My thoughts:
1. I’m on the east coast and was worried about this game being so soon, before we could get in a rhythm. Was anticipating a loss so I was originally just going to not get involved.
2. We looked good.
3. Exum and Crowder looked really good.
4. Niang looks good and stepped in to some scenarios where he had to have been pretty confident.
5. Surprised by officiating of first half. I’m not certain they were favoring us as much as seeing what it was like to get a fair whistle.
6. BS officiating in the second half. I did appreciate the no-call, however, down the stretch where Rubio appeared to foul Curry or Durant. We were getting fouled a lot down the stretch and they were calling everything on the other end of the floor.
7. I did not want Jonas to go, especially with being a high energy guy on the bench with good chemistry. I don’t think you emotionally react to that decision based on one play of one game, but he wasn’t waived for Niang — he was waived because we have a guy who’s occupying a roster spot in TB.
8. Ingles is better than Hayward.