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Recap: Warriors 98, Lakers 110 Part Deuce- Keep Ya Head Up Dub Nation!

You all know what went down opening night against the Lakers (see Preview | Recap). It wasn't pretty, but what never ceases to amaze me is how sharp Dub Nation is. Your thoughts in the open thread/ recap were sharp as usual. The diaries have been coming in full force too:

There isn't a more passionate and intelligent bunch of fans in the league than us Warriors fans. I just wanted say to Warriors Nation- Keep Ya Head Up!

Here's 5 reasons why there's still reason for optimism for Dub Nation:

 

1. We've got Nellie holding everyone accountable and GSoM friend Tim Kawakami dropping flash analysis: Don Nelson, at the podium, dazed and furious. Also check out Tim's 3 Options for the Warriors.

So the Warriors will tinker. They might?make a small trade or two. They will slowly realize that?Murphy and Dunleavy CANNOT BE ON THE COURT AT THE SAME TIME after I write it for the 14,000th time.

I'll pitch in and agree 100% with Tim on this one. I think I've written that pairing Murphy and Dunleavy together is absolutely foolish 14,001 times.

 

2. We've got The Mask. (Hey, it worked for Jim Carry, maybe it'll work for TMurph!)
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(Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

 

3. We won't have to triple team superstars like Luke Walton every night.
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(Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

 

4. We've got pride. We don't take things lying down.
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(Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

 

5. The Warriors have never lost 2 games in a row at the Oracle Arena- the Blazers better watch out tomorrow night!
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Boom Dizzle showcases his rhyming skillz on the mic.
(Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images)

 

Tomorrow...

 

Track of the Day: 2Pac- "Keep Ya Head Up"

 

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haha
we're only game into the season and dunleavy already gets caught in another compromising pic...that's some quality D right there
the crowning achievement of ira newble's illustrious career

by JudBooshlur on Nov 2, 2006 5:00 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Haha
I just put up those pics to try and cheer people up. Uncompromising pictures are funny, but uncompromising play is just pathetic.

by Atma Brother ONE on Nov 2, 2006 5:09 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

What?
No shots of BD whiffing from outside?  Or just pounding the ball to tedium?  Too many choices, perhaps, but "pathetic" is certainly an apt term!

by johnl on Nov 3, 2006 3:15 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Haha
I'll be there tonight and if it's brick city again I'll try to get some pictures of the rim/ backboard screaming in pain.

by Atma Brother ONE on Nov 3, 2006 5:37 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

hmm
"The Warriors have never lost 2 games in a row at the Oracle Arena- the Blazers better watch out tomorrow night!"

Is it because they RECENTLY just changed it to the Oracle arena? lol

All jokes aside we havent lost two in a row IN Oakland correct?

by djchuckdeez on Nov 2, 2006 5:51 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

no
we havent lost two in a row at the oracle

by reppin the bay on Nov 2, 2006 6:02 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Haha
Yeah I meant the newly named Oracle Arena. Oh the Warriors have lost more than 2 in a row at the Arena.

by Atma Brother ONE on Nov 2, 2006 7:26 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Nice track of the day
"You know its funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars but can't feed the poor" --Keep ya Head up

One of the classic lines that I'm always gonna remember. Even if the guy who wrote it was a dumba$$. Let's go dubs!!

By the way, what's up with the Funleavy headband? Makes him look like one of those Italian soccer players: http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_footballworldcup/CAMORANESI_M_20040618_GH_R.jpg

by reppin the bay on Nov 2, 2006 7:43 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

dumb what?
I hope you weren't refferin to Pac when you said that... you better watch yourself kid ha ha

by gsdubz on Nov 2, 2006 7:51 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Life goes on in warriorland
     For sure!  My middle name is "troublesome"
   

by Skeptic con Urquell on Nov 2, 2006 8:09 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

reppin the what?
Dumb what?
I'm confused about that post...however...
My biggest problem is HOW THE HELL ARE THEY STILL MISSING ALL THOSE DAMN FREE THROWS!?!?!

Isn't there supposed to be some kind of fine for missed free throws this year?
Will there be a running tab? and can the money got to some charity?

Who do I talk to about this?

