Warriors will sit Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green against Pelicans

“He is not worried about what happens with Klay,” Draymond Green said. “He’s worried about what happens with this team. And when Klay worries about what happens with this team, Klay plays great and we win. I’ve always said he’s the most competitive guy that I’ve ever played with and the most important thing to him has always been winning. At times, we all get away from who we are. And in a brotherhood, you need someone to bring you back to who you are. I have no doubt in my mind if it was me, he’d do the same thing.” -via The Athletic / November 21, 2022

Madeline Kenney: Klay Thompson on his play tonight: “Me and Draymond had a great conversation and he told me to be patient and trust the team. And I feel like tonight I exemplified that.” -via Twitter @madkenney / November 19, 2022

Bottom line, are you losing sleep right now? Draymond Green: I’m not losing sleep right now. I think there are a couple of things that we need to correct that, honestly, over the course of the last few games, we are correcting. And these losses will turn into wins. I think there are a lot of games down the stretch that we’ve been losing, and we know how to win games down the stretch. But games are won in the margins. They’re not necessarily won at the end of the game. You may lose the game in the last six minutes of the game, but games are won within the margins, and we have to be better within the margins. -via The Athletic / November 16, 2022

HoopsHype: Klay Thompson: “I don’t care anymore. I really let the trolls get to me.” pic.twitter.com/xdz1O7McJj -via Twitter @hoopshype / November 21, 2022

“I don’t care anymore,” Thompson said. “I really let the trolls get to me. Like, ‘What am I doing?’ I had just a revelation where I was like, ‘Man, just be you and everything will play out.’ Criticize me all you want. But I know how great I am and what I’m capable of, and I think real Warriors fans know that as well.” -via The Athletic / November 21, 2022

Nick DePaula: Stephen & Ayesha Curry’s @EatLearnPlay Foundation and Curry Brand renovated the basketball gym at the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson, NC. It’s the 9th court that Curry Brand has donated since 2020. Wall graphic features the TCC mantra of @DavidsonMBB: “Trust. Commitment. Care.” -via Twitter @NickDePaula / November 21, 2022

Jarred Vanderbilt didn’t mince words and didn’t try to beat around the bush. “Lauri Markkanen is an All-Star,” he wrote on Twitter. “That’s it.” Currently, Markkanen is ranked 7th in points per game (22.2) among frontcourt players in the Western Conference and is second in that group in field goal percentage (54.4%). The only player in the NBA with as many points per game and a higher effective field goal percentage than Markkanen (61.1%) is Stephen Curry (65.2%) The Jazz needed every bit of fight from Mike Conley on Friday night, they needed all of Malik Beasley’s 27 points off the bench, they needed every ounce of defense from Vanderbilt to eek out the 134-133 victory over Phoenix, and still, the team knew that Markkanen was the star of the show. -via deseret.com / November 19, 2022

After dropping 50 points but still losing to the Phoenix Suns, Curry said that the Warriors aren’t panicking right now but that the losing is getting old and something they have to put a stop to. “It’s a struggle right now, just keeping it real,” Curry said in his postgame press conference. “We have to understand that it’s going to be really hard to dig yourself out of the situation that we’re in because there are a lot of issues. But, it’s not anything we can’t overcome…Losing becomes a habit if you don’t fix it.” -via Clutch Points / November 17, 2022