Daily Discussion Thread | March 08, 2023

17 comments

1. Who we playin next?

2. Didn’t watch the game. Why Klay took only 3 shots in the entire second half. He’s exhausted or something?

3. Can’t stand cj McCollum it’s the real issue with Pels

4. Bro, can they branch out Chase Center on every NBA team’s city?

5. Head up,wigs and GP2 gonna fix a lot of defensive issues.Just hop they take Lamb/Iggy/Jamychal minutes and not Kumingas

6. Last night, our defense was preposterously bad. So strange from a similar core that was once elite defensively with the addition of a defensive BEAST in DDV

7. I really dont like our current offensive sets… It’s too much 3pt shooting. I mean I get we have open 3s generated by our sets but we’re not a great 3pt shooting team outside of 2 players. We really miss a lob threat or any rim pressure.

   Because we have either 2 of Dray, Looney and JK at the same time, our lanes are clogged for us to even drive. We dont have any post presence at all. And the one play we have where we get post ups are used only by Wiggins who is not playing. We rarely use it for JK because of his handles… Where is our sets where we lob it to the dunker spots?

   I think we should have somehow made sets that could have catered to Wise earlier on instead of shoehorning him into Looney 2.0 just for post presence. Really a misuse of talent right there.

   I think all our struggles were really the effect of our initial strategy in the early phase of this season and now it’s a bit too late to deviate from it because of personel.

8. Something I’ve noticed recently is that one of the reasons everyone on the team is hesitant to drive is because of how clogged the lane is in certain lineups.

   Draymond and Looney work fine together when one of them is aggressive or actively doing something on offense that requires their man to stay attached to them outside of the paint but when that doesn’t happen they just end up clogging the paint so much that there’s always at least 3 defenders near the rim waiting to contest shots at the rim and get steals on tight passes.

   I think it’s high time we stop playing 2 non-floor spacers together. It’s worked in the past years but it clearly isn’t working this year and because it messes up the driving lanes it messes up everything from the shots at the rim to the free throw attempts to even the three point shooting because when you drive and kick it out shooters shoot in rhythm but when you just chuck up a three off a screen or a contested off the dribble pull up there’s not a lot of rhythm and that often results in a pretty loud brick.

9. i really don’t want to sound like a doomer, but i think the evidence is right in front of our eyes

   – when (if…) GP2 will be back, he won’t be ballin straight out of nowhere after missing so many games…he will need time to find his groove back, get adapted, etc…and we really don’t have time right now

   – same thing with Wiggs: something truly bad must have happened, many of us are like “i can’t wait till he’ll be back” thinking that he’ll be balling as soon as he’ll be back, but i really can’t see how it would be possible for him to be concentrated on basketball right away after all this things he’s going through..

   – if Steph dropping 40 pts (+7 assists, which means he participated in between 54-61 pts) is not enough to beat the fricking Thunders, i don’t know what it is then

   – I’m not saying Kerr is a bad coach (i’d be crazy to say so), but i really think something’s wrong with him and the staff this year: it can’t be a coincidence that we’re still struggling in March while the Kings, out of nowhere, this year are almost the 2nd best team in the West…i guess Mike Brown was more important than we knew.

   – our lack of size is a problem against many opponents, and we don’t have someone to make Looney and Draymond rest even some minutes (IF we get to the playoffs, these guys are gonna be exhausted)

   – Dray’s punch, Kerr yelling at him, Kerr talking 1-on-1 with him during practice, Steph throwing the mouthguard, Dray literally giving up yesterday in the middle of a play…Poole knows the mistakes he makes yet he still continues to make them, he doesn’t improve… it’s obvious that even the players/staff are frustrated with him. he really either makes plays that make us win or that kill the momentum and make us lose (more the latter…), there’s no balance.

   and, really, again, i don’t want to sound like a doomer, but this is how things really seem to be right now…next year doesn’t look better either

   – we (might) have an healthy GP2, but we (probably) lose DDV, who has been one of our best players this year.

   – Lacob made it clear that if we don’t make a good run in this end of the regular season / post season, some decisions will have to be made about Dray, Klay and all big contracts…how would Steph react?

   – there’s still no news about Bob renewing

   – some say Kerr’s future is related to that of Bob

   – decisions will have to be made about Poole

   i guess it’s normal, physiological…every cicle must come to an end, these guys have literally won everything in these last 8-9 years…it’s just sad to witness it though.

10. Poole was like my favorite player on the team last year outside of Steph. Now, I don’t like his play, his attitude, or anything

11. And just like that one game out the playoff and into the play in

12. At this point, this team is just allergic to win road games. 7 road wins is just disgusting, and some loses were so winnable, like the past two games, the Detroit game, the Hornets game, the Magic game, so many winnable road games that the team just couldn’t get it done for some reason, and it’s costing us this season.

    This team at home looks like the best team in the NBA, but once they play on the road, they look like headless chickens. Only Steph has been consistent playing on the road. So, it’s pretty much the rest of the boys not stepping up.

    Bad news for the Dubs is that 9 out of the last 16 games are on the road. They really need to step up now.

13. and the lakers just got into play in, man this fucking sucks

14. why is this team so different on the road?

    

15. We gonna end at 500 for sure

16. Draymond challenged so few shots at the rim last night. It was like he decided to not put forth effort if no one was going to be good on defense.

    He had exactly one rebound. Rebounds can be a noisy metric, but one?

    Also, not sure Andre can help this season. He looked rough at times last year, and was pretty much out of the playoff rotation. Plus, he’s another non-shooter, and you just can’t play like that in 2023.

    I might start playing JMG more, particularly with no Lamb. We just need move spacing from the bigs. Glad to see PBJ get some run; dude gets up shots at a rate that makes Poole envious.

    Poole needs to understand that he isn’t a shooter. He can be a great scorer, but he needs to see the ball go in a few times before he starts jacking high degree of difficulty threes. He should live at the free throw line, midrange, and restricted area. During our run sans Steph, Poole had multiple double digit free throw games.

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    … us after every road loss this season.

    Playoffs?!?? I just want to win a game lol.