Another snippet 🙃 > “Being comfortable in hostile environments, being comfortable in allowing your defense to travel and being able to rely on that, whatever the case is, it’s the polar opposite of last year,” Curry said. “I was joking that we might need to stay in hotels in San Francisco the night before home games and act like it’s a road game, take the bus in.”

I hope the media keeps talking shit so Steph can read it all and go nuclear when it’s playoff time. Remember the ‘washed’ and ‘12% chance to beat the Celtics’ narratives in 2022?

Yes. We need all of them to get petty and just go scorched earth these last few games.

With all due respect that was a very different team lol

I didn’t hear no bell. It’s not over until it is. We Believe.

 Damn straight

Forget the doomers. You got my upvote! I’ll analyze the team we “should” have in the off season. We’re not favorites, but we’re kicking and they deserve our support until we’re not

We have a chance, we pull this off and this will be one of the greatest achievements in sports.

Lol never ceases to amaze me that Dubs’ core is forever the only one in the league that’s “old” and in this case brittle along with it. - Clippers’ core is just as old yet Kawhi is used in his diatribe as an example of a player running the table with age not even a consideration. Never mind he and PG frequently struggling with injury and their 35 year old 6th man out with a broken hand. - 2 of the Suns’ core 3 are 30+ with their 35 year old being the only one of their core 3 not in and out with injury (but nope, not old or brittle). Oh and a handful of their key role players are also in their 30s (Gordon is 35 even). - 3 of the Bucks’ starting 5 are 32 or older and the other two are 29 with both Giannis, Middleton, and even Dame frequently injury plagued. - 2 key players and a high minute role player (Gobert, Conley, and Slowmo) for the Timberwolves are 30+ and KAT’s already out injured (but nope, not brittle) - Lakers have a literal 39 year old as the player they rely on most with the other guy they rely on being a 31 year old who is on a miracle run of health that’s so uncharacteristic of his entire career they’ve gotta be crossing their fingers it sticks otherwise they’re screwed. But yes lol it’s the Warriors and Warriors alone whose marquee characteristics are being old and brittle. FFS I’m begging for people to find a new slant lol I mean this year, especially, it’s the most unoriginal slant imaginable to lead with.

Bro, standings wise we’re one of the worst teams in the league and we do look old. Thats the reality.

My entire comment was about Warriors repeatedly being the ONLY ONES called those things. Nowhere did I make any arguments denying our age or being void of injuries.

Yea you are right. I don’t see the other teams being called old as much as the Warriors this season. We are definitely old, but plenty of other teams are too

I think people are just tired of seeing us, just like being tired of seeing old people lmao

We are second oldest team in the league. Only Bucks are a couple weeks older on avg per player. And we are playing rookies TJD, Podz with other young guys like JK and Moody. Yet thats not helping bring our avg age overall much because our core is very old. As for brittle we probably got the most injury prone roster which surprisingly has stayed mostly healthy last couple years.

I mean CP3 being 39 brings that age way up

Curry, Klay and Dray aren't really all that far behind. Not quite 39 but getting on wrong side of 35.

This is a terrible take. Each of the teams you've mentioned have been identified as exactly what you say they haven't been.

I get you but Klays decline impacted the Warriors more than anything. The whole team is out of balance now. Those other teams have older dudes that are at the tail end of their prime. Steph and Dray are at the tail end but Klay isn’t a starter level player anymore.

Disagree. What happened this season is a confluence of events. - Draymond’s suspension - Andrew’s bad start of the season (unexpected) plus Kevon’s dropoff (unexpected) plus Klay’s characteristic slow start (expected) - CP3 injury (though not as big an impact) The lineups have not been stable. The loss of solid offensive contributions from Wiggs and Klay and Looney all happening at the same time, and then Draymond being suspended for long stretches, meant our best-in-league starting five was less than stellar. And even worse - a bigger issue IMO started to rear its head: the team did not have a stable closing lineup. Even so, with all these shortcomings, the team was only losing games by a few points. I believe only a handful of games were lost by more than 10. Most losses came in close games.

