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Five observations from the Warriors' preseason loss to the...
By Anthony Slater
* Oct 8, 2018
Here are five observations from the Warriors' 117-109 preseason loss to the Suns on Monday night at Oracle Arena.
1. An ornery night at Oracle
Steph Curry set an off-ball screen out on the wing late in the first quarter. Trevor Ariza flailed in agony trying to get through it. Curry got whistled, the rare illegal screen call going against a point guard.
Curry reacted with a confusing look, a long stare and then a muscle flex toward referee Ben Taylor, indicating that, to get called for that, to be able to muscle Ariza so easily off a spot, he must be stronger than he thought. Then Curry moved on to the next play.
Over the next 15 minutes to close the first half, the Warriors were called for three more illegal screens. Jordan Bell, Kevin Durant and Damian Jones all got whistled. After the Jones call, a ticked and vocal Durant got dinged with a preseason technical for arguing, which, perhaps, is just as rare as getting four illegal screens called on you in one half.
But on this ornery night in Oracle, both were flying around in bunches.
"There were a lot of those," Steve Kerr said. "I was frustrated."
Off-ball movement and weak-side screening are a staple in the Kerr offense. It scatters the defense, creates gobs of space and often leads to easy buckets. Curry's willingness to be the rare high-usage scoring point guard who also sacrifices his body to set those thankless weak-side screens is one of the keys to the Warriors' historic offensive efficiency.
So not much; maybe only an obvious, missed travel call; is going to anger Kerr more than when Curry gets punished by the referees for delivering those selfless body blows. Nine seconds into the third quarter, after a halftime in which Kerr probably stewed over the four called against his Warriors, Curry was whistled again while setting a back screen that freed Durant for an easy bucket.
This one was more questionable than the four prior. Curry barely made contact. Irate over the whistle, he argued hard enough to get a technical. For the briefest of moments, Curry and Durant were tied for the team lead in preseason technicals.
Then Kerr one-upped them, storming onto the court in protest, getting in Taylor's face and earning a quick ejection, followed by the moment of the night; his "I don't want to be here anyway" comment to Taylor and sarcastic wave to all the referees on his way off the floor. Here's the video.
After the game, Kerr entered the press conference room with a wave to reporters, drawing laughter, before delivering a sarcastic reason for why he wanted to get ejected.
"We had a good postgame (food) spread," he said. "It's usually out there by the late third quarter. I wanted to be the first one in the buffet."
He then discussed the play in question and his reaction to it.
"I was in the wrong," he said. "Obviously I got what I deserved. I was trying to make a point, try to back up my guys. We had all these offensive fouls, one after the other. I'd finally had enough."
Can he remember another preseason ejection?
"No," Kerr said. "Should I be proud? I'm trying to distinguish myself."
What did Curry think of Kerr's eruption?
"I love it," Curry said. "Love it. We have a good vibe going about what we're doing and it's never too early to get that fire going. Let's see if we can sustain that throughout the year. A blatant call that we think should go one way and it goes the other, he's going to have a reaction to it. Don't matter if it's preseason, regular season, playoffs, it's nice for him to have that fire."
Curry continued: "He has opportunities to try to influence things with outbursts if he needs to or stuff he says to us in the locker room. Knowing that when we're out there giving everything we got, that a coach has your back, not pinching his wallet when he has the chance to speak his mind, that means a lot."
2. Opposite ends of the shooting spectrum
Curry and Klay Thompson didn't need to shoot well this preseason to inspire regular season confidence. But they have.
Thompson, who rested on Monday night, went a combined 9 of 14 from 3 in the first two preseason games. Curry, who missed Friday's game in Seattle but returned Monday, is 8 of 17 from deep in his two games. They both look very ready to continue their career assaults on the 3-point record books.
But rookie wing Jacob Evans, on the other end of that shooting spectrum, did enter this preseason needing to instill a bit of shooting confidence in order to push himself into a consistent role. He hasn't done so to this point.
After going 2 of 18 from 3 in summer league (and then tweaking his shot in the weeks after, trying to add more arc), Evans is now 0 of 7 from 3 in three preseason games, making him 2 of 25 total in a Warriors uniform.
