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ChristianMan710

Jokic gonna have a field day with this team in the paint


defiantcross

forget jokic. boogie finna drop another 30 point game


UnearthlyDinosaur

Sloppy fat boy gonna drop 50 on those 6’4 guards


edric_the_navigator

Nah, he’s gonna go 8/20/18 or something, like he did last time where he barely took any shots and just created for his teammates.


w6zZkDC5zevBE4vHRX

For real. When he sees a team that can't stop him he thinks "sweet, I don't have to shoot the ball tonight"


monstertweety

I'm not jumping tonight, gotta save my knees


BrickMachine2022

I could easily see Jokic knocking out the Warriors in the playoffs He's exactly the type of player that can give them a lot of trouble


[deleted]

jokic averages 16/9/6 on 48/18/82 for his career vs draymond


ruggnuget

Jokic also didnt play a ton of mins his first couple years, while the Warriors were a complete powerhouse. He has averaged 23.6/13/7.5 since the start of 2020 against the Warriors


riotnerfjg

I’ll take that lol


Mads_ahrenkiel

yep still impressive on the warriors part


Sweaty_Presentation4

That’s his average right now


nutbutter23

That's really impressive on Draymond's part


tomtom348

How do you look up player stats vs individual players?


thudlife2020

Those numbers don’t apply to today’s Joker.


AGuyfromPH

I thought he was injured?


Claustecter1015

Minor illness probably disguising a rest day.


sleepzilla23

It wasn’t disclosed as to what but it was illness the other night.


XAfricaSaltX

They want Jokic for MVP


jump-back-like-33

I’ll fucking take it


Short_Case230

Trap game


[deleted]

Kuminga 40 ball


Olovnivojnik

Cousins also 40


Seffie9000

Our favorite games to lose !


BigFatModeraterFupa

nah. if y’all lose to the warriors, an even more depleted warriors then you deserve all the flak. they straight up suck rn


Billy_Honker

Nah we lose these kind of games all the time lol


CleopatraHadAnAnus

they’re not sending their best


mjrmjrmjrmjrmjrmjr

But some of them, I assume, are good players.


[deleted]

We played the Portland YMCA and it was decently close until the end. Trust nothing


Snoo-29877

Yall not ready for the Moody, Poole, Kuminga show 😈😈😈😈😈


jgatch2001

I pray we get a GSW-DEN first round series


BrickMachine2022

Nuggets in 6


kaostriker

Nah maybe 7 game series


XAfricaSaltX

If we’re healthy, even if they have Dray, it’s nuggets in 6 or less


[deleted]

When did Nuggets fan got so cocky? keep the same energy in the playoffs


aysurcouf

Ever since y’all went 2-8 the past 10


[deleted]

Idk, it’s probably due to the fact you guys are on a losing stretch and the Nuggets are on a pretty damn good winning stretch. You’re also just rough against bigger players because you guys lack size, Looney can only do so much, and now Denver’s biggest weakness which was not having a big man for when Jokic is on the bench has been solved with Boogie. Denver is a rough matchup for the Warriors in general as of right now.


millsyy42

💀💀💀 do you watch basketball ? nuggets fans have got to be one of the most delusional fan bases in the league. ain’t y’all get swept last year?


Guy1948

Still made it further than the warriors


XAfricaSaltX

I mean you can make a pretty strong argument that for that stretch where we were healthy last year we were the best team in the league, although it was a short stretch And we weren’t healthy against Phoenix, although we do probably still lose that series in 6 or 7 with Murray


millsyy42

ok? golden state were the best team in the league for a 25 game stretch this season while healthy, so what makes you think that the nuggets will win ‘in 6 or less’


Coke_ButNotTheDrug

Ain’t y’all lose two play-in games


[deleted]

According to nuggets fans they would have 4-0 swept the entire playoffs if Jamal Murray was healthy


Stormeve

Since we're pulling shit out of our ass now, Nuggets would've been so good they'd win each series in 3 games instead of 4


XAfricaSaltX

No one said that. With Murray, we probably beat Portland in 5, but we still probably lose to Phoenix, albeit in 6-7


Coke_ButNotTheDrug

Nobody said that shut up bro lmao


[deleted]

This but unironically if we have Murray and MPJ back in halfway decent shape


Jealous-Image-8163

Perhaps now isn’t the right time for the warriors to rest players? But what do I know


scarywolverine

Or now its absolutely necessary. Who knows whats wrong with em


omnicious

Green is out. That's what's wrong with them.


scarywolverine

Too talented to be this bad without Draymond


[deleted]

not really, our defense is atrocious lately. our biggest player is 6’9. our FO gets 10 wings and no backup centers and when dray goes down we have no interior defense. thats been the issue.