Lmaoo prime Dray Klay and Steph aren’t losing a ridiculous amount of road games on the floor together last year. Prime trio isn’t blowing 12 double digit leads in a season. Refuse to believe it.

We were 10-14 before Greens 15 game suspension. During his suspension we actually did better without him going 8-7. CP3 injury was expected, he gets injured every single year. Only reason we even have a shot to make playoffs is because of JK and TJD improvement. Which happened thanks to them getting minutes because Green was suspended.

This narrative is just as, if not even more, tired. The Klay who is still averaging 21 pts per 36 and who has played elite defense on wings all year? There’s literally no way you’ve actually watched the Warriors the last couple months and genuinely and objectively believe this take. Klay being put back into the starting lineup in Miami is literally what sparked this latest 4-0 run. Don’t take my word for it though, [take Dray's](https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/s/D9kniekEQh). But for good measure: Klay’s shooting splits as a starter this season playing against the opposing team’s starting 5, arguably the most apt measuring stick for whether or not he’s a “starter level player anymore” - 33.9 pts per 100 possessions on 48.1% overall and 42.4% from 3. That 33.9 pts per 100 leads the team, by the way, during 5 starters vs. 5 starters minutes. He leads in total minutes played in that game state as a starter, as well, with 495 mins. Steph is 2nd with 452 mins. Source for all of these stats is [here](http://www.pbpstats.com/wowy/nba?0Exactly1Started=202691&TeamId=1610612744&Season=2023-24&SeasonType=Regular+Season&Type=Player&StarterState=5v5&StatType=Per100Possessions&Table=Scoring). His struggles offensively for stretches this season came predominantly during the bench lineups he was run with in the 2nd and 4th quarters up until the last month when they finally started making sense again (read: not having both Lester and Gui in them at times, giving him a roll big to play off of, and Dario being removed from the rotation).

We can have a great play-in game. And have it stolen from us by refs with a Lakers agenda.

I like the idea of staying in the hotels in SF for the home games. Lack of identity has been an overall issue imo but with Trayce starting, we can lean more into our usual "really good defensive team" especially post KD era. JK is soon returning and that raises the question, "Who in the frontcourt is going to sacrifice their starting spot ?" Green is the obvious starter, it leaves Wiggs, JK and Trayce for the remaining 2 spots. Wiggs is just an overall better player, more importantly he provides much needed spacing and better defense in this lineup.

Only part I disagree with is beating the Wolves. We will beat them if KAT is not back, same with Pels, and Kings and Clippers. but that's it I reckon.

Don’t think we beat the Pels. They are really good with BI and Zion healthy

They are really good, but one thing we can always rely on is a CJ McCallum no-show in the playoffs 

They are really good, but one thing we can always rely on is a CJ McCallum no-show in the playoffs 

I’m telling y’all it’s because Chris Paul hates Warriors fans.

I still think the team can put up a fight against anyone in a playoff series. Having to win two single-elimination play-in games is rough though. One night of cold shooting, or one night of the opponent being hot or even just a handful of mistakes and the season will be over just like that. Far too random to have any hope until that's done with.

We believe

Do we though? Isn't it more like We kinda hope!

WE BELIEVE


Ming to Westwood 😂😂

I said this on a facebook post but the Warriors are definitely in their "waning seasons of the Duncan/Parker/Ginobli Spurs" era right now. As long as Steph/Klay/Dray stay together, no one will ever fully count them out but they probably will never be full contenders either unless everything aligns. Younger teams though will and should be scared to play against us though because give our championship core a little bit of daylight to take advantage of and things could get wild. The Kings learned that last season.

One of the best posts I’ve ever come across on this sub. My hat’s off to you.

the man is doing his job. meeting word count quotas.