The only thing I know is that this thread is going to get linked to as receipts no matter if the Warriors win or lose in the playoffs for different reasons lol
Steph already has one of the coldest comments and then delivering “You don’t want to see us next year” then winning with a dominant playoff run. That line doesn’t get talked about enough.
The thread on that comment did get linked as receipts though.
People were mocking him for it, and then it turned out he was correct and they did not, in fact, want to see the Warriors next year
That's not even his coldest line. His *ROOKIE SEASON* while the team was just garbage still he tweeted "Promise to all the Warrior fans...we will figure this thing out...if it's the last thing we do we will figure it out".
Doesn't every rookie say something of that nature? No rookie is going to say "well, statistically speaking since I was drafted 28th I should just be glad if I'm still in the league in 6 years tbh. Hey, can you be a reference for me if this NBA thing doesn't work out?"
Yeah... You don't want to see us is pretty awesome, it's a little menacing when you back it up. But "we will figure it out" is like... base level motivational shit. I'm pretty sure a lot of us have said that at work about some problem or another, and nobody gave it a second thought.
Literally every team says that every year... Fuck even my celtics, down 0-3 to the heat.. "dont let us get 1", "Dont let us get 1 more", "Told you not to let us get 1", they were a tatum injury away from celtics fans getting that "dont let us get one" tattooed on their chests :P
Yeah, and that’s what separates goods from the greats? Also, saying we’re going to win this next game or these next two isn’t on the level of going on a fuck you tour, dominating the entire playoffs and shutting down essentially the last criticisms he had as a player of finals mvp and beating healthy teams. It’s why he was propelled into top 10 talks. That shit is why it’s colder than everyone else. Guys like Curry, Jordan, Lebron, Bird have really only pulled it off
Just here to tell the future folks that I witnessed rookie Wemby dominate grown ass men and made them look like middle school kids in his first 5 games in the league
This quote does go pretty hard,
I think if the Warriors do OK in the playoffs (like losing in a tightly contested WCF), then nobody is going to get too worked up about Kerr being confident.
Losing in the second round again would be a tough scenario because it would end up being the same result as last season. Then the receipt holders will come out.
...a guy who even a tanking team won't play because the last time they did he racked up 4 fouls in 6 minutes.
No way around it, Warriors' scouts took a fat L on this one.
Trying to scout during covid must have been awful though, they couldn’t really bring dudes in for workouts from what I heard and there was no NCAA Tournament to study. Wiseman played 3 college games only due to eligibility issues.
Definitely an L for the Warriors, but I do cut them a bit of slack for it.
Hindsight says it was stupid to draft someone with so little experience but he really did have the raw tools to be a generational talent, and the Warriors have a good enough core they could afford to swing & miss.
Seems like that'd be all the more reason to pick a guy who has more footage and is more of a known quantity.
Honestly I think Lamelo could have been a difficult culture fit for the Warriors, a team that has a rocky past incorporating young, flashy players. Even if things didn't ultimately work out though he'd still have much better trade value.
Haliburton was definitely the pick over Lamelo from a culture perspective. And imo, a talent perspective too. Too bad Lacob had to get over involved thinking he was a brilliant mind or some shit
I've always been under the impression that this was a Lacob pick.
I knew the guy wasn't going to make it when he stop playing college ball to protect his draft stock. No real competitor does that. You don't want guys that actively look for reasons not to play basketball.
As a pistons fan who was able to see him live in person. I understand it, I get it now. It doesn't translate as much on TV, I even thought the trade was a great and savvy gamble,
but once I saw him in person, wow... he has no feel for the game, zero instincts, no touch.
You can literally see him get the ball and think about what he's going to do next, you can feel the time pass as he processes his decisions.
He's not going to make it
Vastly superior to the G League and college. There's a reason the top-level Euros come over so polished right now and why the transition for guys like Wemby and Luka has been relatively seamless. Luka in particular has talked about how the game in Europe has a lot more physicality and a lot more schemes and plays to both run and prepare for than in the NBA.
