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RJ Barrett or Ja Morant will be a Knick according to the projections/mock drafts. So naturally I expect them to actually draft some guy I've never heard of that played in Europe. They're about 50/50 on those.
Its ridiculous how the announcers are raving about the Oracle crowd. This is, BY FAR, the quietest, shittiest crowd the blazers have played in front of this postseason. Aside from Steph threes, they made practically no noise until the game was a blowout. Roaracle is long dead.
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Its ridiculous how the announcers are raving about the Oracle crowd. This is, BY FAR, the quietest, shittiest crowd the blazers have played in front of this postseason. Aside from Steph threes, they made practically no noise until the game was a blowout. Roaracle is long dead.
My friends report back that the watch-along crowd at Oracle was still good. Maybe they need to pipe in some of that noise.
Its ridiculous how the announcers are raving about the Oracle crowd. This is, BY FAR, the quietest, shittiest crowd the blazers have played in front of this postseason. Aside from Steph threes, they made practically no noise until the game was a blowout. Roaracle is long dead.
My friends report back that the watch-along crowd at Oracle was still good. Maybe they need to pipe in some of that noise.
I have no idea what the ticket prices were but I can easily see a big chunk of regular fans getting priced out.
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Yeah unless you are a longtime season ticket holder you are priced out of Warriors playoff games.
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There is no comparison to the 2014 crowd. That arena was rowdy as hell and it was awesome.
Its ridiculous how the announcers are raving about the Oracle crowd. This is, BY FAR, the quietest, shittiest crowd the blazers have played in front of this postseason. Aside from Steph threes, they made practically no noise until the game was a blowout. Roaracle is long dead.
My friends report back that the watch-along crowd at Oracle was still good. Maybe they need to pipe in some of that noise.
I have no idea what the ticket prices were but I can easily see a big chunk of regular fans getting priced out.
I def think that's a part of it. Rich folks are notoriously bad sports fans.
I think another big part of it, and something I've observed in the warriors fans in my life, is that they just become spoiled by success and feel entitled to it. They won 3 of the last 4 titles, a game 1 wcf against an exhausted portland team just isnt exciting to them anymore.
It's amazing how much expectations affects the experience of fandom (look at the philly fans in here for a prime example). The warriors have stacked the deck so egregiously with their team building that expectations are basically "greatest team of all time or bust". As a result, I think both the players and the fans are unable to actually experience prolonged joy, their emotions are going to mostly just be limited to relief, smug satisfaction, and bitter vindication.
I thought I saw this dynamic play out in the celebration after the title victory last year. I had never seen a championship winning team with less joy. They just looked like they were people going "we did it! This is what we wanted, right? We worked hard for this, didn't we? This is a great accomplishment, isnt it?"
For a long, stupid analogy, I think KD is kind of like a gamer who chose to play Bloodborne because he thinks he's a good player, he heard it was hard, and he wanted to test his skills against that challenge. He fought his way through the game, overcoming each obstacle, getting better and better, never summoning an ally. But by the end, he just could not beat the Orphan. He tried a handful of times, growing increasingly frustrated until he decided, "fuck you Orphan, I'm summoning all the allies i can get" and them easily beat it down, conquered the challenge, and won the game. But then he's asking himself, I beat the game, I used only the mechanics provided, I'm a really good player, why is everyone saying I didn't REALLY beat it? Why do I feel like I didn't really.beat it?
The rest of the warriors are more like people who did beat the game, trampled the orphan, and experienced that elation. They came back to it, deciding they were going to win on a no deaths run, to really show their skills, but they got killed when the last boss had one hit left. Suddenly, the game gets patched and it adds a new overpowered KD ability that needs every fight in the game. They use it, of course, but their overreliance makes their skills go dull, they aren't the masters of dodging, timing, and spacing they once were. They dont need to be, they just need to use their muscle memory and their new KD ability to sail through everything. They can beat the game whenever they want now, but their too soft to even want to retry their no deaths run, and they find themselves yearning for the classic build that was brutally difficult, but forced the best out of them.
