SA sent Aldridge who Durant has said wish he could have played with at Texas
Kevin Durant Signs With The Golden State Warriors
SA sent Aldridge who Durant has said wish he could have played with at Texas
Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD
<--- Cleveland Browns winning that many, boi!
The entire DNA of the team has changed. They have no more flexibility to seemlessly go defensively + offensively. They will be all offense.... period.
The league will adjust to that, because the league always adjusts, particularly in a 7 game series.
Thereis only one ball and a singular team identity. Between Durant and Thompson, I'm just not seeing how this works well. Their skill set on this team is essentially redundant.
The league will adjust to that, because the league always adjusts, particularly in a 7 game series.
Thereis only one ball and a singular team identity. Between Durant and Thompson, I'm just not seeing how this works well. Their skill set on this team is essentially redundant.
he looks like a photoshop
Supposed to be in a Bullets jersey damnit
KD makes them even better defensively. GTFOH
Rebounding is gonna be the only issue
an emissary from hell
I got the bricks from Wakanda
bout to cop one of these
Defensively they'll be ok, because they can still switch like they do now. They don't have Bogut, but they still have the ability to make the other team take difficult shots and turn the ball over. In their small ball lineup, they are essentially swapping out Barnes for Durant, which gives them more length. If they want to go really long, they can go Livingston, Klay, Iggy, Durant, Green.
They can afford to have redundancy in their offense because they are all willing to pass the ball. On top of that, you're likely going to have 2 of the 4 on the floor at all times.
They'll be a better rebounding and defense team this season - especially with Potato Head coming in.From Reddit -
One of the better masked deficiencies of the Warriors during their two year run was their defensive rebounding and inability to keep athletic bigs off their boards in key moments.
This weakness, however, constantly reared its ugly head in the WCF as well as the Finals. OKC had an Offensive Rebounding % of 27.7% in the WCF - a slight drop off from their regular season leading 31.1%, but still good enough to place them 2nd in the regular season. The Cavs on the other hand posted an even higher ORB% of 28.4%, a full 3% higher than their regular season average. It's clear that the warriors had no plan to stop the O boards and any switch to their small-ball lineup merely exacerbated this existing disadvantage.
Aside from being one of the greatest offensive players on the planet, defensive rebounding is an area where Kevin Durant greatly helps the Warriors. Kevin Durant is a very good defensive rebounder and is heads and shoulders better than the player he replaced - Harrison Barnes:
From the table above, it's obvious that Durant dominates Barnes in almost all the DRB statistical categories. The only area where Durant loses out to Barnes in is the % of contested DRBs he gets. However, this is unimportant because Barnes' numbers here are likely propped up by how few of his chances he actually rebounds: 52.1%. For comparison, Durant rebounds 74.3% of his chances.
To put Durant's DRB% numbers in a league-wide context, Durant ranked #10 among all starting non-centers last year.
fwiw, Durant also led the league during the 2016 playoffs for the highest DRB% of all his chances.
Aside from improving the Warrior's defense, improved defensive rebounding also greatly helps one of the Warrior's greatest offensive strengths: transition offense. More defensive rebounding = more transition/semi-transition = more points.
tl;dr Durant = more defensive rebounding, Warriors shore up a huge weakness. RIP league.
Zaza averaged 9.4 rebounds in 26 minutes last season (12.9 per 36 minutes) - Bogut averaged 7.0 in 20 minutes last season (12.2 per 36 minutes). Not only did they replace Bogut with a better and more active rebounder, but they replaced Barnes with arguably the best rebounding SF in the league. Then you've got Draymond who averaged 9.5 rebounds last season.
I think it's safe to safe rebounding will not be a problem for this squad.
Tony Parker was overseas
Patty mills was overseas, and he isn't even important enough to go
Danny Green isn't even important enough to go
Jonathon Simmons isn't even important enough to go
Ginobili didn't know he was even going to play yet, even with that, he was overseas
Leonard is expecting a child anytime now, which is more important
Anderson isn't even important enough to go
Aldridge went
Duncan backed out because he didn't even know he was going to play yet
The cons of having european players
bout to cop one of these
Almost pulled the trigger but Ima wait for the Nike joints to drop next year
Got enough adidas shyt
Durant is a fakkit but that jersey is fuegobout to cop one of these
"Pop how I look"he looks like a photoshop
"Like a damn snitch"
Not gonna read the post. We ain't gonna agree breh. No point in this back and forth
breh - u dont have to read it
but u do need to know it was
I AM WARHOL
Veteran
breh - u dont have to read it
but u do need to know it was
Hahaha ok breh