3. Notable defensive play of the night
Deandre Ayton, the 7-foot-1, 250-pound brick who was drafted first overall this past June, looks like a ready-made 18-ish per game pro scorer, using power post-ups as one of his primary weapons.
He's the kind of center who will see Bell; sturdy but smaller by center standards, giving up four inches and 25 pounds to Ayton; and believe the best way to score on Bell is through muscle, not skill and speed. LaMarcus Aldridge did it a couple times to success in last April's first round of the playoffs. I remember DeMarcus Cousins overpowering Bell a couple times in a game in New Orleans early last season.
Straight post defense is one of the soft spots Bell must shore up as his career matures. On Monday night, he had an encouraging late first quarter stonewall and then clean block of an Ayton lefty hook. It was notable.
4. House against McKinnie?
It's getting to the possible point of no return for Patrick McCaw's partnership with the Warriors, which, by the way, seems to be McCaw's preferred result, a forced exit.
The Warriors close the preseason schedule on Friday. They'll take Saturday off. They'll begin prep for next Tuesday's season opener at Sunday's practice. In his pregame media session, Kerr discussed the need to make roster decisions by Saturday, when the coaches and front office will meet while the players rest.
Two decisions must be made: Who gets the second two-way contract (Damion Lee has the first) and who will be the 14th man?
If it's not McCaw in that final roster slot, and it increasingly appears it won't be, the answer may come from off the roster. Last October, Quinn Cook wasn't even on the radar, but the Hawks cut him late in camp and the Warriors pounced, locking him down to a two-way and eventually adding him to the roster before the playoffs.
There may be another Cook out there (but a wing version), a young guy who the Warriors like but can't sign until he's released from his current team.
But if the answer is in-house, it's likely between Alfonzo McKinnie and Danuel House, who both got an extended look on Monday against the Suns. House started in place of the resting Thompson and had a couple bouncy buckets, while nearly providing the highlight of the night with an attempted hammer dunk on Ayton. But his 20 minutes were mostly quiet: four points, one rebound, no assists, no steals, one block.
McKinnie had the more productive night, going for 11 points, six rebounds, an assist, a steal and a block in 22 minutes, fouling five times with some overaggressiveness, but clearly having a bigger impact than House.
5. Draymond speaks
Draymond Green, often the most vocal Warrior, hasn't made much of a public peep since the start of training camp, rehabbing a sore knee away from the cameras and recorders.
But at Monday morning's shootaround, he spoke for the first time since Media Day, first updating that minor knee issue before discussing a few other topics. On the knee: Green believes he'll be ready to return for Wednesday's preseason game in Las Vegas against the Lakers.
"It's doing better," Green said. "Started shooting yesterday. Moving in the right direction. I kind of felt it coming on a little bit. But during the scrimmage (early last week), it just kind of went a way I didn't want it to go."
Green's most detailed answer came to a question regarding the grind that was last season, when Green battled various bruises and regular boredom.
"Stuff wasn't as fresh as it was the year before," he admitted. "With KD coming that year before, it was kind of something you had to work on and make that work. Coming into last year, what'd we bring back? Thirteen out of 15 guys or something like that (it was 12). It's the same exact team.
"So, this is going to sound bad, but there was like nothing for us to work on or make work. It was: 'Oh, we know what we're doing, we've played together, we know how good we are. Let's just go play.' There was really nothing to work toward. We knew the whole year we was just trying to get to May and June. There was nothing to kind of spark that fire. It just made everything drag.
"This is an amazing job and as much as you love that job, if you don't have something, like a fire lit under you to motivate you in your line of work, it's just not going to be as easy. That's where we were last year. There was nothing to push that group to try to be great in the regular season. Everything was to try to be great come April, May and June.
"I think this year we got something to work on. We got a lot of young guys. Then even with DeMarcus coming in, making that work. JB, Damian, Loon will play a bigger role, making that work. I think we just got more to work on than we did last year. There was just nothing there to push you night in and night out."
Green said he didn't touch a basketball for about seven weeks this summer, traveling to Michigan and across Europe.
