Yep, the Warriors sent a player to the D-League. Guess who got sent.
Is this the Warriors response tonight? Mean and hungry, with a vicious desire to win this game?
Or will it be this? Cowering in the corner, letting yet another team escape with a win?
That is the question for tonight's game.
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Digging this up from the archives after last night's debacle. Has anything really changed? Look at the poll. Would you change your vote now?
The draft is over. So, what happens now? Eventually there will be another season, assuming the CBA issues are resolved (I think that will be sooner rather than later, the NBA is near an all-time high in popularity, after all). Today, I'm going to play virtual GM, and give one possible scenario for re-building the team. Many, if not most of you, will not like this vision. Well, I should say, you will not like the immediate future of the vision. But the long-term goal is to build a contender - not just a team that makes it to the first round and quickly exits, but a real contender that is a threat to go deep into the playoffs every year. Keep reading to see what I think it would take, and then take your best shot at me in the comments.
I have decided to use my Synergy powers for good. Instead of taking us apart after the game, today I will provide an advanced scouting report on Memphis. What offensive and defensive strategies should we employ? Let's look inside the numbers for some help.
Warriors (5-10) vs Grizzlies (9-4)
Time: 7:30pm PST
TV: CSN Bay Area | Radio: KNBR 680
Blog Buddy: Straight Outta Vancouver
Warriors have played 15 games. The cake is not fully baked, but it's definitely in the oven at this point. If this season was an episode Iron Chef, would there be time to start from scratch and maybe change up the recipe a bit? Are there some different offensive strategies that might be utilized or implemented by Mark Jackson? Let's take a look at some Synergy stats to see if there are any helpful ideas we can glean.
Game Thread (900+ comments)
Sensory overload on the last critical play here. Sooo many things to talk about. But before I do that, let me preface by saying it's hard not to be too scathing on the Warriors and their basketball operations -- I'm talking from the top at Joe Lacob and Jerry West down to the assistant coaches, because I feel like history is repeating itself.
Where do we begin? First, the "blown" kicked ball. Because I hire refs for my league all the time and one of our Vegas tournament refs is now an actual NBA official (Tre Maddox), I can tell you that there was no referee in the exact same position as the replay camera, so no human referee, in the areas on the court where they were supposed to be, could have seen the ball actually getting kicked. It was such a quick-reflex play, no referee on this planet would have blown the whistle.