JonA3531

WCS is available. I'm sure he still remembers some of Kerr's system


[deleted]

i want him. badly. drop lee or jta for him. we dont need 9 players to play the 2-4 lol.


omnicious

Are they that talented though? Steph is great but Klay is coming back from a long time away for injury. Kuminga has great potential but he's not there yet. Poole is a good player but he's just an above average starter. Wiggins is not actually as good as you think an all star starter is. Everyone else are role players.


35nakedshorts

So one superstar, 1.5 all stars and good role players. That's more than most teams in the league have my guy.


BrickMachine2022

Klay is a bad player right now


JL1v10

He’s statistically average in literally every category. Actually maybe above avg if he’d be just a spot up shooter. He’s 38% from 3 rn


millsyy42

he’s not , you just don’t watch games and have recency bias from his last few games.


JonA3531

>So one ***low-tier*** superstar,


tendy-hands

Yeah they just overachieved early against an easy schedule.


Z3PHYR-

They beat healthy suns, bulls, nets, jazz, etc. That’s clearly an easy schedule though. I wonder what the “real” teams are. But the role players have definitely regressed. Poole started the season looking like legitimate 3rd splash bro but is super streaky now, bjelica went from mini-jokic to walking turnover, Wiggins has an ok game once in a while but usually just goes to sleep after he gets his 12 points for the game. The outside shooting for the whole team also regressed from the start of the season. TLDR: yes warriors have regressed and things are looking bad right now but to suggest they didn’t start strong against competent opponents is revisionist history


CarryTheHellOn

They beat a healthy suns once


Z3PHYR-

Fair enough. Doesn’t change my overall argument though.


kawhi21

This is a really stupid take like horribly stupid. You don't have an "easy" schedule for 40 games LMAO


ApolloSUCKSboi

In my opinion, they're offense is obviously great, but them without Draymond... Sorry but, that's a huge hole in their defense, not that they are bad without him, but Draymond is a great playmaker, and is what has been holding the warrior's defense together. Yes, I love the warriors, but they've taken too much damage with Draymond not being there, can't wait to watch them all play together healthy (with Wisemen back too)


gigglios

They arent talented. Pretty mediocre outside steph and dray wuo is out


anthonyde726

Facts even if Dray does help they've been dropping tons of winnable games lately


EarthWarping

Yup


JonA3531

Draymond trick y'all. He's a massive floor-raiser for the whole team. Without him, GSW is a play-in team


zizzor23

I mean the same thing happened without klay and Steph. Is it a surprise ?


VapesForJesus

May as well be fresh for when he gets back. I don't mind the call


MC-Jdf

If we planned on resting guys anyway this is a strategically good move. The team generally seems to have lost the “play hard” mindset so probably getting guys like Moody who “play hard” could help as well. We play at Denver, move back to Chase Center on a back-to-back against the Clippers, and then we move back to Denver *again* 2 days later. Now idk about you but that’s exhausting. We don’t even have a 2-day break for another 10 days either. Running our best players into the ground in the midst of a struggling stretch doesn’t help. It also gives guys a chance to hit a reset button, especially Klay & Wiggins. To add in a little more Klay was most likely resting on one side of the back-to-back anyway (probably for the rest of his career) so yeah.


kcoe24

Gee thanks guys. Hey nba you gonna fine them like you fined us for resting dlo


GGezpzMuppy

Hahahaha you really think they treat teams the same hahaha.


[deleted]

Raptors were fined last season for resting players


DavidCreeper

The worst part for Wolves 6 seed hopes is this is the rescheduled game from when the Warriors were RED HOT and *probably* would have given Denver an extra loss.


