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kekgeek1 wrote:

FNG wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:Finch takes a mini shot at Dlo post game. From Chad Hartman

" When Finch is rightfully praising the defense post game and says sometimes earlier in the year we had to hide guys defensively and now we don't, Hello DLo"

I'm out of town, so I didn't see the post game. But Chad's tweet didn't have the quotation marks you have, kek. I'd like to hear from someone who watched the post gamer, but I suspect Finchie only said the part about not having to hide anyone defensively anymore, and Chad added the "Hello DLo". I think Finchie is too smart to provide bulletin board material 5 days before we face the guy.

We all know what he meant though...how different a defense looks when you have five guys playing cohesive D.

I quoted chads tweet above. Here is the exact finch quote, this is me quoting it.

"Earlier in the season we couldn't get to the matchups we wanted because we sometimes had guys we couldn't put on the ball. Now we have a multitude of guys we can put on the ball. And when you have multiple guys who can guard the ball you can move guys around and sometimes you have to hide players but we really don't have that anymore and now we have guys to flip matchups around, we feel we can take advantage of matchups at times and have a multitude of guys who can guard like you know high leverage players"

I might be off a word or two but that was the quote post game

Thanks for that, kekgeek...that's kind of what I thought Finchie might have said. Chad Hartman's tweet was little confusing, and many will assume he said "Hello DLo"...that would have been bulletin board material and not smart just five days before seeing the Lakers. DLo showed us during that 3-4 game stretch in January (I think) that he is capable of playing good defense if he puts in the effort...he just normally doesn't.

CoolBreeze44 wrote:Can't look at Steve Kerr without wanting to punch him in the grill. Happy Michael Jordan did it for me.

One of the funniest basketball-related things I've ever seen:

There was some show on NBATV years ago that had a bunch of big-name players/coaches sitting in a room just chatting about whatever. I know Shaq was in the mix. Charles Barkley. A bunch of other guys... and Steve Kerr.

The subject of favorite foods from their childhood came up. Somebody said peach cobbler. A couple said grandma's grits. Another was fried chicken.

Then, it came to Steve Kerr. He said sushi.

Obviously, Steve Kerr grew up in a very different environment than everybody else on the panel.

LOL, yeah Kerr has a different background than the typical NBA guy. I've always liked him though. I appreciate his calm demeanor on the sidelines and thoughtful interviews. I just read his wiki page and learned a lot a things I didn't know. I wasn't aware that his dad was murdered in Lebanon while Kerr was in high school. A-hole Arizona State fans taunted him a few years later with "Where's your Father", and despite being in tears, he put up 20 on them in the first half. I also didn't know he made 57.3% of his three-point shots in 1987-8...good lord!

FNG wrote:LOL, yeah Kerr has a different background than the typical NBA guy. I've always liked him though. I appreciate his calm demeanor on the sidelines and thoughtful interviews. I just read his wiki page and learned a lot a things I didn't know. I wasn't aware that his dad was murdered in Lebanon while Kerr was in high school. A-hole Arizona State fans taunted him a few years later with "Where's your Father", and despite being in tears, he put up 20 on them in the first half. I also didn't know he made 57.3% of his three-point shots in 1987-8...good lord!

Some people might not like Kerr because he can come off rather smug or pretentious, or they're tired of the Warriors, or even his forays into political issues... but that famous story from college shows you just how tough of a dude he was/is.

Underneath that clean cut, sushi-eating, holier-than-thou persona... is a pretty badass basketball lifer.

AbeVigodaLive wrote:

FNG wrote:LOL, yeah Kerr has a different background than the typical NBA guy. I've always liked him though. I appreciate his calm demeanor on the sidelines and thoughtful interviews. I just read his wiki page and learned a lot a things I didn't know. I wasn't aware that his dad was murdered in Lebanon while Kerr was in high school. A-hole Arizona State fans taunted him a few years later with "Where's your Father", and despite being in tears, he put up 20 on them in the first half. I also didn't know he made 57.3% of his three-point shots in 1987-8...good lord!

Some people might not like Kerr because he can come off rather smug or pretentious, or they're tired of the Warriors, or even his forays into political issues... but that famous story from college shows you just how tough of a dude he was/is.

Underneath that clean cut, sushi-eating, holier-than-thou persona... is a pretty badass basketball lifer.

I didn't like Kerr because he took my favorite Bulls players spot BJ Armstrong. Of course I was really young at the time and didn't realize he was selected in the expansion draft.

Anybody that has concerns about Mike Conley's age needs to watch a replay of last night's game, especially the final minute. His defense is elite, and he moves like a 21-year-old out there. I don't know if we can expect him to continue to make over 41% of his threes (although he has been over 40% 4 times in his career, including the past two years), but we can expect him to continue to play terrific team and on-ball defense and be a steady influence at the end of games. There's a reason he has one of the best all-time won/loss records among active players, despite never having played in a major market that attracts free agents...he's a winner.

One moment that almost cost us the game last night though was when Looney flattened (legally) Conley on a screen. I really think Conley didn't know where he was for the next several minutes because he was a disaster...turnovers, missed free throws, defensive lapses. I think GS went on a 15-0 run while Mike was stumbling around asking "where am I?". I don't think Finchie noticed, or he would have gotten him out of there. But somehow we survived that disastrous stretch.

It's March 27th, 2023, and that was still a huge win last night

I nominate Sab to tee up the GDT...maybe with the same language he used for Sunday's thread. Will someone second my nomination?

What. A. Fucking. Game!!!

Just got done with the replay after avoiding the internet since last night. AWESOME!!! It was ugly, tough basketball. I loved it!!

Let's keep it rolling! The Kings will be really tough tonight. They're a parched man who's been crossing the desert for 17 years and they're almost at the oasis. They're a very good team and they're going to be desperate at home. This'll be a huge test.

Much respect for Steve Kerr. And FWIW, his dad was a widely-respected academic, the President of the American University of Beirut, and his parents (Steve Kerr's grandparents) were humanitarian workers who supported survivors from the Armenian genocide at the end of the First World War. Just a really remarkable family all around.

But I degree. AWESOME WIN!!!!

FNG wrote:I nominate Sab to tee up the GDT...maybe with the same language he used for Sunday's thread. Will someone second my nomination?

I think that's the right thing to do.