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Awww did I hurt your feelings by making fun of Borrego?

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Yes, I am crying inconsolably because of your meaningless statements about James Borrego who is like a father to me and I will defend him to my last breath.

You must be one very sad and pathetic person who has nothing else to do besides typing on his keyboard the same sh.t every day.

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More posts where people think Borrego had zero input in the multiple seasons as the lead assistant.

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Another female post... complaining without saying anything meaningful.
There is a big difference between having zero input and providing input which is completely or at least partially ignored. And there is even bigger difference to be part of something and to be actually the one calling the shots.
I can say from my own working experience that a manager can receive lots of feedback from his team and completely to ignore it because he is delusional and believes he is the one. And this is extremely destructive and takes time to recover after such a person is gone.

Therefore I prefer to look at the positives - increased tempo, better rebounding, rotations, ATOs, more effort, etc. Also the growth of the players, not just Fears and Queen, but Peavy, McGowens, Karlo, even Hawkins.
JB might not be the coach of the future, but at least he is laying some foundations and building some positive habits for those players.
And Fears and Queen are simply enjoyable to watch. Now we don't have to rush it and try win now moves, but get some assets for Zion (if possible) and Herb this year and then DM, Poole and perhaps Bey next year. I would keep Trey for at least two more years as he is the perfect 3rd option.

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This team just folds when it matters

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At least this time they got the shots they wanted, but simply no one could made a layup and Bey and McGowens missed open 3s.

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Surprisingly Hawk is making plays

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What happens when you actually have a coach.
Even though we keep losing games, you see some playing style and it's quite enjoyable. And Hawk is not the only one who improved.
May be it's best if the injured stays like that, so the young guys keeps growing.

The only chance we get that from Hawks is if by the trade deadline we are miraculously turned the page and our record is 20-32 or similar. And also Hawks don't view anyone outside of top 8 better than Trey.
And if that happens we won't be trading him, because that will mean that he have been playing great and we will be believing we can get to the play-in game.

Can you explain what exactly Dumars can or should do right now?
Obviously he couldn't have traded Zion before the season, because >80% of the fan base would have been mad (i know most of the people here preferred him to be gone already, but it's not the same for the casual fans).
Imagine also the criticism he would have faced if miraculously Zion started playing regularly for the other team!
So what he did was the most reasonable option - convinced Zion being in shape.
Now his hands are untied because everyone will agree (fans, media) it is about time, so let's see what he will do at the trade deadline, not 2 months before.

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and making the Poole trade.

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This trade brought us also Saddiq Bey, who is a good player to have around the rookies going forward on a very good contract or will bring back some picks if we decide to trade him (and he keeps playing like that).

Also it's not like CJ is playing way better than Poole and even if we have cleared his salary off the books who would have signed with us? Tray Young, Austin Reeves?

At least Poole can bring back something next year or we will have his salary off in 2027 when we can go after Giannis, Jokic, KAT and all other free agents who are dreaming to play for us.

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This is silly logic. Those guys were playing above their pay grade 

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You know who played above his pay grade - Gary Payton. And last game - Moody. That's what role players should do once your star is double/triple teamed.
So, it's not silly logic, it's what actually happen.
And in reality he had 21 shots and should have been to the line at least as many times as Jimmy (who by the way had same number of shots as Zion).
Don't get me wrong it's clear that we can't build a winning team around him and he should be traded (let's hope he stays healthy for that) but to blame him for that loss is complete bitching.

Those are not exuses, those are simple facts of the plays we had after he get back in the game. If you expect him to be able to go 1 on 5 and score, that's obviously not going to happen. He tried ones, got hacked and it wasn't called. He found once Bay for an open 3 and he missed it. He created space for McGowens who should have attacked the rim (as Draymond was worried only about Z), but as AD said "once you made up your mind about what you want to do..."
When the team shots 23% from 3 and 67% from FT (wtihout Zion) and your point guards are 6 of 27 combined it's ridiculous to say that the "star" player can't will you to win.

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Zion entered the game with 4:30 left, tied at 87.

He went 0/1 with a rebound over the next 3 minutes.

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To blame Zion for this loss is complete nonsense.
Is it his fault that McGowens threw a lob instead of attacking the rim, or that Fears and Bay can't hit an open 3, or that Jose can't inbound the ball?

Warriors always had few players in the paint and played a lot of zone because they knew we have no shooters. And as usual he had to play through lots of contact and didn't shoot a FT till very late in the 3rd (it's true that the refs were letting them play though).
But at least he made his FT, shot a middy and even attempted two 3s.
If the others ware able to score their FTs at 80% we would have had 4 point lead when Zion checked in.

But the difference is that we see some coaching - the adjustments JB is making this game apparently works.