By the way, I still hate Nellie after the Webber debacle, so he better get this ship going straight quickly

Giving a shout out to Mr. Mean, Purvis Short, J.B. Carrol and of course, Mr. Bill King

by World Sleepy King on Nov 2, 2006 9:02 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

We gotta make some changes
  I see no changes, why can't the W's play together like when we was kids!

by Skeptic con Urquell on Nov 2, 2006 9:11 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

hahahahahaha
damn those pictures and captions are halarious

by travisl212 on Nov 2, 2006 7:48 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

No good news
From what I saw ... nothing had changed.

by joe sez on Nov 2, 2006 8:11 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

MURPHY
his new nick-name should be "the phantom of the oracle"...cuz of his mask and all...

by nfisch88 on Nov 2, 2006 8:36 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Phantom of the Oracle
Great nickname!

by pineriver on Nov 3, 2006 7:49 AM PST up reply actions   0 recs

haha
i thought it was good! lol

 

by nfisch88 on Nov 3, 2006 4:44 PM PST up reply actions   0 recs

Jim
Carrey

A good actor. No good movies lately though.

by Zorgon on Nov 2, 2006 11:03 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

the curse...
If there is a hair band and if there is rock band hair, the CURSE will continue.

...does a hair band even pass league dress code?

by unblinded on Nov 2, 2006 11:56 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

Food for thought!
Those Kawakami articles are great. It's what I've been thinking for some time. The Warriors should let Nelson, blow up the team and get rid of anyone he doesn't want around, like he did with the Mav's.

Obviously some of the key pieces are already there, and I wouldn't want to see JR go, it's just that he should starting making the transition back to the 3 position.

Ok, it's only one game, but we have already had a several mediocre and sometimes just bad seasons of Dunleavy and Murphy. Tim K is right to suggest that O'Bryant and Diogu will be better options in the long run. The W's should start them or let them have lots of PT early on while the schedule is favorable.

Starting line-up at the beginning of Dec:
Baron, Monte, JR, Ike, and POB

by miguelito on Nov 3, 2006 2:01 AM PST reply actions   0 recs

Not surprised

Yeah, yeah, we know it's only the first game of the season, but we'd like to reiterate our position that the hiring of Don Nelson was a pitifully weak, unimaginative panic move by Chris Mullin, who is completely in over his head and doesn't know what he's doing.

And we're not haters -- that's the problem. We live and die with this team, and frankly, we don't have much life left in us.

Nellie should never have been hired. He's burnt out. His last two coaching stints (Knicks and Mavs) have ended with him leaving before the end of the season.

And his small-ball system is an anachronism that is not going to work. This isn't 1991 any more. The NBA run-and-shoot is a desperation stop-gap measure and for Mullin and the Warriors to purposely select a coach whose only coaching style EVER has been to take whatever team and whatever roster he has and turn it into a small-ball team. And how many titles has Nelson won with that approach? How many Finals has it even gotten him to?

Yet Mullin, the SF Bay Area sportswriters, and sadly even many fans (who of all people should know better), somehow thought that Nelson could come back to the franchise that he ruined in 1994 with his gruff, unyielding, headstrong, Bushian approach and his inherently flawed strategy and turn this team around. Does anybody really believe that another Nellie meltdown -- one that again irreperably damages for the years - isn't looming in the team's future.

This team needed new blood and fresh ideas. Not warmed-over reruns that have never really worked.

by TruthMaker on Nov 3, 2006 12:23 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

boo lakers
In a battle for California, the team I wanted to win lost.  The Golden State Warriors are now zero and one.  In an article on their website it talks about this guy named Ronny Turiaf.  Ronny Turiaf doesn't even play for the Warriors.  He plays for the Lakers.  The Lakers are now one and zero.  That is the opposite of the GSW.  What else could GSW stand for besides Golden State Warriors?  There is a water heating business called GSW Inc, but they're different from this other GSW who have a site called, www.gsw-w.com.  The extra `w' stands for worldwide.  GWS is going global.  I'm not sure what the dash before the GSW stands for.  Their slogan is that they're, "liberating ideas worldwide."
"Ronny Turiaf had just buttoned his shirt after the best game of his NBA career when his cell phone rang."
That's the opening sentence about the GSW's opening loss.  Like I said, Ronny doesn't even play for the Warriors.  I don't either.  Would you be surprised if I told you that over half the population of the USA doesn't play for the Warriors.  I think 13 or 14 guys are on their team; that's roughly 2% of the population.
I'm curious why Ronny's phone rang, but I decided not to read anymore of the article.  The Warriors lost again and it looks like they're not going to make the playoffs.

by baumerworld on Nov 9, 2006 8:01 PM PST reply actions   0 recs

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