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B.D. put Warriors in a PG hole
OK, so I watched the Warriors’ loss against the Bucks. Here’s what I thought:
I’m officially tired of all the people out there who want to stop talking about Baron Davis’ departure.
What else is there to talk about? If he just left, that would be one thing.
But he left three months ago, and the Warriors’ point guard situation is no more settled now than it was the day after he left.
In fact, it’s probably worse. At least back then the Warriors thought Monta Ellis could gobble up minutes at the one.
Now what?
I’m all for DeMarcus Nelson stealing the job. But if he does, what does that say about the drop-off at that position since last season?
C.J. Watson is supposed to be hungrier than everyone, but he made two awful decisions using the clock, the second when he took it to the bucket with 20 seconds left in the game and the Warriors down two.
He had nowhere to go and wound up getting called for a charge. And where is Marcus Williams? He better get some minutes Friday or that's really a bad sign.
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Ronny Turiaf: Can he maintain same rate at drawing charges?
♦ ♦ Analyst Tim Legler brought up an interesting point about Corey Maggette, that I’ll try to look for this season.
Legler said that when Maggette gets to the foul line early in a game, it tends to get him into an offensive rhythm and it helps his outside shot late in a game.
I’ll make a note of it.
♦ ♦ ♦ Seeing a no-call when Ronny Turiaf hit the deck after trying to take a charge on Andrew Bogut, I couldn’t help but think: “He’s just not going to draw as many offensive fouls with the Warriors as he did with the Lakers, is he?”
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Brandan Wright is far from hopeless. It just seems like he’s got too much going on right now.
He should concentrate on one thing and one thing only right now: Being an energy guy.
If he was behind rookie Anthony Randolph last week, he shouldn’t be any more.
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Marcus Williams: If he doesn't play Friday, something's wrong
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Whose point guard situation would you rather have: Milwaukee’s or the Warriors’?
The Bucks come at you with the Luke Ridnour-Tyronn Lue-Ramon Sessions trio and the Warriors have the DeMarcus Nelson-C.J. Watson-Marcus Williams-Dan Dickau foursome.
I don’t want any of them to be my starter, but long-term I’m taking a shot at Sessions.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ If you haven't weighed in on how many games you think the Warriors will win this season, take the poll: LINK HERE
Comments
Nellie has more than one way to win, and not all of them inovlve a star PG. He can pull it off easily featuring a couple of swingmen, a defensive PG, and a few brusing big men, and a boatload of different mismatches. If you watched the game, Skiles was pulling his hair out, played his starters heavy minutes, had to make big adjustments in 2nd half just to barely squeeze by our bench scrubs who were in experimental mode more than anything
I'm not at all worried about losing to the Bucks, Dre & SJax didn't even play and we only lost by four points...I'd be more worried about Bellenelli's O for outing and Turiaf's goose egg in the scoring column = 4 point loss.
I was laughing at Legler when he brought up missing Baron at the end of the game. We had the lead most of the game and played our 3rd string in the 4th quarter against the Bucks starters(minus Redd), and still almost won. Gimme break.
Baron Davis lead us to back to back 34 win season before Nellie and Jackson arrived. Nellie wins. Jack wins. Baron wins when he has Jack and Nellie. lol
Warriors lost but looks like they may have had more points than the Bucks....
At about 11 mins left Azuibuike Made two free throws and they added it to the Bucks score not the Warriors. It was the Bucks 72nd and 73rd point. Then when the score was 87-85 Azubuike made a layup and they also did not add this to the Warriors score.
hey matt,
unrelated to this article... I noticed on the video blog on the gsw website that robert rowell was in china with the team. Is this a team president's chance to visit that country or is Rowell taking further steps into getting basketball knowledge as me may be looking for a new gm at the end of the season?
I agree w/Mike R: I thought I saw the same funny bidness with the scorekeeping in the first quarter as well, again at Warriors' expense. No worries tho', good close-ending experience for the newbies, against Bucks' starters no less. Curious to see more from Hendrix after his 13 rebound debut against OKC . . .
Jesus H Gonzales...get over it already. You are like a boyfriend who cant get over being dumped.
Matt, I feel your pain...and that's what this relentless obsession with BD's departure is: pain. Pain knowing that the excitement of the last two seasons is gone. Pain knowing that playoff contention is gone. And pain knowing that all of this pain could have been avoided had BD stayed.
The amount of optimism from your readers is shocking. Folks, we play in the West and we're not that good. And to those who continually espouse about our future prospects, they may have been dashed by a moped ride. Not that everything rides on Monta's recovery...a bright future means Anthony Randolph becomes an impact player, the front office doesn't commit big money to Stephen Jackson long-term, we somehow attract a star-quality free agent...and let's be realistic, it's all moot if Monta isn't the same (i.e. Vince Carter). Our future rides on a lot of 'ifs', and Warriors history says we're in for some more mediocrity.
Lastly, to those Nellie-can-do-no-wrong supporters, want to know what Nellie's record was in 94-95 after C Webb left? 14-31, and then Bob Lanier took over. So spare me the Nellie has a plan rhetoric, because he is beholden to his players, just like every other coach in the NBA, and without Baron (and now Monta), our players are much much worse.
unfortunately, as much as most fans watch NBA basketball, they don't truly understand it at all.
that's why fans are so blindly optimistic and are so easily deceived by statistics.
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