Warriors vs Thunder

It feels like the Golden State Warriors have been at the center of many NBA mistakes this season. Sometimes, it hurts them as it did against the Boston ...

Officiating is a hot-button topic in the NBA, but poor officiating did not beat the Thunder on Tuesday. A better, far-more experienced team beat OKC.

Miss on a couple of transfers, and you’re in last place in the Big 12. But will he place a competitive team on the floor? Everybody’s just in there working and taking what he’s saying in their ear, taking it to the chest, ‘yes, sir’ and keeping it going.” If you value history to the utmost, I guess you could make a case that UConn is some kind of new-age powerhouse and not a blueblood. He tapped it down, to the court, and when it bounced back, he tapped it to Draymond Green. Are the Huskies a blueblood? That’s why I lost my mind, because that’s in front of our bench and that to me is something that we feel regularly as the youngest team in the league, but that (Golden State play), for a sub to be up and for the ball to be inbounded so quickly that they don’t see the sub, I was beside myself on that, obviously.” But the biggest public service Daigneault did was shine a light on an interesting and relevant topic. He said his anger stemmed from a play earlier in the game, when Luguentz Dort tried the same tactic with Nate Green, getting the ball quickly to inbound, and Green didn’t cooperate. But Daigneault’s outrage is the sign of a deeper NBA issue: Teams and/or players being treated differently because of who they are. But while the ball was bouncing along the sideline, Nate Green had time to check the scorer’s table. The incessant complaining only hurts the cause of trying to improve officiating.

Warriors HC Steve Kerr explained his decision to start Jordan Poole, Anthony Lamb, and Jonathan Kuminga vs. the Thunder.

This kind of play from the Warriors’ bench pieces is the strength in numbers they have relied upon throughout the course of their dynastic run. In the end, it was Donte DiVincenzo, Kevon Looney, Gary Payton II, and Moses Moody who helped the Warriors right the ship. And we liked the combination of the size with JK and Lamb to guard their wings, along with the shooting of Jordan to make up for Klay’s absence,” Kerr said following the game, per NBC Sports Bay Area.