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Oh lord is someone going to step up to speak at KD's HoF induction ceremony and say "You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing."
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The Warriors fans in my circles definitely haven't had their excitement diminished by their success, though the first one was uniquely awesome for them. It really is mostly that the games have both gotten considerably more expensive, and that the team has caught the interest of bandwagoners, diluting the good crowd they used to have. Oracle was nuts during the early run, even during regular season games, it was a lot of fun. Especially when the Clippers were in town, at the height of the bad blood between those two squads. Great stuff.
I do agree there is a little bit of something to it regarding KD, but it's not that it causes everyone to get worse. It's that Steph and Klay are (rightly) considered the native sons of the team, and KD will always be viewed as a guest. Not that he's not appreciated, but for most of the fans I know, Steph or Klay getting hot will always be more hype than anything KD can hope to do, as outrageously talented as he is.
Man, it really is a bummer though that they're going across the Bay. That crowd is going to be even worse. I know they're not the Oakland Warriors, but the East Bay Warriors fans are a large part of why Oracle's crowd was so good back in the day.
Oh lord is someone going to step up to speak at KD's HoF induction ceremony and say "You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing."
Haha, they probably don't need to. The (assumed) fact that he wants to leave is already acknowledgement that he knows it in his heart.
The Warriors fans in my circles definitely haven't had their excitement diminished by their success, though the first one was uniquely awesome for them. It really is mostly that the games have both gotten considerably more expensive, and that the team has caught the interest of bandwagoners, diluting the good crowd they used to have. Oracle was nuts during the early run, even during regular season games, it was a lot of fun. Especially when the Clippers were in town, at the height of the bad blood between those two squads. Great stuff.
I do agree there is a little bit of something to it regarding KD, but it's not that it causes everyone to get worse. It's that Steph and Klay are (rightly) considered the native sons of the team, and KD will always be viewed as a guest. Not that he's not appreciated, but for most of the fans I know, Steph or Klay getting hot will always be more hype than anything KD can hope to do, as outrageously talented as he is.
Man, it really is a bummer though that they're going across the Bay. That crowd is going to be even worse. I know they're not the Oakland Warriors, but the East Bay Warriors fans are a large part of why Oracle's crowd was so good back in the day.
My first NBA game ever was at Oracle, and it included multiple loud and deafening standing ovations to see Earl Boykins score 30 on KGs Timberwolves for like a 30 win Warrior team. It really was a great place to watch a game.
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I also don't necessarily really think that Steph and Klay are worse, per se, I mean, look at Game 1. I think it's just that what everyone, particularly professional athletes, want to get out of their work or their passion, is to get into a state of flow. Winning is fun, losing hurts, but it's really that flow state that we are chasing. And the thing about flow, is it requires someone to be challenged to 90-95% of their capacity. I think that with KD on their team, they never really get challenged enough to experience that consistently, and it ends up less satisfying for everyone as a result.
What do people think of the lottery system? As someone who doesn't really follow basketball, it's kind of fascinating. Your the worst team but you end up picking 3rd. If I was a Knick's fan I'd hate it, but for a Pelican's fan, they have to be rejoicing. You now have a shot at keeping AD or having a great building block if he leaves. Doesn't seem like it really discourages tanking that much and with so little top NBA talent available, really does just feel like a lottery.
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Don't worry, Danny's already looking to trade it for a first and 2 second round picks next year.
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Isn’t it kind of at best a 3 person draft?
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I was stuck with an obstructed Chili's view for the first 2.5 quarters but it's seemed like GS has had this game in hand since the tip?
That's what jumped out at me about Game 6 of the Houston series. I'd forgotten how much fun the pre-KD GS was.
What's funny is that Mark Jackson legitimately hates the Warriors for firing him. He rags on them every chance he gets.
