mags, buke, hendrix, turiaf and biedrins. our muscle crew.

do they ever talk defense in practice? In fact, i’d love to just see wth they go over in practice, can’t be blocking out or passing for better shots, or moving without the ball, or fighting through screens, or playing with some energy, or……

 play our young bigs, let’em learn. AB didn’t develope out of no where, he played during our losing years and BW and AR are better than AB when he was in his 1st and 2nd yrs. No one is expecting this team to make playoffs what we expect is progress, and DN is failing in both accounts.

4. TOO MANY SHOTBLOCKERS, NO REBOUNDERS. That’s the problem we have right now. We have a bunch of guys who can guard the rim but we have no one who can secure the ball except Biedrins which really negates the effectiveness of the former. Rondo had 8 rebounds, 4 off the offensive end. Nuff said.

Yeah — this is an important point.

Turiaf, Wright and Randolph all look for the block every time someone’s down low… Biedrins often does too. They’re all good at it — our shot-blocking has been incredible thus far — but it has definitely come at the expense of defensive rebounding.

I’m not sure what can really be done about it. Neither Turiaf nor Wright is a naturally gifted rebounder… they’ll pull down some, but they’re better at shot-blocking, so it’s hard to ding them for focusing on that. Randolph has shown more of a nose for the ball than anyone besides Biedrins, but he’s been so bad in most other facets of the game that it’s hard to justify his getting big minutes.

If anything, it might make sense for Biedrins to play off the ball in a number of situations. He’s easily the best rebounder of the four, probably the worst shot-blocker, and he’s good enough so that we don’t want him sitting due to foul trouble. It’d be weird to orchestrate a defense where your starting center doesn’t look to block shots, but that might be the best thing we could do.

to a jerry sloan mini-camp, bet they peel off 10 straight after.

After watching the dubs get whooped by the bullets, it became clear to me that nellie wasn’t ever going to give up his one big, 4 smalls lineup for anything, and I vowed to never watch the warriors again until Nellie’s tenure ended. by the time gametime rolled around against the celtics I decided I’d just peak at the tipoff to confirm my passionate hatred for nellie’s one-big, 4 small lineup, but to my shock, he gave b-right the start at the 4 spot. I’m pretty sure Nellie went 2 bigs, 3 small the rest of the game until late third quarter, when our lead was trimmed down to two or three points, nellie freaked out and went back to old faithful, one big and 4 smalls for the rest of the game. I am very certain that one big 4 smalls will be extremely unsuccessful cause we can’t stop other teams from getting offensive rebounds on a regular basis and we can’t get our own offensive rebounds on a regular basis. Hopefully nellie will learn his lesson and give up on one big 4 smalls. He’s way too stubborn, but even he will change things up if wins stop occurring. I mean, it’s not like our bigs are that big anyway and they were all brought here to fit into fast paced nellie ball, which also has it’s flaws, but just stop with the one big 4 smalls already!!!!