GSW have a good advantage since Russell and Curry needs to step up from this game and develop leadership to form a new team that will
be more competitive. While OKC who's losing both 2 previous games are still having issue who's going to lead them after WB left them.

Handicap for GSW +1.5  is quite interesting with 1.80 odd, while ML 1.90 also considerable.

I have said that nobody should be caring about the early regular season but people got too excited to see warriors losing and Lakers losing because they hate those teams (one is one of the most championship won teams ever the other has been a big Dystansty for the past 5 years) but reality is it is still early season and teams are not playing with their 100%.

We won't be seeing teams 100% until late this season (after all-star break) and then their real 100% will be live when they are on playoffs. Most people think the real basketball doesn't even start until playoffs. The only difference is you get to see how people used their summer time, for example some players like Dejounte Murray and Markelle Fultz can shoot now, or Lebron cares about defense now, those type of things matter, rest doesn't really matter that much.

What?!!!!
Are you really legendary or what?

Players have been pumped by the first week of the season and they want to showcase their skills already and you are saying they are not giving theri 100 percent? Are you crazy or what? Are you even playing basketball in your life?
You always knew when a player gives their all and I saw it with them already. It is almost the playoffs of their career.
Why?

Simple. Specially in the Western side.
They already knew the competition is getting higher and every game is a must win.
Those facts identifies everything already.

This is not true, you might have this idea because you will see some stats of players improve after the all-star break but they play their 100% all of the time especially if they want to increase their value in the market or at least have a spot in the roster. Showing no commitment in the game would only boot you up to another league like what ex-NBA players have already did, the coaches won't simply allow their players to give sub par performances each night as it will just decrease their chances of winning games and be part of the playoffs. Not unless the team is tanking I don't see any reason why they would just play shitty performances each night especially if their fans are expecting them to win games on their home or on the TV.

1 or 2 games for me can be done as their experiment but after that, they have to go in all seriously with whomever they will be against with. But you're right that they have to play with all they had for all of those games.

It's about the consistency of a team. If they can get wins from the start, it will give them confidence and will encourage them to do better for every game.

A blow out loss for the warriors this time against OKC. I think there is something wrong with how the warriors are playing. It seems that they don't have that championship grit that they have the previous season.

D'Angelo Russell is not so consistent who only scored 6 points in this game.
I think we've seen enough for the warriors offense here, without Thompson, they might continue to struggle.
And I also notice that they were also out rebounded by the Thunder and they have a very poor 3 point shooting of only 15.2%, this is uncharacteristic of the Warriors.

Again, they are on a adjustment period, and we can clearly see they are out of sync right now.
First they loss by 19 points against the Clippers at home, now they loss by 18 points in the road, I think if you are a better, its time to go against the Warriors everytime before they can figure out how to play competitively.

Damn that Suns+10, that's straight disrespectful from their team.


Do you think Booker is a bit underrated? I mean I've seen Devin Booker putting up big numbers, and finishing the game with spectacular stats.
I remember a lot of people only knew him when he scored 70 against Celtics in 2017 and he was even the youngest to score that much in the entire league. This kid really deserves to be an all-star.

I agree.
But they really need that one win. That might spark everything if they do so. For now, 2 losses should be enough. They need to do something about it or Steve Kerr should also make some new plays. If they cannot use the old anymore then create another.

Klay might no  be playing this season. https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/klay-thompson-unlikely-play-warriors-season-steve-kerr-reveals
So they need to fill that gap or if not something should happen in the rotation, make some changes. It might take a while to renew everything but that is something instead of nothing.