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Warriors can get this one!

Win or go home. Let's see what the championship core have left.

I just don’t want to see Steph/cp/klay to close any game moving forward.

So, Warriors may avoid to play Lakers and Suns in play in games.

That is good.

Kings and Pelicans are beatable.

I didn't want Lakers in play in game, they would have the whistle.

Hope Warriors will be in play offs

Onus wrote:I just don’t want to see Steph/cp/klay to close any game moving forward.

CP had a great career but he is 38 and one step before retirement.
Warriors need to win and not only respect Paul.

Personally I would like to see Curry, Wiggins, Green play heavy minutes. And Thompson too.

Kuminga is not in a good rhythm right now. Hope he finds his form.
Moody should take the minutes of CP3 and Podzemski imo.
He has the length, plays defense and shoots 3s.
A 3&d player.

vagelis wrote:Kuminga

I am worried about Kuminga. He was balling but got derailed by the knee injury. Also Klay and Wiggs have been playing better and that might be throwing him off a bit. He's at his best when he's aggressive (but under control), when he defers there's not much point to having him on the court, even though it's nice he put up 7 assists tonight.

I see them beating the Kings ....and I see them beating the Pels

ONLY IF KERR sticks with Draymond and TJD on the back line. If he gets cute with Draymond alone at center then forget it.

Please just end the season and lose, let Klay walk, let CP walk, trade Dray for a rack of balls, and reboot with the youngins.

LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hyped for this big game. Warriors need to finish them off especially with most of our squad healthy minus JK and maybe GP2.

Kings are injured with Monk & Huerter, but man Keon Ellis has stepped it up scoring and defensively. Kings can still score a ton of points, have a solid bench.

Defensive Keys to the game:
- Defend the 3point line
- Don't let the role players get going (Ellis, Barnes, Lyles, & Keegan)
- Box out Sabonis. We have the bodies to guard him, but we have to limit the second chance shots.

I'm not a gambler. Does +8000 mean that they're 80:1 to win the chip going in? Stranger things have happened, but a LOT of things will have to go exactly right. As said, hopefully Kerr ignores egos and plays the best rotations he can. Let's see what happens.

Upper deck ticket s selling for $350

thunderdunk wrote:I'm not a gambler. Does +8000 mean that they're 80:1 to win the chip going in? Stranger things have happened, but a LOT of things will have to go exactly right. As said, hopefully Kerr ignores egos and plays the best rotations he can. Let's see what happens.

Yes, that's what it means. I think part of what's making that such a big line is having to win two elimination games just to get in the actual playoffs.

thunderdunk wrote:I'm not a gambler. Does +8000 mean that they're 80:1 to win the chip going in? Stranger things have happened, but a LOT of things will have to go exactly right. As said, hopefully Kerr ignores egos and plays the best rotations he can. Let's see what happens.

That’s the problem with the one game play-in. Kerr typically lets his players fail before he makes changes.

In the play-in that’s death.

KevinMcreynolds wrote:Please just end the season and lose, let Klay walk, let CP walk, trade Dray for a rack of balls, and reboot with the youngins.

Nope.

Gun for a title, resign Klay to a 5-yr deal with 4 years worth of player options, make Draymond captain and assistant coach, resign CP to a 3 year deal, and see if we can sign Kyle Lowry to a 3 year deal, we need to get older and smaller.

Too bad Huerter is injured. I wanted another block by Moody before the season ended.

Our recent losses show a vulnerability to stop length from shooting over our small guards. If kings make 3s, we'll lose. If they are cold, we'll win.

Crazy-Canuck wrote:Our recent losses show a vulnerability to stop length from shooting over our small guards. If kings make 3s, we'll lose. If they are cold, we'll win.

Malik Monk being out is pretty big for the Warriors. He won a couple games by himself last year.

The Kings matchup is interesting. Last year we got a lot of Huerter and Monk minutes, neither guy being great on defense. This year we will get more Ellis and Mitchell minutes, both who are better defenders to put on Steph.

We struggled last year stopping two guys off the bounce in Fox and Monk, this year with Monk out we can commit heavier to Fox. Let’s just hope Kerr doesn’t go with his three older guys lineup of Steph, Klay, and CP3 late in the game for experience only to get abused by Fox downhill or size inside.

Last year Looneys ability to body up and not bite on fakes by Sabonis helped us secure the series. I know we have went with TJD lately but idk if TJD is the type of on ball defender to slow Sabonis, he’s stronger as a help side guy. Even if you put Green on Sabonis I don’t see how TJD defends Barnes and Murray out in space. Does last years starting lineup being a year older have the ability to out score the Kings playing two non-offensive threats in Green-Looney together?

TJD might be best getting the Len matchup minutes. Lens size gave Green some struggles last year, I am not referring to any box score stat but just bodying up the guys size was a handful for Green and a distraction as a help defender.

I think we match up well with Sabonis. He is one big we have multiple options for. Wiggins, Kuminga and Steph should be able to attack him off the dribble on the other side.

Fox on the other hand… if his shot is on, is too dynamic for us to keep out of the paint. I worry about his ability to drop a large game against our perimeter defenders.

Barnes still owes the Dubs for his pitiful 16 Finals performance.

Murray strikes me as the type of player who averages the same PPG, RPB, APG, BPG, SPG & FG% throughout his career.

thunderdunk wrote:I'm not a gambler. Does +8000 mean that they're 80:1 to win the chip going in? Stranger things have happened, but a LOT of things will have to go exactly right. As said, hopefully Kerr ignores egos and plays the best rotations he can. Let's see what happens.

If you see the +#### thing, its basically saying if you bet 100 dollars, this would be your payout. So yes for the Warriors, 80:1

For heads-up games, the + number is the same: how much you win if you bet $100, and the - number is how much you'd need to bet to win $100. But not every game will have a +, some games will have two minuses. This game, for example, opened with the Warriors moneyline at -112, and the Kings at -104, meaning the Warriors are a very slight favorite at this time

Fanduel actually has it as Warriors -136 / Kings +116 so it looks like early money is favoring the Warriors