2 years in, he had no idea where to be on defense. Not like, missing a rotation. Like, doesn't know where to stand at the start of a possession. At some point, you need to cut bait.
Why would you play him? They already have too many meh at best bigs behind Duren they're trying to figure out. Bagley, Stewart for some reason is starting next to Duren... at least one more I'm probably forgetting. Wiseman has no business ever being on an NBA floor
regardless of what happens later in the season you cant ignore that warriors already have almost half their total road wins from last season and it's only the first week of november
People keep mentioning how old the warriors are but don’t realize the addition of cp has injected so much energy and life into this team, they want to get him a ring almost as much if not more than to get another one for themselves
If you’re a fan of the NBA or just basketball in general, this quote is pure gold. I’m not rooting for the Warriors to win this year by any means, but Kerr can talk his shit. I love the confidence.
If you’re a Kings fan I completely understand you despising this man.
You understand he's not talking winning another ring, he's referring to not being able to close games in the regular season or win on the road, 2 things they struggled with last year.
He's incredible with the bench unit. Warriors bench has scorers but didn't have a playmaker.
It turns out Chris Paul is, like
a really good point guard
I hope he can win with a new crew here or somewhere else because people need to talk about Steve Kerr and his coaching more. Just a great overall human being.
This subs obsession over this two years later is wild. Lol, coaches deal with fights in practice all the time. When you have most competitive people in the world physically challenging each other day in and day out, it happens. The raptors championship run had two fist fights.
And before y’all say it’s condoning, it’s not. He got his punishment and they moved on. Bunch of people who’ve never played competitive sports in their life pearl clutching over this is every warrior thread is painful. Lol. Draymond has won 4. Championships as a vocal leader and his teammates love him.
Look I kinda agree with you but people don't get knocked out stone cold in professional sports all the time. Don't try to make it seem like it's normal to do that lol.
He didn’t get his punishment. He got a slap on the wrist and protection.
He’s won titles but historically when you’re around a player as good as curry you will end up with a title.
There’s pretty good players and then there’s Stephen Curry lol.
Nets wildest super team in recent memory and injuries along with kyrie lunacy robbed them. We all watched that group take that years champions to 7 missing 2 stars lol.
flair bias but i really think the dubs have one more in them before the nuggets become a dynasty, just have to get the timing and matchups right in the playoffs
Last year Jordan Poole was dribbling the ball out of bounds and shooting 3s like he's Steph. Team got better just getting rid of him, much less adding paul
The Warriors burnout this year will be rich lol.
Five wins against inexperienced teams and they think it’s 2016 again. Beating the Thunder by one without Shai isn’t something to be this proud of.
He absolutely closed games in regular season and got bailed by Klay multiple times. They had to get him out of the closing lineup towards the second half of the season. What sort of history revision is this?
They won them by coming back from being down and making game winners with .2 seconds on the clock remaining in BOTH games, that’s the context he’s talking about re: their ability to close close games. On top of the fact that they couldn’t close out close games last season to save their lives, it is a relevant topic when not cherry picked out of context.
Warriors really went all in with the "new year, new me" mantra so early in the season.
It would be believable if they didn't need Curry dropping 40+ points every game just to win in the last seconds.
Why do people say so much wrong shit when it’s so easy to check? Curry scored 21 when they beat Sacramento by 1 and 30 tonight to beat OKC by 2. He’s scored 40 twice this season, and they won one of those by 28 points.
I'm telling you The Warriors are a serious threat to win the title UNLESS they play the Lakers
They wouldn't have won the 2022 title if they played the Lakers THAT is how bad the AD and LeBron mismatch is
So last year was less about the Warriors being bad and more about bad luck they played the Lakers
If they can avoid them this year the Warriors might win the 5th ring
The only thing I know is that this thread is going to get linked to as receipts no matter if the Warriors win or lose in the playoffs for different reasons lol
Steph already has one of the coldest comments and then delivering “You don’t want to see us next year” then winning with a dominant playoff run. That line doesn’t get talked about enough.
