Hella Warriors Poetry VII

Never realized how much I liked the warriors until I found myself standing up for them that night.

My friend was talking shit, so I guess I was up and arms. I wasn’t even drunk. I didn't even realize until he was like damn. 

I had no idea either. I think I just got hella pissed when he tried to say we’re like the Knicks now, bc fuck that. Hell no, don't you ever say such a thing. We been down that road for so many years. We're never going back.

Sorry, no offense, but Knicks are alone there, except for Randle and probably Rose. Idk enough about him to say. But Randle is nice though. 

Randle averages a double double every game, like a thirty point double double. He should be an all star, but he probably won’t be, bc he’s on the Knicks. 

Knickerbockers are like the pants jockeys wear. 

Curry came out in his shoes that night, they were like mids. He's released like five pairs in the last month. I wouldn't fuck w em, but I would fuck w those heat jerseys, tucked into some blue jeans.

Jimmy Butler's story is hella crazy, how like no one wanted him in the NBA. His mom kicked him out at 14, she fucked up. My friends think he's gonna be hella interesting in his post career, wild dude.

It was currys worst first quarter ever, but he came through in the fourth. Must’ve been tired from all those other games. Either way, that was like a really clutch performance from all three, Wiggins, Bazemore, and Curry.

With 26 points, eight rebounds, and three assists, Bazemore was player of the game. The combined efforts of his, along w back to back threes from Curry and Wiggins are what sealed the deal in OT. 

They literally won after my roommates went to bed. That's right, I watched it all by myself. It was hella crazy, and like that’s the biggest fourth quarter comeback they’ve ever had from 14 points, making it the worst upset for the heat. 

Comebacks like this are what got me into covering the warriors in the first place, when they did the same thing to the lakers, and the clippers around a month ago.

That's what makes this so full circle to me. I started covering the warriors on the twentieth of january, and tomorrow marks the twentieth of this month, so this feels like a good place to conclude this campaign, or change it up. 

I mean I plan to continue my coverage of the warriors throughout the rest of this season, but I don't plan to go in as much as I've been. These honestly got up to like 700 words, and I can't do that all season. 

But I know I gotta do something, so I guess all I gotta say for now is stay tuned.

The warriors played 17 games since I started covering every win. They won 10/17. This post here marks 7/10 I covered. 

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Do you think warriors got heat?

I know they went to the finals last year, but they’re not all that good now, so Idk what they're up to. All I know is Jimmy Butler's hella tight. 

That's right, outside of the warriors, Jimmy butler and Dame Lillard are like my favorite players. Idk why. It's just like their energy. 

Like remember when Jimmy Butler couldn't find a good cup of coffee at Disney World, so he opened up his own stand, and started selling cups of his own at 20.00 a pop.

You could say basketball is art. It is; I saw this documentary on Juan toscano over the weekend and I hella liked it. He almost didn’t play. He lost interest and had to play in Mexico to get back into it. 

Then he came back and won a fight for a spot in the g-league, and played for them until he played his first game w the warriors against the lakers. Now he's in something like a dual contract.

Confirmed that his number 95 is meant to commemorate what street in Oakland he lived on. Got me, I thought it was for what year his parents moved here, or what year he was born.

The documentary was like six minutes on ig and I loved it. I found it hella inspiring and I highly recommend.

Toscano scored like eight points last saturday against the magic. Robert told me to stop calling them the Magics, bc it’s just Magic. I was like that doesn’t make any sense, without the s, if there’s more than one. 

But I guess magic can be either, out of singular or plural. He said it's both bc it’s just magic. I think there should be a team named after a bug. Like I know there's the hornets, but I mean like lice. Something like the louisianna lice.

Curry was dominant the other night against the cavs, and then what’s his name, Wiggins. But then again curry had him, and every other player on the team by like 20 points, or so, like he’s doing everything right now. Like he’s - I can't remember how everyone else did.  

I know draymond had his career best w like 6 points, 8 rebounds, and 16 assists, and he was hella pissed to see cavs center Andre Drummond seated throughout. Buyouts are usually bad right? Like when it comes to trading players, like if you’re passed the trade deadline, so they just buy you outta your contract?

That's just like saying we don’t want you anymore so much we’ll pay you for nothing, to go away almost, we don't care where, just go. I guess Drummond was gonna go to the nets, when the cavs going w Jarrett Allen fucked that up somehow, so now he doesn’t know what he’s gonna do. And it doesn't seem like the cavs do, or care either.

Their loss, I mean Drummond was their second leading scorer, his replacement Allen cursed out Sexton at the end of the second half over a missed foul call from one of the officials, and they lost the entire game by something like 30 points.