"Mentally, just to get away from the game for a minute and miss it, it gears you up, feeds that hunger, that you want to get back and get better," he said.
Will a return to the Defensive Player of the Year mountaintop serve as a motivating point? That question delivered Green's most viral moment of the morning.
"It's important," Green said. "I was second team All-Defense. That's crazy. So, yeah, I gotta get that."
Was that dip from DPOY to second-team All-Defense on the voters or on you?
"Um, probably a little bit on me," Green said. "But I don't think any voter can tell me five defensive players better than me.
He paused.
"... I'll wait."
* Oct 8, 2018
Here are five observations from the Warriors' 117-109 preseason loss to the Suns on Monday night at Oracle Arena.
1. An ornery night at Oracle
Steph Curry set an off-ball screen out on the wing late in the first quarter. Trevor Ariza flailed in agony trying to get through it. Curry got whistled, the rare illegal screen call going against a point guard.
Curry reacted with a confusing look, a long stare and then a muscle flex toward referee Ben Taylor, indicating that, to get called for that, to be able to muscle Ariza so easily off a spot, he must be stronger than he thought. Then Curry moved on to the next play.
Over the next 15 minutes to close the first half, the Warriors were called for three more illegal screens. Jordan Bell, Kevin Durant and Damian Jones all got whistled. After the Jones call, a ticked and vocal Durant got dinged with a preseason technical for arguing, which, perhaps, is just as rare as getting four illegal screens called on you in one half.
But on this ornery night in Oracle, both were flying around in bunches.
"There were a lot of those," Steve Kerr said. "I was frustrated."
Off-ball movement and weak-side screening are a staple in the Kerr offense. It scatters the defense, creates gobs of space and often leads to easy buckets. Curry's willingness to be the rare high-usage scoring point guard who also sacrifices his body to set those thankless weak-side screens is one of the keys to the Warriors' historic offensive efficiency.
So not much; maybe only an obvious, missed travel call; is going to anger Kerr more than when Curry gets punished by the referees for delivering those selfless body blows. Nine seconds into the third quarter, after a halftime in which Kerr probably stewed over the four called against his Warriors, Curry was whistled again while setting a back screen that freed Durant for an easy bucket.
This one was more questionable than the four prior. Curry barely made contact. Irate over the whistle, he argued hard enough to get a technical. For the briefest of moments, Curry and Durant were tied for the team lead in preseason technicals.
Then Kerr one-upped them, storming onto the court in protest, getting in Taylor's face and earning a quick ejection, followed by the moment of the night; his "I don't want to be here anyway" comment to Taylor and sarcastic wave to all the referees on his way off the floor. Here's the video.
After the game, Kerr entered the press conference room with a wave to reporters, drawing laughter, before delivering a sarcastic reason for why he wanted to get ejected.
"We had a good postgame (food) spread," he said. "It's usually out there by the late third quarter. I wanted to be the first one in the buffet."
He then discussed the play in question and his reaction to it.
"I was in the wrong," he said. "Obviously I got what I deserved. I was trying to make a point, try to back up my guys. We had all these offensive fouls, one after the other. I'd finally had enough."
Can he remember another preseason ejection?
"No," Kerr said. "Should I be proud? I'm trying to distinguish myself."
What did Curry think of Kerr's eruption?
"I love it," Curry said. "Love it. We have a good vibe going about what we're doing and it's never too early to get that fire going. Let's see if we can sustain that throughout the year. A blatant call that we think should go one way and it goes the other, he's going to have a reaction to it. Don't matter if it's preseason, regular season, playoffs, it's nice for him to have that fire."
Curry continued: "He has opportunities to try to influence things with outbursts if he needs to or stuff he says to us in the locker room. Knowing that when we're out there giving everything we got, that a coach has your back, not pinching his wallet when he has the chance to speak his mind, that means a lot."
2. Opposite ends of the shooting spectrum
Curry and Klay Thompson didn't need to shoot well this preseason to inspire regular season confidence. But they have.
