2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Well that was disappointing; Draymond would have helped. Barnes goes 2-14 and has no touch at all around the rim (not just this game but the whole year).

I am confident that Kyrie and Lebron don't shoot like that for the remainder of the series.

 

Usually I'm a lot saner. And, I admit having watched most of their games this year, I've been a bit of a fanboi. Has a member ever been subject of a dimwit post? [/reality]

Warriors may have a bigger problem than Green looming. Bogut to get MRI on knee tonight, but I'll bet its hyperextended.

 

Bogut being out would be a relief, not a problem. Then they can start the lineup they should. He has been a complete zero the entire postseason.

 

They've been better going small. But seeing Sideshow Bob Varejao falling all over just had me smh.

 

You're a Warriors fan right? You make it sound like that is something knew with that clown.

 

LOL!

 

The next time I see a rational fanbase when it comes to the other team's stars and the refs, it'll be a first.

 

Good players complain, all the time. They complain because refs are terribly suggestible. From Rick Barry's unscientific experiment back in the day to EVERY star getting shift from opposing fanbases for working refs. All part of it.

 

That's a good point. But this one is exceptional, I think. They seem to have convinced themselves for months now that the NBA has a bias against them. Because that's what the NBA does. Tries to eliminate the best and most-watched team in the league.

I have a theory and I think it's a good one. The Warriors' TV announcer, Bob Fitzgerald, is the worst homer you'll ever hear. People move from other places, and they think they know homers, and then they watch a Warriors game and go "holy cow, what fucking game is this guy watching?"

Fitzgerald is also the midday host on the major talk station in town (Warriors rights-holder obviously). And he takes his act there to an even greater extreme there. And guys like qtlaw get that persecution complex pounded into their heads and spit it out in places like this. All of the other hosts get into it to some degree (including Tom Tolbert), but Fitzgerald sets that agenda. As I said earlier in the thread, it's becoming Patriots-like. And Draymond is trying to deflate balls!

In most other markets, the talk would be about how bad Curry is playing. Out here, it's all about how the league and the refs are screwing the Warriors. Even leaving aside the Green nut shots, it's crazy how obsessed fans get over officiating assignments, convinced that Scott Foster will do everything he can to make them lose.

 

This can't be true since my Cavs-season-ticket-holding friend posts five times oer gsme that the refs and NBA are rigging things in favor of Golden State.

 

I wonder if it's exceptional, or if it's a case of a fanbase going from being respected because they still show up in lean years to going to the pent house and being the center of the world. It's weird to suddenly be in a spot where the team you like kind of should win just about every game. If you don't have perspective (95 percent of any fanbase) it's going to manifest itself in not-great ways. I'm sure being in the heart of it doesn't help.

I grew up in the Bay Area, listened to Fitzgerald's show back to when he first got the spot (really liked Rod Brooks), so I know all that background. I've not lived there full-time for a while, so my viewpoint if filtered through friends still there, most who are astute enough about basketball. I agree, Bob is annoying and makes the broadcasts hard to watch. It really sounds like the team is being treated through more of a college lens, where fans rally behind the institution rather than poking holes, granted bonkers success, even in the short term will do that. I think the ref thing is interesting because it kind of reflects a team that fancies itself as a step ahead, and tracking refs closely is a next-level type approach (I'll admit, I look for Foster games, as his style annoys me and it seems to get Green in a state more often than not).

(Mentioning Fitzgerald as the agenda setter is interesting because it shows me how time has passed. Ralph Barbieri was always that guy in my youth. I recall one summer where he rode Armando Benitez without mercy, getting in bi-weekly fights with the Giants GM until Benitez was dumped. That was weird)

 

I remember the Barbieri-Sabean showdowns well. It's very soft now in the local market, though. The teams are all affiliates and flex their muscle. Mostly friendly voices.