Kevin Durant is taking a couple of games off due to a pulled left hamstring. Wondering which teams have been most affected by covid restrictions and regulations, Nets have had 17 different starting lineups this season, tied w the wizards. 

I remember Gobert of the Utah Jazz giving everyone covid last year, when he gave everyone wet willies, trying to make a point, crazy ass. They've won something like 16 of their last 20 games, they're hella raw right now. W 23-5, they probably have the best record in the league.

Hella Warriors Poetry V

Before I get into it, I wanna start by saying I finally released a Super Bowl joke today. 

That's right, it’s hella ridiculous. I was telling Robert and my dad Tom I’m about to get you good, watch, for like five hundred wds.

Hella topical and relevant, it’s a timely piece. I was gonna publish it w another journal, but they do like a pdf, and they dk when it’s coming out, so I had to hit another editor to see if he could get it up by Thursday. 

I was gonna say if he couldn’t I would’ve had to post it here, but he said he could have it up sooner than that, and by that he meant today, so here it is. 

Stop calling Tom Brady the goat on expat lit. 

Also shoutouts to manny for putting this one out there just in the nick of time, thanks again. 

Anyway, I keep thinking what if I interviewed marshawn Lynch about Stephen Curry on my blog? That would be sick, right? That would be tight af.

Curry's still running around, you know? I was gonna say he doesn't care anymore after seeing him score 57 points in their loss to the mavs, but then after seeing them lose to the spurs on Monday I was like nvm, he's pissed. Did you see him kick the air? And who can blame him?

I mean what was Draymond thinking, right? He must've been thinking like I'm gonna save the day. He must've thought someone would try to get him to the line, but no one contested it. No, no one was gonna. Why would they? It's not like it's Curry. It's not like who it was supposed to be.

Different story last night though, w Curry's 32 points, they must've won by something like 20-30. As the oldest living coach in the NBA at 72, Gregg Popavich was popapissed. 

You know Texas has hella basketball teams though; Spurs, Rockets and mavs. But Texas is also hella big. All those places are all like three to four hrs a part. Noticed the spurs must not be in as much high demand as the mavs too, bc their game against the warriors wasn't nationally televised. The mavs made tnt, and abc. Probably cause of that fool Luka. Everyone hella fucks w Luka. 

I was thinking the other day I don’t think doncic drinks, but he probably does shit w weed you couldn’t ever possibly even get your head around. All of them do, right? All athletes, Kansas City Chiefs Safety Tyrann Mathieu showed up to his first practice at LSU in a hotbox, and it wasn't chill. He did time for it. He was doing time when he was drafted.

Speaking of which, Quarterback Patrick Mahommes better get checked out after that game. CTE is so real, and it's even worse for boxers. How do you think Muhammad Ali got parkinsons? As he got older he'd just let opponents beat the shit out of him until they got tired.

I didn't know that. I had no idea until Ladson told me at the superbowl. He also told me shaggy was in the marines. That's right, Mr. Bombastic was in the gulf war. He wrote it wasn't me in a foxhole. 

Watching the nuggets last night, I was like what's the mile high club, and Robert was like it's when you have sex on an airplane, and I was like oh, bc it says mile high on the nuggets jerseys. He was like oh no, that's for the city, mile high city in Denver. That would be a crazy thing to have on your jersey, and I was like yeah, they'd be like I'm sorry but you guys can't name your city after that slogan.

Hella Warriors Poetry IV

Hearing that the warriors were gonna play at seven thirty that night was probably the best news I’ve gotten all week, like a dream come true almost. 

Until then, I swear I had been staying up every night till one to watch them all season, and frankly I was sick of it. 

That night I realized I'm actually sick of that. That shit sucks. It hella wears on you. 

I thought I saw that earlier too, but I couldn’t be sure, bc I thought like the warriors and mavs at seven thirty? Aren't they on the same time zone? But no, Mavs are on their own. 

Central is like an hr behind us, but then still 2 hrs ahead of pacific, so they started at 6:30pm. It would still be 4:30pm in the bay, and ppl would still be at work, so they didn’t do that for us. No, they didn't do that for anybody. Sports are ruthless like that, or time zones are anyway for that matter.

That night was sick though.

We had no centers, bc Wiseman and Looney were out. I didn't see Looney, but he was probably there somewhere. Wiseman was out on the sideline in a cartman hoodie. Something happened to his hand, so I guess Draymond stood in his position as Toscano would go up for the tip. 