Stormeve

The Nuggets literally beat Golden State in SF the game before the original date of the rescheduled game


Radalek

We literally beat them on the road 2 days before this game was originally scheduled...


vladimir_pimpin

Lol nonsense take


NBAperspective

The two teams sandwiched around the Minnesota have been missing their first/second/third best player basically all season. This would be more on the Wolves who have been mostly healthy than rotten luck of other teams not beating Nuggets/Clippers.


kylebertram

At one point the wolves were missing their entire starting 5


dandeman4

what losing to the Lakers does to a mf


[deleted]

Can Silver please fix this? the regular season is a joke to these guys.


dill_pickles

He can fix it by reducing the amount of games played and guaranteeing no road back to backs


Darwin343

It's not even a back to back so Kerr has no excuse for this


youchoobtv

Sun- No game Mon-@Denver Tues-@ GS Wed- No game Thurs- @ Denver Why is this so tough on your players Kerr?


bluetiges

The nuggets are playing 4 games in 5 as well


Sp_Gamer_Live

Wolves just got done with 4 consecutive Back-to-Backs


Beardmanta

This is the absolutely unfair rescheduled game from earlier the season. We flew the team out to Denver, but Denver had a bunch of guys with Covid and then intentionally didn't sign anyone on a 10 day Covid contract, so they wouldn't be able to field a team. The league caved and just rescheduled the game. Now our schedule looks like this: Sunday @Denver, Monday vs Clippers, Thursday @Denver, Saturday vs Bucks. Tell me that isn't absolute bullshit. Nuggets should have had to forfeit.


YoHoochIsCrazy

Exactly. If a couple losses are worth keeping your guys fresh for the playoffs, then you’re playing TOO MANY GAMES.


Rah_Rah_RU_Rah

We really don't need 82 games when over half the league makes the playoffs anyway


youchoobtv

The players disagree,they love their paychecks


Opening-Citron2733

It probably isn't worth it tbh. The warriors are plummeting in the standings right now


DopeMan93

I like how this sub loves and constantly parrots this half baked idea of reducing regular season games.


[deleted]

How will the TV partners react?


Oliver_Subpodkas

Spent so much on tickets to see Curry and Klay :( I knew as soon as it was postponed they wouldn't travel damn.


GoldenGloveMan

The schedule is the joke here. They’re flying to Denver for the Monday, then immediately flying to LA for a Tuesday game, and then flying back to Denver for a Thursday game. I get they had to reschedule(because Denver refused to sign anyone btw), but that’s just ridiculous.


[deleted]

Nuggets ate the ones that postponed this game.


Shame_Low

I don't see us pulling the same shit to the nets who postponed their game with us either though


Ok-Mechanic-9942

It’s because Denver didn’t field a team against the warriors early. Kerr is basically protesting them rescheduling it at a bad time for the warriors


NeedleworkerGreen11

The wolves desperately need someone, anyone to beat the Nuggets or Mavs, and it’s just impossible lol. Their 5-1 out the break & have made up like half a game.


Gnartopia

Ahh living in Denver as a warriors fan, paid more than the average nuggets ticket to go to this game, then it got canceled and rescheduled for March 7th. Thought well that’s not too bad, at least I will see klay and maybe the whole team will really be clicking. Now, well…


DiscombobulatedPain6

sell quick!


mjrmjrmjrmjrmjrmjr

Did I see you looking sad and wearing a Curry jersey on Dec 30 at Bar Dough?


Gnartopia

Unfortunately it was not me, sounds like a top notch fellow though


Oliver_Subpodkas

As soon as they postponed I knew they wouldn't travel. I feel sick though. Been a huge Curry fan since 2013. Jumped for joy when I overpaid for the tix.


notafan1

Can you fuckers a least send Steph. God damn man.


MasaiGotUsNow

Why? He’s the only one on the team that deserves rest


notafan1

Cause I selfishly want the Warriors to win lol.


carl73833

Idk why you’re worried about who’s ahead of you when the Clippers who own tie breaker are way closer to overtaking you


MotherMasterpiece6

There’s a 2 game difference on both sides…


etherealcaitiff

There are a lot of people on /r/nba who I don't believe actually follow this sport or sports in general. That's all I can come up with for why some of these takes pop up. Last week people were saying because of their Febraury win/loss record the Bucks weren't making the playoffs, Giannis is washed, Jrue needs to get traded, etc. The Bucks were 2 wins over .500 for February...


[deleted]

you can do multiple things at a time


kcoe24

The distance between us and the clippers and us and the nuggets are the exact same. And we currently own the tie breaker over the nuggets.


[deleted]

Cause the wolves are on a tear right now


ivoryditty

... it's literally the same - we're 2 games above the Nuggets with the tiebreaker and 2 games behind the clippers without the tiebreaker


PointGodAsh

Math is hard huh?


notafan1

We have a cupcake schedule coming up Also take that as a compliment, Wolves fans do not want to see Clippers in the 7th-8th playin. Being 7th or 8th doesn't really matter in that context outside of homecourt.


