Are the Warriors turning the corner? 

Screening This mas is very underrated at screening and patience on passes

@@cyberft I saw the stats today and Looney isn’t top 5 I don’t think, Adams leads the league in screen assists, agreed Looney is crazy underrated though

He played great defense against Tatum on the switches

@@samn90834 you’re right. Got caught repeating something someone told me. SMH.

Precisely why he was paid this year.... plays the system like a fiddle....

Poole would have had a nightmare game if he hadn’t gotten to the line so many times too

@@landanross2966 What are you talking about? He knew he wasn’t dropping 3s that’s why he drove as much to get to the line. That is the correct mindset of a scorer

@@landanross2966 If you cant defend without fouling thats on you.

@@landanross2966 He's smart to not settle for 3s because it's not dropping. That's why he got to the line more, and it's not his fault that the Celtics are fouling him

@@landanross2966 If I beat Steph friggin' Curry for the most accurate FT% last year, I'd try to go to the line a bunch too

Nah. He had some brilliant playoff games.

What about his 41point game?

@@Auokii it's definitely a contest, but his defense in this game might seperate it

@@Auokii it's against the rocket...

@@Awesomeness4627 yup, his defense literally old Klay this game

The big three is getting smaller every day

@@kylelewis7767 It's a big one right now

He said that about the Lakers though. Hahahahahahahahaha

The warriors 3 have never lost a series after 2015 while all healthy

​@@kylelewis7767 Don't matter. Your team still ain't beating them.

@xxdxddddffwfegfg ._. my guy there's no way you read a wholesome message like that and called it annoying

@@trap404some people just carry hate in their heart.

@@sinaslade fr

@@xxdxddddffwfegfg4306 You got me, the only reason I decided to compliment a creator I love is to farm fictional Internet points, I'm sorry, will never do it again

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@callmecatalyst This new Celtics coach has them first in the league with the best offence of all time (admittedly it's a long season but alas). Boston were without Horford and Rob Williams for the game, leaving their big man rotation as Blake Griffin and Luke Kornet, who would both get torched on the perimeter. You're a donut if you think this is a reflection of Mazzulla

@callmecatalyst fwiw Ime was also doing drop coverage on Steph in the finals. Pretty much every former player in the media flamed him for it. I wouldn't put all the blame on Mazzulla for this.

We were forced to play Blake griffin for 20 minutes cause Williams and Horford were out we’ll be okay

@@albericponcedeleon2696 And there is a reason why we were playing drop on the Dubs. You basically neutralize everyone else, ESPECIALLY Draymond, with the drop. It was the Celtics offense that failed them more, not their D. Even Thinking Basketball covered this before in their channel.

@callmecatalyst very likely how? You don’t know that man or what really went down concerning his situation smh crazy how y’all think y’all know people through a phone

He played fantastic

yup. Him and Moody will inherit the franchise. Hope Wiseman catches up...

He's definitely ready to take a bigger role on the Warriors right now.

@jojetparedes4024 Iggy >> kuminga Draymond >> Looney Klay >> Moody Steph >> Poole The warriors' long term planning and player development is quite sophisticated.

agree. it seems to me Kuminga is filling the role that the W's had hoped Wiseman would fill: crashing the glass on 3 pointers for the easy second effort, while Looney gets back on defense.

Exactly no need to go full Force every game they've proofed themselves their elite

Until they start stringing together consecutive games playing at this level they haven't flipped anything. Klay has 1 good game out of every three

@@jayjonah83 and four rings in 8 yrs what ur favorite current sg doing

@@late3253 you're talking legacy and I'm talking about the current season. I honestly don't care how great he was 4 years ago if he's taking bad shots and bricking open three's today.

you still don’t know what could happen with and the lost games they’ve had. i’d like for them to just secure a playoff spot because i don’t want to leave the post-season up to a play-in game.

big agree. I expected them to lose most of their first 15 games, as they try to bring the newer and bench players up a notch in skill and synergy with the rest of the warriors lineup. And in this game we saw that synergy with how well each of the role and bench players filled their niche, maintaining the pace, intensity, and playstyle of the starters. I think the W's feel a little entitled to getting to the playoffs. and for good reason, making it the finals 6 out of the past 8 years is a huge deal. and once they are in the playoffs, I think they have a very good chance of repeating a championship