Have to imagine the Blazers are exhausted, they just got done with a long seven game series two days ago.
My friends report back that the watch-along crowd at Oracle was still good. Maybe they need to pipe in some of that noise.
I have no idea what the ticket prices were but I can easily see a big chunk of regular fans getting priced out.
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I def think that's a part of it. Rich folks are notoriously bad sports fans.
I think another big part of it, and something I've observed in the warriors fans in my life, is that they just become spoiled by success and feel entitled to it. They won 3 of the last 4 titles, a game 1 wcf against an exhausted portland team just isnt exciting to them anymore.
It's amazing how much expectations affects the experience of fandom (look at the philly fans in here for a prime example). The warriors have stacked the deck so egregiously with their team building that expectations are basically "greatest team of all time or bust". As a result, I think both the players and the fans are unable to actually experience prolonged joy, their emotions are going to mostly just be limited to relief, smug satisfaction, and bitter vindication.
I thought I saw this dynamic play out in the celebration after the title victory last year. I had never seen a championship winning team with less joy. They just looked like they were people going "we did it! This is what we wanted, right? We worked hard for this, didn't we? This is a great accomplishment, isnt it?"
For a long, stupid analogy, I think KD is kind of like a gamer who chose to play Bloodborne because he thinks he's a good player, he heard it was hard, and he wanted to test his skills against that challenge. He fought his way through the game, overcoming each obstacle, getting better and better, never summoning an ally. But by the end, he just could not beat the Orphan. He tried a handful of times, growing increasingly frustrated until he decided, "fuck you Orphan, I'm summoning all the allies i can get" and them easily beat it down, conquered the challenge, and won the game. But then he's asking himself, I beat the game, I used only the mechanics provided, I'm a really good player, why is everyone saying I didn't REALLY beat it? Why do I feel like I didn't really.beat it?
The rest of the warriors are more like people who did beat the game, trampled the orphan, and experienced that elation. They came back to it, deciding they were going to win on a no deaths run, to really show their skills, but they got killed when the last boss had one hit left. Suddenly, the game gets patched and it adds a new overpowered KD ability that needs every fight in the game. They use it, of course, but their overreliance makes their skills go dull, they aren't the masters of dodging, timing, and spacing they once were. They dont need to be, they just need to use their muscle memory and their new KD ability to sail through everything. They can beat the game whenever they want now, but their too soft to even want to retry their no deaths run, and they find themselves yearning for the classic build that was brutally difficult, but forced the best out of them.
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I do agree there is a little bit of something to it regarding KD, but it's not that it causes everyone to get worse. It's that Steph and Klay are (rightly) considered the native sons of the team, and KD will always be viewed as a guest. Not that he's not appreciated, but for most of the fans I know, Steph or Klay getting hot will always be more hype than anything KD can hope to do, as outrageously talented as he is.
Man, it really is a bummer though that they're going across the Bay. That crowd is going to be even worse. I know they're not the Oakland Warriors, but the East Bay Warriors fans are a large part of why Oracle's crowd was so good back in the day.
Haha, they probably don't need to. The (assumed) fact that he wants to leave is already acknowledgement that he knows it in his heart.
My first NBA game ever was at Oracle, and it included multiple loud and deafening standing ovations to see Earl Boykins score 30 on KGs Timberwolves for like a 30 win Warrior team. It really was a great place to watch a game.
Rich people ruin everything.
I also don't necessarily really think that Steph and Klay are worse, per se, I mean, look at Game 1. I think it's just that what everyone, particularly professional athletes, want to get out of their work or their passion, is to get into a state of flow. Winning is fun, losing hurts, but it's really that flow state that we are chasing. And the thing about flow, is it requires someone to be challenged to 90-95% of their capacity. I think that with KD on their team, they never really get challenged enough to experience that consistently, and it ends up less satisfying for everyone as a result.
if they can't find a SG this year I dunno
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