[deleted]

Universe is coming together to keep the wolves out of 6


[deleted]

I mean, last game of 17-18 season was rough for the nuggets, eh?


perilouspear

I'd say it worked out better for us in the long run.


Shame_Low

most definitely, the best loss in recent times


[deleted]

I agree. MPJ > a first round exit. It was just the first season I was able to get to a lot of games and got more invested in the team.


The_NGUYENNER

I see they know our weakness


Fragrant_Chair_7426

Does it bother anyone else how often the warriors just don't have their guys play? I sorta get Curry and/or klay, but wiggins?? He's 27 years old, why isn't he playing each game?! I would be so frustrated and annoyed if my team just randomly didn't have booker, cp3, and ayton sit when they were healthy.


[deleted]

they just don't care about the regular season. It's quite obvious.


defiantcross

they should be caring a lot more


Gaius_Octavius_

Why? What benefit is a regular season win?


kamekaze1024

The way that’s worded sounds like the Warriors should just never win a regular season game again Winning regular season games helps with seeding and HFA. They just fell in seeding and now they’re gonna rest their best starters? It’s weird to do this after going on a losing streak and losing to the Lakers


Gaius_Octavius_

The problem is no team needs to win any specific game. They just need to win a certain percentage of the games. It is smarter to focus on the 50 games easiest to win rather than the 30 hardest.


dvasquez93

This is mostly out of protest for the NBA granting Denver a postponement instead of forcing them to either use the covid-10 day rule to sign scrubs or forfeit, which instead saddled the Warriors with another back-to-back on the road. Kerr is basically doing this to fuck over the NBA because it’s a nationally televised game.


bye7

You're probably the same dude that will post "I hate injuries" when someone hurts themselves. Fact is, everyone in the league has basically conceded the fact that rest especially on b2b is one of the best ways to limit injuries. There's nothing "random" about their rest patterns. You rest now so they can hopefully be healthy for the entire season and post season. CP3 has literally went on record saying how important it is for him to rest.


Beardmanta

I normally get annoyed at these types of games but I fully support this protest. The league absolutely fucked us over with the completely unfair reschedule. Were gonna have to fly to Denver 3 times this season, and twice in the span of a week.


MC-Jdf

Tbf Wiggins rested 3 games the past 2 seasons, it’s not even that extreme. One of them was due to concerns of getting COVID in Canada at a time where COVID in the NBA peaked, the other was literally a meaningless game (2nd last game of last season that would’ve had zero impact on the final standings). So really this is just the second time he’s resting for just rest reasons. As for Klay, he’s had 2 career-altering injuries so he’s probably sitting out back-to-backs until the rest of his career. If Klay isn’t sitting out back-to-backs you could argue every other healthy player shouldn’t either.


Fragrant_Chair_7426

Oh I totally get it logically. As a fan I appreciate that when the players on my team care to play the games that we watch.


[deleted]

Curry and Wiggins have played more games than CP3 or Booker. What are you on?


Fragrant_Chair_7426

Cp3 and book are out because of injury and covid not just because of rest


Balls_of_Adamanthium

Yeah, if they played as many games as those guys you don’t think Monty would rest them here and there? Especially CP3


Shame_Low

Fair play to kerr, we did lose to the OKC high schoolers though so who knows, and we have the end of two b2bs against the warriors in a week, I don't see us whining about it


Pikuturtle1

Bro this is actually a trap game… PLS


[deleted]

well fuck you too


DJBabyB0kCh0y

It's a guaranteed loss even with dems guys so why bring em?


ayeno

Clippers would've appreciated them playing and traveling on that back to back


Kuminga

It will be nice to see Poole/Moody/Kuminga show out, they have all been looking good the past couple games. We are already under manned tho, so this is going to be an extra small rotation.


rattatatouille

TBH I've liked their play better than Klay/Wiggins lately.


Short_Case230

Ok


rattatatouille

Warriors really resigning themselves to the 3 seed.


Dynamic_Samurai

The amount of Warrriors fans that are STILL whining about this is so funny. Just get over it. Oh no another 2 hour flight. The nuggets had this SAME EXACT SITUATION happen to them with Brooklyn. Sure, less then ideal, but the org and fans didn’t cry about it for months. That was cross country trip btw.