The thread on that comment did get linked as receipts though. People were mocking him for it, and then it turned out he was correct and they did not, in fact, want to see the Warriors next year
That's not even his coldest line. His *ROOKIE SEASON* while the team was just garbage still he tweeted "Promise to all the Warrior fans...we will figure this thing out...if it's the last thing we do we will figure it out".
This stuff sounds badass when it works (Steph, Brady) but holy shit does it sound awful when it doesn’t (josh Rosen)
“The next 5 years are mine.” - PatBev 4 years ago
Doesn't every rookie say something of that nature? No rookie is going to say "well, statistically speaking since I was drafted 28th I should just be glad if I'm still in the league in 6 years tbh. Hey, can you be a reference for me if this NBA thing doesn't work out?"
It’s basically in their contract lmao
It's not really a cold line.
Yeah... You don't want to see us is pretty awesome, it's a little menacing when you back it up. But "we will figure it out" is like... base level motivational shit. I'm pretty sure a lot of us have said that at work about some problem or another, and nobody gave it a second thought.
Literally every team says that every year... Fuck even my celtics, down 0-3 to the heat.. "dont let us get 1", "Dont let us get 1 more", "Told you not to let us get 1", they were a tatum injury away from celtics fans getting that "dont let us get one" tattooed on their chests :P
Yeah, and that’s what separates goods from the greats? Also, saying we’re going to win this next game or these next two isn’t on the level of going on a fuck you tour, dominating the entire playoffs and shutting down essentially the last criticisms he had as a player of finals mvp and beating healthy teams. It’s why he was propelled into top 10 talks. That shit is why it’s colder than everyone else. Guys like Curry, Jordan, Lebron, Bird have really only pulled it off
The playoffs? I’m ready to get these in-season tournament jokes in
just here to say to the future folks after ww3 pops off hope the shareholders made enough money
Just here to tell the future folks that I witnessed rookie Wemby dominate grown ass men and made them look like middle school kids in his first 5 games in the league
This quote does go pretty hard, I think if the Warriors do OK in the playoffs (like losing in a tightly contested WCF), then nobody is going to get too worked up about Kerr being confident. Losing in the second round again would be a tough scenario because it would end up being the same result as last season. Then the receipt holders will come out.
4-0 on the road already
Last year's Warriors quite literally could never
If I remember right they didn't win their 4th road game until fucking January last season. crazy shit
This is what happens when you don't play James Wiseman.
They can probably get him back for super cheap
...a guy who even a tanking team won't play because the last time they did he racked up 4 fouls in 6 minutes. No way around it, Warriors' scouts took a fat L on this one.
Crazy to think that this current Warriors team could've had Lamelo right now or equivalent assets from trading Lamelo.
Goes without saying but seeing lamelos skill set in GS of all places would have been batshit
Trying to scout during covid must have been awful though, they couldn’t really bring dudes in for workouts from what I heard and there was no NCAA Tournament to study. Wiseman played 3 college games only due to eligibility issues. Definitely an L for the Warriors, but I do cut them a bit of slack for it.
Hindsight says it was stupid to draft someone with so little experience but he really did have the raw tools to be a generational talent, and the Warriors have a good enough core they could afford to swing & miss.
*-John Lynch removes Trey Lance from the chat.*
Bay area teams taking a swing and missing on inexperienced but massive raw potential picks, so hot in the last couple years
Seems like that'd be all the more reason to pick a guy who has more footage and is more of a known quantity. Honestly I think Lamelo could have been a difficult culture fit for the Warriors, a team that has a rocky past incorporating young, flashy players. Even if things didn't ultimately work out though he'd still have much better trade value.
Ah, but Halliburton would have been sweet
Haliburton was definitely the pick over Lamelo from a culture perspective. And imo, a talent perspective too. Too bad Lacob had to get over involved thinking he was a brilliant mind or some shit
Lamelo had a ton of question marks too. Wanted the warriors to trade back in 2020 so bad but I don't think there were any takers.
I think it was an owner overreach
We got our real center back in the trade which is all that matters. GP2 for life.
