It’s too early to freak out. If you are currently freaking out, please stop. Personally, I am not freaking out. I am totally calm over here. At most I am feeling a twinge of worry. But nobody, from the most ardent Warriors bandwagoner to the most vitriolic Warriors hater, should be freaking out.
Just because second-round rookie Eric Paschall received 31 minutes of play time, the second most on the team behind D’Angelo Russell, doesn’t mean that the Warriors’ season is over and that playoffs are an impossibility for them. There’s still 81 games left for them to prove that they’re still an elite team in the NBA. Bandwagoners should not be hopping off right yet. Haters will hate, but it would be premature to declare the Warriors’ dynasty dead.
Honestly, it’s unlikely that an elite team would play a player like Eric Paschall for 31 minutes unless they’re so elite that they see his hidden potential to be ROTY of the year. More likely is that the Warriors don’t really have a bench, and they’re missing Klay Thompson, so there are holes in the rotation that have to be plugged by any player who has a pulse and can score the ball a little. Enter Eric Paschall. Last time I checked, his heart was beating at a normal rate and he was capable of scoring the second-most buckets on the team (six).
Again, if you are a Warriors fan and you are freaking out, please cease freaking out immediately. Take a deep breath and remember all those finals appearances you had and how you aren’t a real Warriors fan anyway so you can just stop caring about the team at any time.