-second violation. One of Dray's many boneheaded turnovers last night.

the TOs were brutal last night. felt like the majority of them were just plain stupid and pointless

I was yelling at the TV “a no-look pass means you don’t look!”

lol Andre - 2p/4r/10a/2s in 17 minutes

insane line

and liek every assist he was pointing at the pels bench someone musta said something to him early on

Andre Iguodala on their 7-1 start and if he thinks they are a good team: "Uhh, we okay, a work in progress. We had a favorable schedule so you shouldn't look too much into it.

— Joe Viray (@JoeVirayNBA) November 6, 2021

I agree

classic iggy lol

seriously the chase crowd is doodoo steph and dray having to yell at them just stand up and clap

“Come on muthafuckas” he fed up wit that bunk ass crowd 😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/gMRiNdTH0k

— STAY100 (@Bounc3Bike9800) November 9, 2021

shouldve stayed in oakland

i watched the hawks feed last night and those boys were salty when curry got his 50 lmao

Hawks Play by Play guy in his feelings about Steph getting 50 pic.twitter.com/t1IdYBfNwb

— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) November 9, 2021

lol what babies

pffffft 50 i do that for brkfst

I wonder if I'll ever go to another Warriors game. $120 for nosebleeds with a bad crowd? In a boring neighborhood? Zzz

come out to phx we can see them for less

Yeah the tickets are ridiculous for the Dubs. .01 percenters only.

I love Steph, Klay and Dray with all my heart but if they never get another ring because of the Curse of Oracle I'll understand.

So fun tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbqxrHpdE6g

Wiggins most aggressive game I’ve ever seen.

Does he promise to?

Andrew Wiggins: “I’m going to keep it rolling. I’m going to stay aggressive.”

— Rusty Simmons (@Rusty_SFChron) November 11, 2021

the highlight clip on espn was titled wiggins dunks hard on kat twice lol i was like hmm

really promising stuff from kuminga the last few games.

From @ElGee35’s recent video: Steph’s greatness pic.twitter.com/HckrWeS00q

— mathketball (@Mathketball1) November 19, 2021

and after all that the most impressive part is how he's able to set his feet and get off the shot after sprinting to the spot from the other direction

The Warriors starters tonight

Gary Payton II
Jordan Poole
Andrew Wiggins
Juan Toscano-Anderson
Kevon Looney

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 19, 2021

and after all that the most impressive part is how he's able to set his feet and get off the shot after sprinting to the spot from the other direction

― J0rdan S., Friday, November 19, 2021 2:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah all that and he still has less than a quarter of a second to get the shot off clean, and does

they won with that lineup! know your opponent i guess.

Good stuff from Poole and Wiggins last night. Once klay comes back Poole will fill his rightful role as the microwave 6th man and he’ll be able to maximize his strengths a little more.

kat trade rumors via one of their beat writers

rostered vs being a top ~20 player is a big gap. would be awesome if he can get back to where he was this season. im surprised how high he still jumps now.

maybe theres a trade that keeps them competent this year and then adding jimmy back next gives them one last run but theyre threading a near impossible needle at this point and im not sure mgmt is willing to part with those picks. on the other hand theyve done jack all with lottery picks since taking over so.

oops xp

xp yeah they're 0-2 in the lottery, though one of those years was a rough draft (2020). I suppose I can dream and imagine if they'd traded back a bit and nabbed Haliburton... but that top 10 is pretty rough outside of Ant.

taking melo couldve been pretty interesting

yeah but he'd be hurt too often... I suppose in a parallel universe where he's super healthy and plays in 90% of his games yeah, but it's hard to ignore the fact he's not played 50+ games since his 2nd season (2022)

That's the kind of good player/bad health deal that forces franchises into contracts they heavily regret later on.

you never know maybe he goes to a good team takes the whole thing more seriously works studiously with the training staff and so forth

talent wise melo was the right pick at 2. but really the right play was to trade that pick and shore up the nucleus. or trade down and get a sniper like desmond bane or maxey or haliburton

but whatever they completely whiffed on two lotto picks in a row and this is what happens.