I like Toscano. He's hella rowdy, and he talks hella shit. 14 points, hella clutch last night, it was almost his best game. W a two point difference in score between them, and 50% a piece average from the perimeter, him and Mulder were almost like interchangeable. Unlike Wiggins and Bazemore, but Wiggins still managed to walk away w 18 points, one more than Lee's closing score of 17, who was 80% from the perimeter.  

W a 57% field goal average, and 51 from the perimeter, we were pretty dominant inside. I mean very much so, everyone was going in for something like 15 assists from Draymond, which was weird bc we're usually the opposite, but that was Dallas instead that night for whatever reason, or at least it looked that way. 

Now, it’s obvious warriors had more field goals than threes, but did they have more threes than the mavs? Again, obviously but I still asked my roommates, like I prefaced it w idk if this is a stupid question, but - I just thought if the number of threes they shot was lower then it might be curved or something. Like if warriors were 22/43 and Dallas is 20/50, but naw. 

A percentage is a percentage, so warriors were better in every aspect except free throws, which they were only down by like two percent at 85. At 87%, that was the majority of Dallas’s points, jk. That would be lit though, right, if a team won a game on solely free throws? 

I just asked my roommates if that’s ever happened before, and they got hella pissed, like no man. What's your problem?

Honestly Idk what got into Oubre. I mean by the end of the first quarter I thought this guy sucks, but by the end of the first half the announcers were saying this might be his career best, as in career best half, whereas his last career best was a second quarter (i feel like i should say who that's against). And where I don't think he got that record, he still made his career best game by closing that night out w 40 pts. 

I think Draymond and Curry sat out for a majority of the fourth quarter, maybe like five min. Like they just left at some point and never came back.

You know Curry's under hella criticism rn for shooting under forty percent from the perimeter, but he doesn’t have to be any better than that. No, he doesn’t have anything to prove to anyone anymore. He’s been to the ship so many times he doesn’t have to hold himself accountable for shit.

We'll see tonight though.

Hella Warriors Poetry III

Charlie hella likes Wiggins, Andrew Wiggins. 

He has a Wiggins shirt. He's always like Wiggins hive assemble before every game. If there weren't any droids in the thread I would recommend calling it the Wiggins hive.

He says he's gonna be mvp in the next three years. And they only have gifs of him from the timberwolves. It’s bullshit. 

Wolves are big this week. I saw wolfwalkers. We played the Minnesota timberwolves for the last two games, and I’ve seen some references in other movies I’ve watched this week. I used to wanna live in Minnesota.

I barely watched monday's game against them, but we were honestly just winning the whole time. Last night's was close though, at least for the first half. 

By the end of it, Bazemore, Wiggins, Oubre, and Wiseman had accumulated 45 points. But Curry opened w 0/7 in threes, while the timberwolves were 6/12, when they're not even a 3-point shooting team. More like a 36% 3-point shooting team, Edwards was 8/11, while the warriors were 3/19.

Things sorta stayed this way for Curry until like the last ten seconds of the half when he scored a layup. Then he did something like 19 moves at some point of the latter half before hitting a three over some dude.

But this was Oubre's highest scoring quarter of his entire career w 16, while the highest scoring quarter in the history of the nba is held by Klay Thompson w 37. Still probably Oubre's career best. I wouldn't know. I didn't see cause I left in the fourth to watch ammonite.

Warriors ended up beating them by something like 20 points, so Wiggins got his revenge after all. I actually don't think he cared. I don't think he holds grudges. I mean maybe, but I couldn't see it. 

We have Phoenix tonight. I thought they were supposed to be hella good rn, but they're more like us, actually. We're probably better. We're in 6th place, while they're in 9th. It's still early, but Jazz are number one, and go figure. They beat the shit out of us last Saturday, nearly making a fan outta me. 

I didn't think Chris Paul would care about beating the warriors, but he hella does, actually, probably. Clippers and Warriors used to hella beef when the clippers used to beat them until the warriors turned around and started giving them a taste of their own medicine in a bizarre twist of fate if you know what I mean. 

So tonight should be a little bit interesting bc if Wiseman and Oubre get loose in the paint again it's gonna be nighty night for the clip thangs, I mean phoenix, shit. I don't think I can do this anymore lol. It's just not as inspiring as it once was. But I've already gotten this far, so I'm gonna post it, then we'll see.

Crazy for doing this again when I didn't want to though. But I followed the announcers stats so close I couldn't let this fall at the wayside. Though I don't think they come up w those, like keeping track of every players stats individually. I think someone else is feeding em. They're hella busy chatting it up.

