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1. can someone find the stats about PT and TO because that’s a lot of TO and i like to know how many PT they got because of that

2. https://preview.redd.it/7j9zyxqoquud1.jpeg?width=390&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39fc8bccf6b646851938a66e7ebdeb0ea66fa423

   Watching DJJ tonight

3. Loved Grimes’ minutes tonight. That jumpshot is cash money

   Can’t wait for the real thing

4. So nice of Klay to get his bad performance out of the way now. Glad he’s not allowed to have another one ever

5. Klay almost replicating his infamous 0-10 play-in performance vs the Lakers. I’m sure fans across the league will eat it up

   Edit: Kings. Silly me

6. R/NBA shitting on klay for a preseason game without Kai/luka as expected. However when I posted THJ’s preseason stats there it got downvoted and said to be a “overreaction” because it’s pre season.

7. Klay looks washed. I reserved judgment in the beginning unlike so many enthusiasts expecting him to be the difference maker. But I can see why Warriors benched him. Hope it’s just jitters but who knows.

8. Let’s go Klay! You’ve got this in the next game! We are believing in you!

9. – Get Gortman a two-way or a roster spot

   – Waive Dinwiddie

   – Get Klay the Kyrie/Luka gravity

10. Hey y’all, Warriors fan with a few reasons why there’s zero reason to be worried about his 2nd preseason game:

    – There was mention of him having back tightness after the last game and it sounded like he only did a walkthrough of practice the next day and didn’t participate in the live action portion. I bring this up because every single one of his shots tonight were incredibly stiff and/or short with no lift – even his floaters were flat. He didn’t look like he was activating his base at all on his shots so I have a feeling his back wasn’t 100% this game.
    – He’s a biiiiig rhythm guy. He does not gel offensively in games where the flow is very herky jerky and erratic, and the Clippers game was very much this. Is it less than ideal that he can’t catch a feel for his shot under these circumstances? No doubt, but that’s just always been how he is. It’s why pace *with* ball movement is the environment he excels in so much. Tonight had plenty of pace but the ball movement and flow just wasn’t there.
    – The most important point I advise Mavs fans to continuously remind themselves of: Klay Thompson starts every single season slowly. Again, it’s just how it and always has been. Case in point: his career average 3P% is 41.3%…his career average 3P% in the month of October? 34.6%. A couple more examples:

    – In 2016-17, he averaged 31.3% from 3 through the first 11 games of the season, which included games where he went 0/6 and 0/7 from 3. He ended the season with his highest scoring season of his career averaging 22.3 ppg on 47% overall and 41.4% from 3.
    – In 2015-16, his second highest scoring season in his career in which he averaged 22.1 ppg on 47% overall and 42.5% from 3, he started the season shooting 29% from 3 and in the spring of that year, had games where he shot 0/7 and 0/8 from 3.

    Obviously those are season in his prime, and he’s no longer in his prime, but point is he also looked abysmal for stretches to start seasons that ended up being some of the statistical best of his career. Because again, that’s Klay lol it just comes with the territory. In the same way that he needs to find a flow and rhythm in game, he needs to settle into the rhythm of the season. When you throw in a completely new environment and system, you end up with awkward growing pains on top of a completely normal for Klay build up to start the season. But as the above shows, even beyond his completely normal for Klay slow starts, he has had a number of games even at the peak of his prime where he went 0/6 or 7 or 8 from 3 because he’s a shooter and it happens, even to one of the best to ever lace ‘em up. All of this is to say that him going 0fer is not a sign that he’s washed or doesn’t have it anymore, I promise. He started slow even in his prime.

    Lastly, the Warriors’ first preseason game was against this Clippers team (who is annoyingly long and obnoxious on defense for being such a wildly mediocre team, and I say that as a fan of an even more mediocre team lol) and Steph, who like Klay in tonight’s game didn’t have any other spacers on the floor with him, was in a very similar hell that Klay was in tonight. Nothing but contested or awkward chuck it up out of rhythm because they finally got a hint of space shots. He also couldn’t create space to save his life and his final stat line ended up being 9 pts on 2/8 overall, 0/4 from 3, and 5/5 FTs with 3 TOs and 2 assists. This Clippers team is just seemingly a shit matchup for over 30 shooters who command doubles and being face guarded and who are without other offensive weapons on the court to take away some of that attention.

11. Feels like we’ve never won a preseason game

12. If this team is planning on being good PJ is gonna have to be the third best offensive player

    Klay is gonna shoot better but he can’t handle the defense being keyed in on him. He’s more of a play finisher and needs shots created for him.

    DLive is still far away from being an offensive threat outside of the paint.

    PJ is gonna have to be the third scorer most nights

13. Yall can focus on Klay shooting a donut, I chose to marvel at us getting Quentin freaking grimes

14. We’ll be ight. Thankfully we got preseason games to iron shit out

15. Klay has been a 40+ % 3pt shooter for the past how ever many years, this one game doesn’t define him as a player. He’s still the best or second best shooter in the league and it’s not close. Respectfully.

16. One thing this preseason has shown is how good our bench is.

    Grimes/Naji/Gafford are excellent bench players. If they can sort out back up PG and back up PF, it may be the best bench in the league

17. treat klay well <3

    breaks my heart to see people overreacting like this, he’ll still give you 40%

    <3 from a warriors fan who’s now rooting for luka and klay

18. Let’s go Klay! Give us nothing! Lolol

19. 21 assists and 29 turnovers. That’s the recipe for disaster. Good we did it in preseason.

20. Can we sign goatman

21. We win by 10 if Luka plays xD

22. I got no worries on Klay. He got 4 rings for a reason and that should have gained respect. He is an all star player caliber. He will be back and back to the Finals.