Thompson, who rested on Monday night, went a combined 9 of 14 from 3 in the first two preseason games. Curry, who missed Friday's game in Seattle but returned Monday, is 8 of 17 from deep in his two games. They both look very ready to continue their career assaults on the 3-point record books.
But rookie wing Jacob Evans, on the other end of that shooting spectrum, did enter this preseason needing to instill a bit of shooting confidence in order to push himself into a consistent role. He hasn't done so to this point.
After going 2 of 18 from 3 in summer league (and then tweaking his shot in the weeks after, trying to add more arc), Evans is now 0 of 7 from 3 in three preseason games, making him 2 of 25 total in a Warriors uniform.
3. Notable defensive play of the night
Deandre Ayton, the 7-foot-1, 250-pound brick who was drafted first overall this past June, looks like a ready-made 18-ish per game pro scorer, using power post-ups as one of his primary weapons.
He's the kind of center who will see Bell; sturdy but smaller by center standards, giving up four inches and 25 pounds to Ayton; and believe the best way to score on Bell is through muscle, not skill and speed. LaMarcus Aldridge did it a couple times to success in last April's first round of the playoffs. I remember DeMarcus Cousins overpowering Bell a couple times in a game in New Orleans early last season.
Straight post defense is one of the soft spots Bell must shore up as his career matures. On Monday night, he had an encouraging late first quarter stonewall and then clean block of an Ayton lefty hook. It was notable.
4. House against McKinnie?
It's getting to the possible point of no return for Patrick McCaw's partnership with the Warriors, which, by the way, seems to be McCaw's preferred result, a forced exit.
The Warriors close the preseason schedule on Friday. They'll take Saturday off. They'll begin prep for next Tuesday's season opener at Sunday's practice. In his pregame media session, Kerr discussed the need to make roster decisions by Saturday, when the coaches and front office will meet while the players rest.
Two decisions must be made: Who gets the second two-way contract (Damion Lee has the first) and who will be the 14th man?
If it's not McCaw in that final roster slot, and it increasingly appears it won't be, the answer may come from off the roster. Last October, Quinn Cook wasn't even on the radar, but the Hawks cut him late in camp and the Warriors pounced, locking him down to a two-way and eventually adding him to the roster before the playoffs.
There may be another Cook out there (but a wing version), a young guy who the Warriors like but can't sign until he's released from his current team.
But if the answer is in-house, it's likely between Alfonzo McKinnie and Danuel House, who both got an extended look on Monday against the Suns. House started in place of the resting Thompson and had a couple bouncy buckets, while nearly providing the highlight of the night with an attempted hammer dunk on Ayton. But his 20 minutes were mostly quiet: four points, one rebound, no assists, no steals, one block.
McKinnie had the more productive night, going for 11 points, six rebounds, an assist, a steal and a block in 22 minutes, fouling five times with some overaggressiveness, but clearly having a bigger impact than House.
5. Draymond speaks
Draymond Green, often the most vocal Warrior, hasn't made much of a public peep since the start of training camp, rehabbing a sore knee away from the cameras and recorders.
But at Monday morning's shootaround, he spoke for the first time since Media Day, first updating that minor knee issue before discussing a few other topics. On the knee: Green believes he'll be ready to return for Wednesday's preseason game in Las Vegas against the Lakers.
"It's doing better," Green said. "Started shooting yesterday. Moving in the right direction. I kind of felt it coming on a little bit. But during the scrimmage (early last week), it just kind of went a way I didn't want it to go."
Green's most detailed answer came to a question regarding the grind that was last season, when Green battled various bruises and regular boredom.
"Stuff wasn't as fresh as it was the year before," he admitted. "With KD coming that year before, it was kind of something you had to work on and make that work. Coming into last year, what'd we bring back? Thirteen out of 15 guys or something like that (it was 12). It's the same exact team.
"So, this is going to sound bad, but there was like nothing for us to work on or make work. It was: 'Oh, we know what we're doing, we've played together, we know how good we are. Let's just go play.' There was really nothing to work toward. We knew the whole year we was just trying to get to May and June. There was nothing to kind of spark that fire. It just made everything drag.
