@fergie23 said:
Green ruined the team's chemistry with his preseason sucker punch. Team chemistry shows up on the road and in tough games. No coincidence, IMO, that they have been awful on the road.
I don't think the series is over. Winning a couple of games at home and having some positive momentum going back to Sacramento could definitely happen. That said, if they don't turn it around I think the blame lies squarely on Green (whether its the chemistry destroying sucker punch or being suspended for a critical game for the Warriors). Hopefully, the Dubs aren't dumb enough to resign him this summer.
I saw some video that said it was a flagrant 1 but yeah looks like just a tech on Sabonis.
Robb
The punch could have been part of the problem but GS also had a TON of players missed games on the road especially early in the season. Kerr had a knack for sitting players while on the road for whatever reason and then would play them at home games. This was a comment I made after 34 games in a different thread about this topic and while I'm not going to go calculate the remaining missed games again to how many more were on the road compared to home,I'd bet that it still played out this way. Especially in Curry/Wiggins case who missed the most games ,IIRC.
The team has played 34 total games with 19 on road and here are the games missed for each main contributor:
Curry has missed 8 games, 7 on the road DUBS 0-6 road record when out
Klay has missed 7 games, 5 on the road DUBS 0-5 road record when out
Green has missed 4 games, all 4 on the road DUBS 0-4 road record when out
Wiggins has missed 12 games, 9 on the road DUBS 0-9 road record when out
Divencenzo has missed 10 games, 8 on the road DUBS 0-8 road record when out
Kuminga has missed 4 games, 3 on the road Dubs 0-3 road record when out
Jamychal Green has missed 6 games, 3 on the road DUBS 0-3 road record when out
Even though the Kings have won both of their homes games I would definitely not count the Dubs out yet. How does the saying go, the series hasn't started until a team loses a home game?
@1951WheatiesPremium said:
It’s part of the game of basketball. I was an excellent defender in my prime and had more than one person take offense to it. Basketball is a lot more physical than people give it credit for being. There’s high speed and high impact contact on just about every play. There’s one, two or three refs and they can’t see it all and you are allowed five fouls. A smart defender should commit four a game. Sometimes it’s for a physical edge or a mental edge and sometimes both. The old adage is guard people the way you don’t like to be guarded.
Whenever I guarded a great outside shooter, I usually attempted to block their shot on a jumper early in the game without any fear of fouling them, often getting the blocked shot but subsequently crashing into them as a result and being called for the foul. However, guess how many of those guys had an off shooting night after? I had thrown off their timing with the blocked shot and sense of safety for a while (and sometimes the game) every time I would be in a position to ‘close out’ on them on a shot.
A trick I learned was to give the shooter a little push after the shot, in a way that he notices it but the refs don't call the foul. That is in his mind from then on when you defend them. Tends to throw them off when they are thinking about the upcoming push after their shot instead of focusing on the shot....................
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The punch could have been part of the problem but GS also had a TON of players missed games on the road especially early in the season. Kerr had a knack for sitting players while on the road for whatever reason and then would play them at home games. This was a comment I made after 34 games in a different thread about this topic and while I'm not going to go calculate the remaining missed games again to how many more were on the road compared to home,I'd bet that it still played out this way. Especially in Curry/Wiggins case who missed the most games ,IIRC.
The team has played 34 total games with 19 on road and here are the games missed for each main contributor:
Curry has missed 8 games, 7 on the road DUBS 0-6 road record when out
Klay has missed 7 games, 5 on the road DUBS 0-5 road record when out
Green has missed 4 games, all 4 on the road DUBS 0-4 road record when out
Wiggins has missed 12 games, 9 on the road DUBS 0-9 road record when out
Divencenzo has missed 10 games, 8 on the road DUBS 0-8 road record when out
Kuminga has missed 4 games, 3 on the road Dubs 0-3 road record when out
Jamychal Green has missed 6 games, 3 on the road DUBS 0-3 road record when out
To sum up this discussion on why GS is so bad on the road compared to home, the players mostly miss road games that they continually lose.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1085403/nba-basketball#pagetop
Even though the Kings have won both of their homes games I would definitely not count the Dubs out yet. How does the saying go, the series hasn't started until a team loses a home game?
Eric
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@erikthredd you've got it all backward.... the series hasn't started until a road team wins.
😂🙃
I typed it out 3 different ways before that one and none of them made sense. 😂
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A trick I learned was to give the shooter a little push after the shot, in a way that he notices it but the refs don't call the foul. That is in his mind from then on when you defend them. Tends to throw them off when they are thinking about the upcoming push after their shot instead of focusing on the shot....................