I would be worried about the Warriors defense and rebounding.
Who is this Simmons kid? I have never heard of him until last night
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To be fair very few teams move the ball and shoot as well from 3 as the Spurs did last night. at one point their bench was 5-5 from 3's in the first half. It's very difficult to guard a team that goes 12-24 from 3 and when you run them off the 3 they go 23-26 from the FT line by driving on you. I think they missed Bogut's rim protection and they missed Barbosa and Speights scoring, they got SIXTEEN points off the bench all game.
Rebounding is a concern 55-35 SA last night. Miller kept talking about how small the Warriors are this year I don't think he gets they're actually bigger than last year in the "base lineups." Pachulia is 2 inches shorter than Bogut but Durant is 3-4 inches taller than Barnes was and the other 3 are the same. When they go to the "death" lineup now they're simply putting Iggy in for Pachulia so same 4 guys but Durant instead of Barnes so again they're bigger not smaller. But they gotta rebound, Curry and Klay had 4 combined rebounds.
And again my biggest concern right now is Iggy, 27 minutes 2 boards 3 assists 2 points -TWENTY EIGHT in the plus minus. I think he got hurt early when he got hit in the face and probably shouldn't have been allowed to stay in the game. I saw him fall or get knocked down 3 times in the first half alone I don't think he was all there after the blow to the face. I really hope that's what it is, I know he's played lots of games but he's still only 32 years old, if he's suddenly declining with the losses off the bench that's a HUGE problem. He's such a valuable guy for them in the death lineup and with his defense, if he is in decline they have a problem.
But all last year I was saying I thought SA would beat the Warriors in the conference finals and win the title, they've effectively replaced an over the hill Duncan with Pau and David Lee and even without much production from either of them they won easily because their bench, Mills and Simmons in particular, were so good. they're a very well coached team with good players, not surprised they won, surprised they won so easily.
Simmons only played 1 year of college ball after juco, he's already 27 he's been in the D League apparently. I kind of doubt he's THAT good, last night he was unreal, he had 15 points and was 6-6 at the half he was the difference in the game.