i firmly believe lamelo on the warriors would have been an absolute disaster. jordan poole got punched out there, what fate would have awaited lamelo? there’s no way his game would have fit in a style as specific as the warriors, especially what it requires defensively. it’s nice to think that it would have been the perfect situation for lamelo, putting him in the right culture etc but nothing about his career has shown that he takes anything seriously enough to theoretically take advantage of the opportunity of being on golden state. they would have traded him

trading that pick was always the right play yeah

can slice and dice the wiseman draft a million different ways but with the warriors it’s pretty simple imo, they picked kuminga over franz. just blew that one. it happens, it’s very far from the worst evaluations in nba draft history, but if they had just taken franz that changes everything

yup

thats who kerr wanted

Sengun would've also been nice

I'd trade even a happy JK straight up for Santi Aldama who went #30

lamelo with draymond on the team likely would have ended in disaster, but draymond is pretty expendable at this point

I mean he’s had Kuminga on the team and they’re cool (plus plenty of other unserious and/or low motor ballers ala Nick Young, Oubre, Wiggins, Cauley Stein, D Lo, all who he worked with just fine) If lamelo has as sharp a tongue as Poole then there’d be issues but in general draymond is a good teammate. In my biased opinion anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7HxKzntSs

I swear that kid was put up to it by an older sibling or a shady parent

legitimately a top three game ive been to lol. they closed on a 24-5 run i believe.

down 14 in the 4th, down 10 with ~5 min to go and pulled it out of their asses. suns getting cooked by gui santos and patty spence you hate to see it. shutting down dillon over and over as he hoisted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTTn6DQ7KzA

my youngest made this sign :)
https://i.imgur.com/4bwCVr2.jpeg

hahahaha

good for both the basketblolz and the basket-bawww threads

classic

the kids are alright 😊

phoenix buns more like these kids are the chosen ones

incredible

PHOENIX BUMS lol

yes I know it's buns but I took some liberties myself

phoenix bums seems like it could be a subreddit for british tourists trying to find big booty clubs in az

Lmao they did it again. Down big in the 4th the claw back to take the lead at the very end then another mad scramble on the last couple possessions. It’s too bad cos Al and Melten look great

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47880753/inside-ugly-5-year-split-jonathan-kuminga-warriors

Kuminga was prepared for the conversation. He knew management wanted to ding him for missing a team-requested event and alert him that someone around him was taking too much food from the family room. The gripes between player and organization, as multiple sources said, had become "petty" in the fifth year of a relationship many believed should've ended years before.

We’re going to get more super petty gossip coming out over the next few weeks. They needed divorce lawyers.

tell yr cousin he cant be taking the snickers home with him if he wants to eat one here thats fine

"the player and his crew were taking bags and bags of catered food home after games." lol

hes got a hungry crew

Good lord that's pretty bogan af. Unprofessional to use a different term

Ultimately, after reading the article and stepping back, Lacob getting involved in the basketball decisions is what fucked this. More he does that, more this franchise will crater post Curry. Let the basketball people do their thing and stay out of it

time stamp 58 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uX6dUZWhE

Wondering if they're just sneakily tanking at this stage with Curry out indefinitely. Maybe Lacob can pull some strings and get the #1 pick while finishing 10th

pretty impressed with the effort level. even with a decimated roster theyre mostly hanging around

Steve Kerr wants to go out with a winning record I guess.

the dubs have five former or current santa cruz sea dubs playing at once right now

starting lineup tonight:

Brandin Podziemski
Malevy Leons
Nate Williams
Pat Spencer
Kristaps Porzingus

mostly players i have heard of

@anthonyVslater

The Warriors will rule out Steph Curry for another 10 days, stretching five more games, sources tell me and @ShamsCharania. There has been notable progress. He’s back on the court and expected to intensify workouts in upcoming days. Absence will reach at least 20 games.

I mean at this point just shut him down... I would hate to see him have to potentially sit out most of next year injured

Depends what he wants. I think he’d still rather try and get into the playoffs and play some meaningful games. Prob the right move to shut it down. Everything setting up for one last ride next season.

Exactly, but Curry def has agency here. I just hope he doesn't get unlucky. Seen too many Achilles tears lately