Their preseason is basically 20 games into the regular season. With how the teams are stacked up, it doesn't really matter getting the top seeds. They've experience the collapse of their 73-9 season, so there's nothing to prove. Most contending teams now are just using the regular season to practice and polish their post season form and even then it is too long, and we have now an acceptable bullshit practice of "load management". The 82 game league schedule is broken for as long as corporate America can remember. Does having Eastern-Western conferences even have any meaning anymore? The most logical and sensible schedule is for teams to play home and away games with every other team, making it a 58 game season. Seeding the leaderboard #1 to #16 scrapping the East/West thing will then make regular season games meaningful as being the top seed means you're basically playing the middle of the league teams and underdog upsets are even more dramatic and exciting.

I'm a warriors fan too, and I think the core players and people around the team stopped caring about the regular season after the 2016 finals. They saw how all that effort they poured into an all-time regular season was rewarded. Smart people figure out the incentive structure fast, that's what makes them smart people. The warriors went into the post-season last year having lost 16 of their last 28. it didn't matter. They haven't been struggling this season so far, they just don't care about the regular season.

@@SuperSupersoda yahh the 73-9 record that doesn't convert into championship.

Yes it will. Crushed by the bucks without Jrue.

And proud daddy of The Boston Celtics

Lol Steph yeah, Klay and Dray, c'mon did you even watch the finals? One good game don't make you someone's Daddy

@@brightBoss One game from who?

#classic

The Celtics got lucky the bucks missed their second option. Had it been the other way around and jalen brown was out for the series, the bucks would have advanced in 5. Also the Celtics got lucky Jimmy missed games in that heat series and it still went 7 games. Imagine if Tatum missed a game or 2 against that heat team. You Celtics fans are hilarious I swear

@@t-raw4316someone sounds like they have PTSD still

​@@t-raw4316 "Had it been..." "Imagine if...". All that copium, yet everything you said was a complete non-sequitur. The dude was talking about the Celtics v. Warriors game that just happened, and you're still living in June, apparently. "... the bucks would have advanced in 5". Not having Middleton isn't a good enough excuse for letting Grant Williams score 27 points in a single game. The Bucks' coaching is what cost them the series. "Imagine if Tatum missed a game or 2 against that Heat team". Tatum played through a fractured wrist in the entire playoffs. He could have missed time for that, but he played anyway. Besides, he could have missed three games, and as long as they were games 1, 3, and 6, the series would have ended the same way. The Heat had a full roster in game 7, and still lost. That's what matters, and that's what happened. To be fair though, you're right. The Celtics got lucky. They got lucky that Middleton was hurt. They got lucky that they stayed (mostly) healthy for the playoffs. They got lucky that Jimmy Butler chose to take a 3 at the end of game 7, and they got lucky that it didn't go in. They got lucky that so many of their recent draft picks (Smart, Brown, Tatum, Grant Williams, Rob Williams, Pritchard) turned out to be valuable players. They got lucky that their star players have matured, and don't have the ego issues that plague other teams (i.e. the Nets). They got lucky that the Derrick White trade worked out well for them. The fact of the matter is that every successful team in professional sports got there partly due to luck. You can either accept that and move on, or you can stay stuck in the past playing the "what if" game until the end of time.

Right! lol

There’s an agenda, if they perform well on the upcoming road trip they’ll start moving him up there

Ikr how is Luka up there but not Curry who have a better record rn

The team luka is playing with is no where comparable to the warriors talent wise.

@@jj55222 I think there's a video from this very channel that proves it is easier to put up galactic numbers on a "bad" team in comparison with a team with other star-caliber players. And it shows as Luka has the highest usage rate by a gigantic margin

@@joaoramos7160 that’s a fair point but Lukas team is 1 game behind the warriors who are just over .500 with that much talent. That’s more so the point I was making, the mavs lost by 30 to a sub .500 bulls team last night when luka wasn’t playing. And having competitive games against top teams when he’s on the court.