Hella funny though, talking about Wiggins' smile at some point.

Love them.

Hella Warriors Poetry II

There was a lot of yelling on the spurs end, a lot of struggle.

You could hear em throughout. 

Lee didn't have a good game. He missed about every three, and got ejected in the fourth quarter for unsportsman like conduct, jk. It was like a flagrant foul, or some shit. He hit someone in the head, almost fucked up the vibe completely. 

Everyone was just looking at him like wth, sit down.

We hella surprised the spurs last night though, hella caught em off guard. 

We hella could've done that to the pacers last week too, nuggets, every team we lost to by around ten.

It was also just hella coo of them to win on both days of the inauguration and mlk.

I was telling robert i feel like going back on what I said yesterday about green coaching wiseman, bc last night hella told me exactly what they were talking about. 

20 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 assists, I think wiseman got addicted to lobs. Once he hit one he was hooked, and he was looking for it every time. And they were looking for him too. Everyone was just hella looking for each other, and going in. It was hella funny.

Robert was saying we've never had a good center before, so this is just hella crazy.

It was like when the warriors used to blow teams out by like a million, meets the we believe movement, which they were hella commemorating, and i hella don't want them to go back to, but I also don’t wanna say they’re the former championship team yet either, bc that’s just like hella celebrating before the win, way too soon.

I’ll barely acknowledge a leading score until we’re down to the last twenty seconds. 

I was thinking today like you actually might not have to talk to anyone about last night this time at all, bc you were talking to everyone last night in the thread during the game. 

Last nights also just hella easy to talk about, like too easy. A more difficult task would be a conversation about the nets, bc i keep barely watching their games

I think it's just hella funny how i can barely watch other teams, bc i don't care. I don't have any stake in it, at least until the playoffs.

All i saw last night was harden throwing it out of bounds. Like i kept looking up to him doing that every time, choice move.

Kyries hella nice too, like a nice person. He hella shook hands w every one of the Cavs afterwards, no problem.

I was thinking I’ll just write one of these poems for every warriors win, but we’ll see. That could get hella crazy, and out of hand. So I'll just say for now I don’t think I’m gonna write tomorrow regardless of what happens. 

Watch me go back on that though. 

I’m going hella Tim Robbins in the Shawshank redemption on the warriors rn. 

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They got the spurs tonight. 

They're gonna try to win that one. I wouldn't hold my breath though. I know better. 

They've fooled me before. They fool their selves. They're fools.

We got the jazz on saturday. I know the schedule better out here than i did back home in CA.

The jazz are gonna be tough. They're gonna be like the nuggets. They're like the same team to me. They always look the same. They're always in the same spots.

Are they close geographically? They're both, naw. I was gonna say they're both midwest, but they're not. I think they're just neighboring states

This warriors thread i'm in w a group of guys from palo alto makes me feel hella obligated to the nets.

I barely watched the last game and kyrie's debut is tonight. Idrk where he's been. Seems like he's been hella fucking around. Him and harden and now they're on the same team w kd. If they could pull it together they might make the championship everyone's saying. I don't believe it though.

My friend robert says if they go against the lakers we're gonna have to go w them 

It was hella good to see the warriors beat the lakers on monday though. That was so fucking sick. I love beating lebron james. I love when he doesn't get his way. You could hella tell curry wasn't expecting it either. Like he was getting away w murder. 

Beating the lakers at this point of his career w this new team. James is also like four years older than him and he hates the warriors.  Notice he didn't stick around to shake hands w anyone afterwards. If it wasn't for them he would've been getting rings for the last ten years.

After the postgame interview w reggie miller i looked at robert and said he handled that well bc miller hella went in on him for missing that layup within the last twenty seconds. Curry hella knew that was bad too bc he knew if it weren't for that three he shot over fucking ad and that missed open look from james in the last second they would've lost, so in a way, by all rights they should've. On those technicalities alone, they shouldn't have won that game, but they did, and it was hella tight, and the warriors are hella funny for doing that.

I keep thinking about when draymond was coaching wiseman during those free throws too bc everyone's hella talking about it like it was hella tight. Everyone hella liked it. At first i was thinking he was probably thinking like i don't like this; being coached and yelled at in front of everyone like this. Like he's hella close to me and sweatier than i am but he's also older and a lot more experienced in this game than me, so i just have to accept it for what it is. This is just what point of my career i'm at right now and it's pretty tight so i gotta accept that. 

In all reality though he probably wasn't even listening. Like all that was way over his head. He was just hella into the game.

I hope tonight goes well. Idk if I'm gonna do this all the time but that would be tight if I could.