The Official NBA Season Thread: NBA Cup Night

Warriors defense will wear most teams down throughout the course of games. They're extremely well conditioned, they run a ton and the biggest part is they make you have to guard also. That is exhausting to most team so far once they lock in. Which is why Cavs were so good. They ran a ton and kept the ball moving the same way the warriors do so they couldn't settle into their sets. It was smart.

Other teams haven't been so lucky/smart though.

What do both teams have in common?

They had Kenny Atkinson in their coaching staff. The Nets too pre-Kyrie ran the same way,
 
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Team looks so much better without Trash Young. Been obvious for years that he’s holding the organization back.
They won games last year with Murray when Trae was out. What was the point of going out and getting size for defense while still having the 5’10 liability on the court for 40 minutes. Every teams strat has been to swing it around to wherever Trae is at and whoever has the ball with get a good look cuz Trae ain’t about to disrupt anybody’s shot.
 
After a night of sleeping on it. I’m still buzzin. We lived in the time of greatness. It’s truly special to get to watch him. We may never again see a shooter like this. Once in a lifetime.

As for the Dubs they won 46 games last year. And similar the year before. They were always a few roster spots and slightly better coaching away from being a 50+ win team. Losing old slow CP3, Dario, Klay, Lester makes a world of difference in foot speed and defensive spread the floor ability. All it’ll take is some health. The biggest change this year beyond the active defense is they push the ball up the floor and don’t walk it up. So many times last year they’d walk it up slowly (especially once they had a lead) and end up with a terrible shot late into the shot clock. It was death by a thousand cp3 slow cuts.

Also Klay. I’m so glad we got to see a vintage Klay performance. He’s Dubs family and I wish him
the best. His time here was up but that’s sometime what everyone just needs - to try something new.
 
Steph curry ****** me up again. I was answering emails working from home. He made me stay at home a little bit longer and watch the game. Had he not played well i would have gone down and Dua Lipa was having lunch in the cafe of my condo building .

Copped Tickets to the concert cause damnnnn
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they always say the NBA is better when the knicks are good, I feel like it’s always better when Detroit is good.

Spo calling that timeout that they didn’t have, with Jalen Rose in the building was serendipity:lol
The NBA is better when Eastern Conference teams are good in general. Its just fun when NY, Detroit, Chi, etc are all competitive.
 
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