"This is an amazing job and as much as you love that job, if you don't have something, like a fire lit under you to motivate you in your line of work, it's just not going to be as easy. That's where we were last year. There was nothing to push that group to try to be great in the regular season. Everything was to try to be great come April, May and June.
"I think this year we got something to work on. We got a lot of young guys. Then even with DeMarcus coming in, making that work. JB, Damian, Loon will play a bigger role, making that work. I think we just got more to work on than we did last year. There was just nothing there to push you night in and night out."
Green said he didn't touch a basketball for about seven weeks this summer, traveling to Michigan and across Europe.
"Mentally, just to get away from the game for a minute and miss it, it gears you up, feeds that hunger, that you want to get back and get better," he said.
Will a return to the Defensive Player of the Year mountaintop serve as a motivating point? That question delivered Green's most viral moment of the morning.
"It's important," Green said. "I was second team All-Defense. That's crazy. So, yeah, I gotta get that."
Was that dip from DPOY to second-team All-Defense on the voters or on you?
"Um, probably a little bit on me," Green said. "But I don't think any voter can tell me five defensive players better than me.
He paused.
"... I'll wait."
G.O.A.T Squad Spokesman
Logic Is Absent Wherever Hate Is Present
MT2 thinks KD is leaving after the season. If he does it will be a bad move for him.
Man, I just have a really difficult time now with anything that MT2 or TK post. I've just seen a few too many clickbait type things from both of them since joining the Athletic. I'm not saying KD isn't going to leave, but I just don't see another team makes sense and would also erase any of the BS that people have said. But it's KD and he's shown himself to be temperamental.....so who knows? I think he's staying with GS until retirement and then looking to put a team back in Seattle....
Unrelated:
OAKLAND – The Warriors wrapped up practice Tuesday afternoon.
Here are the biggest takeaways from the session.
Draymond Green (sore left knee) will not play in Wednesday’s preseason game against the Lakers in Las Vegas.
While Green has returned to practice this week, Warriors coach Steve Kerr is taking a conservative approach with the three-time all-star’s return.
“We’re going to be cautious,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “He’s still improving but we feel more comfortable giving him one more day. So the plan is to start practice and play him on Friday [against the Lakers].”
Green participated in a solo workout during a closed session prior to the team’s open practice at Oracle Arena Sunday afternoon. During Friday’s 122-94 win over the Kings, Green rode a stationary bike outside the Warriors’ locker room. When asked if Green will make the trip to Vegas with the team, Kerr responded matter-of-factly, “It’s Vegas. So yeah.”
No healthy body will sit against the Lakers.
A day after Kerr rested Klay Thompson, Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala, the coach said he won’t repeat the practice against the Lakers in an effort to build the regular-season rotation.
“These last two games will be more dress rehearsal-ish,” Kerr said. “We haven’t really done much personal scouting reports stuff, we’ve been more with what we’re doing.”
In the first three games, Kerr has started three different starting lineups, opting to get looks at guys who wouldn’t normally play alongside available all-stars. Third-year center Damian Jones, who has played 25 of a possible 164 regular season games in his career, has started every game. Now, with the season approaching in a week, Kerr wants to get a good look at what he has.
“The next two games will be more of our gameday routine of scouting reports and matchups and tendencies,” Kerr said.
A close family member has jokes for Kerr after Monday’s game.
After Kerr made himself an internet meme following an ejection in Monday’s 117-109 loss to the Suns, a certain someone close to Kerrt had a question when he got home.
“My wife asked me when I walked in the door last night, ‘Do you even want to be here?'” Kerr said.
Kerr’s wife Margot’s joke was in reference to the coach saying, “I don’t want to be here,” before being ejected by referee Ben Taylor with 11:51 left in the third quarter.
How the Warriors are approaching trimming down the roster.
With the Warriors roster currently standing at 19, the team will have some decisions to make by Monday when rosters have to be set.
The team says it wants to keep 14 guys on the roster and currently have 13 players on guaranteed deals. That raises a question: How do you evaluate and ultimately fill that extra spot?
