The only legitimate point to their road record is it's just indicative overall of Wiggins' absence and his sudden appearance is a real X factor.

Beyond that, who cares? The Warriors are suddenly going to be a shitty road team in the PO's bc why? They're playing with an off/on switch. You can talk about that if you want but there's a distinction. Dominant home team is the larger takeaway imo.

You really think they're incapable of stealing a game on the road (while holding serve)? It's like Miami but a higher class.

Ok let me put this out here: I'm one of those guys who believes in momentum to a degree and that playing into a crowd or against (even for professionals) can effect their performance. Is it to a significant degree? Not usually, But you factor in traveling, not being at home-your literal home, and younger guys especially having a difficult time getting settled in visiting stadiums PLUS the variance you could see quite a difference.

I think with GS a lot of teams have smelled blood in the water earlier in the season and it's kind of snowballed and given everybody else (we've seen them lose to very weak teams on the road in games you know they want to win) a lot of confidence.

Is GS legit one of the worst teams on the road moreso than just being a mediocre team? Prob not completely , but theyre pretty bad this year. And the reason I believe that is the same reason I also believe they are one of the best teams at home and don't believe it's just "noise". Their home record isn't just variance either, I think they're special at home-it works both ways.

I'll add to this that despite them having such a bad road record I firmly believe they can steal a road game because well, variance and Steph Curry

If I thought they were a bad road team, it would just be because I thought they were overrated as a team overall. But I don't believe that....I have them 2nd in the West behind Suns in my fluid power rankings assuming Wiggy isn't totally mind****ed about whatever he had going on.

I dunno how else to state it, I don't think there are teams that are exceptionally bad on the road. Regular season is a joke now, they either A. not as good overall or B. just didnt give a **** + guys being in and out all year

The fact that the Warriors opponents are shooting 40.3% from 3 in their road games and 33% in their home games seems like by far the main reason their road record sucks.

That could be (in part) due to a lack of defensive effort.

This. You can’t just hand wave that away as variance and irrelevant stat

Mavs sitting out kyrie and bunch of players for precautionary reasons lolol. Seems kyrie has infected this entire loser franchise . https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ruled-win-game

Trivia: there’s never been a season when all 3 Texas teams missed the playoffs

A big FU to Phx for resting all their guys.

A big FU to Sac for not resting all their guys (maybe they will, but listed doubtful at the moment).

im sure kings are resting, GS is like -9.5

GS -9.5 on the road is a 50/50 game.

lol

There is an alternate universe where Kyrie was on the helicopter and not Kobe

That seems like the optimal universe

chilltown 4 mod; many ppl are saying it, more and more all the time!

lol

many of us got this right

#shallowlanger

Lol I did not realize chilltown still posts here. Rhat post is legendary but still love our mod

what even is this he'll play 1q today and then we're shutting him down for the season thing? cubes claiming load management experts who've run the numbers and concluded that he's got 8 minutes left in him, no more no less? lol

The mavs were on the WCF last year then chose to:

1. RIP Doyle
2. Trade for a lazy flat-earth nazi who is heading to LA
3. …sit everyone to miss the playoffs?

Luka is so gone

cubes is the smartest man in the room guys! he couldn't anticipate rick brunson convincing his son to sign with his team in the largest city in the country that also happens to be better than the mavs, and, oh, also gave him more money

Senior also played for Thibs. Jaylen is basically his godson.

lmao

cubes was prob offering dogecoin under the table or something

Mabs took a 13 point halftime lead in a do or die game they basically were determined to tank

They’re now down 8 with 3 to go

….congrats?

Anyone think NBA fines Cuban for that and sets an example?

Normally I'd say no but I dunno with the leagues in bed with sports betting it does seem kinda sketchy

It's disgusting practice. Now those ****ers have a 13.9% to land a top 4 pick. And they're at least 10th 4 times out of 5. I hate the lottery. I mean hell, even the play in round losers get to participate.

Ironically, in this instance, the lottery actually helps the tanking team. What if Dallas lollands Victor.

Ultimately, I think the lottery chances are just a consolation prize and they realized for the sake of the franchise and morale and Luka, they needed to end the season. Still, it's bull ****. But hey, Cubes is a businessman and played the ev. I'm not going to hate the game, but I do hate the current rules.

I think the NBA needs a lottery for the top of the draft. I can respect not wanting the bottom end teams to tank, but to spread it to all non-playoff teams is dumb and really penalizes the legitimately bad teams. I'd like to see the lottery be the top 7, maybe 8. There will always be those on the edge trying to gain ev, but much better for the bottom 10 teams to be duking it out without the fringe playoff teams. Plus, well, the bottom end teams are still basically tanking anyways with way less equity.

Dallas made their bed. LeBron GOAT for shipping with Kyrie.

I think Russillo on the ringer has the correct take on this stuff for the most part, every single rule you make will create another web of angle shooting or another inefficiency that then needs to be dealt with, it is endless. Lotto 25%, lotto 14%, lotto spread evenly, play-in, no play-in, yada yada

Best course of action is honestly just Silver probably telling the owners "yo dont do anything too egregious"


But I feel like these arguments are so out of Hinke Sixers era. No one cares anymore.