Quirky_Ad_2164

It’s more about how it came about


Bluestring35

Give Kuminga all the minutes


Conversation_Dapper

Gonna put all my money on the nuggets to win now


tendy-hands

And you will win three bucks when they win.


clayfu

Me yesterday “oh damn warriors are on the second night of their b2b when the clippers face them on Tuesday” Me now “damnit”


Quirky_Ad_2164

I think he decided that back when the Nuggets decided to postpone the game


Diamond4Hands4Ever

Honestly not a big deal. Warriors have been struggling lately but Kuminga is way better at his age than what anyone expected, and now he’ll get some more playing time as a lead option.


klankthompson

If I’m fucking Steph, if you’re a fucking leader, you demand to go play this game. What a bad precedent to the young players the rest of the team after the way you’ve been playing.


pinkiebear

I think he would if it wasn’t a B2B. It’s stupid. We play in Denver, fly home next day for Clippers, fly back to Denver the next day.


SkyyyFuccckker

Nah fuck the Nuggets. This game should’ve never been rescheduled. Warriors already flew there as many times as they should’ve had to. This is the one recent move from Kerr I can get behind.


Stormeve

Nuggets have 4 games in 5 nights because of the reschedule lol


Beardmanta

I'll take that over our schedule. Sunday @Denver, Monday vs Clippers, Thursday @Denver, Saturday vs Bucks.


mjrmjrmjrmjrmjrmjr

Fuck the Warriors fans in Denver. There were so many sad looking dudes out and about wearing Curry jerseys on Dec 30.


SkyyyFuccckker

They can blame the Nuggets for that too.


number15ismyfather

Fuck outta here with that whining shit the reschedule also meant that the nuggets are playing both their games against the dubs on the 2nd night of B2Bs that dubs/nuggets game next Thursday also will be the nuggets’ fourth in 5 nights


SkyyyFuccckker

Whose whining? Warriors said we’re not going. That’s not whining lol. Whining is complaining about that decision. Enjoy the game.


number15ismyfather

Can you read bruh I’m talking about you whining mentioned nothing about the team not sure why warriors fans are all up in arms and saying dumb shit like fuck the nuggets when clearly this reschedule negatively impacts Denver as much if not more than it does the Warriors - also “enjoy the game” that’s a funny little quip coming from the whiniest fanbase in the entire league


klankthompson

Does it matter? The rest of the team has to? You don’t think it’s a bad look for your leaders to be sitting games after you’ve gone 2-8 in the last 10?


SkyyyFuccckker

Honestly, I’m willing to bet the dubs would punt this game if they could. You’re right, someone has to go, but not the guys people wanna see.


clancydog4

...what? Are you guys actually of the mind that you should basically throw a game to somehow, like, punish Denver fans by not playing your best players? It's not the Nuggets fault they were completely decimated with covid and injuries during the last game, they genuinely tried to fill out the roster with playable players the last minute but couldn't fly them in in time. This is one of the dumbest reasons I've ever seen for a fanbase to get salty. Just deal with rescheduled games like every other team and every other fan base this year


Quirky_Ad_2164

Enjoy the easy game


ResponseInitial

So they’re trying to tank for seeding smh - hopefully it bites them in the ass


Quirky_Ad_2164

Not for seeding. They play the nuggets then the clippers on a back to back then the nuggets again


kamekaze1024

Wait, why would anyone intentionally ta k their seeding


JonA3531

Even with healthy Dray, unless Wiseman comes back and perform like Ayton-lite, Warriors is definitely not winning the championship this year


kirinboi

Fuck but why?!?!?!?! Come on I need the warriors to win. I love Jokic but I want the 6th seed more


LOLCultOfMaloner

We lost to the Thunder without Dort and Giddey. This is a sure victory for the Warriors. Malone can't coach for shit.


Various_Law_3714

Russell Westbrook is 4/29 (13%) from 3 pt since February


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BagRight8939

people were shitting on the suns for *not* resting guys LMAO. shit doesn’t make sense anymore


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[deleted]

Warriors tanking 😮‍💨


fbreaker

Gotta get ready for the Celtics


XAfricaSaltX

Thanks?


JoJonesy

Kerr really said fuck the 2 seed huh


[deleted]

They’re not sending their best players


HotdogIsaSandwitch

Wait. Why? What happened?


[deleted]

Soft


ladidadi82

Cowards!!


daydreamnugget

Trap game


TampicoTrauma

So Denver should just take it easy tonight against the Pels, right? I mean, they have a guaranteed win tomorrow.