Making the roster construction interesting is restricted free agent Patrick McCaw, who turned down a two-year, $5.2-million offer last week. While the Warriors expressed their desire to pursue McCaw, his absence could open the door for a wing to be added. Currently, the Warriors have two camp invitees that could fill that role in Alfonzo McKinnie and Danuel House Jr. McKinnie, who spent the majority of last year in the G-League, played well Monday night, scoring 11 points to go along with six rebounds. On the other hand, House Jr, who split time between the Phoenix Suns and the G-League last year, has impressed the coaching staff with his athleticism and feel for the game.
“It’s really something that you have to hash out,” Kerr said Tuesday. “Ultimately the decision will be [Warriors GM Bob Myers], with our input and I imagine some point later this week a few of us will sit down and decide on the best course of action.”
Here are the biggest takeaways from the session.
Draymond Green (sore left knee) will not play in Wednesday’s preseason game against the Lakers in Las Vegas.
While Green has returned to practice this week, Warriors coach Steve Kerr is taking a conservative approach with the three-time all-star’s return.
“We’re going to be cautious,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “He’s still improving but we feel more comfortable giving him one more day. So the plan is to start practice and play him on Friday [against the Lakers].”
Green participated in a solo workout during a closed session prior to the team’s open practice at Oracle Arena Sunday afternoon. During Friday’s 122-94 win over the Kings, Green rode a stationary bike outside the Warriors’ locker room. When asked if Green will make the trip to Vegas with the team, Kerr responded matter-of-factly, “It’s Vegas. So yeah.”
No healthy body will sit against the Lakers.
A day after Kerr rested Klay Thompson, Shaun Livingston and Andre Iguodala, the coach said he won’t repeat the practice against the Lakers in an effort to build the regular-season rotation.
“These last two games will be more dress rehearsal-ish,” Kerr said. “We haven’t really done much personal scouting reports stuff, we’ve been more with what we’re doing.”
In the first three games, Kerr has started three different starting lineups, opting to get looks at guys who wouldn’t normally play alongside available all-stars. Third-year center Damian Jones, who has played 25 of a possible 164 regular season games in his career, has started every game. Now, with the season approaching in a week, Kerr wants to get a good look at what he has.
“The next two games will be more of our gameday routine of scouting reports and matchups and tendencies,” Kerr said.
A close family member has jokes for Kerr after Monday’s game.
After Kerr made himself an internet meme following an ejection in Monday’s 117-109 loss to the Suns, a certain someone close to Kerrt had a question when he got home.
“My wife asked me when I walked in the door last night, ‘Do you even want to be here?'” Kerr said.
Kerr’s wife Margot’s joke was in reference to the coach saying, “I don’t want to be here,” before being ejected by referee Ben Taylor with 11:51 left in the third quarter.
How the Warriors are approaching trimming down the roster.
With the Warriors roster currently standing at 19, the team will have some decisions to make by Monday when rosters have to be set.
The team says it wants to keep 14 guys on the roster and currently have 13 players on guaranteed deals. That raises a question: How do you evaluate and ultimately fill that extra spot?
Making the roster construction interesting is restricted free agent Patrick McCaw, who turned down a two-year, $5.2-million offer last week. While the Warriors expressed their desire to pursue McCaw, his absence could open the door for a wing to be added. Currently, the Warriors have two camp invitees that could fill that role in Alfonzo McKinnie and Danuel House Jr. McKinnie, who spent the majority of last year in the G-League, played well Monday night, scoring 11 points to go along with six rebounds. On the other hand, House Jr, who split time between the Phoenix Suns and the G-League last year, has impressed the coaching staff with his athleticism and feel for the game.
“It’s really something that you have to hash out,” Kerr said Tuesday. “Ultimately the decision will be [Warriors GM Bob Myers], with our input and I imagine some point later this week a few of us will sit down and decide on the best course of action.”
And this is the kind of stuff I'm talking about. MT2 says somethings that unquestionably will be scrutinized, plays confused about it getting picked up and then writes a column about it. To me, this is clickbaity.....
when i saw the vendor list the homie brought back after picking out his seats for the new stadium....
couldnt believe they was bringing back Big Nates BBQ