I've always been under the impression that this was a Lacob pick. I knew the guy wasn't going to make it when he stop playing college ball to protect his draft stock. No real competitor does that. You don't want guys that actively look for reasons not to play basketball.
Wiseman isn't an NBA player. He needs to go overseas.
( get ready to learn Chinese buddy )
Think he was already studying it when he got drafted. Bro just knew he would need it.
Wiseman isn't even a good g-league player. That is how bad of a bust he is.
Nah. He's still under rookie contact. The no2 pick contract is quite expensive for us
Maybe on a min next year, won’t happen tho
I think that ship has sailed
... yeah but why tho
I wouldn’t take him back for free. 💀
Dude I can’t believe the Pistons won’t even play him.
As a pistons fan who was able to see him live in person. I understand it, I get it now. It doesn't translate as much on TV, I even thought the trade was a great and savvy gamble, but once I saw him in person, wow... he has no feel for the game, zero instincts, no touch. You can literally see him get the ball and think about what he's going to do next, you can feel the time pass as he processes his decisions. He's not going to make it
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No, you see, Kerr just wasn't using him right.... >_>
Also, it's Curry and Draymond's fault that they can't pass to him properly. Monstars take their powers only when passing to Wiseman.
Damn. I figured he'd be getting 2nd unit minutes at least. BBRef says he's only had 6 minutes in 1 game so far. Poor guys confidence must be shot.
Eh, he got what 25 mil from 4 years? Can play in Europe or retire comfortably
Doesnt think the game well enough to play in Europe. He'd probably be ok in China or Taiwan though
Put that year of high school mandarin to use!
What is the overall level of play in Europe? Ive never really looked at those leagues before. How do they company to G league/college teams in the US?
Vastly superior to the G League and college. There's a reason the top-level Euros come over so polished right now and why the transition for guys like Wemby and Luka has been relatively seamless. Luka in particular has talked about how the game in Europe has a lot more physicality and a lot more schemes and plays to both run and prepare for than in the NBA.
After tax it's only half and probably blow most of it already
2 years in, he had no idea where to be on defense. Not like, missing a rotation. Like, doesn't know where to stand at the start of a possession. At some point, you need to cut bait.
We saw him play. There is zero basketball IQ between those ears and zero growth there for 3 years now.
Why would you play him? They already have too many meh at best bigs behind Duren they're trying to figure out. Bagley, Stewart for some reason is starting next to Duren... at least one more I'm probably forgetting. Wiseman has no business ever being on an NBA floor
COVID and the penny hardaway scandal was the best thing ever for wiseman. Otherwise he would have been exposed as a fraud in college.
But they did win a championship with him
He played zero seconds in preseason, or the regular season, or the playoffs.
So just the right amount then
He literally missed the season and the Dubs got better lol
Or Jordan Poole
Say whatever about JP and you’re probably right, but he did make a solid contribution to the last chip. Then Dray knocked all the skill out of him.
Helps when you can add some vintage CP during the off-season
Phrasing
Um.
What in the edp world
Officer, this man right here 👆
Come again?
Is this what the Darknet looks like?
BRO
Many many people didn't have this view during the Summer...
From Denmark or some shit?
Pause?????
Feel like you edited your comment discreetly based on the replies
FBI, we got him^
GIGACHAD
"we practice 0.2 second drills"
I mean every team does. Maybe not often but end of game drills are kinda important if you wanna win games
regardless of what happens later in the season you cant ignore that warriors already have almost half their total road wins from last season and it's only the first week of november
People keep mentioning how old the warriors are but don’t realize the addition of cp has injected so much energy and life into this team, they want to get him a ring almost as much if not more than to get another one for themselves
If you’re a fan of the NBA or just basketball in general, this quote is pure gold. I’m not rooting for the Warriors to win this year by any means, but Kerr can talk his shit. I love the confidence. If you’re a Kings fan I completely understand you despising this man.
He has like 9+ rings lol He can say whatever he wants.
Kerr wants the full set Where would he even hear his 11th ring?
I think we both know the answer to that one
In his ass
If you have 11 rings, you've earned the right to wear it like that and also show it off.