Not just that, but it shows the need for us to get Timelord back ASAP. Without him, there's no way we can contain Looney or Kuminga down low.

tbh the only hope is warriors get beat in the playoffs before making in the finals , cus it's clear as day this is the only team that is Celtics kyprtonite

@@light3181 the only chance it happens is if the Suns meet them in the playoffs. Not saying the Suns will beat them for sure, but the Warriors has always had a hard time playing against them for some reason. Other than the Suns, I don't see any other Western team posing a threat to Golden State in a 7 game series. Maybe a healthy Denver Nuggets, but idk if they already have the defensive tools to keep up with the Warriors fast paced, guard oriented offense.

@@albertmendez2262 We were really feeling the loss of time lord and big Al. Horford is a powerful presence on the court.

From these clips, it looks like Brown, Tatum and others were missing passes that would've given Boston some better looks. Clearly Tatum should've kicked it out when 3 dudes convdrged on him on the paint. Tatum is a decent passer now but still not great at making passing reads. Brown has never been good at that.

Hopefully! The next 6 games are brutal though, all road games and 2 back to backs.

I appreciate that!

They tied for the 3rd best record in the league in the last 15 games with all there starters only playing in 9 of the games and 2 games of them missing all the starters but looney

It's almost like when you've won four titles in 8 seasons, you have a switch that you can just flip when you need to.

@@SuperSupersoda Some fans just think teams can just go full throttle in the regular season to pursue 50+ wins and home team advantage. The season is long and usually the teams that start to show their strength by January/All-star game are the ones showing why they are contenders and not just playoff pretenders.

Playoff basketball is different than regular season basketball.

i think wiseman still need another year to at least become effective in rotation

wiseman will add another dimension for sure. one that makes a 15 point lead dissipate in 5 minutes.

I think wiseman just needs to improve his basketball IQ. He loves to play around the basket and camp in the paint on offense. He just needs to do a better job understanding spacing. It’s why kuminga also looked bad early on. Wiseman clogging the paint completely nullified kuminga’s playstyle, and now with wiseman out, the improved spacing has allowed kuminga to play to his strengths. Wiseman just needs to learn from looney on where he should be on offense.

Wiseman just needs to play closer to something like Looney does. Good defensive bigs aren't liabilities when they are attacked on screens/switches by the ball handler. As well as positioning on the offense. He'll get his baskets with his own athleticism/length.

Same, i was also disappointed that there wasnt one

We didn't get any but heyy check his podcast. He revisited his top 40 players of all time. It's called Thinking basketball as well. Cheers!

Circle gets the square. They used to care about the regular season, once upon a time. Then they found out what winning 73 regular seasons games got you: becoming the go-to argument for people who want to make the case that Lebron is the GOAT. There are no rewards for regular season wins, the warriors haven't cared in a long time, unless it's personal.

He also gets trigger happy when he makes make any shot sometimes. Like if he makes an open three, he will try shooting any shot available the next trip.

Yeah he kept trying to do the limp contested midrange shot last year too. I would rather have him catch and shoot rather than these shots and just keep the ball moving.

Klay averaged 22 on 44%fg and 40%3 after his first ten games of the season last year and averaged 22 on 50%fg and 46% from 3 in the first rounds taking those same shots it’s more then just shot selection

And idk what games you been watching klay has been taking tough shots while playing good

really? most people ive talked to knew about his bad shot selection

it already is complete blasphemy, best point guard to ever touch a ball

He’s defo top 10 imo, look at his offensive numbers this year too.

It’s hard to LeBron on a top 10 if he continues to underperform

The fact he's not already there for you just shows how ignorant you are lmao

I don’t see how anyone with a brain can even exclude Curry from the top 10 currently. In my opinion if he wins another he’s in the conversation for a top 5 player of all time.

@joceja23 Yeah that’s why his most complete basketball was played at the end of a 2018 season he played all 82 games of

Tiny sample size and they've played worse teams in the games LeBron missed.

@@mindzeye123123 Even so, it just feels like LeBron disrupts the Lakers offense moreso than before, every time I just see him jacking too many 3s when he's much more useful in the pick & roll or driving himself

Lebron is one of the most inefficient scorers in the league this year.

Or even a video on the adjustments he can make, because from my viewing it seems like his impact and efficiency are down in part because he needs to reduce his workload and correspondingly shift his shot selection. He's shooting from outside a lot, when he was never a sniper.

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