2023-24 Season | Game #7 | Warriors @ Cavs | Nov. 5, 2023 | 6:00 p.m.

[2 For The Brew]

As for Draymond... these comments did NOT disappoint.

The comments had me crying I was laughing so hard.

No guy likes to see another guy get hit like that but everybody is laughing at this. Even Warriors fans said he had it coming.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Very, very satisfying win. The W's were averaging 117 ppg and coming off a 141 point night two nights ago and the Cavs held them to 104. And that was with Steph hitting 7-for-11 from deep. The rest of the team made 30% on 3's. The W's made just 34% of their 2-point shots.

Mitchell is just killing it - 31 points and 7 assists. Garland fearlessly attacked the rim and ended up shooting 13 free throws while dishing out 7 assists. Everybody contributed. Mobley is very unskilled with the ball in his hands but his defense and rebounding were excellent. Strus did a little of everything with a line of 15/4/4 with no turnovers in 36 minutes.

Allen is still being brought along slowly but he had a nice line of 12/9/3 in 28 minutes.

Things seem to be coming together now that Garland and Allen are back. Garland had six turnovers as he was trying to force some interior passes that weren't there, but it's only his second game.

Now for more of the same next game but a few less turnovers; 18 is too many. And despite having a big size advantage the Cavs still gave up 17 offensive rebounds. Some were long rebounds off missed 3-point shots, but 17 is still too many, especially to a smaller team. However, the Warriors came in ranked 5th in offensive rebound percentage, so it's something they excel in.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

Just a stat for ya..

The Warriors with Curry and Thompson last year only scored 104 points or less just twice.

As a whole, they were held to 104 points or less just six times.

Cavs just held them to 104 points tonight.

This was made early in the game. They actually made a great adjustment early in th 2nd quarter spearheaded by Tristan where they shifted how far they had the bigs coming up on the horns 1:4 high screen with Draymond where they love to run a little dribble hand off or pitch back. Kind of how Tristan and Shump used to play against the same set in 2016. It was impressive.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

This was made early in the game. They actually made a great adjustment early in th 2nd quarter spearheaded by Tristan where they shifted how far they had the bigs coming up on the horns 1:4 high screen with Draymond where they love to run a little dribble hand off or pitch back. Kind of how Tristan and Shump used to play against the same set in 2016. It was impressive.

Curry did shoot 7/11 from three though. But I think the key with curry always has been not letting him control the tempo and feel of the game. When he’s penetrating and is in his bag hittint floaters, layups, and collapsing the defense on him getting everyone else involved, they’re deadly.

But when tbe Warriors just put Paul out there at the top of the key and use Curry as essentially a shooting guard, he’s still amazing but their offense loses a dimension.Paul also kinda neuters Draymond whose playmaking is when they’re most dangerous(no pun intended). Cavs did a good job in the 4th of forcing Paul or Draymond to beat them. If those two hit threes I think you tip your cap.

 

[foucault87]

Curry did shoot 7/11 from three though. But I think the key with curry always has been not letting him control the tempo and feel of the game. When he’s penetrating and is in his bag hittint floaters, layups, and collapsing the defense on him getting everyone else involved, they’re deadly.

But when tbe Warriors just put Paul out there at the top of the key and use Curry as essentially a shooting guard, he’s still amazing but their offense loses a dimension.Paul also kinda neuters Draymond whose playmaking is when they’re most dangerous(no pun intended). Cavs did a good job in the 4th of forcing Paul or Draymond to beat them. If those two hit threes I think you tip your cap.

Really good call on Steph. His gravity is massive and he is such a devastating offensive weapon is that he completely bends defensive schemes. 5 guys watching this one dude run around screens. It sets up other players, opens lanes, etc.

Cavs did a great job of not falling into that trap and letting other guys try to control the flow. 2011 Chris Paul would've been a problem. Not 2023

 

[scene42]

Looking back at the box score and it's great to see DG, Mobley, and Allen all play < 30min. Hopefully it's something we are able to see every now and then over the course of the season considering the pace we want to play with. Could go a long way.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Bloodbath, incoming.

Guess I was wrong. Cool.

 

[Wham with the Right Hand]

It looked to me like the Warriors' age is catching up. I agree, Curry used to drive and score on layups and floaters, or draw the defense and kick it out for open 3's. We didn't see any of that last night. He seemed happy to hang out at the 3-point line, jacking up contested 3's (but still making most of them).

Thompson took 14 shots; 9 were 3's and I think the rest were long 2's. The W's are last in the NBA at drives - these older guys no longer want to get knocked down multiple times like Garland last night in exchange for two free throws.

It used to be if you crowded them at the 3-point line they would blow by for layups or runners, but I wasn't seeing that. Or if they did they didn't take it to the rim but just went into the paint and kicked it back out.

Still, they were 5-1 coming in. They're still good, but they are too dependent on three players. Chris Paul is 38 and is 3-for-23 so far on 3's. He doesn't seem to be much of a force anymore.

 

[Randolphkeys]

If I may reframe - the Warriors are local television for me. I've watched three games prior to the Cavs showdown.

Don't write off the Warriors as too old to drive. They have no problem doing it against other teams. They saw that the Twin Towers made finishing really hard and they stopped doing it. They care about their stats, and they knew an easier opponent in the Pistons waited for them tonight.

It was a business decision to back off and play at 70%, but the Cavaliers defense forced the business decision.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Guess I was wrong. Cool.

Not at all. It was a bloodbath, at least for Dray’s nuts. You didn’t say which way the bloodbath would go so you meant the Warriors would be on the business end of the Cavalier sword, correct?

 

[Cavatt]

It looked to me like the Warriors' age is catching up. I agree, Curry used to drive and score on layups and floaters, or draw the defense and kick it out for open 3's. We didn't see any of that last night. He seemed happy to hang out at the 3-point line, jacking up contested 3's (but still making most of them).

Thompson took 14 shots; 9 were 3's and I think the rest were long 2's. The W's are last in the NBA at drives - these older guys no longer want to get knocked down multiple times like Garland last night in exchange for two free throws.

JB said on the post game that this was by design. Collapsing the paint hm gave up too many 3s. So they closed off the paint and contested 3 pt line without doubling much.

Klay said after the game they will penetrate just fine next time against us and it messed up their offense.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Draymond whining on Instagram that only he gets called for kicking balls.

Awesome.

 

[Adam]

I was wondering why the Cavs looked so confident playing GS then I saw it was game 7 so naturally the warriors were going to choke