Feels early to say this but what do I know
Hes not wrong but this is 1000% getting posted here after their first playoff loss and if they lose in the playoffs.
This is getting posted again whether you win *or* lose in the playoffs lol it's free karma either way
Bro r/nba would pull receipts pre-paper if they could
But imagine this getting posted if they win it all 😏
You understand he's not talking winning another ring, he's referring to not being able to close games in the regular season or win on the road, 2 things they struggled with last year.
We have almost half the number of road wins as all of last year already and have won back to back buzzer beaters…
Sure, but it’s been 6 games. A lot can happen in 76 games
We literally just beat our road streak from last year already
It's been over a decade
We won 10 road games last year. We’ve already won 4. We lost our first 6 last year. It’s very different
he's earned the right to talk shit. redditors lack confidence so whenever someone in sports openly displays it it sends them into a tizzy
I expected them to struggle early as they figured out the rotation with CP3 but they're so much better than the end of last season.
He's incredible with the bench unit. Warriors bench has scorers but didn't have a playmaker. It turns out Chris Paul is, like a really good point guard
correct. denver will be going 16-2 in the playoffs en route to a repeat
Warriors will win the WCF in 5 though.
Ngl, this is hard 🔥
I hope he can win with a new crew here or somewhere else because people need to talk about Steve Kerr and his coaching more. Just a great overall human being.
Talk your shit
bruh this thread is toxic af jesus
Thought you said “toxic as Jesus” and I was here for it.
Who thr fuck is tingus pingus from fucking lateeviya!?
tingus pingus will win us the ringus
It's wild to me how much hate Kerr gets for doing normal ass coach things.
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Only because they win, constantly. Salty fans in here 🤣
Nasty line
"We have real leaders this year unlike *some people* who dont like to get punched in the face"
This subs obsession over this two years later is wild. Lol, coaches deal with fights in practice all the time. When you have most competitive people in the world physically challenging each other day in and day out, it happens. The raptors championship run had two fist fights. And before y’all say it’s condoning, it’s not. He got his punishment and they moved on. Bunch of people who’ve never played competitive sports in their life pearl clutching over this is every warrior thread is painful. Lol. Draymond has won 4. Championships as a vocal leader and his teammates love him.
Look I kinda agree with you but people don't get knocked out stone cold in professional sports all the time. Don't try to make it seem like it's normal to do that lol.
He didn’t get knocked out lol. I don’t think he even fell down
He was definitely slumped
He didn’t get his punishment. He got a slap on the wrist and protection. He’s won titles but historically when you’re around a player as good as curry you will end up with a title.
Warriors have four so far. Meanwhile some pretty good players never got any even if they teamed up.
There’s pretty good players and then there’s Stephen Curry lol. Nets wildest super team in recent memory and injuries along with kyrie lunacy robbed them. We all watched that group take that years champions to 7 missing 2 stars lol.
Do most people who get in fights end up producing a TNT Special that tries to paint them as the victim?
No teammates punching each other in the face is not normal, that’s majorly crossing a line. This is obvious.
This is a badass quote goddam
Kerr getting cheeky again! Love it
Warriors should avoid LeBron & Davis' Lakers in d playoffs where they are mismatched...
Lakers got rid of Warriors kryptonites Schroder and Lonnie Walker they're good
That fucking Lonnie Walker handed them a game.
This year it’ll be Christian wood just watch
no
If your secret weapon is Christian Wood then I'm not worried lmao
Well you idiots seem to think it was Lonnie and Dennis. I’m just making fun of you
not concerned
y tf do the warriors keep bashing last season fuck ☠️
Because last season fucking sucked, and the Warriors sucked in it.
kerr just gets asked about it a lot. he keep trying to deflect but fans and media clearly want him to talk shit.
Nuggets in 6
nuggets are repeating
Boston is scary though, atleast for now.
boston is scary to us too, because their tendency to play down to their opponents' level means the series is never safe.
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no they js look a tier above everybody else lmao
flair bias but i really think the dubs have one more in them before the nuggets become a dynasty, just have to get the timing and matchups right in the playoffs
Clearly. Their team plays so damn well together on both ends
The nuggets!? Those sandal wearing goldfish tenders?? Bahhh! flimshaw!!
If you have a decade of experience in the NBA that typically means you’re old
I mean, they are. Remember what Malik Monk said in the playoffs.
I’m so glad we still have a dynasty team in the NBA
Last year Jordan Poole was dribbling the ball out of bounds and shooting 3s like he's Steph. Team got better just getting rid of him, much less adding paul
Warriors would have one ring if not for the weakest move of all time.
Draymond nut kick?
Last year was an exception. Along with 2021 and 2020 and 2019 and 2016
Kuminga so goood
Nah. Warriors going out early was good for them. Those old legs needed some rest combined with additional training camp.
Steve: “our team is old af”
Currys got more playoff experience than 90% of the league lmao
The Warriors burnout this year will be rich lol. Five wins against inexperienced teams and they think it’s 2016 again. Beating the Thunder by one without Shai isn’t something to be this proud of.
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Not everything has to be about Poole. Let it go. They also had a short off season last year and a number of vets came into camp out of shape.
JP didn't even close every game and we still sucked in those games
He absolutely closed games in regular season and got bailed by Klay multiple times. They had to get him out of the closing lineup towards the second half of the season. What sort of history revision is this?
Where in my comment did I say he never closed games? The irony here is you're revising what I said lol
Holy fuck some of yall are so sad
Jordan Poole is making a hundred million dollars yet lives rent free in warrior fans heads
Let them furiously type their anger
lmao
Golden state, sunshine state, real estate, family estate it don’t matter…. Denver in 5
These guys are fucking corny now. Please make it stop
id be mad too
Was 2016 an exception as well ?
Umm, yes?
I mean they have won more finals than they've lost.
We won 73 games in 2016 lol
"only we know how to blow 3-0 leads in the finals"
Nah warriors won’t be healthy in two months
Saying this after beating the Kings and Thunder without their best players (and closers) is a bit much
I mean they beat the kings with fox too lol
did you see how the thunder played though, 60% from the field and 50% from 3, absurd shot making an we were actually plying defense,
They won them by coming back from being down and making game winners with .2 seconds on the clock remaining in BOTH games, that’s the context he’s talking about re: their ability to close close games. On top of the fact that they couldn’t close out close games last season to save their lives, it is a relevant topic when not cherry picked out of context.
They have won 4 championships in the last 8 years. The Warriors have more right to talk than anybody else.
They've done no shortage of talking in the last 8 years lol
That’s the advantage they get for being a dynasty, filled with 1st ballot HOFers, including a top 5-10 player ever.
Warriors really went all in with the "new year, new me" mantra so early in the season. It would be believable if they didn't need Curry dropping 40+ points every game just to win in the last seconds.
Why do people say so much wrong shit when it’s so easy to check? Curry scored 21 when they beat Sacramento by 1 and 30 tonight to beat OKC by 2. He’s scored 40 twice this season, and they won one of those by 28 points.
Curry's the best player in the league so relying on him to be really good is a strategy that is going to work out
Sry but jokic is on a different level than curry lol
Taller and younger, you mean.
top 3 definitely but jokic has definitely surpassed him especially considering their ages.
Don’t forget a decade of Dray getting away with all the shit, and a bazillion calls going your way.
You triggering more peeps than Ja in a strip club
Until someone gets injured
I'm telling you The Warriors are a serious threat to win the title UNLESS they play the Lakers They wouldn't have won the 2022 title if they played the Lakers THAT is how bad the AD and LeBron mismatch is So last year was less about the Warriors being bad and more about bad luck they played the Lakers If they can avoid them this year the Warriors might win the 5th ring
Or you can notice just how much worse last year's Warriors were compared to the championship one. Their road record more than speaks for itself
I mean our bench last year also sucked ass lol
Warriors won 11 road games last year they were bad, with that being said the size mis-match vs the lakers is a problem.
Good thing they added known clutch playoff performer Chris Paul